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I didn't play this back in the day, so I'm experiencing it for the first time now. This is such a great project, damned fine work! I need to get off the internet and give this some couch time.
Release Pandora elite - Beta
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Back on this again, made Dangerous today and am close to tracking down the stolen ship. Thanks for the tip about jumps reducing legal status, that will really help me rack up the kills. I also have all the upgrades and more money than I can spend (over 13,000 credits). I'm thinking about adding purely ornamental left and right military lasers. 
One suggestion for an improvement - make the MSX planet descriptions the default, as they are far more interesting than the rather terse BBC ones. Also, I have to keep changing that option manually as my selection isn't saved.
I also remember some version or other (possibly CPC, possibly Oolite) allowing you to type in the name of a planet and having it selected on the galactic map - that would be a real time-saver!
One suggestion for an improvement - make the MSX planet descriptions the default, as they are far more interesting than the rather terse BBC ones. Also, I have to keep changing that option manually as my selection isn't saved.
I also remember some version or other (possibly CPC, possibly Oolite) allowing you to type in the name of a planet and having it selected on the galactic map - that would be a real time-saver!
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Press F and that opens up a "Find" option.
Congrats on the Rogue ship. I haven't gotten back to Elite and haven't gotten the rogue yet (apart from that one time and then I died before getting to a safe zone). With F1 2011 out for the PS3 I'm afraid my video game attention is elsewhere! ;-)
I'm looking forward to whatever updates come next.
Thanks. Wish I'd known about "F" before I started hunting everywhere for that bloody ship. :lol:
Took the Cobra for a quick spin just now, got another "Right On Commander". I think that means I'm 256 kills from Deadly. How do I activate the second mission in this version?
Also, I've noticed that piracy and carrying contraband doesn't affect your legal status, it only increases if you kill a Viper in that system, though they will appear (and attack) if you're doing those things. Is it supposed to work like that?
Took the Cobra for a quick spin just now, got another "Right On Commander". I think that means I'm 256 kills from Deadly. How do I activate the second mission in this version?
Also, I've noticed that piracy and carrying contraband doesn't affect your legal status, it only increases if you kill a Viper in that system, though they will appear (and attack) if you're doing those things. Is it supposed to work like that?
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Good news
My Pandora is on the way back from Germany, having been fully repaired
I will therefore be working on this again very soon (and also EUAE, AROS and not RPCEmu as that's pretty much fine as is)
I'm aware of the legal status problems, be assured you won't get away with that forever :->
My Pandora is on the way back from Germany, having been fully repaired
I will therefore be working on this again very soon (and also EUAE, AROS and not RPCEmu as that's pretty much fine as is)
I'm aware of the legal status problems, be assured you won't get away with that forever :->
Hi I have spotted a bug.
I am presently on about 270,000XP and on the status panel top left I have made deadly. However in the main screen if I go to the status page this shows the XP correctly but I am still dangerous.
Really enjoyed playing this and finished mission 2.
Updates would be great as would some more missions. Whilst just blasting everything to increase XP is fun the missions add an extra depth.
Thanks once again.
I am presently on about 270,000XP and on the status panel top left I have made deadly. However in the main screen if I go to the status page this shows the XP correctly but I am still dangerous.
Really enjoyed playing this and finished mission 2.
Updates would be great as would some more missions. Whilst just blasting everything to increase XP is fun the missions add an extra depth.
Thanks once again.
Hi, I'll look at that bug when I get it back, it's probably just a typo on my part
Missions, working on it, the display errors on the mission text are indeed errors, just since I've not reached the missions yet myself not had chance to fix them
Pondering other additions...
I'm not sure how people feel about things being added that weren't in elite (jump points, frontier style missions you can get at any time to make money), thoughts on such things?
Missions, working on it, the display errors on the mission text are indeed errors, just since I've not reached the missions yet myself not had chance to fix them
Pondering other additions...
I'm not sure how people feel about things being added that weren't in elite (jump points, frontier style missions you can get at any time to make money), thoughts on such things?
My Pandora returns!
I'll see what I can do anyway, very tired atm and putting the battery through a discharge/recharge cycle before I do anything else
Additionally I'll have to setup the build environment again as a few segfaults alerted me to the fact some libraries have changed in the new beta
Yeah, was pondering perhaps having two versions, I don't want two modes, that'll be a giant pain in the arse, however if I finish all the classic stuff, call that done then do an enhanced version as a different release that might be doable...
I'll see what I can do anyway, very tired atm and putting the battery through a discharge/recharge cycle before I do anything else
Additionally I'll have to setup the build environment again as a few segfaults alerted me to the fact some libraries have changed in the new beta
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An update on the small bug I reported regarding main screen showing deadly but in game screen showing dangerous. I am now up to 340,000 xp and now both screens show deadly. I think extra xp are added when you complete missions and the in game screen ratings might still be using just kill count.
Any idea what the xp level required is to become elite?
Any idea what the xp level required is to become elite?
It only has kill count -.-
ATM, XP=kills*128 but I intend to fix that at some point so a krait isn't worth as much as a thargoid ffs
As for the deadly/dangerous issue, I will look at that now since the Pandora is in front of me (Yay!)
Yes, there was an error, one screen was showing deadly too soon as I somehow mistyped 2560 as 2048 -.-
Will be corrected in the next one
3276800 XP for Elite rating
Not done anything much yet, I will get back to it, was fiddling with AGA on EUAE
Eek! Did you really mean 3.27 Million!!! Wow I am almost up tp 400K but that is a massive step from Deadly to Elite - is this in line with the original?
One of my great gaming failures was never to get past Deadly on the original BBC version and I had hoped to make amends. Not sure I have the stamina for 3 Million XP.
I'm sorry to say that is exactly in line with the original!
It was supposed to be hard to get to Elite :>
