Personally I prefer sticking to the installer for windows, but for linux i'll have to see what I can do. I've got my linux vm up and running, though i'm considering installing ubuntu along side windows if that's at all possible with windows 10 being on this machine to make it easier for me to test, not to mention i'd probably use linux full time if their were enough playable games on it. Anyways, an update. I've got enemies coded, including weapons. Porting them to online shouldn't be too big of a deal, meerly sending triggering events server side that should trigger the enemies spawning client side should be good enough. This means i'm closer to releasing an update now. If I at least finish off some activities and things to do online side, and rap up where i'm at with the storyline now, then I can release the update and let you guys have at it while I continue to work.

A private message would be better, since I no longer have access to the e-mail I registered here with. As for the storyline, i've debated the best way to get around that ishue, as I see both sides of the coin. On one hand, I agree with those who say that the online should at least have something to do with the offline story, instead of just being an audio mud with a buntch of things smushed together. On the other hand, the problem with the storyline approach is that you can't simply take it to online, come up with a story and say go. Mainly because its event baste and limits possibilities for online play. I've been debating intraducing it as a missions system, where you could still rome about the game doing activities but could run into various missions which would further the story, or at least be rellivant to the plot of the game after the offline storyline has ended.

PM sent, there ya go....and for both sides of the coin, agreed but it needs to be a happy medium between the story and the other stuff to do (see my PM for thoughts if it sent properly), IMHO if people power through the game they get bored and give up, if they get stuck at some point, they give up.

As an aside, why not release the SP story in chunks or episodes once you finish one part, release it, then release the next part X weeks or days later, and so on till the SP story is done? Just a thought

The releasing the storyline in bits with each new update is something i've done for quite a while now, in fact its a lot easier to do that for me as if I try to cram it all into one big 6 to 1 year work fest with out release and feedback, I lose intrest in the project. Having the storyline for both online and offline run along side each other is something that could possibly work, another suggestion I got is to make the offline storyline a sidestory. I'd ideally like to still keep the strawl in as an alien race like in the original project alpha, as one of the cheaf complaints about dmnb was that their were no aliens to battle and hardly any ground combat. I could do something like what the canceled fortune's frontier project was going to do, in that I could write up the beginning for the storyline, and place it online, and then possibly still have an offline mode, however it could be ritten into missions that detail various key points throughout the story. That'd also provide an insentive to have a roleplay atmosphere for online, since players would be contributing to the storyline. The one problem with that idea is doing it like that eliminates any form of structure in the storyline. Unless we possibly set it up in such a way so that the online portion of the game would have a constant and expanding storyline where the galaxy is constantly open to conflict, and an offline mode which would only get new missions baste on importent events that would further the conflict. I'll give the ideas some thought. @slj Thanks, i'll have a look.

I like the idea, in theory. Here's the major problem, in order to keep the galaxy expanding and changing, alliances rising and falling, wars breaking out and being resolved, you'd have to have more than one person working on the thing. You'll probably have to do a lot of coding, and if you want to have the galaxy be as dynamic as you want it to be you'd need story writers and event planners.

Greetings all. I've managed to finish off asteroid mining, its the same as the previous system with a bit of a twist. When you reach an asteroid, you will have to lock it into place before you can mine it. This means your ship has to have a tractor beam installed, and how far away you can be from the asteroid to pull it into range depends on your tractor beam's range. It also depends on your tractor beam's speed. In addition, i've rebuilt the starting ship. Its now a 5 roomed configuration craft, 1 room for the airlock, another acting as a hub between all the ships sections, 1 acting as the systems bay which houses all your ships systems including your sensor array and tractor beam, a cargo bay with enough space for 10 peaces of cargo and a control room to let you fly the ship. When flying it, you only have manual pilot to rely on. I've got just a few more tests to run and a few more things to do, mainly involving level 1 of the offline story, then, the game will be ready to go back up. Oh, and for the online story. I'm going to wait to start putting it in until the offline story is complete.

Officially interested again.

Oh Danny y did you get the dual boot setup to work at all? Please, put a Linux version out ASAP so I can hang out on the server again. I even got my character and ship name picked out, and I'll even fire my skype up once again for certain people....

So....uh....slight bug in the instructions

sudo apt-get build-dep speech-dispatcher

e: Cannot find source

Is it possible to just run the windows .exe under WINE?

Nothing found for debsrc in that file actually, and I'm running a fully updated Mate 16.04

Still nothing found, I'm hunting down the source code to just go from there but of course it all goes back to the same command. Which is odd

Hi, for the lever simply hold down after you lock onto it with the tractor beam until it goes all the way. As for the server it was up, though the connection thread crashed, I forgot about trying to give that the proper fix before release. Try it now.