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[Tarran]

Magellan, I seem to remember you fixing cave entrances jumping everywhere.

But just now, I found out that mine disappeared when I went into a cave! And even worse, it was on an airless world!

Well, at least I had a save I could savescum from.

Only problem is it's before I got the wonderful Teleporter! Argh!

[Tilla]

I've played a bit of Stellar Edge, and dude! Prospector DEFINITELY needs more RP elements for its crew.

The exploration and alien elements are awesome, but I miss SEdge's leveling system. It's really nice .

High-five, fellow only commenter at the stellar edge site Sadly it sounds like the guy is putting this game on the backburner, in favor of..a Western Roguelike, which I approve of quite a lot really.

[klingon13524]

I'll be trying it out.

[Majestic7]

Bug. Nowadays when I go to a space station and there is a cargo inspection, the game crashes. The error log says:

0.2.3 Error #6 in  466:LEVELUP crew.bas
0.2.3 Error #6 in  466:LEVELUP crew.bas
0.2.3 Error #6 in  466:LEVELUP crew.bas

Yes, three times, nothing else. I can continue the game from there, but it has deducted the crew salaries once already and sometimes it takes several times to dock to the station without it crashing.

[Geneoce]

Bug. Nowadays when I go to a space station and there is a cargo inspection, the game crashes. The error log says:

0.2.3 Error #6 in  466:LEVELUP crew.bas
0.2.3 Error #6 in  466:LEVELUP crew.bas
0.2.3 Error #6 in  466:LEVELUP crew.bas

Yes, three times, nothing else. I can continue the game from there, but it has deducted the crew salaries once already and sometimes it takes several times to dock to the station without it crashing.

This.

Played through about three games with it. My alien scoutship, and both my battleships succumbed to negative crew wages combined with no fuel

A fix would be awesome

[NRDL]

I have just started ( literally just 30 minutes ago ) and it's awesome.  I saw the new LP by Jefmajor on Youtube, and I've been having a lot of fun.  I just use scout ships, stuff like that.  My first run, I land on a planet filled with aggressive toads and some weird guys who think their the god, "Apollo".  I am sure that's a Star Trek reference, I remember reading about an episode with the actual Greek God in it. 

Some questions:

How do I talk to sentient indigenous species?

How do I check my crew without going to a space station?

For security, I got a few guards, when I buy ( crappy ) weapons, do they automatically head to the grunts?

Please give me any other advice, for a newb in this awesome pseudo-Star Trek simulator. 

[Tarran]

How do I talk to sentient indigenous species?

Can't remember the exact key, but I think it's c and then the direction of the creature. Check the keybindings (hit the ? key and then k) to be sure.

How do I check my crew without going to a space station?

A and @ (shift+2).

For security, I got a few guards, when I buy ( crappy ) weapons, do they automatically head to the grunts?

No, I believe the weapons are assigned from the strongest up top to the weakest on the bottom of the A screen. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[klingon13524]

I need to stop taking so many risks, I always end up killing my crew trying to map out a planet covered in acid. As the Nethackians would say, YASD.

[Neonivek]

I need to stop taking so many risks, I always end up killing my crew trying to map out a planet covered in acid. As the Nethackians would say, YASD.

Acid Planets are often such whirlpools of despair that I just skip them even much later down the road.

[NRDL]

My crew just got annihilated by a robot  followed by  followed by 

[Neonivek]

My crew just got annihilated by a robot  followed by  followed by 

Yeah... don't even deal with robots. Just run!

[NRDL]

I, at first, had no idea it was a robot, I thought I could fight back, my guns weren't enough. 

So...any more tips to surviving all these crazy stuff, and on how to best make a profit?  I don't even know how to gather bio data. 

[Neonivek]

I, at first, had no idea it was a robot, I thought I could fight back, my guns weren't enough. 

So...any more tips to surviving all these crazy stuff, and on how to best make a profit?  I don't even know how to gather bio data.

"I" is to gather biodata.

There are weak and strong robots but they both share the exact same symbol/tile.

Also I don't want to spoil the challenge for you, so I won't give "Neonivek's Patented Early Game Survival Guide". What you REALLY want is a stations occasional special bonuses (for biodata, for comming back to them after a while, for amount of space looked at, planets fully explored).

Also to avoid paying salary make sure you don't dock at the ordinary stations but at those smaller stations. Also NEVER go to a spacestation when you are ill... They just kick you out and make you, essentially, pay salary twice.

[Il Palazzo]

Hey, this game is shaping up great. Started playing yesterday and it's been a whole lot of fun.

Does anybody know how to become a pirate? I've shot down some alien merchants alright, but how do I reposses their cargo?

[Orb]

If I remember correctly, you only get cargo from pirating, and to take cargo, you need to kill someone carrying cargo, and you need to have cargo space yourself. Once those are set, you're good for business. Note: There are trade routes set up throughout the galaxy, once you find one, you've found the sweet spot. Until then, you'll have to just blindly fly around until you find some merchants.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind if pirating was fleshed out a bit. But eh, its not the main game mode anyway.