Oolite Bulletins

Yes, I always think this is a bit odd. 1. You are attacked by pirates from their 'cove', you slaughter the lot of them and then dock at their base and it's like "Avast! Let bygones be bygones, m'lad. Yo ho. Cheap gems, squire? Bottle of rum?" I figure you should either be boarded and push...

Docking when the ship is moving is difficult. The easiest way is to get the docking computers to line you up but this takes ages. Wait. You can use the docking computers to dock with a dredger? How? I tried it, and was given the message, "can not contact station for docking data" or somet...

No problem at all - just like a giant manta ray. Straight in. Now leviathans - totally different ball game! Weird. I docked with a leviathan just fine. Maybe the trick is getting to the ship (whether a dredger or leviathan) when they are not moving. Every time I approached a dredger it seemed to be...

I kept meaning to try it, just to see what it would be like, but I was putting it off to a time when I had just saved, because I thought that attacking it might make me a fugitive. Don't those poor rock hermits get legal protection? Or are they worth less than a nav bouy in the eyes of the law? :D O...

Cool, but why destroy it, (unless your ship is in bad shape and you won't be able to handle the pirates)? Once you kill all the ships, you can dock with it just like an ordinary Rock Hermit.

Very Nice!

Edge-of-the-seat-stuff.

Amusing Star Wars references, too!

Here's a little nitpicky thing: How does everyone feel about the image of the planet that comes up on the planet info screens now in 1.65? Sure, it looks nice, but it adds a slight delay in the screen coming up, whereas it used to come up instantaneously upon hitting the button. I don't know that th...

You know? Come to think of it, when I first tried to download 1.65, I think I clikced on the second link down (http://homepage.mac.com/aegidian/download/oolite1.65.dmg). But this just seemed to get me just another copy of 1.64. So then I tried the top link (http://www.digitalnervouswreck.com/oolite/...

No problem at all - just like a giant manta ray. Straight in. Now leviathans - totally different ball game! So, what do you think I might be doing wrong? Am I the only one having trouble docking with dredgers? I haven't really tried it again after my first few attempts. Maybe I just need to practic...

Yeah, I was thinking that being able to zoom in and shoot would turn combat into a sniper exercise. Blah.

You're a laser? Wow. :wink: Sorry. I couldn't resist that joke. Fun with grammar! Anyway, lasers do have a limit to their range of effectiveness. I was just reading an article about a real-world plane-based anti-missile laser in development. It was mentioned that the laser had a limited range of onl...

Hmmm. I am not a programmer of any kind, myself, but that makes sense to me. Along the same lines, I always thought it would be nice if you fired very close to a ship, but missed, that the ship would actually realize it was being attacked and respond accordingly. It seems kind of funny that they wou...

sometimes i end up using my fuel injectors and not knowing what key i pressed i ronic 8) Well, first off there's this: http://oolite.aegidian.org/faq.shtml Also, look for the "read me" file included with your download. It covers the ship's controls and more. There is also a little key con...

I recently saw a pair of clean rated ships firing at a rock hermit. I watched for a while, thinking there may be pirates emerging from it, but nope. All of a sudden the rock hermit asteroid blew up in a stunning multiple explosion. It was quite spectacular! Bits of alloys and stuff were flying every...

No telling what interesting substances they might contain! It's like a grab-bag of psychoactives!