Oolite Bulletins

After re-finding Oolite sometime 2007 & after enjoying many months/years on Elite, Frontier, FFE, etc
I have recently completed gal7 Assassins missions (much enjoyed) & now feel some what lacking in direction...
I have legitimately amassed 17,705 kills, 204,488,235Cr, by stardate 2086486 & am a commander of a very fine & well equipped Kirin XM.
Now i find myself without a challenge. The Kirin XM is a VERY powerfull ship BUT a LARGE target too.
SO...

I have decided to abandon my successfull commander & start again...

WOW
the basic Cobby3 is so responsive after the Lardy @rsed Kirin, but I miss the auto turrets especially when compared to a PULSE laser....
So far tonight I have managed to amass enough credits to get Witchdrive injectors, ECM, shield boosters & a Mil laser.
Now we're rocking...

So, have you done the deed & gone back to square one????
& how did you fare???

Hi Tivva

Yes, I've done the "start from scratch" thing many times. It refreshes the challenge.
The question is: did you keep your well established savegame, or did you bin it?

I have not done that yet, but if you want a challenge Tivva, just start from scratch every single time you get destroyed. You will appreciate how really difficult it is surviving in the Oolite universe.

Now that, A_C, is really hard.

I tried it a few times on Elite Plus. Even doing milk runs, it's harsh.

El Viejo wrote:

Hi Tivva

Yes, I've done the "start from scratch" thing many times. It refreshes the challenge.
The question is: did you keep your well established savegame, or did you bin it?

Oh yes. saved just incase....but i think I wont revisit...

i do it quite a bit, i find leesti diso then back to lave, enough money for the thingy at zaonce, then some megabucks doing isinor to quitiri, rather satisfying

the only problem is that it gets both too easy and difficult at the same time

i mean once you can control the ship, docking is no problem at all- you can come in at any angle, flip her at the last and in she goes, but then at the same time, you think why bother engaging in combat until beam lasers

but then i love the excitement of being able to afford them

another_commander wrote:

I have not done that yet, but if you want a challenge Tivva, just start from scratch every single time you get destroyed. You will appreciate how really difficult it is surviving in the Oolite universe.

Now that is HARD, I do think the first 2 dozen jumps are the most difficult of the game....
it does get easier the more equipment you buy, but you need to earn the credits to buy it...

by the way I've kept all the oxp's installed so this time its even harder than a RAW basic start....

another_commander wrote:

just start from scratch every single time you get destroyed.

An interesting challenge... just how many ship hours/days could one survive?
I might have a go at that.

On the original C64 version of Elite having got to Elite I started again and got to Dangerous before - and I remember it distinctly - I got wiped out by an Boa that left the station just before I docked - I saw it launch, heaved on the stick but it was too late - even to eject - gutted...

That's impressive, DH, especially for a pacifist.

Strange how those memories linger, even after twenty-odd years.

I play "Ironman" characters semi-frequently. I also lose them fairly quickly...

hearing about that boa incident, its made me think, i dont remember there being that many boa's in the c64 version(the one i had) plentyish pythons, some boa' and an anaconda almost never

but then so much in the detail is different- somehow it doesnt matter tho

Heh. Starting another pilot from scratch is what got me started writing Elite fiction. I had been Elite on the Spectrum then I got an Amiga and had to start all over again.

From there came a whole story about my pilot becoming Elite by using illegal weapons (i used the POKE cheats on the Speccy) then being caught and busted back down to Harmless again. I even wrote in a whole thing about his new ship being upgraded to a new visual display to explain the filled in graphics of the Amiga version!

Amazing how these things start.

I started again on Elite +, Oolite and Elite GBA. I think I have about seven different new commanders on Oolite, since I use them for testing. And yes, most of them are cheated up (only for testing though).



it never gets old though.

Considering all the system changes (C64, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, PC) and the many times I've lost my previous savegames by accident, I must have restarted Elite/Oolite quite a few times indeed.

Hi Tivva,

if your old pilot feels like he wants to take another challenge after Assasins.oxp, I would kindly suggest Cataclysm.oxp as the next thing to do. It's just another two galactic jumps away.