Jason Whitelock wrote:A quick hello to all my fello combateers.
Hi, Jason Whitelock, and welcome to the boards and of course to this great game!
Jason Whitelock wrote:I have just joined the forum - picking up oolite last week and clocking up about 30 hours over the weekend (wife was away)
Yeah, I think we all know the feeling and remeber how the hours passed by when we got into the first play rush!
Jason Whitelock wrote:Reversed my basic cobra out the hanger bay a few hours back now and have clocked up some nice wee kills, trading bits here and there and have a fat 20K payroll in the bank with some usual toys on board. Have already had a run in (and died) with some thargon bad boys and had a visit from some little green fellas. Remembered that taking a wee trip to the sun could kill them off.
So your memries from the old times are still working, and you're on a good way. Right On, Commander!
Jason Whitelock wrote:- How did i pick those little annoying green things up?
- I remember you used to get missions, (other than the oxp missions I am reading about) - where do I / who do i stumble across any of the native game missions?
- where do i steal me a cloaking device?
![Surprised :o](./images/smilies/icon_surprised.gif)
)
You can get trumbles in different ways. One of them is that every new Jameson will get a trumble-offer when he has a certain amount of money. You can also get them by scooping an infested cargopod, if you have a certain OXP installed. There is also a new
OXP (work in progress) around trumbles.
Answers to all other mission-related questions can be found in the
wiki Missions page. There is a list of built-in and OXP missions together with informations about where and when you can get them.
Jason Whitelock wrote:- Is it worthwhile going for a beam laser or do i just go straight for military? (i have the cash)
- Which of the new toys are worthwhile ? Fuel Injectors, system overhaul [?], radar upgrades, tracking upgrades and memory expansions - they are all new to me?
Which laser you choose it probably a question of personal taste. In Oolite (probably unlike the old Elite-versions) the lasers have a different range. So with a military laser you can kill your enemies from farther away, which often is a good combat tactic, as the NPCs will fire back only starting from a closer range. On the other hand the military laser heats up quite quickly and then needs to cool again (and to answer your question before you have asked: No, there is no laser cooling device and there will be none. Read the
Oolite FAQ for an explanation.) The beam laser does not heat up quite so quickly, but on the other hand has not such a high firing frequency and not quite the firing range of the military version.
My personal opinion: take a military laser and learn to aim well and not waste its fire.
If you have the money (and before long you
will have more money than you possibly can spend) they
all are worthwhile. Fuel injectors are really helpful, and the scanner upgrades make life a lot easier. You find information on all the items in the
equipment section of the wiki. also make sure to maintain your ship regularly. System failures become more likely in a poorly maintained ship. But the main issue is that the sell-in value of your ship drops dramatically if you don't maintain it. So it is especially advisable to have a maintenance overhaul just before you buy a new ship and therefore resell your old one. The difference in resell value is easily a couple of times the cost of the overhaul.
Jason Whitelock wrote:- my communication console thing doesn't seem to work - is this a bug on code (on PC running 1.65) or do i need to buy something. I can see on the spot messages in space when i start blasting the good guys but cant look at logs, cant respond or anything else.
No, you don't need to buy anything. By pressing the console key (in-flight) a temporary window is opened, showing the last few messages you got from other ships. It's possible that you don't have the default key ('`') on your keyboard. But you can easily re-configure your keyboard configuration and assign another key. You find a short how-to again in the
FAQ-page and also in the
keyboard control page of the wiki.
Generally the
wiki is the place where you find all resources and informations you will need. If your needs are not satisfied there, then feel free to ask more questions here!
Again welcome!
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)