Walterar! Great to see you back. Sorry your still waiting to see your doctor. They do like to take their sweet time don't they? Get well soon! And great news about G21, I will look forward to that!

  Scout Plus report: radar mapper

Recap - I was on Earth and found two scout missions to the moons of Jupiter, one for Callisto and one for Io. I took both, thinking I could do them both in one trip. I scanned Callisto then went to Io and discovered that the radar mapper wouldn't scan. I went back to Earth and noticed that the mission to Io was still in progress.

Continuation - I went back to Io and the scanner worked as normal. Using the Ion engine I even had enough time to do some package deliveries on the way.

Conclusion - The radar mapper can only hold the data for one mission at a time.

Hope it all goes well for you Walterar!  You're amazing

 

 

I have also talked to my doctor and informed me that next Thursday 22 January, I will be undergoing a cybernetic implant. For this reason I spend all my time on that topic today. I will return to work on Scout+ in a few days, if all goes well, the G21 version will be delayed for this reason. 

Get well walterar. We will be waiting for you, to be of full of strength, to continue our space adventures!!!   

I could use a good space adventure after the disaster of the recent months.

Hi Walterar, 

Thank you for all the work you have done on Pioneer Scout!  You've done a great job and this mod is much more fun to play than the original Pioneer.  Also, I've read about your health issues and wish you the best.

I love the game, but have a few issues and was wondering if you or anyone else here had some advice.

I play the game both on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Windows 7 in a dual boot configuration on the same system.  In both cases, the game crashes a lot when I Hyperspace to a region, Click F2 to get the Star Chart up, then take any option on the map.

In Windows 7, the graphics display very nice.  In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS the graphics are a problem, with planet detail and colors not displaying.  I've played with the graphics settings to no avail.

In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the program is very slow.  In Windows 7 the game performs well.

Any help you can provide on the above issues would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Again for all the great work!

I'm running Scout Plus on 14.04 with no problems. When I first installed my OS it wouldn't run any 3D games very well. I got about 2 fps for Scout at the starting position. After installing the current Nvidia drivers from the software center I now get about 60 fps. So, maybe this is too obvious, but have you updated your Ubuntu video drivers?

Hi Marcel,

Thanks for the quick response, much appreciated.  

Good idea on the video drivers...  I've got an older system running an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz, 4G of RAM and an AMD/ATI RV670 [Radeon HD 3870] Video Card which is running the Open Source fglrx Drivers.

This set up runs World of Tanks on Wine perfectly, so not sure why it doesn't run Scout Plus well.

I'll look into Proprietary Drivers and see if that makes a difference.  Any other thoughts from the team are appreciated!

Best Regards, Paladin7

 

Hi Marcel,

 

Thanks for the quick response, much appreciated.  

 

Good idea on the video drivers...  I've got an older system running an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q9300 @ 2.50GHz, 4G of RAM and an AMD/ATI RV670 [Radeon HD 3870] Video Card which is running the Open Source fglrx Drivers.

What about installing Lubuntu instead? It's Ubuntu with lower system requirements, and another graphical enviroment!!

 

Again here, and happy to be back in the 31th century Not all sorted out yet, but I will. To do this I need to do other trips to the 21th century.

 

In the coming days I will be playing with Scout+, and will review the changes that have been produced in the Pioneer engine during my absence.

 

I keep working and hopefully soon have G21 for you, my dear friends. 

 

Thank you so much Walterar

Walterar your amazing!   Thank you so much for taking the time to do this.

If you mean the docking issues then I am not going to get time to fix them. The next time I touch docking I will be rewriting it and changing the way it works I think.

There are too many problems to keep tweaking and making minor changes.

Yeah, cheers...

No, cheers for you. You are working hard, and many things at once.

Yeah fluffyfreak! I don't think we tell you enough how much we appreciate all the things you do!  

Thanks guys, sorry I was tired and a bit narky last night 🙂

http://sourceforge.net/error-404.html?project=pioneersp

^ I can´t download it, is error.

Hello Timo3681

This indicates that sourceforge.net is partially out of service.   It happens sometimes, you just have to try again later. 

* More fast

* More stable

* More missions

* More traffic

* More action

* More ships

* New laws

* Police Robot more intelligent

* More fun, really.

 

Always built on the latest engine update of Pioneer Space Sim. 

See PioneerSP-G21F/engine-docs/Changelog.txt for details.

 

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New optional equipments you can buy on the market

 

 

* AutoCombat

Combat Autopilot which is responsible for managing your ship and weapons in combat. Very useful for newbies and lazy fighters.

 

* DEMP System

Send a strong Directional Electro Magnetic Pulse to temporarily neutralize the attacking ship electronic systems. The hostile ship, was adrift and without operational weapons.

 

* Matter Capacitor

Virtually inexhaustible source of propellant.

 

Until the previous version, this equipment was installed only to members of SPA. Now they are on sale in shipyards and SPA has been replaced by the original FuelClub.

 

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* Continuing changes in Police and Law,

 

 we now have:

 

* DUMPING - jettison of hazardous rubble/waste too close to station

* MURDER - destruction of ship too close to station

* PIRACY - fired or crash on ship too close to station

* TRADING_ILLEGAL_GOODS - attempted to sell illegal goods

* UNLAWFUL_WEAPONS_DISCHARGE - shooting weapons too close to station without being attacked

* ENVIRONMENTAL_DAMAGE - jettison of radioactive products in space inhabited systems

** ABDUCTION - do not carrying passengers to the station agreed (No effect on G21. It will be activated in future G22)

** FRAUD - do not deliver package or message to the station agreed (No effect on G21. It will be activated in future G22)

* ESPIONAGE - carry data to another faction

* ESCAPE - manual take-off to evade fines

* ILLEGAL_JUMP - jump into hyperspace less than 5Km from the station

 

 

 

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* DRAW_UNINHABITED_LABELS is now 'off' by default.

 

* The docking tariff is now proportional to replenishing of the propellant (water or hydrogen) spent.

 

* Before of G21, the final destination in the surface stations of Taxi, Courier, Delivery and Scout, should be automatic docking with autopilot. From this version, you can finish the missions with manual landing in near by port. If you ever find a port blocked by an avalanche, you'll appreciate this.

 

* It is a pleasure for me, incorporating two beautiful ships that gives us gernot:

 

"Manta", light fighter, original SGM by Gernot Schrader

 

"Ladybird Starfighter" medium courier, original MRL Tom Mortons, SGM version by Gernot Schrader

 

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You will see the magnificent new nozmajner orbital station with many boats coming and going.

 

 

Although the entrance to the harbor is still done in reverse, and other minor details, it can be fun and worth seeing. I hope fluffyfreak, use Scout as an instrument for details easily and with her magic, find the solution.

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Remember, this version use its own directory: ~/.pioneersp on Linux,  or DocumentsPioneersp on Windows

Therefore you can have installed (and run, concurrently if desired and your computer supports it) Pioneer Space Sim, and Pioneer Scout Plus

 

Download free from here:

 

     Pioneer Scout Plus G21f for Windows32 (also works on Windows64), Linux32, Linux64

 

 

Enjoy this.        

The old saved games do not work in this new G21f version. But you can recover a lot.  See this