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[beorn080]

Alright, no one seems to have picked it up. The movie where a guy gets blown out of a crater is Joe Vs. The Volcano. Good movie, very funny, now I feel old.

[BishopX]

No error messages, the window just closes...I'll try and see if I can get it to repeat.

Also, are jetpacks supposed to refuel after a period of time?
EDIT: picking up resources seems to make them refual completly (0 to 25), there may be other ways.


Bugs:
When firing ships weapons via satellite uplink, the weapon selection menu leaves a big black bar across the top of the screen. Also selecting which weapon to fire seems to move the away team.EDIT: Movement not confirmed, trying to fire imp missiles from weapon  slot 3 (of 3) cancels firing however. Over exuberant use of the gamma lasers also made the satellite disappear.

With no satelite, you can enter your ship and give it the "Land" command, causing it to pick up and move to a new location...however it leaves you sitting in the same spot. If you have to walk to the bridge to get the ship to move, why would you leave?
 
Additionally clarification of line of sight for the fire command would be useful. Is it LOS from the away team, the ship? If you have a satellite in orbit and are firing missiles should it matter? What about lasers?

[Sowelu]

I could see wanting to make a one-way trip across the planet, starting here, going there, and having your ship there to pick you up when you got there.  But...Eh.

[Granite26]

Risky if you can't get to the landing site

[BishopX]

Yeah, that was YASD for me, I was trying to get into a crater, I figured I'd ride my ship there rather than using the repeated take-off and land trick...and got stranded.

Also, upgrading your hull gets rid of artifact sensors...

[magellan]

oh. the LOS it mentions is ship to target. Sat has no influence on it.

...
What can i say... i knew why i asked for volunteers for this one...

[BishopX]

Yeah, it's buggy. But I'm still having fun. I just turn auto save on and go. I like pretty much every new feature I've found so far (with the exception of rovers which I haven't tried yet).

[magellan]

I gotta myself say that the gas giants give a neat twist to exploration...

Speaking of new stuff: anybody found a pyramid yet?

[Ampersand]

Magellan; have you ever played X-Com?

If so, I recommend that you give it a shot for some inspiration.

[BishopX]

Just one, I was tempted to nuke it.

I really love the gas giants, although I feel that in mid to late game there is essentially no risk to refueling.

[magellan]

Guess one could make the danger curve a little steeper (you did notice the difference between methane, hydrogen and hot jupiters, did you?)

And no, ampersand. Havent played x-com so far. though i haven't heard anything bad about it so might try it.

[BishopX]

I noticed the difference for the amount of fuel, but not for difficulty of the sharks/jellyfish/thing with three little bumps. The living Ball of Plasma was noticeably more difficult though. It actually hit me! With active sensors and 3 weapons, nothing else got close.

[magellan]

There is no difference in the critters themselves but the chance of them appearing. Ok. Noted. Upbeefing of those will be done.

[BishopX]

Would you mind taking a look at pirate cruisers too? They seem underpowered.

[Granite26]

I dunno... it seems reasonable that some things that are challenges in the early game might stop being challenges later on.  Like how if you're playing Crawl right, the challenge in getting enough food kinda slows down and eventually stops, and you get new challenges in terms of things you can't even attempt earlier on.  Needing to refuel could be a pain in the butt that, once the amount of money needed to refuel becomes trivial, just goes away.