Dusty Waters

Thanks all of you for answering those questions. At least now I know that I am not missing anything relative to the storage issues, great idea about transporter, I never would of thought of that one.

No I have not tried any of the Playmod cheats, I'm still trying to get all the regular stuff figured out. I did install the maps.

Hi, I have a few questions that some of you may be able to answer for me. I am running BC2.09 and have run into the following problems. 1) When I engage autopilot the ship will really boogie, 30,000 clicks or so, but when I use the number keys (1-9) I only get to go at a rate of speed that would match a turtle on a cool day, 3,000 clicks or so. Any suggestions? 2) I am enjoying mining and making the big bucks, however I get the drones back to the cargo bay and unload them, until Bay 1 fills up, but Bay 2 is still mostly empty, yet I cannot keep unloading the drones. To unload I go thru Tactical->Loadout->Shuttles->Drones. 3) Is there any way once I have docked to unload the drones that were still full on the ship? Without having to launch, unload the drones until the bay is full, then redocking to sell the minerals? 4) Lastly I have found, as some others have posted, that the fatigue factor is a problem. I have tried sending all to the Medbay and then damaging the ship by hitting the Galcomm station then putting in for a few hours to help repair and get rid of the fatigue. The clock stays the same even though the quoted repair/replace time may be several hours. I think time stands still just for my crew.

Well, I am running the latest patch v2.09. In October I upgraded to 2.08. I have 2.0 on the CD I purchased. When I first tried playing in October 1999 I got discouraged by the amount of effort it took to read and understand the manual, but I persisted and picked it up again a week ago. I really like it now that I have a few of the commands down. I will try to keep a log of the simpler things I learn and publish a super newbie tutorial when I get some time, I downloaded a couple that were on the webring and they helped a lot, along with reading the manual several times. In the meantime I can uninstall the game and reinstall it with all the patches in order to be sure. Thanks for the help all of you.

Hi, Just a note of a possible bug, not a major deal, but I thought you may want to know for future reference. SYSTEMS->TACTICAL->LOADOUT->INT->INT1-> WEAPONS When I click on a missle and load it then click on the empty slot it will crash the game. This may have been discovered and passed on prior to this but I just thought it might help to pass it on myself. Thank you for a good (complicated also)game I am getting the hang of it, but I still feel like a newbie most of the time.