Oolite Bulletins

We're looking for the name of a guy.

He thought he had invented a time machine ... but what he thought to be a pre-historic jungle, was really a botanic garden.

a somewhat crabby moravec ?

when i bought my floppy drive for C=64 in '85, it came with with a few games on disk, elite was one of them.
later i tried a version for amiga, but it just wasn't the same.

google "opel manta"

boh-eih

i'm positive i wore a hat just like that to school for a winter or two. does that mean i can't sell pictures of that time?

the wagon width throughout the middle age was indeed set by the romans. the romans might not have invented the chariot, but they were the first to use them extensively on rock paved roads. roads remaining from roman conquests throughout europe meant that wagon wheels had to be spaced to fit the trac...

if someone finds a way to do that, it should be called the "overheat laser OXP". my guess is that's all it'll do, with minimal effect on the enemies, if any. it would be lucky to hit any target at all before the lasers overheat, even if the targets are -all- in eminent collision distance. ...

i like it.

a suggestion though, with 4 symbols now, it would look better in two rows i think.

then there could be the option for a partial overhaul. say, so many credits per percent improvement

it certainly has to be carefully balanced to be of use. however, i'm -not- opposed to maintenance costs being in the same neighborhood as purchase prizes, or even higher. it all comes down to a fair ratio between maintenance costs and the profit a ship can make between overhauls on one side, and the...

maintenance costs would be a good factor to keep überships in check. a fast ship with "bigger" engines would need more maintenance at higher costs than one with small engines. and 4 energy banks are more expensive to overhaul than 2. fairly balanced, an übership might be easy to come by, b...

CmdrLUke wrote:

"Hey, anybody, 200Cr to the first guy to smoke this fugitive who's attacking me!".

how much gets the second guy?

as i understand the current subent system, there's only two methods. one mounts all subents indiscriminately, the other kills subents individually. at best, subents to be hidden can be moved into other structures present. let's take a look at actually visualized weapons pylons. in the setup there wo...