Oolite Bulletins

Well I've worked my way up to the dizzying heights of Competent, pimped my Cobra up some, still in galaxy one and done a coupla medium level Random Hits.

What Mission OXPs would you recommend next?
I was thinkin';
Localhero
U.P.S. Courier
Oo-Haul
Are Scourge of the Black Baron and Long Way Around worth doing? I see it says they are suited for novices (is that me still?)
In fact I have just been recruited by the Localhero OXP!

OXPs installed so far (running v.1.70 under WindowsXP);
a-wing
Anarchies1.0
Asteroids
AsteroidStorm
b-wing
BlackMonks
clearskies
Commies
custsounds
Dictators v1.2
Dredger
ettBeaconLauncher
FTZ v0.13
Fuel Tank v2.1
gwxstations
halsis
hOopyCasino
hyperradio
Interceptor
lambda
localhero_1_03_9
MilHUD
mPakRedux
Pirate_coves
RandomHits
Rock_Hermit_Locator1.1
TIE
transhab
UPS-courier v1.3.5
X-Wing
y-wing
YOUR_AD_HERE
YOUR_AD_HERE_set_A
YOUR_AD_HERE_set_B
YOUR_AD_HERE_set_C
YOUR_AD_HERE_set_D
Zz-Oo-Haul
Zzzz Realistic Shipyards
Anything in that list that's outdated/redundant?

The alternate HUDs don't seem to work, is that a v.170 thing? Well I did get the Fighter HUD to work, but I didn't like the way it took up screen acreage. Was hoping for one with a red targeting dot in the centre of the crosshairs (my missus is getting a bit annoyed about theone I've drawn on in marker pen!).

Asteroids & AsteroidStorm have got basically the same set of extra asteroids.

Either one of them will do to increase the variety of asteroids. Asteroids was created to just supply the asteroids, without the overheads of a mission script.

The newer versions of AsteroidStorm (3.4+), however, seem to have removed those overheads, so I'd personally run AsteroidStorm, and remove Asteroids.

(Ok, I did work out the way to remove those overheads, so I'm 'slightly' biased )

IMO you might as well go for the novice missions as well. If you get bored by them, there's no great harm in not completing them.

(Plug: And if you get bored by with one of the four ad sets you have installed, you can enjoy 50 new ads by rotating set E into your folder )

I did the LongWay mission, and would have done the Black Baron mission... But, by the time I got around to it, I was offered the Constrictor mission, and now I'm in Galaxy 2, and am doing the Ionics mission.

I upgraded from the Cobra III to the Remorse of Conscience, and ran delivery contracts until I made enough to buy a Tiger and "pimp" it out. By that time, I had accumulated enough kills to be offered the Constrictor.
(When you are delivering plat or gems for 90k for 10 jumps, and find another 60k contract for an additional two jumps along the way, this doesn't take as long as you might think.)

I never did the Asteroids thing at all.

I'd suggest that you add the Super Cobra, Imperial Cruise, and Tiger to your OXPs. There's nothing like getting into a fight with five or six pirates and seeing the triple beam of an Imperial Cruiser firing at you.

Ionics have been fun so far, but it's taking me longer than I expected, there are a lot of ships to kill!


btw, I never got MilHud to work either. I downloaded all the HUDs, and tried them each individually...and MilHud was the only one that never seemed to work in any of my ships.