Epic.

Maybe some day in the future George will figure out how to detect this condition (perma EMP with HP gain > HP loss) and have the end logs read "Snafu has died of old age. He never reached the core."

Yup, checked Debug.log and I had the exact same errors.

I was faring badly in the arena against someone with a Moskva 33 repeater and a NAMI launcher. Hull breach was imminent, so I tried to hide near the arena station by the laser fence. Failed, and got pummeled anyway. I was expecting insurance to kick in (does it kick in during combat in the Arena?) a...

Nice! Seeing a score of battlepods or wind slavers would be probably be pretty tense in that outfit.

I loved my inertialess drive; I had it installed in my one successful game from Point Juno all the way to Heretic. I fly around with it disabled most of the time, but I find that its ability to hard-brake the freighter invaluable. It might not be as useful on the other ship types. Among the things I...

Here's one I still remember (among countless others) A couple of systems past Eridani I finally saw an X-ray laser in a CW station. I was a short a few creds, so I decided to do some mining; in a small asteroid field in the middle of which was a BM station. It was the first time I saw just how quick...

Thanks guys :-) I think the lamplighter prototype at least might have been available if I had just one more CSC before Point Juno. I found it more fun than my previous 1.01 normal permadeath games; there was a lot more that I needed to do both before jumping out of a system and immediately upon ente...

Hi All, This is the first permadeath game that I actually finished. When 1.02 came out I saw "never backtracked" in conducts and decided to go all out making my life difficult. :-D Just to get "Never backtracked", I had to give up on the lamplighter, because by the time I got enough levels to access...