Oolite Bulletins

I just had a fun thing happen; Ejected some cargo. Hit "J" to hit jump speed. shortly thereafter, a ship enters my mass lock zone... and my cargo canister shoots into the rear of my ship at ultra high speed, destroying me instantly (WITH shield booster!). Maybe jumping to "sublight&qu...

Ok, so the energy bomb was moved from Tab to 9 to avoid mis keyed total destruction. Great! Except, now I hit it by mistake when I'm calling up the system prices for the system I'm in, when I'm deciding what cargo to eject on my way to the station to make room for.. oh, you know.. those cargo canist...

Ok, I play on the keyboard. let me just say, there is little that is as frustrating as trying to line up a shot on a ship, and it's "dead in the middle", and being completely unable to tap a directional key for the minute nudge I need to line it up. So that got me to thinking: I thought it...

omg, is that a joke? or do they really truly combine????

Quick Quick.. I'm drooling over here!

Too Slow. I did run a rusty Moray Medical Boat for a little while though, and that worked out ok I guess, but I want the speed. Too often I'm too low on injector fuel... I'm in an Ophidian class Yacht right now and Love it. The Moray Starboat was just my starter tactic.. load up on goodies, do passe...

IIx is almost as good as III but significantly cheaper. I tried it, but cargo scooping seemed very buggy (running 1.65). It kept misreporting the amount of cargo space I had and cargo containers would crash against my ship as if "cargo is full" even when minutes earlier I had had more car...

I traded down to a moray star boat near the beginning, you lose a lot of cargo space and no large bays can be added, but hey.. that's the trade off. I liked it far better than the cobra MkI.. but then, i fight a lot and I'm finding speed to be useful.. Mk1 has poor speed as well. Is there anything i...

ah, interesting. thanks for the info!

Hey, it's been a looooong time since I played the original elite, so I forget. Is jumping to higher number galaxies like "upping the difficulity level"? That is, do they get more difficult (and have greater rewards)? I got thinking about this as I sun skim a lot and have never run into oth...

Well, there's no skill when 9 pirate ships show up to gang bang my beam-laser rust bucket moray medical boat either.

But, there is plenty of skill in picking up the 20 cargo containers left after the Ebomb explosion before the next wave shows up >:)

and, furthermore I suppose if every rescued pilot ratted you out to the cops when you brought him back to a station, there wouldn't be many rescued pilots, so maybe that's just space etiquette for you..

I have a few questions about this and comments (v1.65). First, what influences the insurance payout? I've gotten paid between 125-500crs for rescues. If I have multiples, they are all paid the same at the same time. Is it influenced by the economy of the station I bring them back to? Also.. much as ...

Actually, I have a question about "taxi rides" too. Is there a difference between "long haul" and "short haul" passenger contracts, or are they recorded equally? I typically take short ones (5 jumps or less) because I don't have time to do a longer one and with only 2 t...

Good to know, and thanks for all you do Murgh!

Hey all, I installed this OXP and as someone else mentioned, it does bring some good deals to the shipyards for "well loved" ships with slightly derated stats. However one thing I've noticed (having tried to buy a couple to test drive) is that if you have the targeting enhancement installe...