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The Ur-Quan Masters Re-Release => General UQM Discussion => Topic started by: Maestro on June 06, 2004, 08:40:53 am



Title: selling ships
Post by: Maestro on June 06, 2004, 08:40:53 am
I have a question regarding the selling of ships. what is the key command for doing so? the readme indicates that the controls for ship sale were changed to prevent accidental sale, and I am assuming that the button to do so is the menu-delete binding in the keys.cfg. however, those defined buttons, nor any other button on the keyboard (or any of my redefined keys) seem to do the one function I want. I'd rather sell those damn stingers and buy new thursters than lose them on purpose just so I can buy new ships.  

my hat's off to this port btw. my original sc2 disks were... corrupted years ago (little brother playing with magnet) and I havnt been able to play it since :( but now that's all solved, haha


Title: Re: selling ships
Post by: Captain Smith on June 06, 2004, 09:15:29 am
I don't know what UQM looks like now (still playing SC2 with DOSBox mainly because I'm not getting the same experience with UQM yet), but when I did play it, selling a ship involved removing all the crew from the ship.

You might try that.


Title: Re: selling ships
Post by: Maestro on June 06, 2004, 11:11:43 am
figures, the one thing I didnt think of trying, was what I was looking for, haha. guess I'm just too used to the old PC version (or my memory is just too shot, haha) thanks for the help


Title: Re: selling ships
Post by: Terminator on June 06, 2004, 11:52:29 am
I can proably send you an install version of SC2 as it's installed as current, I'm using it mainly to see want the differences are.


Title: Re: selling ships
Post by: Vassago_Umara on June 07, 2004, 12:54:08 am
Can you actually sell the ships in the original version, I seem to remember that you could, but in UQM all you can do is empty the ship of crew and then scrap it for no RU.


Title: Re: selling ships
Post by: ChainiaC on June 07, 2004, 01:08:36 am
Funny... I sure as hell got RU in UQM... and in SC2


Title: Re: selling ships
Post by: FalconMWC on June 07, 2004, 05:27:05 am
I always get the full worth of  the ship back in RU everytime I sell and pay the same amount when I buy.


Title: Re: selling ships
Post by: Michael Martin on June 08, 2004, 01:58:48 pm
The ship selling mechanic is different in UQM from both PC and 3DO versions.  The PC version had +/- ship selections in addition to +/- crew.  The 3DO version had the hangar like UQM, but selling the last crew member sold the ship.  This wasn't very friendly (if you mispushed the joystick, you could sell a gift ship and never be able to get it back) so UQM added a "0 crew" level marked SCRAP.  Check your projected RU level as you move to and from SCRAP - it will change in the value of the ship.

You most certainly do get RUs for selling ships in UQM; in powering through the earlygame, the Pkunk ships are usually 4000-6000 RU for the mill.