Oolite Bulletins

pagroove wrote:

Redspear: It reminds me of many sic-fi settings. But Mostly this looks a bit like Star Trek.

I was thinking more 'Alien'.

Smivs wrote:

pagroove wrote:

Redspear: It reminds me of many sic-fi settings. But Mostly this looks a bit like Star Trek.

I was thinking more 'Alien'.

That also yes...

Found it



Alien!

Redspear wrote:

Meanwhile...

Does this remind you of any particular sci-fi film or is it just me?

The screenshot reminds me of a movie from 1974, John Carpenters "Dark Star". The screenshot looks like the scene where Bomb No. 19 explodes to destroy an instable Planet.

pagroove wrote:

Redspear: It reminds me of many sic-fi settings.

Yes, I suppose there are so many and my knowledge is far from encyclopedic...

pagroove wrote:

But Mostly this looks a bit like Star Trek. I was watching the intro from Voyager and we are now almost on that CGI-level in game. If only we had lights on he night side of planets (with random patterns) then it could be perfect.

I haven't seen Star Trek on TV since the days of the original Kirk, Spock and doors that broke wind surrepticiously whenever opened, so you could well be right...

Oolite does keep getting better doesn't it? Imagine screenshots like that one in 1984

And the winner is...

Smivs wrote:

I was thinking more 'Alien'.

Yes, you too were thinking like me, Smivs... my commiserations

I'm not even sure what it was about the picture, maybe the crescent glare on a dusty looking planet...
And we have 'the' picture too, for comparison. Nice one Smivs

I would love someone to have a go at modelling the derelict from that film (way beyond my current capabilities I suspect...)

Captain Beatnik wrote:

The screenshot reminds me of a movie from 1974, John Carpenters "Dark Star". The screenshot looks like the scene where Bomb No. 19 explodes to destroy an instable Planet.

I really must get around to watching that film sometime...

Thanks for 'playing along' folks

Meanwhile (again), here's a nice planet

Half a dozen parcel contracts onboard, to the value of over 20k - and this bunch of assassins were waiting for me:



Having no fuel for injectors, I never had a chance! The life of an interstellar courier is rarely dull - but it can be painful.

It occurs to me that notorious interstellar couriers could really use a Q-Bomb up their sleeves, for those times they just absolutely positively need to get everyone to leave them alone..

(yes, I know that's rather risky too, without injectors, but a bit of thinking suggests one or two possible ways around that obstacle)

The day that core NPCs start lobbing QCMs around will be the day I start carrying one myself, Diz.

Cody wrote:

The day that core NPCs start lobbing QCMs around will be the day I start carrying one myself, Diz.

Maybe they should carry them...

Cody wrote:

The day that core NPCs start lobbing QCMs around will be the day I start carrying one myself, Diz.

You mean like done assassination targets do?

q bombs and energy bombs are already being thrown at me by NPCs' so what is new....That keeps me at a good arms length when I collect on my bounty.

Pleb wrote:

Cody wrote:

The day that core NPCs start lobbing QCMs around will be the day I start carrying one myself, Diz.

Maybe they should carry them...

There are a couple of new core roles - smuggler and courier - which are likely to have injectors and so might use a QCM if they had one. Similarly there might be cases where an assassin would drop one to try to take out a target. I suspect, however, that the times it would actually be sensible (and better than the equivalent cost of hardened missiles!) to do so would be too small to make it worth doing.

Roasted tree-grub, anyone?

The RRS group rejected the idea of using Deep Horizon Buoy as their navigational buoy as they were concerned about the security issues it poses. The board was certain that it contains GalCop spying technology. So they chose a simpler buoy, one with solar panels that simply glows in the dark.