Oolite Bulletins

Blimey! A casual question on my part seems to have led to a potential 'complete overhaul' of that part of the coding :shock: I don't think I've ever had a post anywhere on the internets ellicit that much response. I promise my next post will much more mundane :wink: Oh, just as an aside I quite like...

Hi all, just a quick question regarding the transition screen seen when using witchspace; how come nobody has ever decided to design something a little more realistic than the current magenta/cyan concentric circles? Is it hard-wired and difficult to change? It's the only bit that feels a little 8 b...

I must admit I wasn't expecting to run into one so unfortunately left my Q Bomb in my other pants. I won't get caught out like that again!

I'm using the lastest version (1.73?)

I saw this last night and thought it was great. A load of Thargoid size plot holes but I couldn't remember being this excited at a sci-fi movie for ages.
The prawn weaponry (how often do you get to say that!?) was excellent especially the battle suit.
What did you make of it?

I ran into one of these Fugitive beasts in some anarchic system I've since blotted out from my memory stacks.

Where do they come from? Are they part of the Gal Nav OXP? It made short shrift of me after I 'accidentally' shot at it.

It's very rare that typical transgalactic scum will deploy a q-mine, so you're reasonably safe from that dirty trick. Random Hits contract kills, Assassins contract kills, and Renegade pirates, though... Look out and be prepared to light the candles and get the hell away from a sudden sapphire deat...

Personally all I've done is swapped "d" and "D" over (so I can dock without having to go chase a cargo pod I dropped by mistake) and moved \ to z as my keyboard is UK-based. That said there are probably keys for all sorts of useful functions that I don't use as I've forgotten ab...

Thanks guys. Once again proving this board really is the friendliest this side of Riedquat :D Ok, since it does at least look quite easy to tweak my dashboard I'll follow your advice and see what I come up with. I guess I have to be careful not to overwrite any keys that are already mapped but I'll ...

One thing I've often wondered is how on earth do people make a living from scooping? I always find the cannisters go flying off in at all angles and velocities making it a rather tiresome task of picking them all up again and the net profit doesn't really make it worth my while. Am I doing something...

...the 'dump cargo' and 'fire' buttons weren't so close to the accelerate/decelerate keys :( The amount of times I've inadvertantly hit a Coriolis with me military laser or dumped a cannister of valuable product. I know you can remap the keps but my eyes start to glaze over whenever I see anything r...

Hmmmm, not sure I agree there. I have successfully sold a hold full of Spice at a ridiculous profit and managed to deal with the fall-out with GalCop on quite a few occasions. I'm just asking what the pricing logic might be!

Is there any logic behind the price of drugs? If you buy a load at a silly price where would be the best place to off load them. I keep thinking it should be rich industrial type worlds but sometimes they're even cheaper than what I, sorry I mean what my friend paid for them

As a relatively non-tecchie player of Oolite I'd like to see OXPS at a glance with their download size, whether they need additional OXPs to run and have some sort of user-rating. That's my two credits worth anyhoo

Heh! Actually it took her while to realise is was a game because I hadn't actually done anything for a few minutes due to being mass locked on my way to the station and the HUD looking a bit scientific

Thanks for the feedback. It looks like this is a fairly common question. I've just loaded the funky planet/moon textures and a new audio set which made me smile before I left for work this morning. It also confirmed how easy the OXPs are to install so i shall add a few more of your recommended mods ...