Oolite Bulletins

I still have the same problems in Linux that I had before i.e. I go to a modified system and everything locks up. The problem begins on entering witchspace - I just jump straight into the system, no rings. The system is empty and none of the keys respond. You might remember that last time this happe...

You lot seem to be very tight fisted when it comes to missiles. I think missiles are just too tied up in my mind with being a Jameson, armed with a peashooter pulse laser. Once I got proper lasers front and back, it just became so much more satisfying to blast them with that rather than fire a miss...

I never bother with missiles in a common or garden pirate attack. However, when some of the missions set you up against groups of, shall we say, more worthy opponents, a hardhead or two can help keep a couple of 'em on their toes while you slug it out with their mates.

I agree with McLane - snipe as many of them as you can from a distance and be ready to use your rear laser while the front one cools down. Also known as the "do unto others before they do unto you" tactic. Talking of sniping, does anyone else find renegades easier to hit from a distance? C...

I like the idea of being able to follow other ships through jumps (even when you do not have enough fuel to make a similar jump yourself). Should an enemy ship be equipped with capacity to jump further than 7 LY this could even save any pilots caught at Oresrati, the planet at the end of the univer...

So I need to remove the OXP containing the Falcon and possibly the Urutu?

"Huge" as in a bit big to post here. I'm sending it to the address you gave.

Update: Copied the oxps again, now I have the right ship so there must have been something missing originally. Still not sure about that missile though.

Have copied my oxps and commander across from my Windows partition to give it a go. First off, my Wolf Mk II reverted to a Cobra Mk III. More interestingly, I came across a missile which showed up as yellow on the scanner and had a legal status. It was impervious to laser fore or ECM. When I got too...

We've had OXPs for Dictatorships, Communists and Anarchies. It occurred to me that democracies ought to have election campaigns now and again. How easy would it be to write an oxp that gave you a chance of running into a campaign - ships flying around blaring "Vote for the Lobstoid Party" ...

It looks great - love the textures and explosions! The only niggle is that I seem to be getting more sticky messages than before, usually when the ID system locks onto something. Incidentally, I only started getting sticky messages when I fitted a proper graphics card - a 128 Mb Nvidia GeForce FX 52...

IIRC the Leviathan showed up blue on the radar and had "Military" status, but when I blew it up I got the final mission briefing.

I recently left a station and came across a Viper chasing a fugitive Grass Snake. I gave chase, hoping to cash in on some bounty, when the two ships promptly exploded and I found myself entering the planet's atmosphere. I got out just in time, but it's a bit odd that NPCs should commit suicide like ...

I've run into cargo canisters which show up yellow on the scanner and have a legal status. Most recently, I came aross a drifting thargonwith clean legal status.

Oolite usually crashes soon after unless I zoom away from it straight away.

IIRC when I did the mission the train went cold on entering Galaxy 2. I picked it up again by deciding on a methodical search pattern and sticking to it until I came across a clue.

BTW I can still see Cos's spoiler in the first post - can you edit it please?

5. ++GalNet News Report++ The growing demands of the people of XXX on their power grids have caused the industries that supply electricity to begin construction of an unprecedented 40 new hi-yield nuclear power stations. This has had the knock-on effect of raising the price of Radioactives in XXX t...