Re: [Vegastrike-devel] autopilot development

[Patrick H. <ac...@us...>]

The main discussion happens on the forum:
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/forums/

We also have a Wiki:
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/

This mailing list is intended for more specific discussion among the 
developers... and the forum is for more general discussion or for users 
to post stuff.

Strange...I seem to be able to get to the mailing list archives from the 
"Mailing Lists" menu item on the project page.

Here is a direct link to the archives:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=134
Unfortunately this includes all the spam... we had a huge spam problem 
over the past month until we finally closed off the list last week.


Anyway, about your autopilot question, we now use something called SPEC 
instead of autopilot... SPEC is a velocity multiplier.  It goes really 
high in space, and slows down around planets.

It's a lot like autopilot in some ways but without the instant 
teleportation that makes gameplay awkward.

Also, you shouldn't be getting "blank" planets... What version, OS and 
detail setting is this on?

-Patrick

Andrew McCracken wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've played vegastrike a bit, my main gripe is the cumbersome
> transportation method, (apart from the blank planets...)
>
> I tried looking through the archives of this mailing list but they
> didn't seem to work ("forum not found" or something)
>
> Is this where the main development discussion happens?
>
> What is the state of the autopilot system at present?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>