Comments on: Privateer ASCII Sector

By: AscPlayer

AscPlayer — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:04:04 +0000

you dont need to press ‘l’ to land. actually pressing ‘l’ does nothing. when the planet has said that they have deducted the landing pay you will land automatically after a few seconds.

By: BDR

BDR — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:23:49 +0000

Also, *since* it’s not in the manual at all; before you can land, first you have to press ‘c’ for Chat, and select the planet. Then, you select “Requesting automatic landing.” Only *after* you do this will the money you need to pay to land be deducted, and then you can land on the planet with the grantedly intuitive but equally documented ‘l’. If anyone else thought that landing was going to be truly automatic when the game said you were going over an automatic landing zone, I feel your pain.

By: BDR

BDR — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:20:53 +0000

The process of landing not being described at all in the manual, as well as there not being at least an easily accessible *facsimile* of if not an easily accessible manual in-game pissed me off a bit, and eventually the way you can get terribly beaten in the beginning if more than two ships decide to try toasting you (friendly fire in the process of trying to help shoot a retro, anyone?) made me give up. It’ll probably get better, but I’m going to give this time to get a bit more love than 0.2 before I really get invested.

By: AngeloB

AngeloB — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:47:34 +0000

Real time? Humm… I think I’ll pass.

By: Corremn

Corremn — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:35:13 +0000

I have been playing this and quite enjoying it. I have played a few space /combat/trading/exploration games before and although this has nothing new it is still quite good for a new game. This is lots of improvements scheduled but the current game is quite playable, however spending too much time flying through empty space before the auto pilot takes over is quite annoying. Maybe I just need a faster ship.