Oolite Bulletins

I did a short test of the balance OXP yesterday evening.
IMHO the game became a little bit easier. On one occasion I was beaten by 3 pirates. One was a Moray Star Boat firing an ECM hardened missile at me only a few meters away. My ECM didn't help much. 2 seconds later I had to press space...

For my personal preference the balance adjustment OXP that cim posted here makes the game's starting difficulty right. It's difficult but not impossible to survive combat situations, and doesn't make the start a cake-walk. In terms of combat I don't think anyone should expect to engage 4 or more ho...

I find the combat balance in 1.80 really quite unfriendly, especially as someone who tries to grab a quick few minutes here and there, which means using the keyboard I can steer clear of combat or get wasted seem to be the choices (I have been "deadly" in the past, current incarnation is ...

Hi, here I am again. I did remove some opxs from my installation, hoping the game will get easier after this. But I was disappointed. It's still the same frustrating game experience. Two things are going wrong with 1.80 IMHO: 1. The attackers are much to numerous. 2. The AI is too aggressive. They l...

Thanks for all the help. I do remember having Random Hits installed and Commies, Big Ships, Clippers and some DTT ships....
Currently I have no access to my PC. I review my oxps and tell you in a few days.

Yes, beside the game balancing problems and the increased uselessness of normal missiles (it seems that _every_ ship you encounter has an ECM system installed), Oolite 1.80 has been improved in many ways. Especially the new joystick calibration features are a relief. And I agree, game difficulty is ...

My frustration goes so far that I considered cheating to regain the game balance I prefer...
I understand the hardcore players, they want the challenge. On the other side "normal" players like me are left behind.

What about introducing difficulty levels like easy, medium, hard?

Since I installed version 1.80 Oolite became more and more frustrating to me. As said before there is an increase and decrease in difficulty compared to 1.77 depending on the government of your current system. For me as non hard core player I now have the choice between two types of missions: 1. The...

Yes, sure, I'll wait for their release.

Hello all, I just converted these four OXPs to OXZ-format: griff prototype boa.oxp -> oolite.oxp.Griff.PrototypeBoa.oxz Griff_Shipset_Addition_v1.23.oxp -> oolite.oxp.Griff.ShipsetAddition.oxz Griff_Shipset_Resources_v1.2.25.oxp -> oolite.oxp.Griff.ShipsetResources.oxz Dragon 1.72.2 -> oolite.oxp.Wy...