Having seen what righteously ticked off Ferians can do, my usual trick if I ever want to farm a bit of loot off of them is to sit just out of range of a Penitent station and let its shockwave take out any Ferians who stray too close. I can usually sneak in and loot any wrecks before my shields are ...

 Manticore keyring. …Yup. Alternately, baseball cap with either a Corporate or Korolov emblem.

Try taking on Wind Slavers without omniturbolasers.  Nephren P25. Dual flenser. Cannon accelerator. Weapon optimizer. Sit still, ignore their Shuriken, hold the spacebar, let them fly in front of you. Most of the time, they won’t survive the first shot they run into. ^.~  …Okay, yeah, that’s not al...

 If you run into one two or three systems in before you’ve had a chance to upgrade significantly, Charon frigates definitely count. I’ve had an extreme prejudice against the things ever since that happened to me in an EI500 on my second or third run. Sung’s Wind Slavers never bothered me half as muc...

A N   A B S O L U T E   B E G I N N E R ’ S   G U I D E   T O   A R M O R   G R A P H I C S (by an absolute beginner)  This tutorial is for customizing armor graphics. I have absolutely zero knowledge in any graphics program other than GIMP, so that’s what I’m using. Most of it should translate into...

 Agreed, generally speaking. The new look works for just about every weapon (even if my trusty old dual flenser did take some getting used to) except for the ones that used to be beams, ionic, or otherwise somehow unique — the sunflare cannon, for instance.  While I can kind of see an argument for t...

 Would it be possible to disable advancing the screen by hitting either enter or escape for plot-related material? Speaking for myself, I’ve missed my share of plot just because I hit one or the other of those by pure reflex. And for people who’ve already read that part of the plot a few times, it s...

Note, however, that there might be a bug (AssumedPseudonym reported that hit positions might not correspond). I'm going to take a look and make sure. In the 1.3 beta xmls, the playerships have compressed <Armor>, so that (given George's post) armor is ordered Forward -> Port -> Aft -> Starboard. Ho...

Question: How does new compressed <Armor>, where programmer inputs id and number of segments only, arrange armor segments?  Counterclockwise from the top, apparently. I was wrestling with that, myself, rearranging the Sapphire’s armor all over the place to try to get the hits to register on the rig...

is the Corporate Command 1.1 Beta 1 supposed to say "Corporate Command 1.1 Beta 1" because mine only says "CorporateCommand.tdb"  Apparently that’s all it’s supposed to be, is just CorporateCommand.tdb, yes, if the thrust effects from Corporate Command ships is anything to go by. can you add a feat...

 Try adding this to the weapon: <Events> <onDamageArmor> (block nil (if (eq (objIsShip gSource) nil) (setq aDamageHP 0) ) ) </onDamageArmor> </Events>  …Or at least that’s how I did it. Presumably you could throw some sort of RNG command in there to make the percentage something besides 100%. EDIT: ...

 *…Blink. Blinkblink.* It is? *Roots around for old .zip file. Can’t find. Roots around for TransData download. Eventually finds. Downloads. Unzips.* Huh. How ’bout that. Thanks! …Well, I feel dumb, now…

 Gating doesn’t seem to have any effect one way or another, but reloading the save appears to fix it.

 It happens on playerships too, yeah. I had it happen to me on the Osaka.

 Took a while, but if finally cropped up again. This actually happened in the 1.3 beta, but it was happening as far back as 1.1. I obviously had the Osaka expansion running, but neither of the mods I had active overwrite any of the vanilla graphics.