Oolite Bulletins

Make sure you have some nice shields before you start this. Shoot up a few asteroids until one of them splits up into boulders. Get to about 0.5 km of one of the boulders Ram it at about .75 full speed! Scoop about 6 tons of minerals! Scoop any splinters that are left over Not that a cargo hold of m...

Would it be possible to enhance the cargo screen (i.e. 5, 5 whilst in flight)? ATM you get a breakdown of cargo by the tonne. Could you put the current value of each piece of cargo in a column next to it and a total value of all cargo underneath? e.g Food x8 ---- 64.8CR Furs x1 ---- 50.2CR Computers...

At the moment I have a Cobra MkIII with 35 TC. A lot of the time there is more cargo floating around than I can scoop. Frankly, food and textiles are a waste of cargo space when I am scooping luxuries/computers/platinum. Surely it should be possible to discard the cargo you don't want rather than (w...

If you slowly fire on a ship (e.g. a python) the pilot will use his escape capsule The ship will eventually no longer be classed as a ship on the radar and will just drift in space. At the moment, all you can do is blow it up or leave it there. It would be nice if you could board it or tow it and se...

I realise that the 127 limit on trading is there on purpose https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=1368 https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=1268 But should the 127 limit be expanded? What would be the point of buying something like an Anaconda with 750 TC if you can never make use of the cargo ...

... In the final analysis, though, there's no replacement for plain old experience! Think about it. You play for weeks with a Cobra 1 and have never docked. You get into a big fight, paste twenty ships and finally attain that coveted Above Average rating, and are much proud of yourself. However, yo...

I haven't been playing Oolite for too long. ~200 kills, hardly covered a 1/4 of Galaxy 1. I haven't installed any of the OXPs yet. Are there any that are seen as 'essential' or most recommended to install? Do you think I should install several and start again from the beginning (probably with better...

Previously it had never occurred to me to sell my ship at the start and downgrade to get spare cash. :roll: After I had a FPS issue I couldn't really dock without a computer and so couldn't really do much until I read about downgrading. However, downgrading to a Cobra MkI means that you can immediat...

So would I be better off getting into a few more firefights to increase the depreciation rate or is it solely based on time?

I have noticed the trade in value of my ship steadily decreasing. From reading several threads it appears that it will drop to a minimum of 75%. Someone also said that it is best to repair the ship before trading it in for a new one to get the best value for money. My problem is that I can't seem to...

Again, a cursory reading of a good many threads on this forum will lead you to the inevitable conclusion that this is ELITE, not Frontier. Fair enough, but as several threads have mentioned, this is a halfway house between the two (Elite 1.5 I think someone said?) Which leads to the possibility of ...

The things that I miss in Oolite are Detailed Bulletin Boards and Empire/Federation Ratings The Empire/Federation ratings gave you something else to aim for (especially the cool names you got in the empire) The bulletin boards in Frontier and the increased number of missions (including very basic on...

105 FPS!!

You were right, I only had the generic driver installed!

This sorted it http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75074

Docking without computers is suddenly much easier!

Oops!
Forgot I had changed my graphics card recently.
Its actually an nVidia Card
ABIT Siluro FX5200 DT

I'll have to check whether I am using the correct drivers or not.

What are your typical FPS and what are your associated specs?
My low FPS might relate to my aiming issues in this thread https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?t=1700

FPS
Lowest: 4
Highest: 19
Typical: 12

PC Specs
2.3 GHz CPU
512 MB RAM
ATI FIRE GL2 AGP 64MB GRAPHICS
Ubuntu Linux
Oolite 1.65