Oolite Bulletins

but, beause i find it easy to sun skim, i tend to hyperspace my legal status down to offender or clean,

but how do you save the game with you being a fugitive, after all, docking is nigh on impossible

No it isn’t. Just fly into the docking slit. If necessary, kill off the vipers first.

aha! you are a braver commander than me! i stayed squeaky clean until i had equipments!!

sad but true

tho i have found that 6 jumps takes you from fugitive to clean

Thargoid wrote:

Depends how naughty you've been

too true, sometimes it's well into double figures before you even become a mere offender again...

phonebook wrote:

tho i have found that 6 jumps takes you from fugitive to clean

I have the perfect cure for you: Anarchies.oxp

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Ahruman wrote:

No it isn’t. Just fly into the docking slit. If necessary, kill off the vipers first.

I have now produced a helpful docking tutorial. In the case of being chased by vipers, you might want to try the second method presented

Nice video A.

IMHO, second method was quite impossible in Elite. At least on Speccy and C64. If not perfectly aligned = KABOOOM!

Yep, Oolite is way too easy! In my day etc, etc...

Seriously, when I found out I could do the second type of docking I was extremely pleased with myself!

goran wrote:

Nice video A. :)

IMHO, second method was quite impossible in Elite. At least on Speccy and C64. If not perfectly aligned = KABOOOM!

Don’t tell anyone, but the approach I was trying to make would have been less… interesting. I’d carefully lined up to end up on the line between the nav buoy and station (tip: watch the radar), but when I got there (around when “2. Enter dock” appears) I completely forgot to cut power and accidentally made the final alignment turn at full speed and had to recover. Shooting a new take felt like cheating, and I wasn’t entirely sure my video editor worked. :-)

In fact, if anyone wants my two top docking tips, they are: 1. fly by instruments until the alignment stage, 2. ignore the fact that the station’s rotation and focus on the target cross until you’re nearly in.

hmmm i am sure i remember on the commodore 64, all you had to do was fly slowly into the slit, and then keep an eye on the compass, keeping the blob thingy centered, yes there was some side scraping, but you got in

accuracy of the approuch wasnt that important

In Elite/BBC (no nav beacons) the full speed docking method was:

Approach from the rear of the station.
Line the station up with the middle of the planet.
At full speed, hop over the station.
Do a 180, match rotation and enter.

I’m still trying to re-master that approach, but I’m a lot older now. Hey-ho.

i never found a better approach than the one in the manual, TBH, ie use the side view, stop, turn to face and give it some gas.