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- Thu Mar 03, 2016 11:28 am
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Defensive Alliance Mission Broken?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 22276
Re: Defensive Alliance Mission Broken?
Yes, unfortunately it's a scripting bug -- the script only executes if you do not have a coalition computer in inventory -- I've corrected the bug on this side and will roll it up with a number of other things for the next patch, but for now you'll need to jettison it and obtain one when prompted.
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 12:14 am
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Suggestion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 18999
Re: Suggestion
The majority of the developers are no longer around, and unfortunately I was not the one that made that change, nor do I know the source code in that section of the game. Also as you probably notice, the Starflightgame.com domain and forums are completely gone so I don't know when the change was mad...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 11:32 pm
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Questions, problems, and comments
- Replies: 5
- Views: 28354
Re: Questions, problems, and comments
You don't need to travel far and you don't have to circle anything, for Quest #5 "Engine Test", after you leave starport you need to tell the ships navigator to "orbit" to enter orbit mode - so you actually see the planet spinning around in the middle of the screen. You can then break orbit and retu...
- Fri Feb 05, 2016 12:41 pm
- Forum: Other StarFlight Fan Games
- Topic: What game engine is suitable to make a Starflight game?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 30889
Re: What game engine is suitable to make a Starflight game?
After experiencing all the headaches from going to start line to the finish line, here's my two cents: The majority of professional games create their own engines in order to optimize for speed and feature customization. Computer games require so many features and advances are often made in the engi...
- Mon Jan 11, 2016 1:55 pm
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Tried combat... twice and was blown to bits!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24562
Re: Tried combat... twice and was blown to bits!
Sorry about the misunderstanding, unfortunately this is the desired behavior. Quite a few people were involved in this project, and most of them have moved on. The combat algorithm is fairly simple: turn towards the player's current location, thrust at full speed towards the players current location...
- Sun Jan 10, 2016 8:44 pm
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Tried combat... twice and was blown to bits!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24562
Re: Tried combat... twice and was blown to bits!
The game runs under OpenGL which should show missiles and lasers from extreme long-distance just fine on any decent video card with updated video drivers. Several people have reported problems with laptops with inexpensive video cards without proper OpenGL support, but we've been unable to reproduce...
- Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:45 am
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Fir Bolg 1
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21781
Re: Fir Bolg 1
An actual bug with the game -- I just fixed it and updated the downloadable copy of the program. If you download the program again and install it or unzip it on top of the old copy, this should solve the problem. Backing up the save game files (savegame-0.dat through savegame-4.dat) shouldn't be nec...
- Thu Oct 29, 2015 10:44 pm
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Endurium shortage???!!!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24126
Re: Endurium shortage???!!!
No endurium on acidic planets. I believe this is up to date: -- 6 - Plutonium (elowan) -- 30 - Lead (molten, frozen, asteroid, acidic, spemin) -- 31 - Iron (oceanic, molten, frozen, asteroid, acidic, spemin, coalition, barzhon) -- 32 - Cobalt (oceanic, molten, frozen, acidic) -- 33 - Nickel (oceanic...
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:52 pm
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Endurium shortage???!!!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24126
Re: Endurium shortage???!!!
Endurium is treated just as if it was another mineral -- it can be found on all planets except for asteroids. The game places a random quantity of each type of mineral that the planet "supports" in sequence, so it should not be any more or less common than any other mineral. For example, molten plan...
- Sun Sep 20, 2015 12:23 am
- Forum: StarFlight: The Lost Colony
- Topic: Strategy Guide
- Replies: 4
- Views: 28007
Re: Strategy Guide
Only three missions are meant to be "very vague" as they indicate that the game universe has completely changed and most if not all the races have new behaviors and dialogue. I tried to leave enough hints to guide the player on where to go next most of the time without being too hard, but if you fin...