gnawing questions

[Sheltem]

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Why is the Hyperion non-mil ?
Why is there armor that cannot be installed on a freigther ?
You know of the bugs in present Point Juno ?
Why is a unidentified box confiscated ?
Why cant we power Gaian demo cannon ?
Is there a way to erase enhancement from shields, weapons, armor, ...?
Which ways are there to erase enhancements from shields, weapons, armors, ...?
Do molbidium and diamond field crystals the same ?
Why must consumables vanish although they did have an effect ?
Why do Urak have no Encounters ?
Why do we always need to install an armor to repair it ?
Why does savegames have to grow for about a megabyte each system ?
Why is there no damage shown for mines and missles ?
Why does Dvalin continue to accept rares although he wont find any new developes ?
Why has the stargate rod no image ?
Why do I virtually die when I gate through the last gate ???
Why is there an autopilot ROM although every ship already has one ?
Why does everyone know that I'm on a journey to the core ?
Why do ships wrecking down face completely in another direction ?
Why are the unknown chips, crystals and ammo boxes hidden in transc.xml but the unknown barrels are in the useful.xml ?
Why does the freigther have tactial upgrade ROMs on start but not the fighter class ship wolfen ?
Why do refugee-cargocrates have a loot screen although there can never be something inside them ?
How can a barricade fit into a cargo crate ?
Why do I always free all my slaves at the commonwealth ?
Why can't families inside the sung quarters free the other slaves after destruction ?
How can humans get into a sealed cargo container ?
Why are unid illegal items taken away but not unid military items ?
why is the Iocrym repeller an Energyweapon ? (no other plasma weapons are)
why the gaian Demolition cannon is an Energyweapon ? (it's thermo damage)
why the ion blaster is Specialty and the Heavy Ion blaster is ?

[Fatboy]

Why is a unidentified box confiscated ?

Probably because it is an Illegal or Military box.

Do mol.. and diamond field crystals the same ?

nearly, but you can apply diamond field crystals multiple times.

[Betelgeuse]

Why is the Hyperion non-mil ?
Why is there armor that cannot be installed on a freigther ?

I like to think of it as showing that there are things beyond human ship capabilities or understanding. Personally I would like more non military items in the upper levels not everything would be under military control.

[Bobby]

Why is there armor that cannot be installed on a freigther ?

the player flies a freighter, not a superfreighter or battleship(though it may be hard to tell at times), the armor is just too heavy for such a ship.

Why is a unidentified box confiscated ?

just because the player doesn't know what something is doesn't mean the inspectors don't know, or they have scanners.

Is there a way to erase enhancement from shields, weapons, armor, ...?

yes, certain items can do so, not sure but degen nanos, decayed etherium field crystals, and defective weapon enhancement roms should work.

[Sheltem]

I think confiscating the item is just lazy (and unfair) coding work that unid items are just masked for me, but not to the commonwealth.

When we cannot use anything higher than 20tons, everything above will be waste. Or a 1/5 cash (as it stays damaged)... I would rather like changing ships (ingame) to be able to install it

I think I used a molbidium more than once on the same sield ... not sure
but it is still not comprehensible why you like wasting the first piece of a very rare unidentified item to identify it. In most cases the threat of damaging your precious equipment is bigger than a possible gain of improving the equip further. I feel forced to install less valuable equipment for identifing purposes ... I don't play a gambling game here !!

It's okay that Hyperion is non-mil but think about the case you want to play conducted again - you are not realy restricted ! As the game will go further past the Iocream, there is no influence of commonwealth military so there will be items that a human has never seen before and thus non-mil.
I miss some more attributes instead of +mil e.g. You need to have Core mind knowledge (+Core) or This is Ringer tec (+Rin)

edit: I also miss some reactors between 250 - 500 and 500 - 1000 e.g. 350 and 750 because most FUEL stations cant FUEL me when I have a too big reactor.

edit2: I edited my posts above, and molbidium gives +30% once, further shards are wasted

[digdug]

why is the Iocrym repeller an Energyweapon ? (no other plasma weapons are)
why the gaian Demolition cannon is an Energyweapon ? (it's thermo damage)
why the ion blaster is Specialty and the Heavy Ion blaster is not ?

Is there a way to erase enhancement from shields, weapons, armor, ...?

yes just use a consumable that damages the item and you get the back the normal item, used it many times to change enhancement on armor.

[Sheltem]

Why do we always have to install an armor to repair it ?
Why does savegames have to grow for about a megabyte each system ?
Why is no damage shown for mines and missles ?
Why does Dvalin accept rares although he wont find any new developes ?
Why has the stargate rod no image ?
Why do I die when I fly through the last gate ???
Why is there an autopilot ROM although every ship already has one ?

[Psycholis]

Why is there an autopilot ROM although every ship already has one ?

Maybe someone bought the 2070 ford illusion ship that didn't come with autopilot.. it's a classic by now.

[Fatboy]

Why do I die when I fly through the last gate ???

Because you finish the game.



the 1.5 or 2.0 version of the game will include a Part 2 in which you won't "die"
until you reach the end of Part 2.

[F50]

Why is there armor that cannot be installed on a freighter? answered unsatisfactory

Just why is that "unsatisfactorily answered"? Why does it not make sense that a puny freighter cannot deal with the same armor as a massive space station/capital ship?

Why is a unidentified box confiscated ? answered unsatisfactory

again, why unsatisfactorily. Is it reasonable to assume that the CW only knows about what the player knows about and no more? Surely the age-old records of a CW station knows more about its merchandise than the shiny new Wolfen. This doesn't mean that the merchants don't try to con it when it knows the player doesn't know what the barrel is. Please, write a paragraph why that is "lazy" and "unfair" that doesn't merely say "the entire CW should know no more than I do".

I think I used a molbidium more than once on the same shield...

So have I, but it doesn't do anything.

not sure but it is still not comprehensible why you like wasting the first piece of a very rare unidentified item to identify it.

because its also a very *good* rare item. Is it not reasonable that there should be some risk to using it?

In most cases the threat of damaging your precious equipment is bigger than a possible gain of improving the equip further.

I disagree entirely. If you think this, then either don't use shield crystals or spend the cash to properly identify them. Decayed etherium field crystals can help you to experiment on one shield though.

It's okay that Hyperion is non-mil but think about the case you want to play conducted again - you are not really restricted !

Ummmmm...The only way to get a Hyperion as I know it involves getting a 500MW first. That said, I agree with Betel.

Why do Urak have no Encounters?

because they are too slow?

Why do savegames have to grow for about a megabyte each system?

To save the entire game state of a system. especially a large system is...difficult.

Why do I die when I fly through the last gate ???

You don't. Have you read the messages you get when you do so? Does it mention dying?

Why is there an autopilot ROM although every ship already has one ?

Its meant to be useless. Some equivalent items in other roguelikes (specifically ADOM) include "scrolls of cure blindness" (can't read scrolls while blind), "Potions of stun recovery" (can't drink while stunned), and "Potions of uselessness" (which actually *do* have a use).

[Sheltem]

okay, I will accept that we are no gigantic battleship although we toast away the big battleships with our terrific superior technology

You describe it as beeing realistic: We don't know does not mean they don't know, but if they know, why I can not ask them ?
"No, we are not programmed to tell you what it is, we are just programmed to take it away. Have a nice day !"

The risk using unids is given by the chance to causing damage.

Urak > I don't know if you understand what I meant with encounters. Encounters are the spawns, no reinforcements. Most enemy stations have <Encounter> Tags where the spawns are described. Urak station don't have those tags.
I want you to think about spawns -> as there are no spawns you will get much less of their loot, especially Urak armor ! Only this makes their equip truly rare ...

Of course I know why the size of the savegames is growing that much, but the files can be compressed for about 90% ... which surely means that there is much repeating information .....

You virtually die ! Try continuing a game after you flew through the gate ... I just complain about the fact, that you get a resurrect counter on the character this way ... why not just saving sorthly before entering the gate or making the character not reloadable ?

When Autopilot ROM's ought to be useless, it is very alone. All other unids have an use.

More questions:
Why does everyone know that I'm on a journey to the core ?
Why do ships wreck down facing completely in another direction ?
Why are the unknown chips, crystals and ammo boxes hidden in transc.xml but the unknown barrels are in the useful.xml ?

[Fatboy]

Why does everyone know that I'm on a journey to the core ?

The game is made so they say that. So, they would just presume you were heading to the core.

[Fatboy]

Why are consumables vanish although they did not have a effect ?

It is because of the code.

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(objRemoveItem gSource gItem 1)

if you removed this from code the object could be reused.

[Bobby]

Why do ships wreck down facing completely in another direction ?

when you blow up a ship you breech the hull, it's air goes flying out at high speed like an engine exhaust.

the real reason code-wise is as far as i can see, the shipwreck station chooses a random direction to look like, and is not saved for savefile size reasons.

[F50]

"No, we are not programmed to tell you what it is, we are just programmed to take it away. Have a nice day !"

Hey, actually that's a good point.