Hints

Help for new players (in-game)

Overview

Overhear some useful (and some not-so-useful!) tips at the station bar.

When docked, visit the F4 screen (Visit the Station Bar under "Activities") to go and listen in!

Hints cover combat, trading, using equipment, pirate & thargoid tactics, etc.

License

• Officially, CC-NC-by-SA 4.0
• In reality, I don't give a fig. If you want to take this over, please do so! Just make a better fist of it than I did! And if you wish to include it in something of yours, ditto! I'm with Killer Wolf on this licensing tosh!

Download

File:Oolite.oxp.cholmondely.Hints.0.092.oxz - just pop it into either your AddOns folder or Managed AddOns folder! See OXP for more details if needed.

Gratifications

LittleBear & Spara (programming)

Redspear, Avder, Hiran, Murgh & Cody (gossip)

Programming help from Montana05 & phkb

Inspiration (and bar picture) from BeeTLe BeTHLeHeM

cbr came up with some super ideas - which I'm too dumb to include

Future Hopes

This is the first stage of this .oxp

Assuming I can develop the skills:

1. GNN newsflashes to amplify a little more along these lines.

2. I'd like to add choices of drinks

3. Also to add variation and choice in bars (those orbital stations are massive, just one bar is unrealistic).

4. I'd also like to combine it with BeeTLe BeTHLeHeM's Life in the Frontier.oxp - which gives more meaning to visiting the bar

5. I desperately want to add in advice for other oxp's (which requires this oxp to recognise which ones are loaded and then dole out data accordingly)

Links

• BB Thread (2022)
• Author: Cholmondely
• Education.oxp Precursor BB thread (2022)
• Github source
• Inspiration for this oxp

(1) Life in the Frontier

(2) Oolite 1.90 - Let's Play Poorly

• Category:Help pages
• Optimization tips for Javascript (in case you are after another sort of hint!)

Gameplay and Balance Indicator

Some useful tips to help your game.