Oolite Bulletins

Who said it was AD?

El Viejo wrote:

JazHaz wrote:

HueijRevisited wrote:

Maybe it would be a good idea to also post the in-game time that goes with those kills?

my current commander is saved at: 2085004:13:00:31

First four digits are the year; 1000 days to a ship year.
Everybody starts at 2084.004.

So I've been in the game for exactly 1000 days, making my kill rate 1.86 kills per day.

Have made a second table in the first post!

El Viejo wrote:

Who said it was AD?

Nobody. But thats why I asked "By what calendar?". I think we should be told!!

Lestradae: Deadly (4211 kills), in the Ooniverse for 2241 days or 6 years, 1 month and 3 weeks, kill rate therefore: 1,88 per day.

I knew I was the psychopath here.

Waiting for the beady-eyed Geordiebird jumping in claiming he made his 2 kills in the first five minutes of the game...

JazHaz wrote:

El Viejo wrote:

First four digits are the year; 1000 days to a ship year.
Everybody starts at 2084.004.

By what calendar?

If the calendar is based on 1000 days in a year, then you might be able to calculate what the year is in Gregorian, by multiplying 2084 by 1000 to get the total days and then dividing by 365.25 (our current solar year), which gives an answer of 5705.6.

Not really the figure I thought it should be. I thought Elite was set in around 3000 AD (give or take a few years)?

Would work better if the calendar was based around 500 days in a year, then 2084 game time would work out at 2853 AD.

snork wrote:

Waiting for the beady-eyed Geordiebird jumping in claiming he made his 2 kills in the first five minutes of the game...

I'm surprised that no-one has made it to Elite yet, although Loxley is the closest. Early days for the thread though.

JazHaz wrote:

I'm surprised that no-one has made it to Elite yet, although Loxley is the closest.

Not any more I'm not. I'll need a better ship before I start worrying too much about my combat ranking. Trading takes priority for now.

edit to add: Adder Loxley now has 18 kills as of date 2040040

Loxley wrote:

JazHaz wrote:

I'm surprised that no-one has made it to Elite yet, although Loxley is the closest.

Not any more I'm not. I'll need a better ship before I start worrying too much about my combat ranking. Trading takes priority for now.

edit to add: Adder Loxley now has 18 kills as of date 2040040

Not changing the table. I meant it to be based on the highest score.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

DaddyHoggy: 2 Kills (I'm Roleplaying a pacifist - I was deeply remorseful - 7 days mourning for both of the lost souls)

2 kills in 7 days would put you top of the kill rating table!

860 kills - Dangerous
171 days in the game (2084175 the year), average of 5.03 kills/day

BUT, I think 200 of the kills are asteroids and cargo, since for some time I played in the "Strict Play" where they are considered kills. So, do not put me in the tables, it would not be fair.

varsator wrote:

860 kills - Dangerous
171 days in the game (2084175 the year), average of 5.03 kills/day

BUT, I think 200 of the kills are asteroids and cargo, since for some time I played in the "Strict Play" where they are considered kills. So, do not put me in the tables, it would not be fair.

I think thats fine. Have put you in both. The kill rate is quite impressive, I didn't kill anything for quite a few weeks until I got a half decent equipment list.

First, here's my main commander personality:


As far as time measurement in Oolite is concerned: like other people said, the days start with 2804004, and the rest is hours, minutes and seconds. By the way, if you start a fresh Jameson, the hours, minutes and seconds are set to your current real time, therefore it is unlikely that you will start two different Jamesons at the very same time. Obviously the Lave Academy spits out new licenses the whole day.

I don't think, however, that a year in Oolite is made of 1000 days. At least I don't know any canonic hint about this. Where is this information from? I would suppose that a year has 365 days, unless proven otherwise.

As we all know, Oolite is set in 3141. (For all information we have got about the Elite timescale compare Selezen's excellent website.) How you get from year 3141 to day 2084004 is anyone's guess. You could try to count 2084004 days backwards from 3141 and see which important event you meet. Or you could assume that the new calendar doesn't start with 0, but perhaps with 1000000 and see where this gets you. If you by some calculation arrive for instance at the secession of the original GalCop systems from the Federation as the origin of GalCop's timescale, you could publish a paper on your findings and call yourself the Ooniverse's leading historian.

I've always been pants at math but I've worked out that my kill rate is (a rather lowly) 1.09 kills/day. I think this must be all the super-safe off-spacelane milk runs I did as a 'youngster'. Today I'll probably kill around 10/day (except on Galactic Navy reserve missions...I can't resist those rogue Frigates or Thargoid Battleships, so usually end up with a 'Press Space, Commander' and no kills saved!).
Currently Dangerous with 2149 kills under my belt (including one Thargoid Battleship of which I'm very proud), and looking forward to being Deadly soon.

Edit:- Bugger! Just did it again. Actually took out a pirate Frigate but failed to notice the incoming missile. Now, where's that Darwin Awards thread?