No, no extra fighting, just a little message when a fellow pilgrim goes boom.

 More or less random 1.3-related comment: The more I see the turning thrusters, the less I like them. I thought I would get used to them, but I really just haven’t. I keep thinking something’s wrong with my ship every time I turn when I first fire up the game (and it’s even worse after having been u...

 I like the idea. It would make it feel more like you’re not the only pilgrim out there heading coreward — and serve as a reminder (in character, at least) that the odds are not in your favor.

 Not a major one, here, but one that might be worth mentioning. This is one that’s only going to happen at the beginning of a game before you have used any items, of course. If you have an uninstalled device in your cargo hold that you can only be invoked when it’s installed, the hint still pops up ...

 I can help with Question One. …Sorta. I’m not sure how to go about restricting it by output or capacity, but I can throw a few other ways of limiting reactors at you: <Events> <CanInstallItem> (block nil (if (and (eq (itmGetCategory gItem) 64) ; This specifies reactors, (or (geq (itmGetFrequency gI...

 …If that’s what you’re coming out with for your first piece of modeling work, I can hardly wait to see what you start cranking out once you have some experience under your belt… o.O

I’d meant to detail a bit about the assorted ships in this mod on top of what the included readme file has, but never got around to it what with school and updating to 1.3 and various assorted miscellany. So I figure it’s time to do that. Keep in mind that I started work on this mod back on 1.1 — no...

 No, Ferians will take the Worldship down eventually, but not before it leaves a trail of wrecks behind it. And if shooting down a Worldship is a bit out of your ships capabilities, it’s a good way of getting rid of them before they can wipe out most of the system. Either way, good looting all around.

 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...