Oolite Bulletins

Mouse wheel controlling speed when mouse control is active is coming up. As for the other mouse buttons, sorry. I don't have a new fancy mouse here so I cannot test at all. It should be possible to do though, although the question then becomes: why torus and injectors and not something else. So mak...

I tried out the Mouse Control feature of Oolite today. I have some suggestions. First of all, Most Mice today have a scroll wheel. Why not make this control the speed? And second, many mice have web navigation buttons on the side. They're just two small buttons where the thumb can easily get to them...

You know, space *is* huge and even pirates/mercenaries/bounty hunters can't be everywhere in the galaxy. So to a certain extend the off-lane areas may represent this fact. Commanders making a living off one of the above businesses know this and thus they tend to scoop those regions of space where r...

For me the concept of lanes and the concept of torus drive have been a total game/immersion killer. I just can't get around the conflict in my mind about a non-player centric Ooniverse where I can drive around in god mode while everyone else drives sluggishly in nice lines just waiting to be butche...

I have seen a couple people on this forum suggest that the trick of avoiding the spacelanes by moving perpendicular to the planet for a few seconds before heading to it breaks gameplay. Can someone explain this thinking? Thanks!

Just made the first kill of my current game! It was a lucky find. Found a lone Fer-de-lance in the space lane on my way to Tsionla. He had an offender status, so I targeted him. Tried to take a few shots with my military laser, but the dang thing overheated too fast, so I used my fuel injectors to g...

Cody wrote: ↑Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:19 pm

No difference - hunter is simply shorter.

I suspected as much, but figured I'd verify my assumptions. You know what they say about assuming...

Slightly off topic: What's the difference between a hunter and a bounty hunter.

Very much depends on your equipments and your OXP configuration which modify NPCs. For example if you install Custom Shields then your enemies get shields which is not in the core game and your job will be considerably harder. If you tell more about your OXPs then you pobably will get more specific...

I am not a noob. I've been playing Oolite for years now. However, when it comes to combat I may as well be a noob. When I attempt combat, I die probably 75% of the time. I do use a keyboard instead of a controller, but killing them pirates still shouldn't be impossible. So, any tips for how to come ...

Chapter Two "So all three pirates just got away?" the gruff pilot asked me. I was in a bar on the station at Qutiri. I had just sold a cargo hold full of furs from Isinor, and bought a hold full of computers to take back to Isinor. I decided to get a beer before heading back to Isinor. As...

UK_Eliter wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:11 am

A good story! Moreover, I didn't notice any problems with the writing, which doesn't often happen . .

Thank you! I have been letting Chapter Two stew in my brain. I have some ideas, just got to get the ideas down in written form. I hope to have it posted within the next couple of days.

Diziet Sma wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2017 6:16 am

phkb wrote: ↑Wed Jul 05, 2017 9:26 am

A case of editing and re-editing a post to improve clarity, only to do the exact opposite. That's a thing, isn't it?

It is now..

We shall call it the phkb effect...

phkb wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2017 4:54 am

byronarn wrote:

The HUD that i miss is the old Trek HUD. (Yes, I'm a Trekkie!) Dies anyone happen to have a copy of that?

It still seems to be available on the Wiki: TrekHud.zip. Is that the one?

Yup, that is the one. Thanks!

Chapter One My kill count is 0. Yes, you read that right. Zero . And I am quite proud of it. I am Commander Noryb, from the Rich Industrial world of Lerelace. And I am a pacifist. People tell me all the time, "You aren't going to make it very long out here as a pacifist. You're going to end up...