How do I ...
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Contents
Help & Advice Pages on this wiki and elsewhere
How do I ... dock / succeed in trading / win a fight / configure my controller/joystick etc
General
- Oolite Instruction Manual: links to other pages
- Pilot's Reference Manual
- Mr Gimlet's Advice for New Commanders
- Oolite FAQ
- Combat (Tactics): Oolite Tactics, Laser tactics, Missile tactics, Using weapons of mass destruction, Pre-Oolite combat
- Combat (Thargoids): Dealing with Thargoids
- Dealing with piracy (Oolite)
- Docking: How to Dock
- Trade: Oolite Trading, Oolite FAQ (see Q: How do I make decent profits?), Pre-Oolite trading
- Elite/FE2/FFE: For advice on trading & combat see AFE FAQ4.
- See also the OoliteRS (Reference Sheets) and AdviceforNewCommanders which came as .pdfs in your original game download. Probably worth printing out!
- Career Options: Trader, Smuggler, Courier, Chauffeur, Miner, Bounty Hunter, Pirate, Rescuer
- also includes OXP Careers: Rescue Stations, Galactic Navy Reservist, Salvage Operator, Ship Escort Services, Jouster.
Keyboard
You might find it helpful to reconfigure your keyboard: Some people find it helpful to either move the position of the fire laser key, or to transpose the yaw & roll keys. Other people find that their standard Gaelic-language keyboard fails to allow them to use their Torus drives, for example.
- Keyboard Cobra OXP retunes the navigation keys to be more precise helping accuracy with your laser.
- TSOJ suggests rebinding the navigation keys in a more easy-to-use manner
- This key-map [v.1.79] is a little dated, but is still helpful
- Foreign language keyboards.
- Linux keyboards (non US) can be a major problem: see here.
Monitors/Mice
- There are a handful of links at the bottom of the Joysticks and Gamepads page.
Joysticks/Controllers
- Joysticks: Guide to Setting Up Controllers & Joysticks
- Dizzy's guide to Setting up Joystick Axis Profiles
The Dark Side
ie: programming. For those untutored in these mysteries, one often starts with tweaking and then progresses further.
- How to tweak OXZ's
- OXP howto create them - with another dozen links at the bottom
