On Wednesday 02 March 2005 05:43 pm, Mike Furr wrote: > | I finally had to find > | another computer, go to the Vegastrike website, and find the player's > > manual. > > | That document claimed that I had to push a button marked "Options" in the > | mission computer. In fact, the button is marked "Save/Load", which is > | possibly one of the most counterintuitive things I've seen in a long > | time. > > Er yup, it looks like that part of the wiki has not been updated for > this release yet. Unfortunately I don't have permissions to fix this > directly, but I will ask upstream to please update it. > After playing however, I would argue the most convenient place to put > the quit button would be in the save screen since you almost always save > before you quit. However the choice of button label could perhaps be > improved ;-)
I think it makes sense to put a "quit" function there, I just think the button title is bad -- I assumed all you could do was save or load. (Personally, I'd prefer having a way to access an entire options menu, including save, load, quit, change video settings, etc, but obviously not everything is done yet...) > | It would really be much better if there was a globally available way > > to get > > | quit; even better if there was a globally available way to get help > > about how > > | to play. > > Note that in "flight mode" (not docked at a planet/space-station) you > can hit shift-M for some in-game help. Also Esc then 'q' will quit the > game any time you are not docked. Yes, but I was afraid to go into flight mode before I found some documentation ;-). -- and with good reason, the computer ships shoot me to pieces every time they find me! Daniel -- /----------------- Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------\ | You know you've been sitting in front of your Lisp machine too long | | when you go out to the junk food machine and start wondering how to | | make it give you the CADR of Item H so you can get that yummie | | chocolate cupcake that's stuck behind the disgusting vanilla one. | \------ Listener-supported public radio -- NPR -- http://www.npr.org -------/
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