[ANN] Starfleet Adventures Alpha Release

Starfleet Adventures v0.1a3.0
A Total Conversion For Escape Velocity: Nova
By John "Uncle Twitchy" Mietus

Requirements
Escape Velocity Nova v. 1.0.7 (recommended - will work with 1.0.6)
Minimum monitor resolution of 1024x768 recommended.

Installation
1. Be sure you have downloaded all eight files – (url="http://"ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/evn/plugins/1SFA_va3.0.sit.bin")1SFA_va3.0,(/url)(url="http://"ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/evn/plugins/2SFA_va3.0.sit.bin") 2SFA_va3.0,(/url) (url="http://"ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/evn/plugins/3SFA_va3.0.sit.bin")3SFA_va3.0,(/url) (url="http://"ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/evn/plugins/4SFA_va3.0.sit.bin")4SFA_va3.0,(/url) (url="http://"ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/evn/plugins/5SFA_va3.0.sit.bin")5SFA_va3.0,(/url) (url="http://"ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/evn/plugins/6SFA_va3.0.sit.bin")6SFA_va3.0,(/url) (url="http://"ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/evn/plugins/7SFA_va3.0.sit.bin")7SFA_va3.0(/url) and (url="http://"ftp://ftp.ambrosiasw.com/pub/evn/plugins/8SFA_va3.0.sit.bin")8SFA_va3.0.(/url)
2. Move all the files in the Put In Nova Files folders from the 2SFA_va3.0, 3SFA_va3.0, 4SFA_va3.0, 5SFA_va3.0, 6SFA_va3.0, 7SFA_va3.0 and 8SFA_va3.0 folders into the Nova Files folder in the 1SFA_va3.0 folder.
3. Create a folder to place your original Nova Files and Pilots folders and move those folders into that folder (I recommend naming the folder Original Files).
4. Move the Nova Files and Pilots folders from the 1SFA_va3.0 folder, as well as the new blank pilotlog.txt and debuglog.txt files to the EV Nova folder.
5. Run EV Nova.

It is recommended that your resolution be set to a minimum of 1024 x 768 -- otherwise, the Cargo section of the interface bar will be obscured. While it is not necessary -- very rarely does transporting cargo ever enter into the scenario -- it will give you the full interface bar.

What It Does
This is a conversion of Escape Velocity Nova to the Star Trek universe -- specifically, to the Star Trek universe during the 30-year career of James T. Kirk as commanding officer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. This incomplete version does not yet contain storyline missions, though some resources related to those missions do exist.

Still To Do

• Dëscs a-plenty, news items, and some miscellaneous strings.
• More basic missions (probably need to rewrite a number of them, actually), including planetary medical emergencies and more diplomatic missions.
• Still plenty of systems which are lacking their necessary spöbs.
• Writing the storyline missions.

Known Issues

• If it shows up in the debuglog.txt file or the Starfleet Adventures - Known Bugs thread at (url="http://"http://www.ev-nova.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4908")http://www.ev-nova.n...opic.php?t=4908(/url), I know about it. No need to report it.
• Some officers don't cancel, resulting in stacking officers
• A number of planetary descriptions are cut-and-pasted from the Encyclopedia II -- they subsequently are nothing more than laundry-list descriptions and need to be rewritten. Many of them are too long and exceed the text box size.
• Inherent ship oütfs don't appear in the Requisition window properly.

Contact Information:

Please report all bugs, make suggestions or rude comments or otherwise heap undying praise upon me at any open SFA forum at
(url="http://"http://www.ev-nova.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=11")http://www.ev-nova.n...wforum.php?f=11(/url)

For answers to Frequently Asked Questions, please visit the website at:
(url="http://"http://starfleet.kr0nos.com/")http://starfleet.kr0nos.com/(/url)

Legal Information:

All use of Star Trek, or any other intellectual properties related to the Star Trek franchise referenced in this free plugin is the sole property of Paramount Pictures and is not used with their express permission, nor is it intended to infringe upon their copyright or trademarks; rather, it is intended for free distribution among fans of that intellectual property as a tribute to those works.

The modifications and additions to Ambrosia Software/ATMOS' data contained in this plugin are protected by international copyright laws. This work is not to be distributed in any medium without its readme. It may not be sold or exchanged for profit in any form (including magazine cover disks or shareware compilations) as that would infringe upon the copyrights and trademarks held by Paramount Pictures.

Distribution of this or any pre-release build of the Starfleet Adventures TC without my express permission is utterly forbidden and will result in cancellation of the project.

Meshes used to create the shäns and shipyard images for this TC were downloaded from a variety of sources throughout the internet. Credits for each downloaded ship will be included with the final release.

All original material herein Š2004 John Mietus.

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Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?
Bunnies -- bunnies -- it must be bunnies... or maybe midgets

(This message has been edited by UncleTwitchy (edited 04-05-2004).)

(This message has been edited by UncleTwitchy (edited 04-06-2004).)

uncle twitchy is there any possibility of getting a pic from you for nova ship of the week? i need a pic fast!

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Sure -- take anything you like from either the shipyard pix in the alpha build or anything from (url="http://"http://homepage.macomb.com/~sirchuck/screenshots/SFA-Ships.jpg")this image.(/url)

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Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?
Bunnies -- bunnies -- it must be bunnies... or maybe midgets

UT, did you change all the files? I'd hate to have to download stuff that I don't have to...

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I'd say it's worth it to do so. I've done quite a lot since the last alpha build was available.

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Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?
Bunnies -- bunnies -- it must be bunnies... or maybe midgets

8 simultaneous downloads. I love cable. Posted Image

Not really a fan of ST myself, but this thing is awesome.

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Originally posted by Artanis:
**8 simultaneous downloads. I love cable.Posted Image **

Absolutely teh ditto. 🙂

UT: Mmkay.

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Wow. I just got a bunch of ranks.
I just kept landing on Luna till they stopped.

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I think that it would be best if you had only one file, not the 7 that you have, I find it easier to download then.

Also, don't talk to me about dialup, I am on dialup...

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Originally posted by Infinate:
**I think that it would be best if you had only one file, not the 7 that you have, I find it easier to download then.

Also, don't talk to me about dialup, I am on dialup...

**

They're big files.

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Quote

Originally posted by Infinate:
**I think that it would be best if you had only one file, not the 7 that you have, I find it easier to download then.

Also, don't talk to me about dialup, I am on dialup...

**

I would have preferred that myself, but unfortunately ASW's Add Ons page only accepts files no larger than 15 MB. The whole of SFA stuffed is around 92MB.

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Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?
Bunnies -- bunnies -- it must be bunnies... or maybe midgets

UT, is SFA Graphics 3 supposed to be only 4MB?

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Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
**UT, is SFA Graphics 3 supposed to be only 4MB?

**

No, it should be somewhere around 9.3MB.

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Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?
Bunnies -- bunnies -- it must be bunnies... or maybe midgets

Cool, I let you guys test it until the full release happens and I can enjoy it in its full and untainted glory. 😛

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Originally posted by UncleTwitchy:
No, it should be somewhere around 9.3MB.

Well, according to StuffIt, it's corrupted. Is that just StuffIt being annoying?

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When I get on to the screen with all the ships, it comes up with the error, 500, 501, 502, and so on.

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Originally posted by Infinate:
**When I get on to the screen with all the ships, it comes up with the error, 500, 501, 502, and so on.

**

I'm having a similar problem. Whenever I launch I get an error message saying that it can't find a certain spďn. I'm currently redownloading to see if that helps.

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Make sure you download and use all eight SFA .bin files.

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Originally posted by orcaloverbri9:
**
Well, according to StuffIt, it's corrupted. Is that just StuffIt being annoying?

**

Try downloading it again.
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Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes. They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots? What do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?
Bunnies -- bunnies -- it must be bunnies... or maybe midgets

(This message has been edited by UncleTwitchy (edited 04-07-2004).)

Okay. Redownloading...

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Windows users: stop asking for plugins. (url="http://"http://www.aznt.com/EVN/EVNEW/")Make one yourself.(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.cwssoftware.com")Sephil Saga Website(/url)
(url="http://"http://www.evula.org/infernostudios/search.html")Add-ons Search Engine(/url)

Well, I've redownloaded and reinstalled it and I'm still getting the same error. Is anyone else having this problem?

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