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[magellan]

Awesome tile set Deon. 

It looks even more awesome when you play the game with it. I get killed all the time distracted looking at the pretty tiles... but you mere mortals need to wait a bit longer before you can enjoy that  (I am thinking wednesday atm)

Anyway, some bugs I got.


1. If your captain gets sick and "stays" on the ship, you can't get him back into the awayteam because it says you can't take him off  the away team(?).


2. I've had two crashes related to the 0 key when you use it to fire at all aliens. Lost a really good save with tons of alien tech. 

Spoiler: Bug (click to show/hide)

I didn't test it, but I remember a few versions back you could get to the alien scout ship behind the force fields simply by going through them and losing a few security members.

Also, with the lutetium deposit with invisible walls..not sure if this is a feature or bug, but you can simply destroy the walls

Hmm... thought I had fixed the captain bug.
The laying fire thing you are the second to report that.
And it bugs me because i can't reproduce it.
Got a hunch it might be the sound effects.
Anything you can tell me, maybe a savegame even?

[Orb]

Hmm... thought I had fixed the captain bug.
The laying fire thing you are the second to report that.
And it bugs me because i can't reproduce it.
Got a hunch it might be the sound effects.
Anything you can tell me, maybe a savegame even?

Sadly, the saved game is gone since I died in it already. Though I did get the bug a few more times. After that I got it into my head to stop pressing the button and used "5" instead. I have a hunch it might have to do with the alien scanner, and it tries to fire at aliens you can "see" and not "see" at the same time. I'll try regenerating the bug. I also got the bug when the fire happened to go through a wall.


Also, is there a way to make space battles more efficient processor wise? It seems when there are more than 1 ship you can lag and cause you to fly 10 tiles when you only wanted to move a few, causing you to fly into the pirate battleship and essentially blow up.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I just ran into some creatures that left trails of ammonia
behind them. That is so cool, since when has that been in?

[Tarran]

   I just ran into some creatures that left trails of ammonia
behind them. That is so cool, since when has that been in?

A while. I posted about Magma worms a long time ago.

Anyone else encounter a magma worm yet? I have.

Too bad that guy is dead.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   They must be rare. I have been playing this game
quite a bit and this is the first I saw any like it.

[Tarran]

   They must be rare. I have been playing this game
quite a bit and this is the first I saw any like it.

Yeah, they are rare. But extremely obvious once you enter a planet.

Also:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I think they might drop alien artifacts when killed. Not sure though.

Also2: Why are you typing like that? Small screen or something?

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   It is a preference that I have. I started doing it a bit
ago and never stopped. Also they do not drop artifacts.

[Tarran]

   It is a preference that I have. I started doing it a bit
ago and never stopped. Also they do not drop artifacts.

Ah, I thought I saw them dropping artifacts before. Guess not.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   It would be cool to have uniques that drop artifacts
but the creatures that leave paths are not unique. They
are just not that common. I had one spawn practically on
top of my ship and only made it out of there because it
was slower then me and stayed in sight of my ship so I
could plasma it over and over.

[Orb]

Worms digest "items" and these items are "liberated" when you kill it. I'm surprised you found an alien artifact though. Must have been really late game.


Also, I find worms all the time. About 1/15 planets. They usually kill me because I walk around like I'm on top of the world and move 3 times before I see it.



Also, suggestion: Give the LR Fighter a higher scanner max because its difficult to find enemy pirates with a lv 1. Unless I'm going about it wrong.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I think the sensor only works for the battle screen and
scanning a planet. You need the ship detection system or
the improved version to find ships. They cost 1500 and 3000
respectively and are in the sensor category of ship upgrades.

[Neonivek]

OHh here is a suggestion for a planet

How about a planet that takes all your lost crew members ever lose, and possible slain sentients, and sends them after you!

and the plot twist is that there is a huge psychic trying to drive you insane so you die from shock.

[Orb]

   I think the sensor only works for the battle screen and
scanning a planet. You need the ship detection system or
the improved version to find ships. They cost 1500 and 3000
respectively and are in the sensor category of ship upgrades.

Sorry, but you are wrong in several ways.

1. I've noticed late game a lv 5 sensor will detect a lot more ships, and farther out at that too, than lower lvs.
2. Scanners "scan" farther the higher their lv, I know this from the nav computer and how it lays out blue dots.
3. The LR fighter starts off with a ship detection system, and I've seen maybe one ship on my screen, once, I think.

...and Neo, that doesn't really sound like a fun planet. And you would get murdered, rather quickly.



Possible bug: You can throw as many grenades as your heart pleases in one "turn", therefore you can kill anything, with enough grenades. That might be intended, but meh.

Something overlooked: If you find a friendly creature, you can talk to them for pretty much hours and get random art items for free, which you can then sell for big bucks. Perhaps after a while the animal says "leave me alone", and if you don't it attacks?


Also, I can't find a use for rovers. They don't work when you are off planet(maybe a bug), and can be destroyed by aliens which makes them a pretty heavy investment to just wait around your ship while your rover explores.

[Orb]

Uh, is there an easy way to find the destination folder for screenshots? I'm having difficulty finding it. I run Vista, btw.

[magellan]

Ahhhh....
The game is talking nonesense.
It says "screenshot.bmp" but actually saves it to "shipname.bmp"
It's right there in the main folder, otherwise.
Will fix that.
As a side note:
I am mainly waiting for the last sprites, and trying to remember what else I wanted to fix before letting this thing out into the wild.
We are talking about hours here...