Alpha5 (really does fix lots of crashing this time... ;)

[Potsmoke66]

orbiter seems to be absolutely cool...if i only had the time i sniffed once a little to models made for it......and was amazed about all the brilliant work.fortunately humans makes mistakes......else a lot that we won't miss in our daily life wouldn't exist :mrgreen:and it's not only earl grey tea i'm thinking of.

[s2odan]

Trust me, Orbiter is worth the time. You really should give it a try.There are tons of worthwhile addons for it too, so you can customize it to your tastes.

[Potsmoke66]

i'm shurebut man, i'm unemployed and didn't find enough time for all that i have in mind for pioneer,how can i find then only five minutes for orbiter?actually i didn't play often, pioneer of course but also not a hour in the past two weeks, but else maybe a fast little old gamewhere i don't have to "get into it", like galaga or such.ok, i shouldn't write so many and long articles here, but that's part of pioneer, imo.collecting ideas, and emitting knowledge to others is also important.i collected one yesterday frontier forums, wait... johannstrauss wrote
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Greetings!I was thinking about some VERY important new feature that should be implemented into the game:- Social standing and reputation points (individual and planet wide rating).Level 1: Personal level (green bar - or points shown on the screen while interacting)----> By that I mean that you should be able to make friends and enemies galaxy wide which should have massive influence on both individual trading possibilities and the abilities to get important information. Also the personal communication with "aliens" on other star systems will have some impact on your future social interaction on that planet or with those individuals.Imagine: you know the cantina scene from Star Wars? You see that being a newbie in that cantina makes it hard for Luke to be accepted and to get any information at all. It can even be dangerous. If he was well known and had something like one "friend" or "good friend" under all those evil guys in that cantina things would have gone far better. Positive interaction on individual level should be somehow remembered so that you should be able to make friends and close friends and best friends or (on perhaps some kind of man/women level) some intimate relationship which should enable you to get access to some guilds, privileges or secrets - or simply the needed hyper-drive or droids you are looking for.***"The sims" is the best example for the idea I have. It does not need to be that detailed. But bribing someone or making regular good business with one and the same person on some planet should somehow have a positive influence. Also getting known to some sexy alien women is somehow interesting, too****Second level: Planet wide social standing---> This second level is shown as a red bar under the personal level.It reflects your general standing on that planet based on your behavior like trading illegal goods, fighting or fighting pirates.--> You should also get some sort of "reputation" which should enhance the individual interaction based on the type of image you have. If you are some aggressive pirate and are labeled as "criminal scum" you could have some good chances to interact positive in all bars and cantinas on some anarchy planets and also be able to make illegal trading much more easily and get illegal goods cheaper. So your Planet wide standing would be "VERY GOOD" on anarchy planets and "very bad" or "wanted" on federal core systems if you are some pirate for example.You get my idea?This should not be too complicated to be coded.Are those programmer-guys even reading here?PPS: buying slaves and free them on another planet (one thing I always wanted to do) should get you hundreds of "best friends" instantly! And even voters if you are some candidate for a political career. Expensive but effective!
it's not that the idea is completely new to me, but a good one it is.of course it was ment for elite4but no one knows if this will ever materialise in our universe---i would have a very bad reputation:extremely dangerousstay away as far as you can (best in another system)he's got a nervous fingercontracted to imperial forces, but not reliableit seems murdering is fun to himblasts police forces out of the sky in his spacesuit for sportpersonal statement:"freeing slaves, what a stupid idea,rather i would test my jettison cargo function with themwhen i can't sleep, like some counting sheeps..."---no, of course i had my times playing the "hero" in frontier...but it's far less fun :lol:even when i think blasting that poor skeet cruiser on ffe's start is boringhe has no chance, that's no good fighti will have to test the april the 1st. "easter egg" marcel told me he experienced once in fe2that sounds like a good fun to me, hundrets of ships, great!

[s2odan]

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no, of course i had my times playing the "hero" in frontier...but it's far less fun
I tend to play the hero, get the girl or in this case the ship, then turn on the galaxy But thats FFE where there is a 'ship' to get ;)In frontier, the few times I have played it (as I was a diehard FFE fan) I would just trade till I could get a decent explorer type ship then head out and find new wormholes to the center of the galaxy
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even when i think blasting that poor skeet cruiser on ffe's start is boringhe has no chance, that's no good fight
Hehe he's hard to resist though
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i will have to test the april the 1st. "easter egg" marcel told me he experienced once in fe2that sounds like a good fun to me, hundrets of ships, great!
/whats this easter egg?

[Potsmoke66]

marcel wrote in FE2 thread here,
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I thought I'd share a FE2 moment from many years ago. I jumped into a system, I can't remember which, but it had a red or orange sun. I looked behind me and saw an asteroid field, or many reddish objects against the stars. After a bit I picked out the ship ID of a pirate, then another, then another, then another... and I realized that the entire "asteroid" field was composed entirely of pirate ships! As the young Carl Sagan once said, "There must have been hundreds and hundreds of them! I swear, I hadn't done anything to piss anyone off, but there they were! Then I looked at the game date. It was April 1st! Easter egg? Coincidence? I don't know, but it happened, and sorry but I don't have a save game.

[OSH]

Tomm, is it possible, the Fragment Shader isn't supported in X1550? I have still a message: "Fragment Shader not supported by HW"