Oolite Bulletins

Me neither I haven't been playing properly as I assumed there would be a wipe. Time I got my Cobra back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS12p0Zqlt0

One of the funniest moments ever lol!

I'm also disappointed there were no Thargoids. Obviously they haven't been introduced yet but hopefully soon...

Oolite can have that many systems as well. The only problem is that you'd never make it back to Galaxy 1 unless you have a reverse galactic hyperdrive! :wink: The problem with this is, as proven, the more of the same gets boring. Hence why I am not surprised that when CMDR Zulu Romeo made it to Sagi...

I wasn't born until late 1987 so I have only heard of about a handful of these games! :lol: :oops: The first game I remember playing was this: http://www.commanderkeenfans.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Commander_Keen_1.jpg Then probably either Elite or Frontier, I can't remember which one I played ...

Well I can understand the point of the sword. No more chopping hands off! But it does look a little bit silly. To be honest, I think this meme sums it up for a lot (but not all) people: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-elVxzwH-_4I/U2T38UXm-aI/AAAAAAAABlU/zmA7zOzit68/s1600/Star-Wars7-Harrison-Ford-acting.jp...

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=68235

So the centre of the galaxy has already been reached. So much for the journey taking weeks or months!

Still, it might be a while before all 400 billion systems have been visited...

I feel old...27 married got a 2 year old and another due in march...time to get the pipe and slippers!

Diziet Sma wrote:

Happy Birthday, Pleb!

(I'm assuming that is you over on the FGE boards.. )

Haha yes that's me thank you! The big 27 today...getting old!

Personally I think although they could have been a bit quicker to come forward about the no offline mode, as well as handling the situation better rather than hiding it in a sentence within a newsletter, they have produced a very nice looking game and with a lot of scope for improvements. The basic ...

pagroove wrote:

Nice pics all. I still have to wait till a Mac version is launched.

Can you not run it in bootcamp?

Does anyone else think that FD have over done the rings on Jupiter?

Didn't realise Jupiter's rings were that big!

Well, solo play is said to only require about 10kbps, so you may well be good to go already. I don't know if that's completely true. And besides you still have to download the game which on slow connections would take ages. People already complain about the download times just for the Beta patches!...

Some Q&A from Mr Braben in the early newsletter:

http://us2.campaign-archive2.com/?u=dcb ... 1d209941c4

Obviously all about offline-gate but it addresses some issues. Most was a rewording of yesterday's answers but it's a bit more in depth.

Griff wrote:

Pleb wrote:

You could send that back to Frontier as a bit of concept art for their next rollercoaster tycoon game