Oolite Bulletins

Hello, gentlemen!
My name is ... mmm... Bond, Commander Jameson Bond .
Probably my story is not much different than others, but I think it has one strong difference. Thereby ELITE I learned English language. Not at all like native speaker, but enough to express my tons of thanks to developers for their brilliant job.

In beginning of 90' when I was young teenager I had ZX Specrum. When I first time saw ELITE I didn't understand what to do and what about the game. In same time I've got an instruction how to play and I fall in love to ELITE. In ELITE everything were on English. At that time there is no Internet nor translation of the game, neither friends who know English. But I had strong desire to understand everything in the game to play the one. I've got a dictionary and I began to translate ELITE for my own purposes. I travelled across eight galaxies, fought with pirates, mined asteroids, trade goods, completed all missions and became ELITE rank. I dreamed how it will be nice if such brilliant game would have nice graphics and much more missions, equipment, etc.
After many years I've got a computer, Internet connection and my dream came back. I tried to play a lot of cosmosims, but all of them were not a tiny bit of that ELITE. Even I tried to play ELITE DOS version. I started to think to buy ELITE Dangerous, but… but… bingo! I found dreamed ELITE. Dreamed ELITE name is Oolite.

Gen, sorry for my terrible English. I studied English by ELITE as described above.

Sincerely yours ComJaBo

Welcome aboard, Commander Jameson Bond!

That's a very inspiring story, that Elite motivated you to learn English..

Aye, welcome aboard, Commander!

Hi Commander Bond,
Great story, and it's good to have you here.

"Now listen carefully 007.

This is a fully-equipped, state of the art, Cobra Mk III multi-role ship. The Mk I wasn't much to shout about, and the Mk II was a bit of a disaster to be frank, but this time I think we've cracked it.
Homing missiles, military lasers front and rear, sides too should you need them, and a 7 light-year range. Fuel-injected thrusters, ECM anti-missile system, shield boosters and fuel scoops for self-sufficiency."

"What's this?"

"DON'T touch that 007... It's the trigger for the quirium cascade mine, a highly sensitive device that could blow up every hyperdive within the vicinity, including this one. You'd better be ready to run if you're going to deploy that, especially as I want the ship back in one piece this time! "

"But of course "

"Yes, well...
With four energy banks she's pretty tough and fast enough to keep even you away from trouble... in theory

There is also a passenger seat SHOULD you happen to fraternise with any of the locals "

"Oh, you know me Q, I'll be very focused just getting on top of things "

"Quite... Well you won't be needing the escape pod that comes with it then or the docking computers for hands-free landings, were you to be otherwise occupied."

"Very thoughtful "

"Do be careful 007 "




Welcome Mr. Bond.

Once you enter Oolite you will find that escape is, quite impossible...

Glad to have you with us and I hope you enjoy your stay

Heheh, welcome, Bond. And well captured, Redspear!

Hello all, not new here, but havn't been playing oolite for a long time. Anyways, back for a while so I thought i'd better say hi

Welcome back, Commander phonebook!
Feel free to post your tales.

Welcome back!

Depending on how long you've been gone, a lot has changed in Oolite. Probably, the things that might catch you out the most are the upgrades to NPC AI and behaviours, and the fact that neighbouring systems' political types now have an effect on how many pirates you're likely to encounter. (If a traditionally 'safe' system has a few feudal and/or anarchic neighbours, it's no longer quite as 'safe' as it used to be..) Pirate behaviour has been upgraded as well.. 'pack' tactics have improved, but on the plus side, pirates now demand tribute before opening fire.. comply with their demands, and they should leave you alone.

Hi phonebook and welcome back.

I had noticed something different haha probably getting murdered at Diso was a hint. The game is certainly more challenging, or seems to be, not had that ' excellent I might just about be alright at this thing' moment yet, but there's still time.

Loving the new menu screens, installing OXP, well OZP expansions in game.

thank you all for the welcome

Hi, old elite player here, just found videos of Elite Dangerous on youtube, but dont have a machine that would run it so i found this place.
Figured i better say hi before i go ask silly questions.

Hi, oldelitefart, welcome to the boards! Questions are welcome, silly or otherwise - most will get sensible answers, eventually …

Welcome aboard, Commander! What the BIAM said.

Hi, oldelitefart.