Oolite Bulletins

Diziet Sma wrote:

Not only is Oolite aimed at less powerful computers, it's pretty clear from the various enquiries we see, that there are lots of people (myself and many OoliteBB regulars included) playing Oolite on older hardware.

<nods> This is further evidenced by the popularity of Solo's unshadered version of Griff's shipset, I think - over 900 downloads now.

This is probably a daft question but it's been a long day so I'm going to ask anyway .....

I have just upgraded to premium beta and have attempted to download the software.

I start the download process and get asked if I want to open or save the client installer.

When I try to open it I get asked which program do I ant to use to open the client installer.

Any ideas ?

I don't have the game yet, so I'm guessing here - do you mean run the client installer?

I just double checked and the options are to open or save.....not run.

Still guessing - try save, then right-click and run as admin?

Yes I have tried that too but don't get an option to run

Ahh - try adding a .exe suffix to the file (if it ain't got one - it was a problem reported yesterday, I think), then running it (as admin).

Spot on Cody thanks very much

Out-of-game trade tools, spreadsheets, galactic trade data? Oh dear! <sighs>

Cody wrote:

Out-of-game trade tools...

The rise of the Bitcredit?

E: D Forum wrote:

I get a lot less interdictions if I do not supercruise directly toward wherever I am going. I make a nice long arc toward my target and get max 2 interdictions.

Now where have I heard that sort of talk before, eh? <chortles merrily>

Cody wrote:

E: D Forum wrote:

I get a lot less interdictions if I do not supercruise directly toward wherever I am going. I make a nice long arc toward my target and get max 2 interdictions.

Now where have I heard that sort of talk before, eh? <chortles merrily>

Old habits (and tricks) die hard eh Cody?

Geraldine wrote:

Old habits (and tricks) die hard eh Cody?

I do have some old habits (mostly bad) - and I know some old tricks too.

Now here is a thing. There was a cash injection into the Alpha by Frontier so I decided to treat myself to a Lakon Type 9. Great views from that space whale. But I had a dilemma, although I had enough to buy the thing I couldn't really equip it very well, so I took a chance and filled it to the brim instead with low cost cargo. No weapons and no hope if I was attacked. However using that old "off the trade lane" trick I made it safely to port, sold the cargo and finally added all sorts of goodies to it. I admit though it was a bit of a nail biter doing that trade run. Then I lost the lot in the next reset! Oh, well easy come, easy go.

Geraldine wrote:

I decided to treat myself to a Lakon Type 9. Great views from that space whale. But I had a dilemma, although I had enough to buy the thing I couldn't really equip it very well, so I took a chance and filled it to the brim instead with low cost cargo. No weapons and no hope if I was attacked. However using that old "off the trade lane" trick I made it safely to port, sold the cargo and finally added all sorts of goodies to it. I admit though it was a bit of a nail biter doing that trade run.

<grins> Excellent! For the gamma/release version, which start option are you thinking of choosing?