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[Tarran]

I've found a minor bug;

Spoiler: Slightly spoil-ish but not all that spoil-ish. (click to show/hide)

While normal (hand) Disintegrators are listed in the Alien Artifacts listing, Very Powerful/Balanced/Well Balanced (hand) Disintegrators aren't listed in the listing.

[Pnx]

I've gotten back into this... I only really tried when it was in it's earlier days so a lot has been added. I have to say making super soldier security officers with speed enhancements, exoskeletons, targeting, and metabolism boosters makes for some interesting gameplay... and exploring the various planets and their dangers is fun.

I did manage to run into a snag... though.

Spoiler: BIG spoiler (click to show/hide)

On the large crater planet I scanned it and saw a cyan ship, thinking to myself "ooh maybe I'll get a battleship" I naturally rushed down to the surface...
after fighting off all the blobs I made it to the ship I saw, and sure enough it was a battleship, so I tried to activate it, but it was damaged beyond repair... huh, and I have a level 6 science officer too. Oh well I explore the caves, nothing all that interesting, then I get back to the ship and leave... except I'm stuck, the ship has sunk into the surface and can't be dug out, so I try various things, looking for some solution underground, and firing at the square the ship is on, heck I even fired the ships own guns at the square it was on. But nothing works, so I try getting the two other ships I found on the surface to activate, but those don't work either, then thinking of the emergency beacon I try to get it to send a distress call... but all the commands I try fail, when I type in "call for help" it tells me about firing, coming to them and launching, so I try telling to come to me, but it says it's stuck. Then I tell it launch not expecting anything to happen... except it works, and the ship leaves me behind, ending the game. I continued past the descriptive screen which tells you the details of how it ends. But apparently according to the highscores I started my own colony... huh

[puke]

I did manage to run into a snag... though.

Spoiler: BIG spoiler (click to show/hide)

On the large crater planet I scanned it and saw a cyan ship, thinking to myself "ooh maybe I'll get a battleship" I naturally rushed down to the surface...
after fighting off all the blobs I made it to the ship I saw, and sure enough it was a battleship, so I tried to activate it, but it was damaged beyond repair... huh, and I have a level 6 science officer too. Oh well I explore the caves, nothing all that interesting, then I get back to the ship and leave... except I'm stuck, the ship has sunk into the surface and can't be dug out, so I try various things, looking for some solution underground, and firing at the square the ship is on, heck I even fired the ships own guns at the square it was on. But nothing works, so I try getting the two other ships I found on the surface to activate, but those don't work either, then thinking of the emergency beacon I try to get it to send a distress call... but all the commands I try fail, when I type in "call for help" it tells me about firing, coming to them and launching, so I try telling to come to me, but it says it's stuck. Then I tell it launch not expecting anything to happen... except it works, and the ship leaves me behind, ending the game. I continued past the descriptive screen which tells you the details of how it ends. But apparently according to the highscores I started my own colony... huh

yeah, i reported the same one several versions back.  you can actually get out of there if

[spoileryou go to the bottom of the caves and kill the brain (which may require an excessive lot of firepower if my experience was any indication) but the ordering the ship to "launch" thing is definitly a bug.[/spoiler]

Magellian has an official forum for the game somewhere, I think the link is in his sig or in this thread or at a minimum it is on the project homepage.

[BishopX]

The prospector forums can be found here: http://prospector.freeforums.org/.

Despite the apparent lack of activity, Magellan is still slowly working on the game.

[magellan]

Indeed I am still working on the game.
In fact, I just released 0.1.15


New in 0.1.15

* 3 New types of crewmembers
* New Items
* New radio command
* Ship Designer allows you to create your own hulls
* Crewmembers voice their displeasure at your command
* Fixed biodata and some other bugs

http://code.google.com/p/rlprospector/downloads/list

Enjoy, and please report any bugs you may find!

[Lordinquisitor]

Oh yeah! I just remembered that game. Now i know what i`ll play tomorrow.

[Tarran]

Oooh, ship designer? I'm going to have to get back into this.

Also, one bug right off the bat. When I start out the game as a scout and go to a major spacestation, then check out the new ship section, then try to exit, it tells me the ship I will be swapping with(despite me selecting exit) will have lower sensor capacity, lower shield capacity, lower engine capacity... etc, basically everything will have a lower capacity. Then it asks me if I want to change to that ship type, I say no. Then I end back in the new ship section. When I try to exit again and again the same thing happens. When I pressed the X(close window button) it asked me if I wanted to exit. I said yes. However, nothing happened. I tried two more times with the same result. Then when accepting the new ship type and escaping myself out of it I managed to get the game into a gigantic loop of errors("You already have this hull") which currently has a lovely multiplier of 26 thousand or so at the time of typing.

[magellan]

OH boy.
Thanks Tarran!
Fixed an uploaded.
This time really really with Ship Designer.

[Tarran]

Got the new-0.1.15 and the bug's still there. And as far as I know there's no way to get around it. From what I've gathered while fooling around apparently exiting itself is considered a ship. That may be the cause of this game-ending bug.

[magellan]

Ahhh... how embarrassing!
It was indeed still bugged on the pirates world.
That is fixed now too.
3rd times the charm eh?
I will now go and crawl under a rock or something...

[Tarran]

Heh, don't worry, we all make mistakes... *looks at scoreboard of fail*

Thanks for finally fixing it.

[Majestic7]

Indeed I am still working on the game.
In fact, I just released 0.1.15

Enjoy, and please report any bugs you may find!

Whee! Will enjoy. Thanks for working on the game, it would certainly deserve larger audience.

Edit- Like every other or every third planet has a mining station sending distress signal due to medical emergency.....

[Tarran]

Magellan, another bug; weapons don't cool down or recharge after combat. I've got a Laser Bank that's been fired a couple times in combat and it's stuck at Recharging: 2, Heat: 3.

Edit: And yet another bug. I apparently got killed by a "merchant's escorts", when I was informed that

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

a huge fast ship was coming my way. And it was actually an(the?) ancient alien space ship since it had a disintegrator.

Edit2: Yet one more bug. After repairing stranded ships they turn into different ship types. For example, I had repaired a stranded Explorer and the next thing I know it says "Troop carrier".

[magellan]

This is wierd. The one about the death message I found, but the other ones I was unable to reproduce.

[Tarran]

About the stranded ships turning into different ships: I was wrong, the explorer didn't change into another type of ship. However, it's name did. Also, by troop carrier I meant dropship. I got them wrong.