Alpha 28 released

[Loki999]

You can land on a lot of places. I've even landed on a gas giant (smallish one), although that was back a version or so, maybe its been fixed. But you just need to come down gentle and horizontal. Oh... and don't forget to lower the landing gear!!!

[Arrakkh]

But you just need to come down gentle and horizontal. This is what I'm absolutely unable to do even going slowly, the planet itself seems to accelerate towards my ship.

[Geraldine]

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[Overlord]

"This is what I'm absolutely unable to do even going slowly, the planet itself seems to accelerate towards my ship." What are you landing on? A typical planet? Are you able to land on the moon for example but not at the station just land on the ground?

[fluffyfreak]

This is what I'm absolutely unable to do even going slowly, the planet itself seems to accelerate towards my ship.Yes, gravity will pull you towards the planet at an increasing rate until you go splat. The default keys for controlling your thrusters are "U", "I", "O", "J", "K", "L" with "U" being the one for the thrusters beneath your ship. By pressing F5 you can also cycle through the ship control modes to the "set your speed" mode. Then you increase or decrease that value by pressing "Return" to increase, or "right-shift" to decrease it. Now the ship will control it's speed relative to the planet so you can get low more slowly, then set it to zero to stop, extend your landing wheels, and slow descend to the surface using only the thrusters. It's the easiest way I've found of doing it. Andy

[Overlord]

This may have been posted already but the if you fire your weapons near a station you get repeated illegal weapon discharge notifications meaning you cant really use your scanner.

[Loki999]

Why do you need to fire your weapons to use your scanner? o_O

[Overlord]

Well I would use the scanner to find enemy ships. Once you fire your weapon, you cant use the scanner.

[Arrakkh]

I was able to land on Phobos. But it was easier, low gravity. A question; Where are asteroids? how to find them? In sol sistem asteroid belt is not available as autopilot target, I didn t see any in other sistems.

[Loki999]

There are several asteroids that are selectable around Sol. They are just like small planets, moons, but smaller and are listed as being Asteroids. There are no asteroid bets though at this time.

[walterar]

"Well I would use the scanner to find enemy ships. Once you fire your weapon, you cant use the scanner." You run out of radar, because messages override the radar. This is a serious design flaw. Your scanner working for the enemy. Scanner Me, too. :hi: In this case, it happens that many messages were "shot", then successively displayed every 20 seconds. There is a problem there. I correct: "successively displayed every 5 seconds"

[Arrakkh]

OK I learned how to land on planets. And now? There's nothing i can do on the planet except look at nice views.It seems there's few action in this universe, not enemies to fight like pirates or aliens. i can only do some trade and bring some cargo form a place to another.

[shadmar]

Hit ctrl+F12 alot and you'll be busy

[Arrakkh]

Hit ctrl+F12 alot and you'll be busy :)lol I didn't know. It would be nice to have a complete list of keyboard commands.

[Guest]

It would be nice to have a complete list of keyboard commands.[url]http://pioneerwiki.com/wiki/Keyboard_and_mouse_controls[/url] :prankster:

[walterar]

"Hit ctrl+F12 alot and you'll be busy" For these cases it is always good to have on hand: Ctrl+RShift+F12 :preved: