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 *[[Oolite Instruction Manual]]: links to other pages
 *[[Oolite FAQ]]
 *See also the '''OoliteRS''' (Reference Sheets) and '''AdviceforNewCommanders''' which came as .pdfs in your original game download. Probably worth printing out!

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	*See also the '''OoliteRS''' (Reference Sheets) and '''AdviceforNewCommanders''' which came as .pdfs in your original game download. Probably worth printing out!		*See also the '''OoliteRS''' (Reference Sheets) and '''AdviceforNewCommanders''' which came as .pdfs in your original game download. Probably worth printing out!

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	Huh. Anyhow. I’m a busy frog, I can’t stay here all day filling in every [[Jameson]] on what they should have learned in the spawning pond. Gimme your ticket, kid, and I’ll stamp it flight-ready, though Giles knows I prob’ly shouldn’t ... there ya go. That’s you ready to take on the Witch. Jens help us all ... don’t know enough to keep a level bearing through a wormhole ... what they send up here for us to deal with ... pick up the pieces more like ...		Huh. Anyhow. I’m a busy frog, I can’t stay here all day filling in every [[Jameson]] on what they should have learned in the spawning pond. Gimme your ticket, kid, and I’ll stamp it flight-ready, though Giles knows I prob’ly shouldn’t ... there ya go. That’s you ready to take on the Witch. Jens help us all ... don’t know enough to keep a level bearing through a wormhole ... what they send up here for us to deal with ... pick up the pieces more like ...
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		+	== Links ==
		+	*[[How do I ...]] dock / succeed in trading / win a fight / configure my controller/joystick ''etc''
		+	*[[Pilot's Reference Manual]]
		+	*[[Oolite Instruction Manual]]: links to other pages
		+	*[[Oolite FAQ]]
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	That’s slow money, kid: work, save, invest, and work again, that’s what it’s all about! It ain’t pretty but it gets you there in the end.		That’s slow money, kid: work, save, invest, and work again, that’s what it’s all about! It ain’t pretty but it gets you there in the end.
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−	One final tip, kid: I’ll say this ’cos I like ya. It won’t save you work but it will save you time, and it might just save your life, too: if you want to get from the Witchpoint to the station fast, without getting your [[Pilot%27s_Reference_Manual#Torus_Jump_Drive\|jumpdrive]] mass-locked by anyone, friendly or otherwise, here’s what you do. Line up on the planet; angle up away from it by near enough ninety degrees; then hit the Torus jumpdrive and scoot on out of the main spacelane for a few hundred klicks or so. Then, when you’ve given yourself enough sky, pull the nose back round and come on down to the station. Chances are you won’t meet a soul, whether you’re cruising into Ensoreus or creeping into Qudira. The spacelanes is where the action is, where there’s help and hostility both; you get nervous, you go off-beam. Most times, you’ll come through safe.

	Huh. Anyhow. I’m a busy frog, I can’t stay here all day filling in every [[Jameson]] on what they should have learned in the spawning pond. Gimme your ticket, kid, and I’ll stamp it flight-ready, though Giles knows I prob’ly shouldn’t ... there ya go. That’s you ready to take on the Witch. Jens help us all ... don’t know enough to keep a level bearing through a wormhole ... what they send up here for us to deal with ... pick up the pieces more like ...		Huh. Anyhow. I’m a busy frog, I can’t stay here all day filling in every [[Jameson]] on what they should have learned in the spawning pond. Gimme your ticket, kid, and I’ll stamp it flight-ready, though Giles knows I prob’ly shouldn’t ... there ya go. That’s you ready to take on the Witch. Jens help us all ... don’t know enough to keep a level bearing through a wormhole ... what they send up here for us to deal with ... pick up the pieces more like ...

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 O&rsquo;course, ''money'' matters: rich Industrials are rich because they&rsquo;ve got the most efficient processes, so not only do they make the cheapest products, their factories are the hungriest and they&rsquo;ll pay the best prices for raw materials. Poor Agriculturals, on the other hand, they&rsquo;re most desperate for fine articles and will scrape together whatever they can to pay for &rsquo;em: meanwhile, they&rsquo;ll offer you the cheapest deals anywhere for what they make themselves. Which puts a vicious lock on the poverty trap, but hey: nobody said life was fair. Folks like you who&rsquo;ve climbed up the gravity well, you&rsquo;re just filling a need. Buy and sell between rich Industrials and poor Agriculturals, that&rsquo;s my advice! There&rsquo;s money to be made elsewhere, no error, but those are the sweetest runs you&rsquo;re likely to hit on. Bulk is the key, kid: the more you carry, the more you make. This Cobra III here can take twenty tons, right now: for just 400 creds more you can get a [[Cargo_Bay_expansion|Cargo Bay Expansion]] to take you up to thirty-five. That extra fifteen tons of space will pay for itself and more in one good run, if you can fill it up.
-It ain&rsquo;t all bulk, though. Watch the board for cheap deals on precious metals and gemstones: they might not offer the greatest profits, but they don&rsquo;t take up any cargo space at all. See this safe over here, behind this bulkhead? You take on [[Commodities#Platinum|platinum]], or [[Commodities#Gold|gold]], or a sack of [[Commodities#Gem-Stones|gemstones]] when you&rsquo;re docked, they go right in here. You can keep &rsquo;em here as long as you like, until you find somewhere to offload &rsquo;em. [[GalCop|Co-op]] rules stop you dropping too much of &rsquo;em, or too much of anything, come to that, in one station – so much for free trade! – but as a slow-burn money-maker there&rsquo;s not much to beat it. You can mine for &rsquo;em yourself, if&rsquo;n you get a [[Mining_Lasers|Mining Laser]] to go with your Fuel Scoop, and you don&rsquo;t mind scraping carbon scoring off the scoop every few jumps. Only don&rsquo;t, for any sake, put the Mining Laser on the nose! It&rsquo;s a tool, not a weapon. Or you can just buy the shinies cheap off the miners direct, if you run across a [[Rock_hermit|Rock Hermit]]. Powerful fond of liquor, Rock Hermits are, too.
+It ain&rsquo;t all bulk, though. Watch the board for cheap deals on precious metals and gemstones: they might not offer the greatest profits, but they don&rsquo;t take up any cargo space at all. See this safe over here, behind this bulkhead? You take on [[Commodities#Platinum|platinum]], or [[Commodities#Gold|gold]], or a sack of [[Commodities#Gem-Stones|gemstones]] when you&rsquo;re docked, they go right in here. You can keep &rsquo;em here as long as you like, until you find somewhere to offload &rsquo;em. [[GalCop|Co-op]] rules stop you dropping too much of &rsquo;em, or too much of anything, come to that, in one station – so much for free trade! – but as a slow-burn money-maker there&rsquo;s not much to beat it. You can buy the shinies cheap off the miners direct, if you run across a [[Rock_hermit|Rock Hermit]]. It&rsquo;s thirsty work, cracking rocks … you can learn that for yourself, if&rsquo;n you get a [[Mining_Lasers|Mining Laser]] to go with your Fuel Scoop, and you don&rsquo;t mind scraping carbon scoring off the scoop every few jumps. Only don&rsquo;t, for any sake, put the Mining Laser on the nose! It&rsquo;s a tool, not a weapon.
 What &ldquo;other&rdquo; products? What you winking for, kid? You mean [[Commodities#Slaves|slaves]], [[Commodities#Narcotics|narcotics]] and [[Commodities#Firearms|firearms]]? Why don&rsquo;t you just damn well say so? They ain&rsquo;t illegal. They&rsquo;s what we call ''controlled'' merchandise. You find &rsquo;em out there, you can bring &rsquo;em in, much as you want, all nice and legal ... what ''will'' get you into trouble with the [[GalCop|Blues]] is shipping them ''out'' of a main system station.

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 What &ldquo;other&rdquo; products? What you winking for, kid? You mean [[Commodities#Slaves|slaves]], [[Commodities#Narcotics|narcotics]] and [[Commodities#Firearms|firearms]]? Why don&rsquo;t you just damn well say so? They ain&rsquo;t illegal. They&rsquo;s what we call ''controlled'' merchandise. Bring as much of &rsquo;em in as you want... what ''will'' get you into trouble with the Blues is shipping them out of a main system station. But there&rsquo;s plenty of other places to buy &rsquo;em up, all nice and legal, along with reg&rsquo;lar trade goods, too. Some of the [[Powers_and_Organisations#Communist_Worlds|Commie]] worlds have [[SLAPU|Slap-Yous]] and [[CZGF|Cee-Zed-Gee-Effs]], whatever the hell they all are, and [[Astro_Mines|Astro-Gulags]] too, which are just plain depressing. Some industrial [[Powers_and_Organisations#Dictatorship_Worlds|Dictatorship]] systems, they got [[Imperial_AstroFactory|Imperial AstroFactories]], although some of &rsquo;em seem to sell stuff they don&rsquo;t ever make... go figure. And some spots, if they got the population size to make it worthwhile, there&rsquo;s [[Pi-42|Convenience Stores]] way out by the Witchpoint. You want to give these guys a try, you sail on in. Check the system prices first, note down what you got yourself, see what&rsquo;s on offer, and do the sums.
-There&rsquo;s long-range shipping contracts on offer, too, in some stations: F8-F8 will bring &rsquo;em up, if there&rsquo;s any there. You buy the deal and then get paid a bonus if you make the delivery on time. They&rsquo;ll be out your price-range just now, and anyway most of &rsquo;em call for a bigger cargo-hold than a Cobra can carry. Keep an eye out for any you might be able to do, though; if you build a rep as a reliable carrier then the jobs can get real juicy.
+There&rsquo;s long-range shipping contracts on offer, too, in some stations: F4 will bring &rsquo;em up, if there&rsquo;s any there. You buy the deal and then get paid a bonus if you make the delivery on time. They&rsquo;ll be out your price-range just now, and anyway most of &rsquo;em call for a bigger cargo-hold than a Cobra can carry. Keep an eye out for any you might be able to do, though; if you build a rep as a reliable carrier then the jobs can get real juicy. And there&rsquo;s always a few small packets need shifting too: even the smallest ship can stow a few parcels in the cockpit. Remember to check out the route beforehand, though: the destination might be all sweetness and light, but see what you have to swim through first to get there.
 That&rsquo;s slow money, kid: work, save, invest, and work again, that&rsquo;s what it&rsquo;s all about! It ain&rsquo;t pretty but it gets you there in the end.

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 You got ''how'' much? One hundred creds. One ... hundred ... creds. Ayoha. All right then. Let&rsquo;s break it down. Your problem here is financial, not technical. Maybe at bottom it&rsquo;s psychological, but I&rsquo;ll give you the benefit.
-There&rsquo;s two types of money, kid: fast, and slow. Fast money comes easy, and slow money comes hard. The slow is sure and steady, though, and the fast, well, it might make you wish you had waited. I&rsquo;ll run you through them both, though, and you can make up your own mind.
+There&rsquo;s two types of money, kid: fast, and slow. Fast money comes easy, and slow money comes hard. The slow is sure and steady, though, and the fast, well, it might make you wish you had waited. I&rsquo;ll run you through them both, and you can make up your own mind.
 First of all, for the fast money, there&rsquo;s this sweet and cherry Cobra III: you sell it, right now, you&rsquo;ll net yourself enough to buy a [[Second-hand ships|second-hand ship]] with enough scratch left over for some half-decent kit. &rsquo;Course, some of these second-hand numbers are pretty, well, ''used'', if you know what I mean, and come with problems of their own. I mean, you ever try to take a dump in a head designed for some other guy&rsquo;s anatomy? And the resale sucks, if&rsquo;n you ever want to move on up. But it&rsquo;s an option.