a couple thoughts

[jedal]

I have only just now found this forum. If what I say has already been mentioned, consider this a +1 for whatever. I am aout to hop in the car and I'm sure I'll forget things if I dint say them now.

There is a toast that goes by very quickly. Something about flora and fauna scurrWying. It seemed to come after I looted on an exploration and then found that I wasn't credited with my loot. What is this? Saw nothing about iton a quick search, an didn't catch enough of it to know what long toast to even turn on. If its a sad report of me loosng my goods, should it go in the screen where it says I looted or lost troops to the alien or radioactivity?

In an old trading/pirate game I played, Port Royale, there was always a way to sneak
into a town. You couldn't do much, but there was always a way to fulfil the mission. I would like the option of being able to stick it even harder
to an enemy federation and I could if I could just slip into that star port for a second. Be it a dice roll based on my stealth, sending in my third mate if they're of the spy/diplomat class, or even if I have to hand my princess Leah lookalike a thermal detonator and dress her up in an alien outfit. I don't mind if its almost certain death or imprisonment, a button tempting me to give it a try would be very.... tempting.

How can I kill off an unwanted character on the lower difficulties? On easy, I started several characters, and I can't get rid of them in the "usual" manner.

My phone is running out of battery, so that's it sans the proofreading and last several ideas.

[spike]

You can delete unwanted characters from the main (pre game) menu: Roster - View - Delete.

The toast you are missing is just flavour text explaining that anything you can't fit in your cargo hold is left behind and immediately scavenged by native life forms.

[Cory Trese]

- All Contracts take into account Reputation -- no more "blocked contracts" (v3.6.3)
- You can always "sneak" into a town and enter the spice district (criminal zone)
- Landing is suicidal when you have huge negative reputation.
- The toast duration can be increased in "Options"
- To avoid loosing Exploration Cargo use a larger ship or load all cargo into the hold before departing

[slayernz]

jedal the toast you are seeing in the wilderness is where you are leaving some stuff behind after doing an explore or harvest action. If you leave anything at all behind (eg water, weapons, records, hats), a little toast will come up saying words to the effect of:
"whatever you left behind is gone for good now".

@cory I've never had landing being a suicidal activity even with massively negative scores. hang on, checking now - I need to drop some greeting cards off on a Steel Song planet ...

[slayernz]

Update - yup, landed on the planet. Dropped off my greeting cards. Left before the card detonators had time to go off.

Of course, not much of the town is open to me - but you can still get into the spice hall and can even take on contracts or crew.

[Cory Trese]

slayernz -- Negative reputation acts as a penalty against landing (in Urban Zones) so when visiting the Spice Hall or doing planet-side contracts, negative reputation can bring out the warships.

[havocme]

Net rep brings out the war ships? So if my faction is in a solar war with steel song, and I don't care how low my rep get and just want to drum up some enemy ships to fight, I should try and land on a SS planet?

[jedal]

Ok, cool about te missions fix update.

However, I still think it would be cool to have special missions at the palace and star dock, perhaps on harder settings, that reqire a skill check instead of just rep. One further, but maybe not woth it from a programming standpoint woul be to have missions at the exchange or military base: "use stealth ability to steal x item from the exchange and take it back from the shipyard.

[jedal]

Oops, phone deleted a lign and posted "for" me... anyway, take the item and deliver it. Or sweet talk and steal an item from the military base using the charisma skill and bring it back to the isssuer of the contract.