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Title: Fresh into the game, story may be altered? Post by: kevineugenius on October 17, 2004, 12:05:43 am Early in the game the starbase commander tells you that something strange is coming from the direction of Uranus. For some reason, that is the only planet I have encountered that it will not let me scan. I open the scan menu and the only option is exit, no scan, no lander, nothing. Is this going to be vital to the story? If I skip it, will the game never progress and I'll be wasting my time? (seems like there is a Spathi there or something but I haven't played this game in years) Thanks.
Title: Re: Fresh into the game, story may be altered? Post by: kevineugenius on October 17, 2004, 12:19:41 am Additional info: I have now found that I am unable to scan ANY gas giants... I think, thats what it seems like so far.
Title: Re: Fresh into the game, story may be altered? Post by: meep-eep on October 17, 2004, 12:53:45 am Indeed, you can't land on gas giants, so you can't scan them.
But note the "from the direction of". Title: Re: Fresh into the game, story may be altered? Post by: kevineugenius on October 17, 2004, 09:11:03 am ... uh yeah. I am so SMART! ??? But yeah, I sorta figured it out, the term "gas giant" never really set in until speaking with the arilou. Thanks for the help though.
Ur-Quan Masters rules, by the way! Greatest project I have ever seen! Title: Re: Fresh into the game, story may be altered? Post by: Halleck on October 20, 2004, 06:32:07 am Well, you can scan gas giants, you simply can't autoscan them. What would the point be, as you are unable to land on them?
(The distinction here is that scanning a planet brings up statistics on it, while autoscanning generates a resource map.) |