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There I am, finally getting my Llama tricked out enough to think I can hold my own in a small firefight.

So "sure", I say to the Confed officer. "I would *love* to do an in-system scan of the Oedipus system for you. ...Pirates? pfahh, I've got you're pirates _right here_ pal!"

And, contrary to what you are expecting, it all went off without a hitch. A pirate showed up like clockwork as I completed the various scans, and I scattered their dirty Plowshares back into their elemental components with something like a smile on my face.

...except for this one coward who as I was orbiting the planet -- chasing him down like a hark on a rat -- decides he's had enough and *Spec's the hell out of the area* In fact, I can't find him in the system at all. The treacherous, dirty, son of a space slug! He cost me like 30k; if I ever catch up with him, he's even more toast than he would've been before!

Maybe the AI is finally getting smart after all you toasted his buddies

Enjoy the Choice

well that's what I thought too. Of course, I had only fried 2 of 4 at that point. It was number 3 that ran. Number 4 was also on the other side of a planet, and it took a while to run him down at sub-spec speeds. Cocky bastard, he sat and insulted me right up to the point that he became a whiff of ozone.

anyway, for the benefit of any developers that might read this, I am quite enjoying the 0.5 release. Last I played very much was with 0.4.3, so the changes are pretty stunning.

Stuff I noticed immediately, having not progressed very far:
The reworked HUD is very nice.
Mouse glide improvements with the morphing steering recticle make glide very pleasing.
The lack of auto-spawn collisions makes things like a new game!
The entire game is just tighter; you can tell an immense effort has been put into things.

Thanks, and cogratulations to all on a terrific step forward!