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[LASD]

Is there a way to get up a mineshaft, or am I just doomed? I have exactly one jetpack and zero mining tools. Wait, scratch that, clearing the rubble away with guns did it.

On the plus side I found a lot of commands I didn't know about while I was desperately trying to find something that could save me.

[slMagnvox]

I ran into a bug.  Two. v0.1.11a

I found an abandoned spaceship planetside and when prompted to Attempt Repair (y/n)? any input besides Y would loop the message.  Repairing the ship and when prompted to take control, again only Y was accepted input.  Any other reply brought back the prompt. 

In other words, once I moved onto a tile with an abandoned ship, the only outcome is to fully attempt repair and assume command of the new ship.  Happened twice but neither time did repair fail so I don't know what happens then.  I have remapped keys and the option that supplies any key as N on a Y/N prompt.

Keymap:

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# keybindings
# WARNING: the program does not check for collisions. If you put 2 functions on the
# same key things might get wierd.
# If you delete this file prospector will use default keybindings, so you can always do that if things go wrong

# directions
key_nw = y
key_north = k
key_ne = u
key_west = h
key_east = l
key_sw = b
key_south = j
key_se = n
key_wait = .

#general
key_manual = ?
key_messages = m
key_screenshot = *
key_configuration = =
key_autoinspect = I
key_autopickup = P
key_shipstatus = @
key_logbook = L
key_quest = Q
key_weapons = W
key_equipped = E
key_yes = Y
#space
key_landing = ;
key_scanning = s
key_dock = d
key_save = S
key_quit= q
key_rename = r
key_comment = c
key_tow = t

#planet surface
key_pickup = ,
key_dropitem = d
key_inspect = i
key_examine = x
key_radio = r
key_teleport = t
key_jump = v
key_communicate = c
key_offer = o
key_grenade = g
key_fire = f
key_heal = m
key_walk = w
key_oxygen = O
key_close = C

#space combat
key_dropshield = s
key_activatesensors = a
key_run = r


EDIT! Just realized I have a collision on the m key.  Messages and Healing.  Could be the culprit?  I'll have another game or two later tonight.

2nd bug, I met a rival away team on a planet and their spaceship took off and stranded the rival away team.  They had already done all their ore collection (Going for ore at X,Y) and were Returning to ship... when You hear a scoutship starting in the distance..  After their ship took off they kept spamming the Returning... message.

Had fun playing again!  Saw my name in the help file (3rd bug!  Remapped keys/arrow keys don't scroll help menu.  Have to use number keys (2 and 8 ) to scroll the help screen) and figured I oughta give a bump to the thread and help along the development.

Thanks magellan!

[Saint]

ohh release 11.
Awsome.

[dbfuru]

I only just started playing but noticed a bug, if you try to call your ship in the latest version it just dissapears.

[Saint]

I created a few ships if you want to use them, they are a little OP but I figure they would be nice springboards.
Junker;100;3;0;1;1;2;5;0;75;JK;This piece of scrap is what you call @^#$ you made it out of a bunch of old ships from the scrap yards on your home planet, it's a real piece of crap but cheap.(price comes from tool and part fees.)
Lander;3000;3;0;2;3;3;3;0;80;LD;This is an old lander from the first planet explorations refitted for space travel.

You should have a choice to start with a ship or an extra 500 credits at the start for equipment, that way you could be prepaired a bit more but at the cost of only getting a piece of crap for your first ship as no ship costs less than 1000 as of this moment.

[magellan]

Hi guys...
remember me?

If you dont, then maybe you remember prospector?
New version out, with an incredibly short changelog, considering the time it took to implement it!

it is here
http://code.google.com/p/rlprospector/

and this is what happened:
    * customizable tile & textsizes, should fit even the most exotic display now
    * new retirement system
    * redid postmortem
    * a new anomaly type
    * new item: All-terrain landing gear
    * some attempts at balancing
    * some medium to major bugs squished
    * some UI improvements

[Ssiissuu]

I've followed Prospector since your first post, glad to see an update to such a great little gem. Thanks for the post, Magellan.

[Tilla]

Woot, I'm glad to see this is still in the works! Awesome

[niltrias]

Hurray! Magellen just totally destroyed my productivity for the rest of the day! (at least)

[Tarran]

The new default tiles are kind of bad. ASCII is much more easy to read.

Alright, back to dieing horribly!

Off to a good start! Died on my second planet I landed on.

[magellan]

A pleasure, of course

I take it you found the option to switch back to the old font tarran? (fixed size 16 then though)
Of course if you look into the graphics directory you would also find files called 8.bmp, 10.bmp etc, and somebody enterprise could pretty those up (And i would be only happy to share with the rest of the world

[Tarran]

Yes, I did see it, though you should find a replacement for the current default tiles because they are just too thin.

Also: I had two copies of the same special planet in the same system, is that intentional?

[magellan]

are you certain its a special?
I moved some of the more boring specials into a "happens a few times" category (And intend to move some more, as soon as that lazy brain of mine can think of more interesting ones)
Not sure if this is spoilery, but just in case: The no longer special planets would be these:

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Jungle World
Halluzinogenic world (this time with warning text)
Mining station
Smith heavy industry exploration team fighting pirates over some ancient ruins

[Tilla]

Seems really hard to make money now without resorting to trading all the time. Resources and mapping just aren't worth much.

[Tarran]

are you certain its a special?
I moved some of the more boring specials into a "happens a few times" category (And intend to move some more, as soon as that lazy brain of mine can think of more interesting ones)
Not sure if this is spoilery, but just in case: The no longer special planets would be these:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Jungle World
Halluzinogenic world (this time with warning text)
Mining station
Smith heavy industry exploration team fighting pirates over some ancient ruins

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It was jungle worlds.

I'm currently naming my ships "Fraxy[num]" (In tribute to Fraxy), I'm already to Fraxy8. Damn pirates.