Oolite Bulletins

The cats are banned from this room. No exceptions

Commander McLane wrote:

Steve wrote:

Well, it was interesting until I got to the bit at the bottom, which says...

Update: The "secret FBI memo" mentioned in this article turned out to be a hoax.

Did you really expect something else?

Good point!

Well, it was interesting until I got to the bit at the bottom, which says...

Update: The "secret FBI memo" mentioned in this article turned out to be a hoax.

Commander McLane wrote:

In case of this auction I'm wondering what the guy who sold the game first in that garage sale is thinking about it.

If I was him, I would be very, very drunk by now

Well, look on the bright side. At least the postage and packing is free

Hmm, about 40s the first time I loaded it, but only 15s the second time.

Ancient Vista machine though

Laugh out loud stuff! Brilliant!!

The Moon didn't look any bigger to me either. I think I read somewhere that the Moon's apparent size would increase by 14%. If my calculations are correct, the apparent diameter would then only increase by 6%, hence it wouldn't appear obviously bigger. Then again, my calculations could be wrong :roll:

Why would you? Oolite takes place in a fictional universe, and Earth isn't part of that universe. Oolite is a recreation of a space game from the eighties called 'Elite', and that was not about Earth and didn't contain Earth. It makes no sense to include Earth now. Oolite is not a simulation of the...

pagroove wrote:

You can set the difficuly on easy.

I think it already was

Yeah, I got it. Very nice game. I remember getting stuck fairly early on though. A mission involving destroying the baddies within a certain amount of time. I could never do it, got cross and stopped playing.

Must go back to it...

Frontier already know about FFE D3D (the Russian re-make of First Encounters). They made a comment on their forums to the effect that it would leave a bad taste in everyone's mouth if they cracked down on it.

I'm guessing they feel the same way about Oolite.

ClymAngus wrote:

You see this is EXACTLY what pisses me off with doctor Who these days. Every other story line is a Universe shattering event. Do the writers have ANY idea how big an idea has to be to be truly "Universe shattering?"

Don't forget Doctor Who seems to be aimed at 5-year-olds these days

Commander McLane wrote:

Steve wrote:

For reasons I'd rather not discuss here ...

Of course now we all are particularly interested in the reasons.

Er... ok...

I'd bought the MP3 album from Amazon for my wife and I was just checking that all the tracks had downloaded correctly.

Yes, that'll be it

Think I might have a candidate for the least suitable music to listen to whilst playing Oolite. For reasons I'd rather not discuss here, I had The Best of The Carpenters playing. It did strike me as slightly odd to have such songs as "Please Mr Postman", "Top Of The World" and &q...