Oolite Bulletins

Cody wrote:

Commander McLane wrote:

You may want to direct some of your remaining attention to Limit Theory.

How is that project going, McLane? I've given up trying to follow it on the forum (it's mostly beyond me).

parazaine wrote:

Braben has seriously annoyed a lot of hard-core Elite fans by promising things in the past, not delivering and not even apologizing for the fact. I hope the new game is good but considering the 'history' a degree of scepticism is entirely understandable.

Smivs wrote:

Now I've stopped laughing....
E:D is irrelevant to the future of Oolite. It is a commercial enterprise drawing on some heritage that Frontier developments has for marketing purposes. Anyone reading the threads on E:D will see that it will actually have very little in common with Elite except the name. It will be multi-player and almost everything I've read suggests that the game and the gameplay will be nothing like the original Elite.
Oolite is a self-contained community which has broadly stayed true to the spirit of Elite and has maintained the canon and interest in the game for many years. I see no reason why that should change, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if in years to come Oolite is still flourishing long after E:D has been superceded by the Next Big Space Sim.

Norby wrote:

(so some new OXPs will be coming soon ).

Smivs wrote:

Norby wrote:

(so some new OXPs will be coming soon ).

Looking forward to them.
And welcome!

maik wrote:

<meta>I just love how the Oolite community completely ignores the trollish nature (obvious controversy in all caps) of the topic</meta>

maik wrote:

<meta>I just love how the Oolite community completely ignores the trollish nature (obvious controversy in all caps) of the topic</meta>

Gimi wrote:

maik wrote:

<meta>I just love how the Oolite community completely ignores the trollish nature (obvious controversy in all caps) of the topic</meta>

It never occurred to me that this was in any way intended as trolling . Initiating a discussion or making an observation, yes, but not trolling. No such thing on this board.
I'm probably a bit naive in that respect though.

JazHaz wrote:

Funny how the original poster of this thread has not replied in it since the first post!

rayner wrote:

I backed Elite: Dangerous, and I'm eagerly looking forward to it. But I don't think it'll compete directly with Oolite. Oolite, despite all its new features and extra eye-candy, still feels to me like playing the original Elite. I'm expecting E:D to be more like a total reboot of the Elite universe that'll keep some broad similarities to the original but have its own distinct spirit.

I actually got into Oolite as an indirect result of the E:D Kickstarter campaign (a friend and I were excitedly talking about E:D at a party, and ended up downloading Oolite to show another friend what the original Elite was all about). So we might even see an increase in interest in Oolite, from players who want a taste of "classic" Elite but also enjoy things like the modern graphics, upgraded AI, and fan-made expansion packs.