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[Greenskin13]

Throat is sore, please send medicine.

I think there's already hailing, Saint. Pushing T while targeting a ship will bring up a conversation menu.

Pushing Tab for me always seems to bring up the most hostile ship, but I have to clear the scan with E if I'm targeting a friendly ship.

 

[undead dolphin hacker]

Beta Blocker? Are we a newly recruited molecule of psychotropic pharmecuticals, out to stop theoretically unpleasant brain juices from making the individual in question feel uncomfortable in social situations?

Oh, it's a space game. Lame.

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

Great fun, it would be better if i didn't keep getting assraped in my luna everytime i come anywhere near outlying planets.

 

[mr. lamat]

character customization would be great. i dig my little pos ship, the terrible monday. the idea of cruising through space in a dingy freighter, running drugs across the galaxy is simply heaven. i don't want to upgrade, i get attached to things.

this game comes with a plot? where? bonus!

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

I haven't encountered anything remotely like a plot, im still loving the game though.

I can't believe I haven't tackled any games like this before i'm enjoying this one way too much.

 

[mr. lamat]

how does one encounter this 'plot'?

 

[Greenskin13]

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

I got a special mission after gaining favor with the Sol Police. I wasted a bunch of Outcasts and then went to Earth, and was offered a special mission to retrive an opperative in Heldon.

 

[world_creator]

regarding the name... if anyone happens to think of a better one im all open ears (eyes). hailing is in there but not to a great degree. that plot in there is just a test plot but it does involve a very very large battle so make sure you have a pretty good ship. if you survive you get a cool 2 million credits tho . ermm, if you say no to it it will pop back in after some random number of revisits to earth while you're still friends with police.

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

One small tip, I have a carriers ship with 12 banks of nova blasters full with ai support fighters and an escort of a bunch of other carriers but when I demand tribute the planets just laugh me off. You should allow the player to take control of entire planets, or maybe build stations in zones with no stellar objects.

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Building stations for things like generating trade income or mining or even defense is something I wanted in Freelancer and EVN. There's a lot of places without stellar objects that you could use to make little bases and such.

 

[world_creator]

planet tribute demand is based solely on combat ability and not on ship worth or what equipment you have.

the idea of building stations and such is interesting but i need to figure on a cost/reward basis. it will take some time to create the ability to make your own bases and such but i have a hard time figuring out how that could really add to the gameplay. say you build a station out there and it generates some credits for you, then what? i guess i could make it so that everything can be treated as territory and you can take other planets and they can take yours and such but then ill be creating a whole new game. and the reason my game is always 90% done is because i keep adding new features. ive actually thought about adding the whole thing cause i thought itd be cool but it doesnt appeal to me at the moment cause im getting tired of programming this, haha. thanks for the idea tho.

 

[rob]

feel kind of stupid in asking,
but is there somewhere a help file with a list of commands?
the help file that shows up in the game does not help that much and so far I only worked out how to move and shoot.
thanks!

 

[Greenskin13]

My tummy hurts.

If you push Esc, then options and then controls, you can see all the button configurations. It's not a help file, but it's all pretty self-explanatory.

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

Has anyone actually bought a capitol ship. I find buzzing one in a speedy maxed out exi wraith, hammering it with heavy missiles, and then boarding it usually does the trick.

 

[Astromarine]

Stations could work as immobile weapon boats, to aid you in combat while near them. A good game to see stations working is Galactic Civilizations, but the styles of game are completely different

 

[Ibbz]

Disappointingly I'm experiencing a memory error that occurs as soon as you start the game. However, I have hope that the next version will work fine!

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

Also on a station you could have different ships that you could trade out. Sometimes I feel like shooting around in a speeder others I feel like blasting the crap out of a system in a carrier. It would be beyond sweet if you could store different ships at your own personal station and swap them out when you need.

 

[Greenskin13]

Two times two is four. You don't want my eyes open, do you?

I finally conquered my first planet, Mede. 3,000 a day isn't bad, but I can't believe I still have to pay for fuel and repair there! Geez.

 

[fnordcircle]

regarding the name... if anyone happens to think of a better one im all open ears (eyes).

UltraMega Turbo Space 9.

 

[Anonymous]

EVN kicks. If this game's better, christmas has come early for the...uh....Froggy household.

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

What about "Void Runner" for a name?

Also is there trading involved in freespace 2?

 

[Spazmo]

Freespace 2 is straight up combat and that's why I love it. Me, my fighter, my useless wingmen, the odd Terran cap ship and the goddamn Shivan armada.

 

[MF]

beta blocker seems to crash a lot when I 'release' a ship after boarding it. I get random memroy access errors, but most of the times when I release my ship.

That said, how do I pick up the story? I'm playing 0.9.9.0 and got accepted into the Freelancer Union and the Predators, but that's about it.

 

[Sirus]

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out.

 

[Realbumpbert]

How does Beta Blocker improve on EV Nova? I like the fact that it's 3d, the ships and backgrounds look bigger than in Nova, and that it's free (so far). Anything else?