the server is down, and it was super laggy before that, it made manual pilot basically unusable

what am I supposed to do in offline mode after I start tractoring the whatever this is? I can't move it around with wsad or the arrows. Is that part not finished yet?

@post 329 Hold down aero. Your supposed to pull the lever down, you'll need to hold it down until it tractors into place. Remember movement is dependant on your tractor beam speed. And server is back up, i'll see what I can do about an auto restart.

Oh, @draco, I believe I figured out your linux problem. In the install guide I put git clone git://github.com/camlorn/libaudioverse, when it should actually be git clone --recursive git://github.com/camlorn/libaudioverse Just delete your old directory, like from terminal rm -rf libaudioverse and reclone it, inside their make a build directory after cloning and cding into the directory like so, mkdir build and then try cmake ..

lol seriously, is it just me who really stupid and can't figure out the manual pilot? , I have a hard time for moveing my ship to the asteroid, like, the asteroid is on my northeast around   5000 distent , but when I turned to  the north east, the asteroid changes dirrection to south southeast , (and its the same asteroid, too), and it seams there is something wrong with the scan menu, it won't show up

oh I think I got it now, level to z coordinate first

Okay that compiles it now but still this termianl output:

scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~$ cd dmpa
scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~/dmpa$ ./dmpa
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "dmpa.py", line 3, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py", line 389, in load_module
  File "functions.py", line 57, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py", line 389, in load_module
  File "libaudioverse-development-py2.7.egg/libaudioverse/__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py", line 389, in load_module
  File "libaudioverse-development-py2.7.egg/libaudioverse/_lav.py", line 7, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PyInstaller/loader/pyimod03_importers.py", line 389, in load_module
  File "libaudioverse-development-py2.7.egg/libaudioverse/_libaudioverse.py", line 250, in <module>
AttributeError: ./dmpa: undefined symbol: Lav_initialize
Failed to execute script dmpa
f^C
scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~/dmpa$ f^C
scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~/dmpa$ ^C
scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~/dmpa$

and I have to ctrl+C out of it to quit terminal.

I got libaudioverse compiled now however, do I need to remove the speechd stuff?

You could always try a sudo make uninstall however I dout weather that's exactly safe. Did you make sure to do a sudo make install after you did a make on libaudioverse?

Yes, if its still compiling with make then you can't use it, you'll need to do make then sudo make install as once make is done. The only thing I can deduce from your terminal output is that you haven't installed libaudioverse after compiling, which is what sudo make install will do.

scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~$ cd dmpa
scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~/dmpa$ ./dmpa
Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
Cannot connect to server request channel
jack server is not running or cannot be started
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for 4294967295, skipping unlock
JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for 4294967295, skipping unlock
Exception in thread Thread-12:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "threading.py", line 801, in __bootstrap_inner
  File "threading.py", line 754, in run
  File "functions.py", line 2458, in playerloop
TypeError: list indices must be integers, not unicode

The program 'dmpa' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadImplementation (server does not implement operation)'.
  (Details: serial 2823 error_code 17 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
AL lib: (EE) alc_cleanup: 1 device not closed
scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~/dmpa$ ah it works
^[ah: command not found
scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~/dmpa$ f^C
scott@scott-Vostro-3559:~/dmpa$

That showed up in my terminal just now as well, I was hitting / to type a message too

EDIT: Just reproduced it, log in, move around, quit server, DMPA hangs instead of heading back to main menu.

EDIT 2: And now I can't find the shipyard. Coords system, anyone?

Have you tried using A S D and W to walk. E is the interact button and will interact with most things. And @draco thanks for reporting that. I haven't had much luck in testing the linux build, i'll have to disable secure boot and get this doolboot thing setup before I can do any serious testing.

The death match mode ended up being ript out when I converted the game over to 2d, since I figured that a 2d stile fps really wouldn't work very well, though since its back in proper first person now its possible I can reimplement it again at somepoint, though i'd like to do some more work on what we've got so far, storyline for instance before I even think about putting that back in. As for that error I fixt it, helps if I remember to check if an object is a ship for some of the new changes i'm working on. Which, here they are. For ships, i've implemented code for engines as actual ship systems. This means they'll take up space, just like the tractor beam does, they'll require fuel, and they effect the maximim speed of your vessel. In addition, i've implemented code client side that the server can send to spawn strawl, which means all i've gotta do is finish off weapons, and then I can start making strawl spring up. In addition if you die from them attacking you, the server will be notifyed of this and your player server side will be dead. As well, i've fixt the glitch that caused you to get stuck when you exited your ship, be it on a planet or on a space station. Talking of that, i'd be intrested in hiring builders to build and describe stations and planets. If your intrested contact me on game and we'll discuss the details.