Oolite Bulletins

Ahruman,

Nice feature you built into the NPC witchspace jumps. Today I followed a trader that jumped trough a wormhole and found him at the other side.

Later I encountered a UPC generated ship that gave me a package and jumped. In older versions he reappeared at the witchspace-point of the departing system. I did not follow him through the wormhole, but first delivered the package at the main station. When I later normally jumped I encountered him in the new system. Very nice!

Have I always missed this feature or is it really new?

It was added (by Giles) around 1.65.

Ahruman wrote:

It was added (by Giles) around 1.65.

And many a Fugitive has met his end this way after thinking he got away scott-free!

Captain Hesperus

Yesterday I saw a similar nice touch.

A Python was flying in formation with four fighter escorts. The Python created a wormhole and jumped away. Then the fighters, in a neat symmetrical formation, all turned and jumped in the wormhole after him.

Little things like that help make the game feel alive.

Trexate wrote:

Yesterday I saw a similar nice touch.

A Python was flying in formation with four fighter escorts. The Python created a wormhole and jumped away. Then the fighters, in a neat symmetrical formation, all turned and jumped in the wormhole after him.

Little things like that help make the game feel alive.

If you ever have a half hour spare and are at a high-TL Corporate with lots of OXP ships, undock and just sit at about 10-15km from the station and just watch the traffic. It's fantastic to see the interactions such as squadrons of Rigels, Saiphs and Belatrices launching and oh-so-smoothly forming up for a patrol, Coachwhip or Anaconda Starliner liners and their escorts heading for Witchspace, Woma Fuel Transports stopping engines and delivering their cargo to the station. Magic

Captain Hesperus
....waxing lyrical and forgetting the profit margins. Again.