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[GrayFox]

I like this game! ...Even though I'm terrible at it.
Ship combat really needs some work. It's pretty odd. 

[copperd]

You're the best, copperd.

  As much as I would like to take the credit, Magellan is doing 99% of the code changes right now including a big overhaul to the overlay system.

I have mainly been doing polishing and bug hunting. This weekend was a total flop for me as I hurt my back and didn't do much coding. Ive managed to changed 3 bytes but it fixed two CTD bugs.

[Sharp]

So I feel like scum because I save-scummed

Before I only save scummed because of game breaking bugs like

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

entering one of those random underground robot areas but the entrance/exit is in a metal wall so once stepping out it's impossible to step back in (even after setting off a bunch of alien bombs by the wall) or Apollo who doesn't return ship or the forcefield turret being unkillable and the tunnel only having one closed off room

but this time I landed on a special world next to a slightly damaged alien scoutship, I repaired it and fended off attacks from the metallic natives and then when I got the message to swap it for my old ship I pressed a direction key by accident and my setting has it so that anything which isn't y is a no, so I had to save-scum 12 times until I finally was able to successfully repair it again and swap it, but now I have the ultimate ship but it is tainted!

[Niveras]

R143: Nothing fancy just a fix for auto explore CTD
http://fred.neurotica.com/Prospector_R143_Win_X86.zip

Please post if you manage to get a auto explore CTD


Just put a fix in for "0.3 Error #6 in 4096:SPACE_RADIO F:\Prospector\rlprospector\prospector.bas" this should be taken care of in R144

I don't know about autoexplore CTDs but I notice sometimes that when autoexplore ends or is interrupted, it still plays out several (sometimes several dozen) turns. For example, autoexplore might reach my ship and report "You are at the ship. Press l to launch. (x112)." Worse is when I interrupt autoexplore because I want enough oxygen to get back to my ship, but despite interrupting it at Oyxgen:125, I end up with Oxygen:80.

This is mostly avoidable since the autoexplore could do with some improvements but I don't expect it is high priority. I've taking to just exploring manually (particularly once I have jetpacks) and only using autoexplore to clean up items on the planet before I leave.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I actually use autoexplore quite a bit myself though I think it should prioritize picking up stuff more then it does. In other news the examine is a little messed up when trying to look at creatures. My latest video shows what I mean but basically when I try to look at some creature at a distance the image of the creature shifts. Once I get to the square it was on it gives me the description so its just a visual bug but still annoying. Also I managed to freeze the game and produce a crash that did not leave an error so I can't provide anything about it though if it happens again I will try to determine what causes it.

[Neonivek]

Honestly one thing I really noticed about the game is that the far superior way to start the game is to be a trader.

Since that will earn you some small amounts of cash and once you are ready to explore it would have taken soo much time that artifacts start littering the planet like they grew from the trees.

[Man of Paper]

So, uh, the Fang of Horus and it's crew. Hm. Well, here's stock of their inventory so far. Keep in mind I've sold exactly nothing to shops since I don't need the bank, and looted all the stuff save for ship upgrades and the combat gloves.

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• 2 Hover Platforms
• 13 Jetpacks
• Small Hover Platform
• 2 Gyro Jet Rifles
• 2 Gyro Jet Guns
• 5 Gauss Guns
• 4 Gauss Rifles
• 3 Very Powerful Disintegrators
• 2 Disintegrators
• 3 Guns
• 2 Rifles
• 6 Plasma Rifles
• Sturdy Very Powerful Gyro Jet Gun
• Sturdy Laser Gun
• 2 Well Balanced Disintegrators
• Acidproof Laser Rifle
• Balanced Gyro Jet Gun
• Balanced Gauss Rifle
• 8 Laser Rifles
• 3 Sturdy Gauss Guns
• Powerful Gauss Gun
• Acidproof Gauss Rifle
• Laser Gun
• Sturdy Laser Rifle
• 4 Powerful Disintegrators
• Sturdy Gyro Jet Rifle
• Very Powerful Laser Gun
• Acidproof Gauss Gun
• Balanced Disintegrator
• 33 (yey murder) Layered P. Forcefields
• 4 Spacesuits
• 3 Full Ballistic Suits
• 4 Protective Suits
• 28 Squidsuits
• 16 Sets of Adaptive Body Armor
• Thick Fullerene Suit
• Thick Protective Suit
• 11 Fullerene Suits
• Sturdy Camo Layered P. Forcefield
• 3 Sturdy Layered P. Forcefields
• 2 Acidproof Layered P. Forcefields
• Camo Layered P. Forcefield
• 2 Imp. Camo Layered P. Forcefields
• 2 Full Protective Suits
• 3 Sets of Heavy Combat Armor
• 3 P. Forcefields
• Old Full Ballistic Suit
• Acidproof P. Forcefield
• Combat Armor
• Camo Heavy Combat Armor
• Thick Adaptive Bodyarmor
• 6 Vibro Blades
• 4 Combat Blades
• 3 Vibro Knives
• 15 Combat Gloves
• 4 Acidproof Combat Knives
• 9 Vibro Swords
• 8 Mono Swords
• 5 Mono Blades
• Sharp Mono Blade
• Well Balanced Combat Gloves
• Balanced Mono Blade
• 2 Medpacks
• Medpack II
• 2 Pieces of Alien Art
• Flood Light
• 2 Helmet Lamps
• 3 Imp. Air Filters
• 4 Mining Drills
• Bad Imp. Air Filter
• 2 Imp. AT Landing Gears
• 2 Good Imp. Air Filters
• Strong Flood Light
• 7 Alien Holokeycards
• Portable Sensorset
• Botany Kit
• Laser Drill
• Strong Helmet Lamp
• AT Landing Gear
• 4 Anesthetics
• 2 Drones MK I
• 4 Mining Explosives
• 28 Squidsuits
• 3 Ancient Alien Bombs
• Aux. Jetpack Tanks
• 4 Strong Anesthetics
• 4 Improved Stasis Fields
• 6 Handheld Cloaking Devices
• PW for Station 1 Sensors
• Sturdy Gas Mining Probe MK I
• Gas Mining Probe MK I

As for the Heavy Scout Fang of Horus...

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• 16 Hullpoints (Diamandoid)
• Shield Generator II
• Engine 6 (10 MP)
• Sensors II
• IC IR Shipgun
• Radiator II
• 2 Empty Cargo Bays
• 15 Bunks
• 4 Cryo Chambers

Crew Summary...

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• Pilot 9
• Gunner 8
• Science 9
• Doctor 12
• Security 3
• Elite 3

Exploration Log...

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• Explored 3493 Parsecs (93% of Sector)
• Discovered 74 Systems (82%), Mapped 245 of 397 Planets (52%)
• Didn't Discover Any Wormholes
• Farthest Expedition was 39 Parsecs from Nearest Station
• Docked at Major Space Stations 38 Times
• Always Had Full Tank
• Landed on 245 Planets
• 12 Remarkable Planets Discovered
• Defeated 442 Aliens
• 2 Casualties Among Crew

And Finally, Unique Planets Discovered...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

• The Destination of a Generation Ship
• The Home of an Alien Claiming to Be a God
• A World Without Water and Huge Sandworms (Spice fermenting killed one of the men)
• A World With Invisible Beasts
• A World With Very Violent Weather
• A Casino Trying to Cheat
• The Prison of an Ancient Entity
• A Pirate Gunrunner Operation
• A Planet With Immortal (not to guns!) Beings
• A Very Boring Planet
• An Asteroid Base
• Another Asteroid Base
• A World Devastated by War
• A World Populated by Peaceful Cephalopods
• A Tribe of Small Green People in Trouble
• An Invisible Labyrinth
• A World Under Control of Smith Heavy Industries
• A World Under Control of Triax Traders
• The Ruins of an Ancient War
• 2 Ancient Refueling Platforms

For the first time in my Roguelike career, I am very, very happy with my progress. Of course, I haven't won yet. Not until I kill everything and burn every planet.

EDIT: Oh, and if I didn't savescum, ending it here nets me 95,484 Credits and 404418 Points.

[puke]

Honestly one thing I really noticed about the game is that the far superior way to start the game is to be a trader.

Since that will earn you some small amounts of cash and once you are ready to explore it would have taken soo much time that artifacts start littering the planet like they grew from the trees.

Wait, artifacts increase over time?  Is that a new feature?

I thought the longer you waited, the more your competitors would arrive before you and harvest minerals and such.

[Neonivek]

Wait, artifacts increase over time?

Artifacts are on a timed release. Since planets are not generated until you explore then, if you explore planets after that wait time, every planet you explore will have artifacts.

it is pretty much gaming the system.

would arrive before you and harvest minerals and such

Yeah it doesn't really matter... The money in early game exploration is such small potatoes you will die the majority of the time before you make anything worthwhile.

[EuchreJack]

So I feel like scum because I save-scummed

Before I only save scummed because of game breaking bugs like

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

entering one of those random underground robot areas but the entrance/exit is in a metal wall so once stepping out it's impossible to step back in (even after setting off a bunch of alien bombs by the wall) or Apollo who doesn't return ship or the forcefield turret being unkillable and the tunnel only having one closed off room

but this time I landed on a special world next to a slightly damaged alien scoutship, I repaired it and fended off attacks from the metallic natives and then when I got the message to swap it for my old ship I pressed a direction key by accident and my setting has it so that anything which isn't y is a no, so I had to save-scum 12 times until I finally was able to successfully repair it again and swap it, but now I have the ultimate ship but it is tainted!

It isn't tainted, in my mind.  You got cheated by a misclick, and were well within your rights to save-scum to fix it.  I generally alt-tab-close when I do stuff like that, and feel completely justified.

Honestly one thing I really noticed about the game is that the far superior way to start the game is to be a trader.

Since that will earn you some small amounts of cash and once you are ready to explore it would have taken soo much time that artifacts start littering the planet like they grew from the trees.

Wait, artifacts increase over time?

Artifacts are on a timed release. Since planets are not generated until you explore then, if you explore planets after that wait time, every planet you explore will have artifacts.

it is pretty much gaming the system.

would arrive before you and harvest minerals and such

Yeah it doesn't really matter... The money in early game exploration is such small potatoes you will die the majority of the time before you make anything worthwhile.

I've gotta disagree with you.  Mining robots earn thousands of credits, and you can just buy two simple ones for 80 credits each and just bounce between two planets until you get bored.  No paying crew for every delivery (which can get expensive), and your ship isn't junk just because it caries more cargo.

Plus, more artifacts aren't the only things that get generated the longer you wait.  The enemies also get stronger.  So unless you've got tons of credits to outfit your crew with top-of-the-line equipment, you're fragged.  Especially as approximately half of all artifacts are only good for resale, you've got about a 50/50 chance of correctly identifying the artifacts, and only a handful of them are weapons or armor.  And trading instead of exploring means those redshirts can't take a hit like my xenocidal redshirt army.

[LordSlowpoke]

that's why the most efficient^TM way of playing the game is to ship drugs and hightech around until you can afford a battleship and equipment for everyone in it

and then you can just fuck around firing the ship's weapons at everything in sight since you have five goddamn arrays of them

Especially as approximately half of all artifacts are only good for resale, you've got about a 50/50 chance of correctly identifying the artifacts, and only a handful of them are weapons or armor.  And trading instead of exploring means those redshirts can't take a hit like my xenocidal redshirt army.

relies heavily on science officer skill, rule of thumb don't bother unless 3+

[EuchreJack]

So, uh, the Fang of Horus and it's crew. Hm. Well, here's stock of their inventory so far. Keep in mind I've sold exactly nothing to shops since I don't need the bank, and looted all the stuff save for ship upgrades and the combat gloves.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

• 2 Hover Platforms
• 13 Jetpacks
• Small Hover Platform
• 2 Gyro Jet Rifles
• 2 Gyro Jet Guns
• 5 Gauss Guns
• 4 Gauss Rifles
• 3 Very Powerful Disintegrators
• 2 Disintegrators
• 3 Guns
• 2 Rifles
• 6 Plasma Rifles
• Sturdy Very Powerful Gyro Jet Gun
• Sturdy Laser Gun
• 2 Well Balanced Disintegrators
• Acidproof Laser Rifle
• Balanced Gyro Jet Gun
• Balanced Gauss Rifle
• 8 Laser Rifles
• 3 Sturdy Gauss Guns
• Powerful Gauss Gun
• Acidproof Gauss Rifle
• Laser Gun
• Sturdy Laser Rifle
• 4 Powerful Disintegrators
• Sturdy Gyro Jet Rifle
• Very Powerful Laser Gun
• Acidproof Gauss Gun
• Balanced Disintegrator
• 33 (yey murder) Layered P. Forcefields
• 4 Spacesuits
• 3 Full Ballistic Suits
• 4 Protective Suits
• 28 Squidsuits
• 16 Sets of Adaptive Body Armor
• Thick Fullerene Suit
• Thick Protective Suit
• 11 Fullerene Suits
• Sturdy Camo Layered P. Forcefield
• 3 Sturdy Layered P. Forcefields
• 2 Acidproof Layered P. Forcefields
• Camo Layered P. Forcefield
• 2 Imp. Camo Layered P. Forcefields
• 2 Full Protective Suits
• 3 Sets of Heavy Combat Armor
• 3 P. Forcefields
• Old Full Ballistic Suit
• Acidproof P. Forcefield
• Combat Armor
• Camo Heavy Combat Armor
• Thick Adaptive Bodyarmor
• 6 Vibro Blades
• 4 Combat Blades
• 3 Vibro Knives
• 15 Combat Gloves
• 4 Acidproof Combat Knives
• 9 Vibro Swords
• 8 Mono Swords
• 5 Mono Blades
• Sharp Mono Blade
• Well Balanced Combat Gloves
• Balanced Mono Blade
• 2 Medpacks
• Medpack II
• 2 Pieces of Alien Art
• Flood Light
• 2 Helmet Lamps
• 3 Imp. Air Filters
• 4 Mining Drills
• Bad Imp. Air Filter
• 2 Imp. AT Landing Gears
• 2 Good Imp. Air Filters
• Strong Flood Light
• 7 Alien Holokeycards
• Portable Sensorset
• Botany Kit
• Laser Drill
• Strong Helmet Lamp
• AT Landing Gear
• 4 Anesthetics
• 2 Drones MK I
• 4 Mining Explosives
• 28 Squidsuits
• 3 Ancient Alien Bombs
• Aux. Jetpack Tanks
• 4 Strong Anesthetics
• 4 Improved Stasis Fields
• 6 Handheld Cloaking Devices
• PW for Station 1 Sensors
• Sturdy Gas Mining Probe MK I
• Gas Mining Probe MK I

As for the Heavy Scout Fang of Horus...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

• 16 Hullpoints (Diamandoid)
• Shield Generator II
• Engine 6 (10 MP)
• Sensors II
• IC IR Shipgun
• Radiator II
• 2 Empty Cargo Bays
• 15 Bunks
• 4 Cryo Chambers

Crew Summary...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

• Pilot 9
• Gunner 8
• Science 9
• Doctor 12
• Security 3
• Elite 3

Exploration Log...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

• Explored 3493 Parsecs (93% of Sector)
• Discovered 74 Systems (82%), Mapped 245 of 397 Planets (52%)
• Didn't Discover Any Wormholes
• Farthest Expedition was 39 Parsecs from Nearest Station
• Docked at Major Space Stations 38 Times
• Always Had Full Tank
• Landed on 245 Planets
• 12 Remarkable Planets Discovered
• Defeated 442 Aliens
• 2 Casualties Among Crew

And Finally, Unique Planets Discovered...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

• The Destination of a Generation Ship
• The Home of an Alien Claiming to Be a God
• A World Without Water and Huge Sandworms (Spice fermenting killed one of the men)
• A World With Invisible Beasts
• A World With Very Violent Weather
• A Casino Trying to Cheat
• The Prison of an Ancient Entity
• A Pirate Gunrunner Operation
• A Planet With Immortal (not to guns!) Beings
• A Very Boring Planet
• An Asteroid Base
• Another Asteroid Base
• A World Devastated by War
• A World Populated by Peaceful Cephalopods
• A Tribe of Small Green People in Trouble
• An Invisible Labyrinth
• A World Under Control of Smith Heavy Industries
• A World Under Control of Triax Traders
• The Ruins of an Ancient War
• 2 Ancient Refueling Platforms

For the first time in my Roguelike career, I am very, very happy with my progress. Of course, I haven't won yet. Not until I kill everything and burn every planet.

EDIT: Oh, and if I didn't savescum, ending it here nets me 95,484 Credits and 404418 Points.

Look out Apollo, a new god is born!

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I have actually been starting scout because I like the extra fuel. I have been tending more towards exploration rather then cargo and such. Thats mostly because its more exciting to see me going around a planet then carrying things between stations in my videos.

[Sharp]

I tend to go Troop Transport start and get max redshirts after a few planets to explore and then I try and find a stranded tier 3 ship and then try and clear it out.

Also does anyone else just try and go for like 12/13 perks at the start and have no money? Money can be obtained later but perks are much harder to come by so I like to get lots, the Aim perk helps a lot early on as well to kill monsters from afar. The only real problem with starting with no money is that getting the few stars from the scientist is really handy for only 50 credits, can save a lot of time that would be spent on searching for stars.

Once I have around 1000 credits I fire my crappy starting officers and try to hire lvl 4-5 officers and then once I can afford it I fit them all with slave loyalty chips, redshirts are expendable so I don't care if the odd one retires but losing a lvl 9 pilot to retirement can be deadly.

[Niveras]

Most of the perks don't seem that beneficial to me. I guess haggler and merchant are the most important, but all the rest only buff your captain I would think? I guess that's helpful at the start, but later on I was swimming in cash so I didn't care how much things cost or need to trade to make money, and no matter how skillful your captain is, another redshirt is generally more effective than a bump or two to a captain's stat.