Oolite Bulletins

Thats odd, as I was playing it on a CPC 6128, which never had Elite+....

Maybe I'm senile!

Well we didn't have the internet back in the old days but the one chap I met who claimed to have made Elite did it by blowing up a Thargoid infested space station which gave him a rank increase (he thought it was the only way to get Elite status) and the title Archangel rather than commander. I did ...

Aye I'm using Military lasers.

I made deadly 3 or 4 times using mining lasers in the original but never Elite, the game used to crash on that mission. Never overheat and a big punch. The oolite version seems to be weaker and slower firing.

Maybe it was 3 hits... Pythons took about 5 as I recall.

I spent years playing Elite and daydreaming about upgrading to a Fer-De-Lance. Many thanks to the game's coders for finally giving me the opportunity. I'm only poor at the moment but.... I'm a bit disappointed with the mining lasers though, I used them religiously in the original. I don't suppose an...