Oolite Bulletins

My name is Commander Clanger and I have been (Elite) clean for about 10 years now.

Recently heard of Oolite and had a brief look. A couple of hours later I have managed a few runs between Diso & Leesti and very relieved when docking is successful!

My time is limited but now have 800 cr and planning upgrades - cargo bay, docking computer etc.

Can't believe I am yet aga in hooked on this game, I lost a lot of time on my Electron back in the mid 80s then lost more of my youth on the Amiga version.

Anyway, I don't know much about the expansion packs are there some good ones to add to enrich the experience? I don't want to risk any buggy ones that might cause me trouble.

Hi Clanger and welcome to the ‘Friendliest Forum this side of Riedquat’.

For eye-candy try ‘System Redux’… beautiful planets and moons.
If your system can handle full shaders, the ‘Griff Shipset’ has beautiful ships. Neither affect game play.

'Target Reticle' is a very useful OXP as is ‘Target Autolock’.

That’s all I use… I’m a minimalist. There are many OXPs that other members will recommend.

Thanks El Viejo, I will look them up.

on a side note, I am running it on Windows 7 64bit and it is mostly fine except for every now and then if I switch focus from the game to other windows, when I switch focus back to Oolite the window is completely balck and doesnt seem to recover.

Is this a game bug or should I check my gfx card drivers are bang up to date?

Clanger wrote:

should I check my gfx card drivers are bang up to date?

It usually pays to have the latest GPU drivers, but not always.
Which GPU do you have?... I only know about ATI cards.

El Viejo wrote:

Clanger wrote:

should I check my gfx card drivers are bang up to date?

It usually pays to have the latest GPU drivers, but not always.
Which GPU do you have?... I only know about ATI cards.

I'm at work at the moment, and I can't remember, but I will post some more detail later if I get the chance.

Cool! Useful details to post are: which version of Oolite; which OS; which GPU and GPU driver version. I don't know much about Win 7, I use XP.

Clanger wrote:

... I don't know much about the expansion packs are there some good ones to add to enrich the experience? ...

This is an often-asked question by new people here on the forum - but also unanswerable.

People here will never, ever agree on which oxps are good or not, due to very different gaming styles.

I suggest having a good read on the wiki oxp page here:

http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP

... and think what kind of add-ons you would most like to have in your game - and which not.

Choosing oxps you like can be as much fun as playing them

I currently have a 192 OXP's installed. Most of which are extra ships. It was more but I did not like the effects of a couple. I have about 20 more which I will install when I reach a point in my game that would benefit from them. As has already been said try them. If you don't like them then remove them again as it goes not muck up your game or save files at all.

You see the range of opinion... from five to one hundred and ninety-two OXPs.
I should add that I also use a HUD OXP... Fighter HUD.

If you have good computer, you're likely to end up like me, 87 OXPs/558 MB OXP folder. Would be a few more if ATI would fix thaat damn drivers...

I have the following installed (plus some others that I can't recall):

Anarchies
Behemoth
Commies
Deepspace Pirates
Galactic Navy
Griff Ships
Interstellar Help
Snoopers (I see this has been updated to v2.0 )
Status Quo Q-Bomb
System Redux
Thargoid Wars
Thargorn Threat
Total Patrol
UPS Courier
Wolfwood's Variants

for native equipment, maybe add injectors to your early-buy shopping list.

... and welcome to the OoA (Oolite Anonymous).

The ones that I find really useful in no particular order are Bounty Scanner, Fuel Station, Fuel Tank, Fuel Collector, Target Autolock and Welcome Mat for Eye Candy I go for Griffs Ships, Famous Planets and Shady Sungs Textures plus a load of others

Aside from those already mentioned I'd recommend Milhud V3 to help your shooting accuracy and missile rack to deal with those pesky hardheads.

Commies, Dictators, Feudal States, Fuel Stations and YAH add variety to the things you see
So does Anarchies, but it makes the game harder.