Which way to Witchspace?

Myrmidon · Post by **Myrmidon** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:56 pm

Is there anyway in Oolite to jump into witchspace and fight the Thorgoids? I know there was something on the C64 version that would allow this.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:13 pm

The way is… up, up and away!

tomsk · Post by **tomsk** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:17 pm

IIRC on the original BBC ELITE it was CTRL-X that took you into witchspace with a load Thargoids to kill.

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:40 pm

should I give away the secret?

Spoiler here!

pull up during the last few seconds of the countdown

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 10:42 pm

wackyman465 wrote:
should I give away the secret?

He could, of course, just read the oolite stories. It's in there! Couldn't stop reading...

Screet

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:19 pm

That's how I figured it out...

Myrmidon · Post by **Myrmidon** » Sat Jan 24, 2009 10:27 pm

Thanks guys.

Where are these stories of which you speak?

Screet · Post by **Screet** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 2:25 am

Myrmidon wrote:
Where are these stories of which you speak?

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Status_Quo
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Mutabilis

...and I could not stop reading until I was through. I became pretty tired, went to bad, just to stand up again an hour later and continue reading!

Screet

Myrmidon · Post by **Myrmidon** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:56 pm

Thanks for the tip guys. Witchspace is quite profitable.

I will check out the fiction later.

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 11:52 pm

Screet wrote:
Myrmidon wrote:
Where are these stories of which you speak?
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Status_Quo
http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Mutabilis

...and I could not stop reading until I was through. I became pretty tired, went to bad, just to stand up again an hour later and continue reading!

Screet

Those stories are gripping, ayup.

I can also recommend Justice For Mrs Combs.

0235 · Post by **0235** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:15 pm

happened to me, but i wasn't pulling up, only tapped A just as i was engaged, probarbly my rubbish PC playing up again

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 2:57 pm

0235 wrote:
happened to me, but i wasn't pulling up, only tapped A just as i was engaged, probarbly my rubbish PC playing up again

Hold it down, start looping at about 2 seconds. The on-board Hyperspace Compensators in modern starcraft can negate the minor ups and downs of piloting, but if the movement is rapid and extreme (loop-de-loop), that's when you'll end up dropping out of the Witchspace tunnel into the vast, Thargoid-haunted emptiness....

Captain Hesperus

wackyman465 · Post by **wackyman465** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:42 pm

But really, which is scarier: A trumble salesman or a fleet of thargoids?

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:03 pm

You think we don't have trumble salesmen too?

Cmdr Wyvern · Post by **Cmdr Wyvern** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:44 pm

wackyman465 wrote:
But really, which is scarier: A trumble salesman or a fleet of thargoids?

Neither!

Now, a fleet of Thargoid Scientolegists, THAT would be downright chilling!