Demo questions/problems

[Q]

Phoenix-D said:
The cheat codes should work in the demo.

EDIT: make sure to use your system map, too. I just tested it, and with default engines I can go from Freeport->Genesis->Pakulon->Biktos->Lothon->Styz->freeport in just over 80 days..

This is weird.
So the trip you describe was done from 2400.00 to 2400.80 (0.01=1day)?? In that time I just get from one side of the freeport system to the opposite!
I checked the movement of other (AI) ships: they seem not to move faster than mine. The maximum speed of my ship is indicated as 500, as expected.
At standard time rate 0.01 stardate (=1day) takes about 10 seconds of real time on my computer (P3, 500Mhz, 256Mb RAM, Matrox Graphics MGA-G200AGP B8R2). So the trip described above takes about 800 seconds real time at standard time rate (1x) and on higher time rate (8x) about 100 seconds.

And I don't get the cheat codes to function, but as mentioned that could be a problem with the country selection of the key boards. The "~" is on my keyboard an "Alt Gr" character on the key "^`" just left of the "Backspace" key. Where is it on the US keyboard?

[Phoenix-D]

Yes, the entire trip was from .00 to .80. I went from the starting point, then to each warp point in turn. No fighting, no delays, just a straight-line Point A to Point B.

The ` key on a US keyboard is just to the left of the 1. Note `, NOT ~. ~ is shift ` and won't work..

EDIT: I timed it and each game day is indeed about 10 seconds, and my ship speed 500.

[Q]

Thank you for the replies.

So the cheat code would be e.g. `credits` ??
Tried that too, didn't work. I think I give it up. Really not a good idea to use characters that are different on different country keyboards.

Regarding my ship speed problem: could ist be that the ship speeds depends on the graphic card used while the game time/stardate is independent?? I changed the color resolution from high color to true color and the problem got even much worse, while the real time of a day was still 10 seconds.

Starfury is probably just not a game for my hardware.

[Phoenix-D]

It shouldn't make a difference in speeds..though its easy enough to check.

EDIT: yep, that's a bug. I used Turbo to slow my machine down, and I replicated what's happening to you.

It looks like game days tick every 10 seconds, regardless of how slow the on-screen action is going. So if your hardware can't keep things running smoothly, you'll effectively have less time to complete missions..

[Q]

Is this in the full version with last patch too??

That would be pretty embarrassing for MM!

[Phoenix-D]

That's the fully verson I was testing with, yep. Its hard for bugs to get fixed if no one reports them..and no one did.

[mottlee]

yes `credits` do not hit "Enter" ahter the credits but ` again

[Q]

mottlee said:
yes `credits` do not hit "Enter" ahter the credits but ` again

I did that without success. I even added the US keyboard layout to my computer, but again without success.
But I found out that even in the demo you can mod the players ship list and the job list! That did the it for me.
Now I have a lot of time for my jobs and my ship is a "little" bit larger than it used to be and I have enough credits.
Even with theese modifications (cheats if you prefer) and in "easy level" I find it quite hard to survive. What does the difficulty level do actually??
I faced several times three enemy cruiser at once at the "easy level" setting, so in the expert level there will be a fleet of fifty enemy baseships??

Probably I will later buy the game in spite of all the imperfections just as support for MM and Shrapnel (and to be able to switch off the collisions ). I hope that the people who work on mods will continue as I do think that Starfury offers quite interesting possibilities. Too bad that the Star Trek mod died.

[Exan]

Starfury in a way gives a lot of possibilities to modders. Also it has some annoying limitations.

And I agree it's a pity that Star Trek mod died especially since I made two ships for it. Oh well, atleast The People's Mod is still going though right now I'm the only one working on it. Last week I re-wrote the entire Main_EnemyAppearances.txt and edited the Main_EnemyGroups.txt. Wasn't so quick and simple as I thought.

And the cheat codes, most of them didn't work for me either. I mainly just used the jump to another system cheat code to get fast to the other side of the quadrant. Then it got boring and I just flied around New Texas shooting everything.

[Q]

Exan said:
And I agree it's a pity that Star Trek mod died especially since I made two ships for it.

Did you post them somewhere?