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
• Ship's Library OXP includes an in-game readable Ship's Manual explaining how to trade, dock, prime optional equipment, etc

• Combat (Tactics):

Oolite Tactics: a couple of essays, advice for beginners, intermediate & advanced pilots, long list of OXPs

Laser tactics: pulse, beam & military lasers

Missile tactics: different missiles, ECM, MTS & STE

Using weapons of mass destruction (Quirium cascade bombs)

Pre-Oolite combat for Classic Elite, FE2 & FFE

Dealing with Thargoids

Dealing with piracy

• Docking: How to Dock

• Dumping Cargo

• Priming Equipment for .oxp's & MFDs

• Trade: Trade (Oolite), Trade (Classic Elite), Trade (FE2/FFE)

• Elite/FE2/FFE: For advice on trading & combat see AFE FAQ4.

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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: 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.

See Keyboard Issues for links to solutions, discussions, OXPs and more!

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

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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