New version of Ad Astra

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:48 pm

Cool Sol is on the way there. That system is about 264 units away so it may (lol) take me awhile. Earth is only 22 so I will rest up there for the long voyage.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:53 pm

LOL...I also discovered that the bigger your ship the more fuel it consumes for jumps. Some jumps for les than 8 parsecs I needed 356 tons of fuel....LOL....so to get back you need double that amount....Haha...

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:41 pm

Originally posted by Maarschalk
LOL...I also discovered that the bigger your ship the more fuel it consumes for jumps. Some jumps for les than 8 parsecs I needed 356 tons of fuel....LOL....so to get back you need double that amount....Haha...

I quess I could buy a smaller ship till I get there. Can you buy things in alien systems?:)

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:52 pm

Yes, alien ships and alien weapons, and I figured how to do astroid minning, I'm now Sub-LT in navy rank and sergeant in police....

Nigel, there is a bug in the game with cargo manifest not updating when selling cargo at space station. It updates it only after undocking and this can be a problem when after selling your stuff and you jump directly from station without undocking to another system to go mining, your cargo manifest is not updated so you arive at the astroid field thinking your cargo is empty but you can not mine because your cargo manifest says 0 available cargo hold while under the stock cargo you have nothing because you sold it all....

[Edited on 3-17-2010 by Maarschalk]

Nigel_Strange · Post by **Nigel_Strange** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:34 pm

The cargo manifest is "finalized" when you leave the station. If you try to stick 2000 tons of goods in a ship that can carry only 1000 tons, it will let you buy it, but it won't let you leave the station until you have only enough cargo that you can carry.

There's probably a reason for it to do this, but that's how I understand it.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:17 pm

Yes, I know about buying overstock, but that is not what I'm talking about. Jumping to another system while still docked should also finalize the Cargo Manifest since you left the station, but it does not....

If you bring a full load to a station and sell everything at that station and then jump with empty cargo hold while still docked to a different system your cargo manifest still shows zero available but your cargo hold still shows empty as it should so the cargo manifest gets not updated correctly when you jump from station to different system...

Also I just bought the coolest alien ship the Executioner you can install two Alien Class 4 Debris collectors on it and that makes astroid mining a blast and very fast. And another nice thing is when you go onto a planet that has oceans you can dive with your ship under water and cruise underwater I did not see any fish or underwater creatures thou.....LOL....

Knight Rider · Post by **Knight Rider** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:55 pm

Wow..Are you serious... Underwater diving? I'm definitely going to try that out. Let me know if you see any aquatics?

Post by **Marvin** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:02 pm

Originally posted by Maarschalk

Jumping to another system while still docked should also finalize the Cargo Manifest since you left the station, but it does not....

Serves you right. You're lucky you didn't tow the entire station with you ... then get charged for the extra fuel ... including the station's return trip back to wherever it was when you started your jump!

Knight Rider · Post by **Knight Rider** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 1:43 am

I took a dip underwater on Earth, and it was pretty cool. I could see the ripples above me. A few birds were hovering,waiting for me to surface. I may planet hop to see if I can come across some aquatics.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:24 am

Originally posted by Marvin
Originally posted by Maarschalk

Jumping to another system while still docked should also finalize the Cargo Manifest since you left the station, but it does not....
Serves you right. You're lucky you didn't tow the entire station with you ... then get charged for the extra fuel ... including the station's return trip back to wherever it was when you started your jump!

Hey now......LOL...., those Stations I jumped from while docked were alien space stations and these are all built up from the planets surface up into space so it is not just the fuel for taking the station back I have to pay for but the whole planet that came with the Station....ROFL....Hahahahahaha.....

:P:P:P

Post by **Marvin** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:54 pm

That would make for quite a large wormhole.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:39 pm

Yes, and talk about misplaced planets imagine people looking up at the stars suddenly seeing weird constellations they have never seen before....LOL.....

:P:P

Knight Rider · Post by **Knight Rider** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:36 am

I was on Earth flying around when I took this, simply gorgeous. I wasn't to far from the City of Henslow.

Nigel_Strange · Post by **Nigel_Strange** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 3:14 am

Yes, the planets are nice. There are some really exotic ones with bizarre sky/cloud colors.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:16 am

Yep, I also saw some planets with real fire spewing vulcanos.....LOL...

wolis · Post by **wolis** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:17 pm

I created a google groups about a year ago for Ad Astra:
http://groups.google.com/group/ad-astra-the-game

Feel free to discuss Ad-Astra stuff there.. there are links to some of my screenshots and a fre config/tech tips.

Currently Im struggling to get it running on my new Win7 beast.

Personally I love the ability to turn off combat and the complexity of planet-side life.

wolis · Post by **wolis** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:22 pm

Blank menus are a result of your graphics card trying to force anti-aliasing on the game.

It does not like it.

Sadly its a bit crunchy without anti-aliasing.

Knight Rider · Post by **Knight Rider** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 2:00 pm

Somehow, I got around that problem by selecting in my Nvidia card "Enhance Application Setting" which allowed me to use antialiasing.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:18 am

Yes, I also do not seem to have a problem using anti-aliasing..works fine for me....

Knight Rider · Post by **Knight Rider** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:42 am

Anybody doing anything new and different with this game?

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:52 am

Author says he will work on making it more windows 7 compatible once he switches to windows 7 himself.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Wed Apr 07, 2010 4:28 pm

Got to rank of Inspector and Lieutenant....LOL...

[Edited on 4-22-2010 by Maarschalk]

India51A · Post by **India51A** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 12:01 pm

Just downloaded this game but have a problem. When I undock, my ship just spins round in circles. I don't have a joystick, just use mouse and KB. Also how do you target a system to fly to?

Nigel_Strange · Post by **Nigel_Strange** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 2:51 pm

Check to see what USB devices you have plugged in. If you have your mouse plugged into a slot on your keyboard, then then device reads as a "composite USB device," and may cause issues.

Use the F2 map to get other systems. You need to have a quantity of deuterium to warp (w) to another system.

India51A · Post by **India51A** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 3:08 pm

Thanks for that.