Oolite Bulletins

The space battle in progress between the Cruisers, navy ships and the Bugs is awsome! I'm finding that the Thargoid ships are committing suicide a lot. When you attack them, they often appear to be launching their fighters into themselves. So you see a series of little explosions followed by a big ...

Cmdr Monte wrote:

Do you guys just head straight for the sun and then turn arround once the scoops start working or is there some skimming involved like the original manual suggests?

The PC version of Elite wouldn't scoop unless one was belly-surfing the sun. Oolite will scoop regardless of your attitude.

LittleBear wrote:

A Q-mine shouldn't destroy a space station, as the Q-mine works by doing somthing deeply unpleasant to a ship's witch-drive engine, causing it blow up.

Who installed witch-drives in all those asteroids?

What about if the station did go boom, but did so violently enough (think about the number of energy bombs they must have in storage) that you went with it. Just make sure that if the station is dead, so are you. That would solve the problem to everyone's satisfaction, no?

I view a large cargo bay like the extension on a house. You pay good money to have it built. But you can't sell it. If you want rid of it, you'd have to pay more money to have someone raze it. Likewise something like an extra energy bank may be 90% installation and integration costs. Were you to pul...

I wonder if this is cost effective. Would this maneuver hastens the appearance of the dreaded Maintenance Overhaul?

Caption 3:
Pilot Brack's quarters were always too cold.

Caption 4:
"No, I won't hold in the docking queue any more. There's no toilet on this thing. Let me in!"

http://neil.fraser.name/temp/traitor.png

Where did you get the idea that station walls can't take any damage, Taking damage (short of rupturing the station) doesn't help dissipate energy. Indeed if the walls ablate at all, it merely increases the amount of matter present. ... or absorb energy as heat? Ok, if the station's cooling system c...

There’s not enough matter in the bomb. The force on the ship would be a function of impacting mass times the acceleration of said mass. So the amount of matter in and of itself isn't sufficient to calculate the force. A good example of this is Project Orion where they wanted to detonate a Hydrogen ...

Nah, that’s clearly highly radioactive dust. Hmm, if we assume that the Q mine causes a self-sustaining chain reaction in matter (thus vapourising a ship or asteroid), why don't extremely entertaining things happen when one drops one at a planet or star? Those come in two categories: bursts of radi...

Flying_Circus wrote:

There are no blast waves in space, even if it is a cool-looking (and hence massively over-used) 3D special effect.

You mean like the Q mine?

Or these:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apo ... blast+wave

And yes, it's because Rock Hermits aren't necessarily persistent inside the game - whereas stations are (or are meant to be!). I always thought that deploying an energy bomb inside the docking tunnel should do ... something. What with it being a confined space and all that. Even if it just blasted ...

Rxke wrote:

But I'd bet there are people who'd love it translated in a variety of languages...

buy' ngop. Cha Oolite Toh'gah-nah lo Pre'tOk. ghIj ghet jaghmeyjaj.

I tend to find that stationary targets are easy to hit, moving targets are harder to hit (proportional to speed) and twisting/turning/accelerating targets are nearly impossible to hit. Additionally, close targets are easier to hit than distant targets. But my impression of the AI is that what my shi...