Asteroids go phong in the night (Fixed 0.49.7)

[Fooli]

Software:Universal Client
Version Number:49.6b1
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Location
In space, between Mechzone and Zion
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Description:
Noticed three strange clumps likee so:



On closer inspection each clump is a fairly large asteroid field all orbiting what looks like a single point (the effect of which is quite a beguiling burbling one). Likee so:




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Steps to Replicate:
Find asteroids. Observe.

[Fooli]

Dammit I meant



I think Sonro reported something like this in the past.
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[zaroba]

i mentioned that when astroids were first introduced

[Fooli]

ahh, mebbe it was you then. Anyway... they used to work for me, and now it seems they don't.

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[lazyredhead]

ok i never seen asteroids befor in this game did yall make a new download or csomething cuz i go thro ther all the time and never seen any give me a site 2 download this if it new

[Fooli]

ok:

- They oughta be there for you using the latest public client on the downloads page (asteroids were added sometime last year)

- They're pretty hard to find cos, well... they're asteroid shaped, asteroid coloured, and space is a pretty big place. I mean, you might think it's a long way to the shops but that's just peanuts compared to space (etc..) You can see where they are (very roughly) on the F5 system map - if you see a ring of dots around a star, different to the normal orbit path for a planet... that's asteroids. They're usually orbiting in the same rough plane as the planets are. However if the screenies I posted are true for lots of people you'll probably find it almost impossible to spot them cos they're all in the same place. Anyway that's where they're supposed to be.

- This is a bug report forum, please don't post stuff like this here :)

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[lazyredhead]

ok sorry

[zaroba]

if you look in the system map, you'll see a randomly dotted oval line similer to the planet orbits. thats the asteroid belt.

[Mit]

Fixed 0.49.7, i believe. (Along with a small bunch of other memory leak-type things, the fixes for which should all make the game (and your PC.. after playing the game a bit.. ) just a bit less flaky in the long run).