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Linux builds are now built against Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, so they should work fine on that and anything of similar vintage.

A long time ago we had a HDR option, but it didn't do a very good job and mostly just caused a lot of graphical glitches. We removed it to make the code cleaner with a view to adding it back it a more controlled way. We haven't got around to it yet.

We're not 100% sure what the minimum requirements are at this point, but we know you're on the borderline. Your best bet at this point is to try the vendor drivers rather than the open-source drivers.

<t>I haven't been able to run the game for a few versions now, it does happen with the occasional release so I didn't bother bringing it up until a few releases in a row had problems.So what am I missing, exactly? Anyone know what's gone wrong?You're lucky I happened to read this - I'm not following ...

Yay! Robn loves us and wants us to be happy! Well yes, but that's not entirely why  The console can do anything a game script can do. More and more of the game logic is moving out to scripts, so the console continues to get more and more powerful

Actually it won't make much difference, the background is pretty cheap to draw.

If its any help, I'm about to commit a settings option to not show the background at all (rather like the same feature in Frontier).

Radar mapper: click on a ship, and you'll get some info about it displayed in the top-right of screen.Mining: Equip mining laser, fuel scoop and cargo scoop. Go shoot an asteroid and collect the bits that fall off.Factions: You can't join one yet.All of these things are work-in-progress.

Its always going to be possible to do that sort of thing with the console.

<t>I see that this has been removed. I was still getting used to the game and was curious why the ctrl-M cheat was removed.Implementation detail. Money has been moved out to the Lua environment which makes it a bit harder for the core input handler (where Ctrl-M is picked up) to adjust it.Because it ...

I was surprised that CTRL-M no longer works as we really needed this so we can test out other ships plus to load up our ship to save some grinding time :)Try this instead. Open the console with your backtick/tilde key, and type:import("Game").player:AddMoney(9999999999)

<t>Its quiet around here. So lets spice it up with some screenshots of things that have been added to Pioneer in the last couple of weeks.New ships: Malabar and VatakaraFrom the Mandarava-Csepel ship yards, here's the huge Malabar passenger transport and its cargo-hauling variant the Vatakara.Hull ...

<t>Refuelling is working fine here. Its also probably nothing to do with this stuff; the refuel button is in the info screens.There's a few bugs fixed on master, the most serious of which being a fix for save crashing the game under some situations. I'll have a 20131230 build with the fixes up in ...

I've just merged the station screen rewrite. It'll be build 20131229 which should be available in about an hour.Functionally its pretty much the same, though a few things have moved. Its also all written in Lua and thus easily editable and scriptable.Feedback welcome

<t>OK, another stupid question. When I make a link to Pioneer in Ubuntu it only works if the link is in the same folder as the executable. I want to put a link in a folder I call 'games' that has nothing inside but links to my installed games. Is there a way to do this?The standard builds look for ...

I've found that the way to select a ship from the console; import("Game").player:SetShipType("dsminer")doesn't seem to work anymore. Is there an updated command? Thanks.Its still working fine for me.

Seven hundred config items will make me cry, ok

<r>7. Military.- as I understand the standpoint is that the game does not have sufficiently established its basics yet, so it would be unreasonable to dedicate resources to military part of game. Or am I wrong?Correct.- is there however something that would actually prevent some basic implementation ...

<t>1. Brief summary of what the development process is like - especially if someone would be interested in developing a new game feature or extending existing one, how shall the one go about it.- try to implement the feature right away without prior asking on current master and in the case of ...

Possibly. Depends what else ends up in those categories. Right now we don't have enough shader variation to really warrant any changes to settings, but I expect we will.