Oolite Bulletins

Hi all: I'm beginning to get tired of the cargo and passenger runs and want to try a mission... but for starters I'd prefer a built-in one. Two questions: A) Do I **need** to accept the Trumble mission when it's offered to me or will other missions naturally follow if I ignore the Trumble mission? B...

Thanks for the tips so far. I have 2 passenger slots now on my MkIII and I speculate in cargo while doing the long runs (that merchant trader OXP is pretty useful!) I've done enough runs that I'm being offered a fair number contracts (if I were to rate my contract offering rate in the same spectrum ...

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THANKS for the tips (and clarifications).

The combat rep vs courier rep tip was helpful... I was not aware there was a difference. Unfortunately I missed one of my first deliveries as it took too long to cross the galaxy but that advanced navigation array sure does help! The "you picked the wrong passenger" message at least tips m...

Thanks for the welcome everyone... Hi jamida, and welcome. Due to a spate of spambots trying to move in, gmail addresses ending with numbers were filtered for a while, although I thought this had been dropped now. Anyway, I'm glad you found your way through our defences. my gmail address does not en...

BTW, I played Elite originally on my own Apple II+ and a friend's C-64, so very happy to have found this. I'm looking for any advice on how to "get rich quick" (but not cheat) in Oolite. I'm still using the Cobra Mk III, I have a military laser, advanced nav array and am mostly harmless. I...

What's up with shortest distance calculation for a route being different from fewest jumps? Is it something like some destinations are in different "timezones"?

I definitely like the flavor of that, but I'm trying to figure out if there's any logic to it.

Thanks in advance.

Mike

New member here. I did not see a "care and feeding of this forum" board, so I'm posting this here, apologies in advance. I created an account, didn't read the password requirements clearly and was 'blocked' on creating the account until my password complied. I made it comply and THEN was b...