How do I ...

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
• 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?)

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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!

• 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.

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Keyboard

You might find it helpful to reconfigure your keyboard:

• 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.

Joysticks/Controllers

• Joysticks: Guide to Setting Up Controllers & Joysticks
• Dizzy's guide to Setting up Joystick Axis Profiles

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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