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*eagerly starts over, to taste and test this new marvel*. I find your game (old version) mostly delightful. Really looking forward to the new features, and thanks for continuing to develop it, it's a gem and I think worth the love :)
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Here, game is updated.
All reported bugs fixed.
Major changes in ship's behaviour. Now they sometimes fly in packs. Also, attacked ship will call reinforcements from nearby stations, and will be assisted by nearby ships of same faction.
And also, ships will try to shoot down rockets fired at them. Not that they are too good at that, but at least now they try:)
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Occasionally, certain 'to expensive' items will allow you to purchase them. Normally you get the red cannot afford it message. I haven't noticed a pattern to what allows one to purchase regardless of cost. It's a fairly rare bug, and only viewable if you click on an item that you cannot afford - a rare action for more experienced players because there's nothing to gain from doing that. If you buy one of these, you're stuck until you sell it. That puts you back where you were, only possible loss is if you replaced your previous, affordable item with the thing you shouldn't have been able to get.
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I got negative money as well in the early, early part of the game. Perhaps from accepting a package. Getting killed also reduces negative amounts by half as well.
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2ulimitedpower
Have any idea how has you got negative money?
Try selling some equipment to get positive balance, or kill some smaller ships - you get money for each kill.
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For some reason, I have negative money and I can't do some of the missions for money(Like moving a package). Help please??
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2RocketZX
Thanks for feedback, yo uare really helping to make game better and more accessible.
As for not being able to do anything - have you read the strategy guide? Have your tried to stay in top-left corner of the map? Have you tried to skip time while you are inside station, until strong enemies will fly away?
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what the hell how come i can't DO anything
everytime i leave station i get killed, i can't get better equipment cause i keep getting shot down, i can't finish missions cause i keep getting shot down!
i just started over and i got an enemy who takes me out everytime i leave station, and when i respawn...I REPSPAWN NEXT TO THE ENEMY WHICH MAKES ME GET SHOT DOWN AGAIN!? game sucks cause i wasn't able to do anything due getting shot down multiple times
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2impet
Thanks for report, I'll fix that. Also I'm making changes to make battles more massive - ships will move in packs, will assist ships of same faction, and there will be reinforcements flying from station. So, you should learn to kill your victims fast:)
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Some of the achievements do not function. The 'Turncoat' achievement doesn't register progress when you change a faction, and it doesn't complete when you've switched between all five. The 'weapons' achievement won't complete, at least not with rockets. Haven't seen any weapon except a rocket yet which could kill even the weakest ship with one hit.
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Fixed starting-cobra thing. Haven't noticed it's that powerful.
Also - upped droid effectivity and missile energy consumption. That will make a "kill with missiles from far away" tactics a little less effective.
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I love the free-form game. I do have to say that starting with a cobra is kind of annoying though, you have nothing remotely equal to upgrade to for a long while, but I think that's just a bug. I do wish there was a way to build a small fleet of ships and store them somewhere when I'm flying the small ones.
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its a good game but i think the menus need a rethink and instead of icons you could have everything a bit smaller with some text. Even change the background when on menus to easyier reading
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Omg. I came back to test again, and started a new game. It's a new game all right. Achievements set to 0, looks just like the other games - except. I -started- in a cobra. Omg. It's a happy Omg, but Omg! Is that because of the testing, or is that possible for anyone? Anyone starting in a cobra is going to have a -very- different game from everyone else *laughs*
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2Impet
Oh, got it. Bug with escorted ship is because I forgot to set velocity of the ship when I spawn it. Bug with Cobra is because it has same code as repair droid.
I'll have to test that game is still working after fixes, and then will submit it.
Thanks a lot for detailed bug report, it really helped.
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And this cobra as well ceased to exist when I tested closing the game. This time I had not specifically saved, using the constantly available 'continue' to return with
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*grins* My replacement game is going well, probably 'to well'. After about 15 minutes of play I found a weak 'Primitive-2 light R-1 cobra' for 23,000 at thistle, a base with a tech level of 3. Of course, a weak cobra is better then any other ship out there by a lot - I'm happy with my 'bargain bin find', of course - but it probably shouldn't have been possible for me to get this ship yet. My Trader level is currently only 5.
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2impet
I'll look into this, thanks. Sorry for bug.
As for nasties "witing outside" problem, try pressing space on the map without leaving station. Time will pass, and enemies will eventually fly away.
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I figured out why I wasn't getting escort missions to work. I was hitting 'Fly out' instead of going straight to the map, which apparently makes your escort ship disappear.
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That bug's wicked. I happened to quit at a very advanced station. Only have 1.5 million in money, and the ships available have either a hold space less then 2500, or are to expensive for me to get. All the neat stuff I have been finding and saving, I have to lose it, and I'm almost certainly going to be attacked by bunches of ships that see me when I leave the station - ships who had politely let me pass in the cobra ;p
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And, deep sadness. I had a cobra-type ship for hours of play, needed a break, saved and closed the window. I come back without a hull. I was so lucky with that hull, it had only been a million. It's gone now, and my inventory space reads 14219/undefined. I hope it's just that specific cobra, and not every one I ever get again that goes poof, those ships are rare and expensive still!
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Also, even as I go up in 'danger' (currently elite 7), these enemies really are not that much more capable. They never shoot my rockets, for instance, allowing me to just scoot ahead of them 1100-1500 distance away firing rocket after rocket and picking them off.
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With the combat, it seems like these ships are only firing at you when you are within visible range. Some of the weapon systems I can get have a range of 3000, surely some of these NPCs have equal distance, but they never use it. I don't get shot at ever if I stay just over 1000 distance away.
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2StaticUniverse
Combat system do need a LOT of work. Making combat complex and interesting is rather hard. Especially one-on-one battles. May be if I'll make ships moving in groups, so player has to fight with several enemies at once, it will be more fun...
I'll make "storing things on station" feature too. Hopefully it will not inflate save file size too much.
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Well, i got into the game and it is pretty fun. The combat system needs a little work. Pretty much every battle involves me running away and firing to my rear. It would be nice if you could leave stuff at stations too, or be able to set a home station.
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2Jade E
When escorted ship is faster than you, then it's usually is in the same exact spot of the map, and could not be visible behind your ship. Hmm, I'll try to fix that.
As for tech improvements - your equipment stats should not change. I'll check that.
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Great game! Couple of things I'm curious about though. First, I haven't gotten an escort mission to work yet. I take one then fly out of the station, and nobody comes out after me. Second... When you gain a combat rank and ship tech improves, can that immediately improve the ship you're flying? I gained about 2000hp and lost about 1000 capacity and I'm not sure what happened (I know I didn't buy it on accident or something, the new ship is worth over 10x what the old one was.) The only thing I can think of that happened recently is I got promoted from 'Mostly Harmless' to 'Poor', which said that ship tech was being bumped a level.
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This game rocks, by my standard. It's free-form. You're an independant agent, you take any sort of work you want, you go whereever you want, you don't belong to anyone or anything. There's a lot of randomness and variety, which to me makes it feel more like a real system instead of a narrow game. I enjoy how the economy works, even though it lets you sell purchases of equipment that you used for full value, and weapons (even rockets) need no ammo. You need no fuel. And you can explore and achieve your galaxy out, with the achievement list as the only boss telling you a bunch of things you could do next.
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fun game. just pretty hard when you're starting out. i think the starting config of your ship needs to be changed. my ship doesnt have room to transport cargo and it doesnt have enough firepower to destroy/protect other ships.
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2masterjemz
Well, if you need a point, it's to raise your combat rating from "Harmless" to "Elite".
You can do that by killing stiff:)
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2diggoran
Yep, it would be better to have a some kind of a plot... I will work on it.
2StaticUniverse
You have to kill some things first to be "Mostly Harmless":)
2Raideen
Yes, probably 640x480 or like would work better. It's hard to pack so much info in so small screen.
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Definitely huge world! I like exploring freely, especially the world of endless space, various features, great bunch of items to be collected & fight unknown enemies... such as the classic Ultima series. Good work and seems promising. I'll dig it up for more.....
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huge world and a lot of thought. It' just not immersive enough and a basic plot (like "go to the space station") would help to get the player involved. It looks impressive, but it's imtimidating because you are just dropped into this huge world without a clue.
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Of cause, there are lots of things that can, and hopefully will, be improved. Your feedback would help a lot. And your words of encouragement too:)
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i like the thought into the game but if there was a way to make quests/ the user interface alittle more friendly it would be an awsome game