Oolite Bulletins

My cargo always gets distroyed when I discharge it too. This happen in cobra MkIII, python and supercobra. I've also noticed being able to scoop more cargo than I can hold. If I get something caught in the tractor beam and then collect something else, I collect both even if it takes me above the lim...

Do people do the long haul routes. The margins alway seem a little slim to me. I just experimented with doing one, it didn't go well. I was contracted to move some computers about 30 ly or so. Since I had some free space in the hold, I figured I could trade along the way so I bought some more comput...

I've found that the gritty corriolis staions in the OXP don't cause this. I've edited the config file to make all corriolis stations be gritty corriolis. At least it reduces the problem.

A couple of times recently I've been in a battle and either forced somebody to eject and then gone after the escape pod before returning to blow up the ship and scoop cargo, I figure I'll keep the cargo in one place while I go 'rescue' it's owner. It's fun to go back to a dead ship and blast it at m...

Thanks, at least now I know I have fedora core 2

handy to know.

Maybe someday I'll find an excuse to update the graphics drivers

Well mine as in it's on my desk and people have to ask me if they want to run jobs on it . Not mine as in I don't actually own it and I don't have the root password. The sys admin has set it up so I can type sodu and do things like reboot it and format HDDs on it but that's about it. Trying to insta...

Thanks, oolite hasn't appeared in the menu. I think that's to do with the fact that I don't have admin access. I think I read that someplace. I managed to run oolite from the command line. It's jerky though. Perhaps I don't have openGL drivers for my graphics card? Can I install those without admin ...

So it's just a limitation?

I'll choose another pair of keys in that case.

I've remmapped most of my keys the way I want apart from the "next target" key which is '+' by default. I want it to be = so that I don't have to press shift to do it. I tried using the ascii for = but that didn't work. Now I can't select next target at all, only previous. Does anybody kno...

the good nes is I found it. It's in ~/l.local/lib/Oolite/oolite.app The bad news is if I navigate to that directory and run ./oolite I get ./oolite: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_gfx.so.13: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So I'm guessing the installer didn't ...

I thought I'd give linux oolite a go since windows oolite has a couple of bugs and my linux box is much more powerfull than my windows machine. To proove my idiocy, I shall admit that I dont' know what type of linux install I have. The login screen says fedora core so that's a start but I don't know...

Fairly frequently, I get messages that don't fade but continue to scroll up the screen to just past half way. To clear them, I have to generate a bunch of mesages by, say changing views untill the offending message has scroled off screen. It can be annoying if I'm in a fight and can't see my cross h...

Wow. That was an interesting read. I completed the Constrictor mission at the weekend, before stumbling over here. I read something over on an original Elite site that mentioned this mission, where it said the Constrictor is impervious to the energy bomb. Er, that's how I destroyed it. First time I...

To dock, I aligned myself to fit thorugh the whole in the front of the ship, slowed to a dead crawl and as soon as I started to colide, I rolled by 90 degrees. From reading Littlebear's post, i assume if I'd aligne myself with the slit, I'd have hit the ship and died? BTW, I'm in a python so I might...

oh, I see

I seem to have come across the 90 degree docking slit bug as well.

Still, fun to take part.