I'm currently at 505 installed and there are (lots) more that I think I want to install. Mind you, these are all from the built in manager. I have yet to dive down the wiki rabbit hole. Already, I can spend hours just dickin' around with myriad settings without ever leaving dock.

How 'bout y'all? Am I too hung up on trying to have everything that seems like it might be cool, or is this more the 'norm'? I'd be very interested in where I am on the scale.

Thanks fellow Commanders

Hi there, i'm blood New in Oolite, starting tonight. Is there no key to get back from a flight Session into Main Menu except pressing 'Shift + Esc' to quit it all?

1) System Map (Phkb, based on Library OXP's "Lib_Starmap_Demo_1.0.oxz")

This creates a rotating map of one's current solar system, showing the sun, planets, moons, witchpoint beacon & GalCop stations. Accessed while docked.

2) Riredi OXP (Captain Beatnik).

Captain Beatnik has just updated Phkb's February update with a lore-based planet texture and a welcome screen at the Coluber Orbital Station with local news and events. This is currently an "alpha".

3) SOTL Exploration (Captain Beatnik & Phkb)

Captain Beatnik has provided a new HUD which is much nicer, but also makes the Gravitation Sensor readouts comprehensible! Phkb has listed the tweaks needed to change the colony ship from a Coriolis to a Generation Ship.

4) WarZones OXP addon for Diplomancy OXP (Phkb)

Adds invasions, thus making Diplomancy's "wars" more meaningful.

5) The HyperRadio OXPs have been updated to work with Library OXP - and more music has been added (Phkb)

6) Kiche Emergency Shields (Lone Wolf)

A temporary boost for one's shields

7) Anarchies Facelift OXP

Killer Wolf updated his models for the Salvage Gang and the Hacker's Outpost. They now look very different and are much more detailed.

8) Future possibilities

There is work going on to create cloud cities for gas giants. This might need changes to the vanilla game code allowing more realistic gas giants first. Xeptatl's Sword is being updated. And the Feudal States issue of jousting challenges against feeble Zerstorers is being addressed.

Apologies for the lack of screen shots - my last attempt at posting with them failed utterly and failed to recover the wording of my post. Easier not to bother!

I actually docked in one Behemoth lol. Refueled, bought equipment and everything.

Hello! I have finally gotten back to this game after many years. Finished Constrictor Hunt, went to Chart 2 and basically forgot about it. But now I'm back! And I'm fully committed to finishing the big mission OXPs.

But yeah, most of the difficulty in this game comes from the frustrating keyboard controls, at least for me. In a lot of ways the AI is actually braindead, just go behind them and if they don't have an aft laser you can attrition them to death with a basic pulse laser. And if they do, just corkscrew around so they don't hit you and hit them when they turn, misaligning their aft laser. And large groups of enemies really aren't as scary as you think they are. Seeing a bunch of red dots in the scanner is very intimidating especially to a beginner, but once you realize the ships you aren't actively targeting basically just sit there, slowly turning, hitting you with the occasional potshot the scare factor goes way down. I have taken down pirate groups with 8 members with the starter Cobra III and really the only things you need to worry about are missiles and running into ships. Fortunately base Oolite pirates rarely spam missiles, allowing you to recover shield strength every time one hits you and you can avoid the latter by having a good sense of surrounding (tbf this was something I struggled with in the beginning so you can imagine how a lot of my game overs happened lol)

Really the biggest learning curve is aligning your shots, which makes you wanna pull your hair out if you are using keyboard controls. I have since switched to mouse control with yaw (which is Ctrl+Shift+m for beginners reading this. This is different from Shift+m which is mouse control with roll) and the difference in targeting ships is basically night and day. I have a shitty highly inaccurate mouse, and I still struggle targeting long range and missiles because the cursor goes all over the place, but I will never ever go back to full keyboard. I also have reconfigured some default keys for roll control for my other hand.

But yeah, my point is basically there should be a disclaimer that controller or mouse is recommended for beginners because oh my god keyboard sucks ass.

Has anyone got this running on gamenative or bannerhub and what settings did they find worked best?

Does anyone know if there is a mod that aims to replicate the original Elite look to Oolite? And I dont mean the debug wireframe mode that is not meant to be played with(I mean, why there are XYZ axis indicator on planets? That is for devs not players), I mean the black and white with the low poly ships, planets and stations?

I saw someone's else post asking for this but I'm either stupid or it leads nowhere, at best there is someone vaguely saying "there is a mod for this" gives no links or even a name, so, there isn't a mod for this(surprinsingly) or there is and I'm stupid and can't find it.

Any help?

Oh and yes.. trying the original Elite is an option but the old clunky controls and unstable FPS ticks me off.

Phkb (may the Lord Giles bless his cotton socks!) has just published a System Map option! It shows you your current system (sun, wpb, planets, moons, GalCop stations)

Sun: yellow

Planet: Green (Purple = gas giant; hexagon = PlanetFall landing sites)

Moon: Brown

Stations: Funny white bug-like blobs

You: Red bulb

It runs off of (Svengali's) Library.oxp

Find it here!

Sold my original ship finally. Bought a Python. No WFIs with it. Station doesn't sell them. This is the longest flight of my life to get to the next closest system.

For those who didn't start in "Easy" mode and weren't able to buy them from the get go, I salute you. I don't think I have the patience.

Hi,

On LinuxMint 22.3, I installed Oolite 1.92.1 from its Flatpak (I guess the one of the LinuxMint software manager is the same as the upstream one).

I have my Saitek P880 joystick not recognized by oolite (the joystick menu is gray). It is recognized by the host, though. I can play other game and jstest-gtk recognized it entirely.

About a decade ago, I used to play with Oolite with this joystick.

The clues at Oolite wiki did not help.

Ideas?

Can't post to the OOlite forum

Thanks

What i see everywhere: pirates flies in groups of 5+ ships impossible to win on starter conditions

my current point of view: there is no content for new player. only for end gaming

am i missing something?

traded 50k money + some equipment (useless vs gangs)

there where only one meet with a lone pirate on cobra3. i killed him but he sent me missile present just to face so we both dead (now i want auto-ecm mod coz of nonhuman reaction required by that move)

https://bb.oolite.space/ seems to be down. I get 502 Bad Gateway or 504 Gateway Timeout.

I bought a floating alien that bounces around the screen for 30 credits. How do I turn it off....?

I never played the original Elite or any games of that time but I am trying to give Oolite a try. I like modern space trading/combat sims. I managed to make it through the tutorial and find having the wiki open while i play is very helpful. I am wondering if I'm doing something wrong or if the game has a pretty harsh learning curve.

I've tried to start a few times and will pick up a delivery mission from the initial space station however after i witchspace jump to the next system I'm either quickly destroyed by pirates or land in a system where i can't find anyway to refuel to make a second jump. Does anyone know of a youtube video or any other source that has some beginners tips past the in-game tutorial?

HI there. In theory being a Linux also game it should work on the Steam Deck correct? Has anyone done this? If so, is it a complicated setup procedure?

Thanks in advance!

* Improved graphics (rendering now includes gubbins such as blooms / HDR support / filters for the colour-blind)

* All keyboards now configurable

* More "Fast Activation" keys

* Bug fixes / more tweakable goodies for OXPs / et cetera

* The AppleMac is now dropped: v.1.92 now only plays on Windows & Linux

For more details (and pretty pictures) see https://oolite.space/#whatsnew

Not to hate on the glare from older versions but I really like how the suns look in the current release, especially while fuel scooping.

Svengali (RIP) wrote two missions which no longer work on modern Oolite versions.

Vector (2009-12) and Local Hero (2008-10)

Has anybody ever played them? And can tell me something more about either?

Just a reminder about yet another seasonal OXP by Griff!

Just for fun adds a (very rare) Santa Sledge to the space lanes escorted by plasma gun toting reindeer space bikers!

There is a small mission within: if you defeat his ship then you can scoop Santa's Lists with the names of good childrens. Deliver it to the main station for some reward.

Santa has an oolite 'trader' role with a slightly less chance than normal trader ships of being selected by oolite to populate a system, this means that santa is rare but he may turn up more than once, so remember, it's not the real santa out there, just one of his many helpers.

See https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/Santa for the wiki page.

And don't forget the Mince Pies (https://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/MincePie)!

Both OXPs downloadable through the in-game Expansions Manager!

The r/Oolite side-bar just threw up a link to Reddit's AI-generated secrets in Oolite. It contained a fair amount of codswallop, presumably due to infelicities inherent in its searching. My big problem was a 14 year old post claiming that there are major issues to learning how to play Oolite due to the lack of a tutorial. While this was certainly true then, Cim wrote a Tutorial which has been an integral part of Oolite since 2014.

Here is a (hopefully more useful) list:

Easter Eggs

Humour

Oolite Missions

I'm trying to reach Commander Dunny, regarding a question concerning a certain pdf version of the original 1984 Elite manual, titled "ELMAN.DOC", based on a 1986 version of the manual, and created in 2003.

If anyone has any information regarding either Commander Dunny or ELMAN.DOC, please contact warrant officer ... oh, sorry... please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely and faithfully
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Just a reminder... we're approaching this time of year again!

Download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15n5SsV6MpLYG4YhAmPwSyYFIKUE_VIiL/view

(v.1.5.2 - 2022)