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[BishopX]

Will launch kill you if you are on the same tile as the ship? Seems like a good way of solving the dead pilot problem.

Never bring your pilot with you. If you do you can't have him pick you up while your fatal miscalculation has doomed you to be unable to reach the ship in time by one tile.

You don't actually need to have the pilot on board to move the ship. You can do that via radio. When I"m running low on oxygen I always make the ship meet me halfway.


The other really big defensive trick is to leave your tactics on defensive unless you're about to blow something away. It makes the giant cave bears leaping out and devouring your red shirts much less costly.

In other news, does anyone know how to solve this situation?

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I'm on the planet with an active planetary defense grid. I've taken out the turret, the factories and gone down into the building and killed every robot and computer. I still haven't disabled the defense grid for some reason.

[magellan]

Just spent an afternoon implementing something like pathfinding.
Another thing nobody is ever going to realize its in there
Soon merchants will avoid anomalies and gas clouds and have funny routes like this:



@Duke 2.0
Are you certain you can't start with a dead pilot? Launching never checked for crew, and I havent touched that part. What exactly is happening?

@BishopX

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The turret is empty? you disactivated its forcefield? Hum. should let you start now. Can I have a savegame of that?

[Saint]

I killed the center of the planet and everything there but yet I still cannot leave.
And I died on the way back in to find what I missed because I explored and lost too much oxygen to get back home.

[Duke 2.0]

 Basically I landed on a barren planet at 0% chance of life, some monster came out of nowhere and attacked the crew. I booked it out of there straight to the ship where I pressed l, but nothing happened. I noticed that my pilot was killed, so I attributed it to that. I don't have a save, but if it happens again I'll save it.

[exoleet]

You'll find resources and technology a lot more often in gas cloud systems.

I'm currently doing an archaelogical exploration of a pyramid I find on a cold, mountainous planet.

[magellan]

Just checked the planet with the working defense grid and it works fine here

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There is a grey console in the dungeon. If you disable the system there, you should be able to start again.

[BishopX]

I might have blown it up 

Also, my save file is over 25 megs so gmail and yahoo don't like sending it. Any idea if it will survive zipping?

[magellan]

wont have a problem with zipping.
Also just checked: That tile has no Hitpoints (as it should) and is indestructable.

[Tarran]

I might have blown it up 

Ah, we all have our "I probably shouldn't have blown that up" moments.

[exoleet]

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What can you do with alien art?

[BishopX]

@ exoleet

It can be sold on certain planets

[Rakonas]

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What can you do with alien art?

You can hang it on your ship as a souvenir of your adventures.

[magellan]

In case anybody wants to know, I fixed some bugs, mainly the stranded ships upon entering having no stats thing.

[Tarran]

Anyone else encounter a magma worm yet? I have.

Too bad that guy is dead.

Also: Yay, new version!

[alfie275]

Programming question, hopefully you can help:
I assume you store things as derived classes in a container of pointers to the base class? Do you just type cast them to access any added non-baseclass members of the derived classes?