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by Laie
Thu Jun 06, 2024 9:12 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Contracts and reputation
Replies: 16
Views: 4065

Re: Contracts and reputation

So it depends on the systems you pass through? I'm not sure how much I may insist on my anecdata (with a sample size of perhaps a couple hundred jumps since I started doing deliveries, and no notes taken) in the presence of people who are as deep into oolite as you guys. That said: There's a higher...
by Laie
Thu Jun 06, 2024 6:50 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Contracts and reputation
Replies: 16
Views: 4065

Re: Contracts and reputation

They never really appealed to me, anyway. Whizzing through systems to get to a destination and with no time to explore anything properly... Hmmm, I'm not aware that there is much exploring to be done. One sun per system, one planet, one station... apart from rock hermits, what is there to be discov...
by Laie
Wed Jun 05, 2024 10:34 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Contracts and reputation
Replies: 16
Views: 4065

Re: Contracts and reputation

Answering my own question: it took me over 50 parcel deliveries until I noticed any kind of improvement. From then on, it went quickly, however. By now I have completed more than 90 deliveries; the counter in the savegame seems to stop at 70, though, so I guess this is as good as it gets. Payment ha...
by Laie
Wed May 29, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Contracts and reputation
Replies: 16
Views: 4065

Contracts and reputation

I traded my Cobra for an Asp and started delivering parcels. For now, I'm losing money and don't quite know how. Trading precious metals and the occasional bounty ought to pay the bills but apparently it doesn't. Anyway, I started looking into the savegame to see how much longer I have to run a defi...
by Laie
Tue May 28, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: How to fight?
Replies: 6
Views: 1135

Re: How to fight?

I've not done them myself, but I understand that the higher-paying contracts are usually higher-paying for jolly good reasons... as in Real Life... I expected to find assassins somewhere along the way, I didn't expect a welcome committee at every single witchpoint. On top of that, all outlaws I enc...
by Laie
Mon May 27, 2024 10:21 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: How to fight?
Replies: 6
Views: 1135

Re: How to fight?

A paddling pool is not going to help -- my current problem is that I have accepted an contract and find un-avoidable, injector-equipped assassins at almost every witchpoint.

I'll try the "skilled NPCs" ...looks like it's default setting is "lowest skill for everyone".
by Laie
Mon May 27, 2024 7:38 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: How to fight?
Replies: 6
Views: 1135

Re: How to fight?

Is there difficulty setting somewhere?
by Laie
Sat May 25, 2024 10:01 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: How to fight?
Replies: 6
Views: 1135

How to fight?

Sniping with the rear laser rarely works for me: I just take too long to get my laser lined up by the last fraction of a pixel. Getting in close, knives out, works somewhat better as long as I only have a few opponents. Most of the time, however, I face four or more, which easily becomes an hour of ...
by Laie
Fri May 24, 2024 9:40 pm
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Can I become a licensed Arms Dealer? (nope)
Replies: 4
Views: 1159

Can I become a licensed Arms Dealer? (nope)

So, I'm offered a delivery contract, 31t of firearms over 7 jumps for a net payout of 1200 credits. I can make as much from a single load of computers, so that offer is an insult to my business sense. However, Firearms? I'd totally take that contract if it allowed me to legally trade in yet another ...
by Laie
Thu May 23, 2024 10:57 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: Finding some gold fills my cargo hold
Replies: 4
Views: 1552

Re: Finding some gold fills my cargo hold

You can read about the vagaries of cargo marshalling, and what happens when you scoop cargo, here: Cargo marshalling Makes perfect sense, but shouldn't that somehow be made more transparent to the user? Second page lists all cargo in my hold and would be a good place to show a detailed list of how ...
by Laie
Thu May 23, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: Testing and Bug reports
Topic: Finding some gold fills my cargo hold
Replies: 4
Views: 1552

Finding some gold fills my cargo hold

Oolite 1.90, Linux: I have 35t cargo space, and 34t of computers in the hold. There is a battle. The last enemy dissolves into a few cargo containers. I pick up a container, it contains gold (not much, 7kg perhaps). I get a message that my hold is now full, the scoop shows the red chevron. Calling u...
by Laie
Wed May 22, 2024 11:35 am
Forum: Discussion
Topic: Non-English Keyboard Problems
Replies: 61
Views: 22434

Re: Non-English Keyboard Problems

BUMP!! The only safe keys are A-Z, 0-9, comma(,) and period(.) -- anything else can be wherever. In the old days, I could commonly get the desired result by having a picture of a US keyboard handy and pressing the right key, regardless of how it's labeled on my keyboard. More recently I have to pre...