Disappearing Gas Mine...where's my cashcow?!

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nuntym
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Disappearing Gas Mine...where's my cashcow?!

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Hi! I downloaded the stable Vega Strike 0.5.0 version from here and started playing a few days ago. I was getting the hang of cargo trading and in fact found a VERY lucrative market for entertainment products with a gas mine in the Stirling system, when, lo and behold, I loaded my game and my cashcow that is the gas mine is GONE! There is a non-existent (?!) base that I can target using the "Target Natural" (N) command but I cannot go/dock into, it says "Loading Failed: shmrn" and it has no target image. I cannot make the gas mine come back, no matter what I do: reloaded the game numerous times, tried to leave the system, even two systems away, and come back, lower the resolution to "retro"...but nothing works :cry: Also sometimes the Medical Base in the same system disappears too, but sometimes it comes back, and even sometimes there would be 2 medical bases, when I load a game.

Can anyone help me? I want it to come back because its proximity to the Cephlid 17 system with the oceanic planet Atlantis AND with a medical base in the same system makes it one very lucrative customer :P

My system (an old laptop):

IBM R50e Thinkpad with Celeron 1.6ghz processor
504 MB ram (ouch)
Intel 82582/82855 GM/GME video card with 64MB memory (really ouch)

(AND no, I do not want to hear comments to change my laptop, thank you very much :P )
Sarin
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Re: Disappearing Gas Mine...where's my cashcow?!

Post by Sarin »

I think it is not really a problem...because I think that starbases in whole universe except fixed systems and system you have saved in are generated randomly every time you start VS and load/start new game for the first time.

And hey, your laptop is not so bad. I have Athlon 2100+ with 512 MB ram and Radeon 9600 128 MB and yet, I am able to play VS on high detail (without shaders tho)
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Re: Disappearing Gas Mine...where's my cashcow?!

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That sounds more like it's not getting the right path for the texture which is odd since it was loading for you at one time.

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Re: Disappearing Gas Mine...where's my cashcow?!

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I've seen quite a few "load failed" in my game too...I think it is related to random generation of objects.
nuntym
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Re: Disappearing Gas Mine...where's my cashcow?!

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Hmm, ok, thanks guys...anyways I found another gas mine, near also to another oceanic planet AND a commercial center. :mrgreen:
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Re: Disappearing Gas Mine...where's my cashcow?!

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It's a big universe :D so there is always some place else to exploit :wink:

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