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Sorry if these have been answered elsewhere....

Second time round of elite for me, i was playing it first time... this great!

questions:
are the newships.oxp expansiion incorpated in the latest game or do u still need an oxp?

the assains guild missions... can u add those then pop in and out galaxy 7 and carry on with the normal game and missions as u please or is it once there complete them and trhen return?

anyway thanks to everyone who is involved in this, elite i mean oolite will always be a special game!

On Assassins Guild, yeah you can go in and out of G7 and you won't miss anything by leaving. BUT no new missions will be offered to you by Assassins OXP until you are back in G7 (which would mean a trip round the 8 Galaxys to play another Assassins mission). It is a pretty big expansion pack (though I say it myself!), with over 40 stages. There are loads of other OXP missions to play on the way to G7 (and you will need high Elite and Guild ratings to qualify for some of the Big Money hits). It is probabley more satisfing to play the missions in Galaxies 1 - 5 first, then jump to G7 and play Assassins.

Mission OXPs (including this one) operate like the Constrictor Mission in original Elite (remeber that one!). You do your normal Elite stuff, but if you play with all the mission OXPs in then there'll be about 50 odd missions out there to take on if you chose to!

Just as it was up to you whether to go chasing after the Constrictor (or get on with trading and do it later, or not do it at all), Mission OXPs give you the option to go and do new missions. You don't have to and can ignore the request and get on with trading, piracy or whatever you want.

Be warned though in any mission you actions may have consequences. Choose to blow away a poor rodent in an Adder for money and his relatives may not be too pleased with you!

Anything in an OXP will only work if you have the OXP in. Oosat2 suffered a crash reacently (there used to be 70 odd OXPs there) and us Devs are all having resubmit our OXPs to the rebuild site, so it will be a few weeks before all the OXPs are back on Oosat2.

You can download OXPs from Oosat1 (link is on Oosat2), but some are old versions. Use the version on Oosat2 if the OXP is on both. (EG AssassinsB2 is on Oosat, but this Beata won't work properly on the Mac. B5 on Oosat2 is fine!)

Have a look at the Wikki at this link for mission info:-

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Oolite_Missions