Oolite Bulletins

Decided to take the Quantum Pelican II back out into the black. Those mothballs really stink up the cockpit, but she's a good ship and it's great to be back. Jumped into the Ribege system and was minding my own business heading in system. I'm a sucker for helping out those in distress so when I hear...

I like the work being done here. It never ceases to amaze me when I watch (deceptively) simple concepts develop into complex ideas...

To be fair, perhaps the baddies are now acting like they have something to risk and lose. Putting on the <Immersion> hat for a moment...if death, or even significant financial ruin was a distinct possibility, wouldn't you exercise some caution, and cut your losses when the stakes get too high?</Imme...

So last night while doing cargo runs in open, I got interdicted by an NPC Cobra whose pilot had a Dangerous rating. Me, Harmless, and armed with an effectively unmodified Cobra (i.e. twin pulse lasers, no shield or hull improvements) was able to take him down with him not even managing to breach my ...

I have developed such a like | hate relationship with this game (I will never love this game). I feel dirty every time I click on the ED shortcut. Once again, my limited gaming time is lost to the ever present Upgrade Now. F**k this, back to Oolite. I've started a new commander and am really struggl...

Hoopy Casino The other two aren't surprising, but the hoopy casino originated in Elite, not Oolite. (Trivia: in theory, planets could also be famous for "hoopy cuisine", "hoopy sit coms", and even "hoopy its hoopy goat burgers". None of them are, of course.) I was gonn...

<chortles> Questions lead to stories.... Where is Teorge 2 and 1? Good question! I'll attempt a more thorough survey of Teorge system tomorrow - could be I've missed 'em. I'm still learning this explorer lark, and I've only got an intermediate scanner, not the advanced variant! A tip for you Cody, ...

Gotta respectfully disagree with you Diz. I've been on both sides of the fence. Grew up on the east coast in NSW, and lived with Daylight Savings through my adolescent and early adult years. Loved it. It just worked. However, for the past 15 years I've been on the west coast and have quite enjoyed n...

My 2c / 2p here. I don't have a lot of time for gaming, so when I do, I like to get stuck in to the action (I actually like the exploration role in E:D, so I guess my interpretation of 'action' is a bit odd). Here's my experience from the past week. Wednesday night. Great! I've got an hour or so up ...

Turns out Ross 154 is only two jumps from Sol, so I got to Sol, SC'd to Earth, had a look at a frankly poor rendition of the planet then spied a signal some 2 million Ls away. How could I resist.

Chasing Voyager

Decided to be a jerk when I got there...

Ok, well I've made it from my starting system to Lave (about 120LY), and am currently on my way to Ross 154 to visit Merlin before swinging by Sol. Don't know what I'll do after I reach Sol...probably park my ship until planetary landing become available. Looking for some pirate thumping action I de...

Cody wrote:

GFE is untrustworthy bloatware - no other word for it!

Cody, Tell us what you really think

Hi Pagroove. In spite of my better judgement, I'm still playing ED, although I'm currently stranded out of fuel range of any populated systems and contemplating hitting the self destruct button... To be honest, I don't have much love for ED any more. I don't particularly care about the overarching s...

Cody wrote:

I doubt I'll bother for a couple of days! In other news, cash prizes for reaching Elite rank - oh dear!

+1 to you Cody. Couldn't agree more.

Yeah, how is Limit Theory coming along? I looked at it early on and even then it looked much more promising than E:D, but I haven't been keeping up. Funny you should ask. Update video #21 was released today after a 2 month gestation. It's looking quite nice; the underlying universe appears to be a ...