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[Mondark]

Okay, wow. I found a pretty massive bug, and I have no idea what to make of it. Sorry for the lossy compression on the picture.

I touch down on this planet, and the science officer immediately remarks: WTF?

I move around a bit, and the landscape around my continuously and bizarrely shifts through random tiles, the science officer continuously WTFing with every step, until moments later, I am killed while trying to get back to my ship, which has transformed into a completely different tile now, by some kind of flying worm.

....

maybe it's not a bug....

Even if it is, you gotta admit it's pretty awesome.  Reminds me of the way nethack simulates hallucination.

[BishopX]

It's not a bug, although a spelling of the description is...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The hallucination is a disease, you can cure it.

[niltrias]

how does one use jet packs for mining?

Im talking about accessing mountain-top minerals.  You need a jetpack to do this, and I see more of them than I do of minerals that need to be dug out.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I also ran into the hallucination sickness, and thought it was a bug.  heh.  That is a pretty awesome illness.
"Captain, our ship appears to have become some sort of large, flying worm!"
"Why yes, Science Officer, the weather would be better if it would stop raining vaporous gastropods, wouldn't it?"

[Ampersand]

It's not a bug, although a spelling of the description is...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The hallucination is a disease, you can cure it.

*smacks forehead*

And here I was thinking I found a world that just caused buffer overflow.

[magellan]

Guess that one really should get some flavor text upon landing, and maybe even scanning.
Almost everybody who lands there seems to think it's a bug at first...

[Sowelu]

Guess that one really should get some flavor text upon landing, and maybe even scanning.
Almost everybody who lands there seems to think it's a bug at first...

It's the garbage symbols.  Look at how Nethack does it...the messages are weird, not garbage.  Like, you sense that your god feels mellow, or you see hand-puppets or carnivorous christmas trees or whatever.  If your science officer spoke in random Pink Floyd lyrics, it would get the point across.

[Neonivek]

I really don't like how other roguelikes handle halucinations.

There needs to be more Rhyme and reason in them... not "Hey this sword is now a potion and this potion is now a statue"

All Nethack and others do is randomise what other objects appear as... and apperantly set it so Barney the Dinosaur has a higher chance if appearing. (Personally I would have went for Harvey the Rabit)

Look at what games like Eternal Darkness does when your character starts halucinating. Yes some of it is very random but for the most part it makes sense. You find rooms full of ammo (Your otherwise starved), statues start watching you, or your eyeballs are being swarmed by flies. Heck one of my favorites is when trying to leave a room you end up right back where you started.

[Megaman]

hey any tips on pirate runs? I try to get the best gunner and pilot possible but even with that I get owned by the merchants THEMSELVES.

[Neonivek]

hey any tips on pirate runs? I try to get the best gunner and pilot possible but even with that I get owned by the merchants THEMSELVES.

This makes total sense to me and probably shouldn't change soo much (afterall Merchant Carrivans were almost unbeatable historically)

What should happen though is that other methods of piracy should be possible.

[Volatar]

What should happen though is that other methods of piracy should be possible.

ie: having the ability to hire some more pirate ships to help you.

[Neonivek]

What should happen though is that other methods of piracy should be possible.

ie: having the ability to hire some more pirate ships to help you.

-Stealing from uncivilised planets
-Robbing stations on foot
-Ambushing explorers
-Blackmail, Extortion
-Stealing Candy from Babies
-Petty Crime (we have a BAR people!) such as stealing from individuals in stations.
-Joining other pirates on their raids
-Doomsday plots

[jellyman]

An interesting game after playing for a half a dozen or so hours so far.  I wasn't very sure what to do, but my first guess was to go land on a planet and explore.  I immediately got attacked by pirates and killed, and guessed that planets were generally dangerous and that I should avoid until I was a bit stronger.  I explored a bunch and with scanning each planet once you get enough map data to eke out a few credits.  Then when I decide to have another go at planet exploration I discover that my first bad experience was not representative, and that surviving on many planets was actually quite easy.

Then I died in the Apollo encounter.....

[Megaman]

Then I died in the Apollo encounter.....
Always scan the planet fist, usually if there's a special text there's a chance appolo or another undesireable encouter will await you, stock up on dem weponz then come back.

Also, I asked for TIPS on pirate runs, GIVE ME SOME TIPS *skulks*

[Ampersand]

If I may make a suggestion, in the next release, severely reduce the rate at which corrosive forces degrade away your armor and weapons. It's getting rediculously expensive to reequip my forces when everything evaporates on the first planet I land on.

[Drakale]

If I may make a suggestion, in the next release, severely reduce the rate at which corrosive forces degrade away your armor and weapons. It's getting rediculously expensive to reequip my forces when everything evaporates on the first planet I land on.

Seconded.

I suggest they only get damaged instead of destroyed and can be fixed by the ship engineer or at a station. There is no engineer at the moment, so the science officer might be able to do it, or just repair them automatically at the spaceship after some amount of time.

For pirate run, my only tip is to NOT start as a pirate and become one later once you have some decent equipment. If you start out as a pirate, its pretty much hard mode. Your only chance is to luck out on a nice spaceship and even then you will hardly make any money from bounty and seized cargo... I had a battleship once, and got destroyed by a merchant escort heh.