🚀 go-pugleaf

On 20 Aug, 01:32, Bret Ripley <rip...@gotsky.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:28:07 GMT, DocScorpio wrote:
> > "Bret Ripley" <rip...@gotsky.com> wrote in message
> >news:xbndgelsnhuj.tr7e97190xwd.dlg@40tude.net...
> >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:20:10 GMT, DocScorpio wrote:
>
> >>> "Ceowulf" <non...@toknow.askifyoudo> wrote in message
> >>>news:4a810efc$0$22783$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> >>>> DocScorpio wrote:
> >>>>> ......with many new features and many of the original players from 10
> >>>>> years ago.  I loved this mmo space sim back in the day and have been
> >>>>> sucked back into it.  It's free till your chars reach a high-level,
> >>>>> then
> >>>>> there's a small, one-time only fee.
>
> >>>>> I posted abt it here because the space sim ng is dead and the other
> >>>>> gaming ng's nearly so.  Go to the following for more info on the new
> >>>>> Diaspora, if you're interested:
>
> >>>>>http://hestia.nighsoft.net/nighsoft/index.php?aff_id=193
>
> >>>> I downloaded it and tried it, but couldn't get past... well the start
> >>>> screen? Every time I tried to trade it closed down the program. Couldn't
> >>>> launch as nothing happened when I clicked on the button.
>
> >>>> Very confusing start :p
>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Ceo-
>
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> >>> Sorry for the delay in responding to you.  I'm afraid I don't monitor the
> >>> ng's like I used to.
>
> >>> I know this is a dumb question, but did you buy a ship before you tried
> >>> to
> >>> launch?  Your char doesn't start with a basic ship.  You have to spend
> >>> some
> >>> portion of your starting 50K DC to buy and equip one.  After you have a
> >>> ship
> >>> assigned to your char (there will be a box around the ship, when you view
> >>> it
> >>> in the hangar), you should be able to launch.
>
> >>> As for the trade screen.  When you get the basic trade screen which show
> >>> the
> >>> commodities, hit "enter" before trying anything else.  Then click on the
> >>> right menu choice at the left top.  This will bring you to the buy-sell
> >>> screen.  Type amounts in the space and hit "enter to buy and sell.
>
> >>> Hope this helps.
>
> >> And once you've had your fill of people being helpful, D*r*k Sm*rt has
> >> released a new -- well, newish -- game via Steam called "All Aspect
> >> Warfare".  You can watch him make friends on the Steam forums:
>
> >>http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=676
>
> >> For example, from the "Game Reviews" thread:
>
> >> Smart: <posts link to game review on some obscure website>
>
> >> Potential Customer: Wait til we see reviews from IGN, GT, G4TV then we
> >> will
> >> decide.
>
> >> Smart: People who make their buying decisions based on someone else's
> >> personal opinions are patently foolish.
>
> >> Another Potential Customer: if reviews/professional opinions are foolish
> >> then what is this thread for?
>
> >> Smart: <quotes above> Where exactly did I even utter those words?
>
> >> The more things change ...
>
> >> Bret
>
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>
> > Shame on you, Bret!
>
> That's the spirit!
>
> > You hijacked my thread.
>
> Sure, but I limit myself to one hijacked thread per year.
>
> > However, I must confess that I
> > went, like the lemming I am (whatever happened to lemming anyway?),
>
> Wish I knew -- I miss the old gang. Then again, I never did get out much.
>
> > to the
> > linked forum....and the posts were like a trip down memory lane. :)  God, it
> > was almost 15 years ago that it all started!
>
> Just for old time's sake:
>
> *BING*
>
> Bret

Hello Bret you devil you.

I'd completely forgotten I could get here from Google.
I hope you are well and prosperous.

The old gang is spread very far and wide I fear, I've even lost touch
with Xan.
Lemming I spoke to about 2 months ago, he and his fambleh have moved
back to the county of his birth, Cumbria, and seem very happy, bless
'em. I have an email addy for Lem if you so desire it.

The only spacesim type chicanery I'm close to now is the dear old X
series (remember when she was just an upstart?). I'm now bradF430 on
those forums and still haven't managed to play the game. I've now
purchased, installed and entirely failed to play all four iterations,
I'm something of an expert.

Best of luck to those that still haunt this godforsaken place, good
men and true everyone of you.

br d