Started a game yesterday, and I intend to release a new version as soon as I die. (And of course fix bugs and polish stuff I notice along the way) I decided to do a bit of a journal of my progress here, since it is a bit of a challenge game of sorts.
The first thing the captain of the LS Lone Wolf did was to dock at the small space station and fire all his crew. I do not intend to hire anybody. No trees, no squid creatures, I will do this alone! If I get a friendly robot, I propably will keep that one, but with -5 on science rolls the chances are rather slim.
So docking is now free, but landing (Unless it's low gravity no atmosphere) is 100 cr. a piece.
I got lucky on my way from the small space station to the center one, and found a rogue gas giant with a moon. No life on the moon but there was a cave. Quite a bit of ressources. I had 10k Cr. when I left SHIs office on the first station.Bought myself a jetpack, a servo ballistic suit and a vibro sword. I killed an Alien mano a mano, but then realized without an SO or doctor I can't gain biodata from it!
I so far found 2 robot vaults. No chance to pick the lock and breaking down the doors would propably be instadeath, so I am ignoring them. (I do have a laser drill)
Got AT landing gear so now landing checks are at -3 instead of -5. Still stuff tends to get bent whenever I land.
Found the indi colony and bought a disintegrator! I could buy a bigger ship by now, but what's the point? One of the main advantages is to have more room for crew, and the lone wolf doesn't really need that. Maybe I go the warship route.
Also I added a new Item in the next version: It attracts critters on the map to it's location. Right now it's called thumper (Hello dune!) If anybody can think of a better name I would be most interested ...
Spoilered thumper variant:
