Oolite Bulletins

You should always read the readme.txt in any OXP what you download, usually contain instructions about install and sometimes there are more things than the simple copy to AddOns folder. In this case you must copy the included .oolite-save file to your oolite-saves folder and load this game to start...

The main purpose of this ship is the practicality for a new commander and not the good-looking, moreover the willfully rusty obsolete outlook urge to get a better ship as soon as possible. (Very simple model I know, can be improved later.) The largest diameter of the body is 60m to earn as much car...

My ordered XBox 360 arrived and I am gradually getting things assigned. Having no guide lines makes it a hit and miss thing. Looks like it is going to work without additional drivers suggested in the WIKI. It appears to work without assigning buttons that I won't be using for a while. Wondering what...

Cody wrote:

Spudnic wrote:

... yet the beginners ship (MkIII) must be aligned perfectly to enter as if the ship is huge.

The Cowell & MgRath Cobra MK III is actually quite a large ship - 130x30x65m - so you gotta get it right.

Ahhh. Must be that beginners will mostly be haulers at first rather than nimble, fast pirates.

Simply press F1 (or 2, 3, 4) to return to internal view. Thanks Cody.... suffered a little confusion with dual purpose keys depending on mode. I get it now. Another weird thing is seeing all the small ships comming in and out of station bays willy nilly and yet the beginners ship (MkIII) must be al...

Making progress...however.....when I select V (external view) I cannot figure out how to return to the Internal fwd view (no ownship on the screen. The V key does not toggle back to internal and I haven't found another that does.

A new Xbox 360 wired controller is on the way. Only joystick I have used was on an Atari 2600

I presume that was you who originally registered as Spudnik, Spudnic? Yes :oops: accidently put net instead of com on my (rarely used) provider's email...for some reason the registor didn't like yahoo or gmail. BTW, I am old thus the learning curve has become sooo much steaper. Looking into some us...

I managed to get Oolite running on my old Dell (by the best of luck) so time to dodge more dumb questions