Pretty! Mod or New build?
I am still coming to terms with Oolite. I will not try a Controller until I get an idea of which controls I want to use the most.
Moving my first steps as a trader between Lave and Zaong, I found a lucrative run. Slow money, but sure money.
It is enjoyable enough, but now my problems are 2 (really 3):
FIRST) Once in a while I get attacked by a group of ships that welcome me as I exit witchspace. With a ship underequipped because I lack credits (because, just started!) that means a Death Sentence.
I have to resort to savescumming to counter the unfair treatment. Hopefully things will become easier once I buy the Witchspace Injectors.
(based on their item description I assume that they add [to my ship] something kin to a speed-boost capability. Am I right?)
SECOND) How the hell do you quickly find the station??
Currently I follow a self-taught pattern:
1) beam the planet (put it at my 3 or 9 o'clock, depends) more or less facing the local star.
2) hyperdrive for about 10 seconds in a straight line, so I am off the traffic lane.
(and then, assuming that I do not get attacked)
3) face the planet, hyperdrive to it until it is at my side. Stop, and turn around to face it.
4) At this point I am in front of the lit face of the planet, looking at it, with the star roughly at my back.
The Station is somewhere in my front hemispace, more precisely it is between me and the planet's equator line.
But to find it I must rely on visual contact, which can take minutes, especially when asteroids are present.
Is there a fast way to locate the Station?
and
THIRD) The sounds. Boy, do they suck! This game is in desperate need of a mod to *oomph* the sound department.
Not asking to make it like ED (though I would not spit on it
), but, well, any sound enhancement would be a great addition to the game.
-fox