Oolite Bulletins

Hey, it's been a looooong time since I played the original elite, so I forget. Is jumping to higher number galaxies like "upping the difficulity level"? That is, do they get more difficult (and have greater rewards)?

I got thinking about this as I sun skim a lot and have never run into other ships doing the same, and I remember in the old elite occasionally running into packs of other ships skimming fuel or attacking skimmers. Then it occurred to me that maybe I was in "higher level" galaxies in the old elite.

Can anyone shed any light on this for me?

No, it's not a 'upper level' as far as I know. It's just that mission are homed in different galaxies.

in the old elite, the action was player-centric
(eg ships are intantaneously generated near the player, when an encounter is wanted),

in Oolite the action is not player-centric.
(eg. systems are populated independent of the player and ships follow their own agenda).

Even though the systems are small in Oolite, the likelyhood of encountering ships outside the shippinglanes is fairly small.



In old-leet, if you wanted action, you went to a sun. in oolite you need to go to the witchpoint. (or install pirate-coves.)

ah, interesting. thanks for the info!