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[niltrias]

Either way.  http://prospector.freeforums.org/ is up and running, if a wiki is preferred and someone wants to set that up, go for it.  BTW, if my previous post was not clear, I am not reserving admin rights on the prospector forum.  I will be more than happy to turn over admin control to Magellan or anyone he prefers.  I just wanted to get a ball rolling.

[Micro102]

Ah, a bug, I seem to have infinite commonucation satillites after picking one off the ground on a planet.Correction, when you have to scroll down to drop things the text gets stuck when you scroll back up.

Also please make it an open forum, no password needed. Im too lazy to go through the whole registartion thing and will keep postig on this thread.


(how do you tell what your current engine and sensors re, hard to buy good equipment for your ship)

[Sowelu]

Also please make it an open forum, no password needed. Im too lazy to go through the whole registartion thing and will keep postig on this thread.

That's so nice of you.  Forums with no passwords needed get full of spam even worse than most places.

[Micro102]

What type of person would spam a new ASCII game forum?

[magellan]

They aren't people... they are bots.

Hmm... can you set this freeforum thingy to allow anonymous posts with captcha? In any case thanks a lot for the effort Niltrias. Best send the password to me i guess.

[niltrias]

I am a bit busy ATM, but tomorrow morning (about 12 hours from this post)  I will check out the captcha thing and send magellan the PW.  ATM, the password is only to my account, so I think I need to make an Admin account, give them Admin access, and remove Admin from my own account, then give that to Magellan.  Or just rename my account and remove the email link.  I will figure it out in the morning.

[a1s]

Also please make it an open forum, no password needed.

I would like to pose that reuqest. I always like to talk to someone with a name (and an avatar) rather than guest#1337.1415926 

[Neonivek]

Actually that is something... currently the player doesn't get any robots.

[Micro102]

Ok, bit of a technical problem for me.

I was save scumming over and over due to constant dieing (even with my 7 people with forcefields and super equipment), but i save scummed once during a lag spike i had. This lag spike copied the savefolder, but also copied a "tiles" program. Ever since i duplicated the tiles folder the game has lost contrast. The colors went dull and green has become blueish and reddish.

I tried both removing the tiles program, and placing it in the data folder. How do i ge tth ebright colors back?

[magellan]

tiles.bmp needs to be in the data folder.
It should look like this:


If it doesn't you could actually just copy that one above into the data folder.
Also: 7 folks is tiny. They will die. You can start to feel reasonably save when you got around 15-30 meatshields

[Micro102]

? That looks more like a tileset. I have tiles, the color is just faded.

[magellan]

Yes, it does, and more or less even is (ugly and incomplete).
But the ascii mode uses the same colors as the tiles, and it gets them from that file. If it doesn't find that file, it won't do anything out of the ordinary, but use default colors wich will be wrong.

[Neonivek]

One tough thing you may want to do to make your game better is include Boarder tiles so to speak.

So if there is a lake beside land there would be a shore.

Yes it would expand the number of tiles you use many fold but it would go a long way to making your game look MUCH better

[Micro102]

I just want to know where the "tiles" file goes. In data? Where?

[magellan]

yup, Data folder.

@Neonivek
Another area where there is a lot of room for improvement. Them being complete and/or actually identifiable (and larger) for starters