Oolite Bulletins

During the holidays I was playing Oolite non-stop (because what else is there to do?), and it made me think a bit (uh-oh!). I have a few questions I'd like answered if that's alright. What is the difference between a Fer-de-Lance 3G+(t) and a Fer-de-Lance 3G+(t) (ex-police)? I don't think there is any difference at all, unless maybe the ex-police comes with more equipment?

If you have offender or fugitive status and people come after you like bounty hunters, the police or regular civilians, are you justified by shooting back at them or will your bounty get higher? Technically speaking I think it should because I'm the "bad guy" here, so attacking them back should raise my bounty. On the other hand, people are attacking me so it should be justifiable that I attack back.

Anyone care to enlighten me???

You're perfectly within your rights to shoot-up bounty-hunters - just don't let the Feds see you doing it.

Thanks, Cody. Also, I was wondering about the Explorer's Club OXP. How do you know which worlds are the "Lost Worlds" or any other type? Can you tell which worlds you have to visit in order to complete a milestone, or do you just have to visit all the worlds?

Another word on the subject of bounty: you can reduce your bounty a little by helping the Feds - but that can be dangerous!

Huntress wrote:

How do you know which worlds are the "Lost Worlds" or any other type?

There are a couple of OXPs which will reveal the meaning of some of those - or  use the PDF vector maps.

The vector maps are excellent - and this tool is very handy too.

Huntress wrote:

I was wondering about the Explorer's Club OXP. How do you know which worlds are the "Lost Worlds" or any other type? Can you tell which worlds you have to visit in order to complete a milestone, or do you just have to visit all the worlds?

The Old Worlds are the cluster around Lave, where a new game starts. The Famous Planets were the ones textured by the OXP of that name before we all changed to Povray Planets for textures. (I wondered whether to remove that particular milestone.) The Lost Worlds, Prodigal Suns, Rift Worlds & Oresrati are the isolated systems one can't reach in normal game-play. If you've visited them you'll doubtless be aware of it.

Notes:-

Apostrophe after the s; it wouldn't be much of a club with only one member.

Captain Okti, Captain Murphy's beta-tester, visited all 2048 systems in one day. He also made several OXPs with missions to visit the "unreachable" systems.

I'll entertain suggestions for new or altered milestones if anyone has any.

Murphy's request for better background images for the mission screens, made four years ago, remains in effect. The current image was only ever intended as a temporary stand-in.

Wildeblood wrote:

The Lost Worlds, Prodigal Suns, Rift Worlds & Oresrati are the isolated systems one can't reach in normal game-play.

One can reach the Rift Worlds in normal gameplay!

Cody wrote:

One can reach the Rift Worlds in normal gameplay!

Yup, but with a few of them without OXP's you can't get out



Consider yourself retired

Cody wrote:

Wildeblood wrote:

The Lost Worlds, Prodigal Suns, Rift Worlds & Oresrati are the isolated systems one can't reach in normal game-play.

One can reach the Rift Worlds in normal gameplay!

One is too broad-minded if one thinks that's normal.

Should low-bounty offenders be attacking you if you're a higher bounty fugitive (250 Cr)? If this is normal I might decide to give up my life of crime because those little < insert curse of choice here > are even worse than boyracers.

Huntress wrote:

Should low-bounty offenders be attacking you if you're a higher bounty fugitive (250 Cr)?

Maybe. Depends why they're an offender, why you're an offender, and whether your bounty was for crimes in the local area.

Fiendish, eh?

Huntress wrote:

Should low-bounty offenders be attacking you if you're a higher bounty fugitive (250 Cr)? If this is normal I might decide to give up my life of crime because those little < insert curse of choice here > are even worse than boyracers.

Whilst I shot at everything that is smaller than a station, I try to keep a clean record. I find this much easier to handle. You have trouble with GalCop police, with bounty hunters etc. if you are not clean. Last not least, being one of the random hits bounty hunteres requires you to be clean. You get no job otherwise and approaching a Space Bar can be your end.
Just keep your eyes open for any GalCop ships around and stop pirating peaceful traders in time!

If you went deep into slaves and narcotics tradings, I'd say, you shall live with the trouble

ralph_hh wrote:

Last not least, being one of the random hits bounty hunteres requires you to be clean. You get no job otherwise and approaching a Space Bar can be your end.

Tell me about it. After being attacked by at least five different ships at the same time while approaching a Space Bar, I've learnt my lesson.