Oolite Bulletins

It always seemed a bit odd to me that a so-called 'military' laser can be bought by any civilian space trader with a couple of weeks' experience and fitted to a small fighter-trader like Cobra. What do the military use to blow up Thargoid battle cruisers, then? Since when has the Navy ever had to tr...

To become an elite combateer requires great skill and great patience I know, I've done it at least twice! I see a magnified sight as a logical device to build; it's not very technologically demanding, yet would overcome a major limitation of all the laser weapons - namely that they're difficult to ...

Surely you mean, "one possible way to pick off targets at long range" is to get closer. It's certainly not the only one, nor is it always the best one. Getting closer increases the risk of being missiled, it makes you an easier target for laser fire yourself, and it means abandoning any ca...

... a magnified laser sight please? Picking off targets at long range is tricky, especially with a military laser that heats up really fast. It would be great to have a piece of equipment which allows the central portion of the screen to be magnified, maybe with a corresponding reduction in the sens...

I am a pirate, so space stations refuse to let me use the docking computer at all - I have to do it manually every time. It's a waste of money for me, in fact. Next time I change ships, I probably won't even bother with one. I've never had a problem with docking, so it just takes up time - though I ...

Really? I thought it was new in version 2 that's only just been released. Shows how much attention I've been paying, I guess.

<scurries back into his burrow>

Presumably you guys know that Open Office v2 has a button to export as PDF.

Those names were present in Archimedes Elite.