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Or maybe we can convince the player using joystick to drive a ship on Pioneer spacesim!? I do not think it will be dificult to convince the player that this game needs Joystick.Maybe not. But good luck convincing the new player that playing Pioneer is worth buying a joystick.

My congratulations to Brianetta and other 'team' members for finding most effecive way to kill Pioneer.I recall someone said something about the right time to skin a bear…

<t>Of course, since pi is a irrational number, the sequence of digits specified does appear in it somewhere. What scuppers the idea for me is that pi is half the circular constant (almost all maths is simplified by replacing pi with 2.pi), and I would be suspicious of messages from aliens suggesting ...

The text rendering seems to work perfectly on my 10.8 MacBook Pro.

<t>Bah that took forever to figure out, finally the annoying color bug fixed, almost ready nowNew Hope in correct colors (not so yellow anymore) and consistant with expected colors Does that fix the way the land masses looked shaded too darkly from within the atmosphere, like in Above city midday ...

You can set the autopilot for a planet by either a) clicking its label on the screen if is in view, or b) hitting f2 then f7 to show all planets and stars in the system, clicking on the one you want, and then hitting f4.

and the city of Carver far to the south at noon, perhaps the gloomiest spot on this gloomy planet. viper017 Carveratnoon.jpgPio-noir!

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Drifter the closest game to Pioneer on the Iphone and after a successful Kickstart it on the way to pc/mac.http://www.celsiusgs.com/blog/<br/>
Do we know if Drifter does seamless planetary landings or is it another never actually land on a planet ...

ollobrain wrote:
[...]the empire-colonisation-empire influence have been pushed back[...]
Uh what influence

<t>That looks quite amazing! The landing/launching sequence could use less pause after you reach the central area, though. And the open/close of the hatch seems really fast for a structure of that magnitude—I think much slower movement could really give it the sense of scale it needs. Also ...

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Zephyros wrote:<br/>
yeah the clouds do not have to be very high spec like in flight simulator or any recent air combat sim. Even in frontier they look well.<br/>
The solid lumpy clouds did look well in Frontier, but that's because their simplistic look matched that of the rest of the game ...

Cool resource, Geraldine! It would be funny to see some of those astronaut guys floating around spaceports or those large parked ships sometime, conducting repairs or such.

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Marcel wrote:<br/>
How about F1 to select view mode followed by the keyboard 1-4 keys to select the type of view? As a implied before, being able to select front and back views with one key press would be very helpful in combat. Repeated presses of F1 would still cycle through the types of ...

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Brianetta wrote:<br/>
Don't play the realism card while looking for a dogfight.<br/>
Quoted in agreement.As I've stated before in IRC, people who say they want a fighter plane-style dogfight in space don't really understand the fact that aircraft dogfights in atmosphere are the way they are ...

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Ron wrote:<br/>
So put the compiled and working version into a .zip and post it somewhere, and problem solved ... we can all test the changes. Job done (instead of messing around for another week).<br/>
Uh, no, problem not solved. It's not at all likely that fluffyfreak's Win7 build is ...

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Gudadantza wrote:<br/>
I consider both views are needed, this kind of view can be seen in some flight simulators and have their different use, The vanilla external can be considered more aesthetic, cinemathographic, visual and screenshot related, and the last one more "navigational".<br/>
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Marcel wrote:
How about these vents? Notice the grill-work around the pad?
I think it looks great. Hope to see this in the game soon!

<r>Thanks for the great video, Brianetta!<br/>
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Great, :)Is it supposed to replace the old external view or will it be a new additional view?<br/>
That's a good question. From my own experiences from playing with the sidereal view, I found that there wasn't much reason to use ...

<r>In the future it might be worth our while to make Pioneer more accessible to mods, e.g. by putting all game data in a formatted text file to be read by the program on startup. This would allow players to make changes without having to deal with the complexities of programming or compiling the ...

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ThornEel wrote:<br/>
Also, another question : as I'm not that often on IRC, if I find an issue, bug, unexpected behaviour, possible amelioration or new feature, in which case should I post in the forum, or directly create a Git issue (when I'll have learned how to use it)?<br/>
A git issue ...