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The Systems Three Part 1 Applause erupted throughout the room as David Redman stepped down from the podium to greet his fellow colleagues. People swarmed around him, passing on their words of congratulations, encouragement and joy, while others greeted him with a warm handshake or a clap on the bac...

The commsPackA_codename is an array and upon being called, one array element is selected, which again points to another array, from which one random element is selected. So the result would be Gamma or Aquarius or Red or... . Could you give me some examples of some names it might create? (Sorry, co...

I have a couple quick questions I hope you guys can answer. -In the planet information page (F7), what does the species in brackets under the population number mean? Most dominant species? Native species? -Are any of the people you interact with in-game (pilots, station crew, planet population) non-...

Anti-missile tips are nice, thanks. I'm certain I've seen them earlier, though I must've forgotten. :lol: As for the mystery group, I haven't taken a parcel yet, so they're not assassins. I'm fairly certain I didn't get a message from them when they first attacked. Usually I'm pretty good when it co...

Here's an update for those of you still following this thread. So, thanks to all of your OXZ/OXP suggestions, tips, advice, etc., I believe I've managed to water down Oolite to a manageable state. I have what I consider my test/non-cannon commander, just for me to learn how exactly each addon works,...

I started a new Commander, doing the usual, loading up on cargo and plotting a jump to another system to trade. But everything ended up horribly, horribly wrong. Warping into the system, I found myself behind a convoy en-route to the planet. Lacking any proper means of self-defense, (I did have some...

I had the same first impression (read the thread First experiences / difficulties if you have time). Part of my problem was probably that I was used to playing Elite on the C-64, and there I've had military lasers for a long time, and I couldn't remember how fighting was in the beginning. But I'm s...

@Amah Yep, fuel injectors are at the top of my priority list. Grinding for Cr up to that point is pretty tough though. If only I could get you into my game, then I'd never have to worry about pirates. :mrgreen: @Venator Dha Start Choices was one of the first addons I got that lowered the difficulty,...

Thanks everyone for the replies so far. I knew this forum was active, but I'm still surprised how quickly I got responses. I've downloaded quite a number of the recommended addons but I haven't gotten to try them out yet. I already exercised some of my 'Dark Side' powers and lowered the tech level a...

@Cody Most games have some sort of paddling-pool-and-water-wings beginning to ease you in: Oolite takes the rather more Darwinian approach of heaving you straight into the ocean, often with a brick or two in your pockets for luck. I remember reading that when I was looking around for mods to make th...

TL; DR: I find Oolite’s combat too hard. Is there anything that makes the AI dumber? Or lowers difficulty in general? Note: I never actually had the chance to play the original Elite when it first came out (in fact, I doubt my parents had even met at the time). Because of this, my observations and c...