Yes thats normal, the description/text you get in the docking menu explains that a bit 🙂

Hm no, that shouldn't happen. Do bulletin board adverts appear if you time accelerate for a couple of hours?

Oh, I've never seen Bulletin board postings on any planet other than Earth.

ah excellent! I stardreamed a day or two and then the bulletin board was suddenly extremely populated 🙂

It must be a small bug that stops the board from populating when you land as I'm yet to land on a non starting planet that doesn't have this problem.

Absolutely awesome game so far btw. I haven't enjoyed a spacesim this much since frontier on my old cd32. I can't wait to see how great this is going to become 🙂

Hi im new here 🙂

I got the same problem, no BB on other stations planet. I got other problem too, I dont know if its good place to mention... Game crashes that its not weird of course cuz its alpha but I got crash that destroyed my save game, good that it was early so I didnt lost much. Save game is corrupted now. I did save when I was close to city on some planet maybe that was the reason. Now Im not making saves close to cities.

I found way to make BB appear and it works for me. Just accelerate time. Every time game is loaded and accelerated time to see BB then it is every time randomised. It would be better if it would show just on landing and no mater how many loadings and landings made it should be always the same BB. Only 1 randomisation should be made every 24h or maybe 12h. Even better would be if every 12h 1/3 of BB would be generated/randomised again. It would be more realistic.

I'll second this observation - I had a save crash and destroy the save file - when I went back to the save file it was blank.

Its an alpha, weird things are bound to happen. Fallout New Vegas is a AAA game released by a massive developer and Publisher and that has the same problems with saving. 😆

Its also just as easy to solve that problem. Just save in multiple slots often.

Also please make a note of the offending space port or exactly what it was that made you crash, if you performed a particular action or whatever.

And then at least until its fixed people will know not to go there or perform that action.

This is obvious you dont need to explain it.

I didnt have that problem when saving 🙂

lol now when game crashed while saving and corrupting my save I know what to do. Im making often saves, for example when approaching planet, after docking, after making everything on station before launch, after hyperspace and again closing planet and so on. Its lots of saves but its alpha there is needed lots of patience.

I mentioned where that happened. Lots of crashes I got near cities and flying close to planet. So some problem is with planets and in close vicinity to planet game may crash.

There is need to make even more flat places when cities are because I landed on some planet and when docking, descending on platform there was little mountain and platform and my ship was covered by it.

No you havent mentioned where the crash occured, it probably doesnt matter anyway.

I mean there are probably several billion planets and spaceports in pioneer. Its no use saying one space port made me crash, need to know which one 😉

And I didn't have that problem with Pioneer, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen now does it? I also didn't have that problem with New Vegas, but I have read a lot of posts about people bitching about lost saves.

My alpha 7 crashes only when inside menu's, usually when loading a game. Saving almost always works, but I get 2 chances to load a savegame. The 3rd time the game usually sends me back to desktop. Not really a big problem, one mouseclick and 3 seconds later I'm back in the game and then the savegame can be loaded. As long as I'm in game playing, I can fly around for hours without a single crash 😉 . Now if Pioneer took 5 minutes to start up, it would be annoying but I agree it's a litte bug. One I can perfectly live with, especially since this is still an alpha. The previous versions would sometimes crash during gameplay. Now thát was annoying. I really like the current state. Much more stable already.

And it's free! FREEEEEE! 😀

I mentioned that crash ocured while game was saved and location was near city on planet. There is no need to mention which planet cuz on all planets this problem may happen. planets are not unique over 250 billion in game planets are unique? according to what you say that is what you think. As I mentioned earlier I got few crashes near cities and close to surface of planets so some of them got problem If it will help next time I will write on which exactly planet I got problem but is it change something? this game programmer may not read our posts so what is the point of mentioning which planet made problems.

I was changing city details and planet details so maybe this messed up something.

Try to make save every time you are close to city on planet maybe you will get your own corrupted save game 😆

I remember to have corrupted save in Wolfenstein. Any game can get corrupted save. It not always means game fault. It can be hardware problem.

I set planet details to max and cities to average and sometimes game got little slow downs so maybe this is reason of game crash sometimes. Ill try to play on lower settings and see if crashes will still occur.

In BB I found funny bug, one of requests about delivering package when asked how soon package must be delivered it shows 18 JAN and I already got 24 JAN

Offtopic.

Could someone please tell me how to make laser work as it should? I mean like in FE2 ? Realistic way not star wars fake funny stupid way 🙂 it just started to annoy me. I dont understand why Tomm make realistic space sim with newtonian physics but changed laser to some kind of napalm thrower 😆 This is offtopic but I dont know where els to mention about this. This forum is not populated so I mention about it here. If Tomm likes laser to fire that way then ok but It would be nice if he would implement option to enable laser to be real laser like it was in FE2.

Thats my experience too, It doesn't crash anymore except for the menu/loading problem. I don't want to jinx it though 😉

I tried, and it didn't crash and wasn't corrupted. I make saves near space ports all the time, are you sure your using the latest Alpha version?

What a @$!^%!) awwwwww not AGAIN !......

I was making 3 packages delivery to Proxima system and I was flying to Proxima E, I landed then I went to Proxima D then landed on wrong station so I went to another, I landed then went to last station and landed, when I docked I wanted to make save and immediately when I pressed save button game crashed! awww %!@#!%$%#@ Im done :\ no point in playing for me if game is crashing so often. I didnt use autopilot for any of those docking, but I doubt that this is reason of those crashes.

Im using latest alpha version. 7 is my first experience but if game is crashing a lot then maybe I will come back on other releases when bugs will be fixed. As for bugs and suggestions where I can leave my thoughts about this game? I didnt play to long but already I found few things that could be changed/added.

Play it harder...

Are you guys opening the exe as admin? Odd it seems I'm the only one not having any type of problems saving the game. Please keep in mind this game still in alpha. ^^

So, does anyone know how I can compile pioneer to dump a backtrace to a file or something when it crashes (on windows)? These are alphas so I think it is ok for people to live with the lower performance of debug builds.

Well, you just log significant steps and the error hadnling into a filestream while the thing is running.

Tomm could you make option for toggle RMB? I mean holding button is annoying while shooting at other ships and weird things happen when I fight longer. Sometimes acceleration buttons become activated or view changes by itself then attacking ship is lost and fly away when Im back to normal speed. Those fightings are weird sometimes I try to lose them cuz they are crappy at aiming at me those weird laser (laser??) beams. Im accelerating to very high velocities and they still fly around me like angry bees, dont you think its weird? as those "lasers" to lol If 1 ship want to chase other one then he needs to take same course and accelerate to his speed but instead attacking ships fly around player ship as he would be planet or star with high gravity. Eagle ship is fast so why bigger slower ships can maintain same vspeed as smaller faster eagle?

Please make laser work as a realistic laser, not some unrealistic star wars .... lasers. In orginal FE2 there was proper laser so I cant understand why in pioneer there is some kind of weird yellow worms flying out of ships.

Also in BB there is missions with backward dates For example deadline for delivering package is 18 JAN and actual date is 24 JAN Other missions show deadline 2 days for trip 15ly. I dont know if any ship is capable to travel 15ly in 2 days but I am shure that any in game ship can travel in time 🙂

Package delivering missions those risky ones gave to much money imo. 1500-2500 is to much.It is to easy money.