GearHead2 v0.510

[Erathoniel]

Quoting: Joseph Hewitt

Nonlethal combat needs a dedicated command, and activating it should apply to all your lancemates as well.

Amen.

Quoting: Trorbes

Space travel should also include a meal; I'm tired of getting to a spinner and be accosted by "xxx is hungry" messages. I would imagine it would work a lot like plane or cross-country train travel in that there would be some way to buy food on the ship.

Agreed also.

Quoting: Trorbes

Shops distribution are much too unbalanced; one can hardly walk into a building without finding at least one mech dealer, but it seems like mech parts dealers never appear.

I view it like tech stores. You can find a lot of stores with computers, but not all of them sell individual parts. Some people don't have enough skills to put together their own mecha (at least not from anything more difficult than a DIY kit). This is about 98% of the population, and about 10% of the shops have individual parts.

Quoting: Trorbes

Mechs should have some form of short-range radio communication integrated into the cockpit. It doesn't make sense that pilots would have to shout across the field or pull out their cell phone in the middle of a battle.

Yeah, I think mecha should have built-in communication.

Quoting: Joseph Hewitt

Lancemates and NPCs need to be less stupid with regard to things like reloading ammo, taking medicine, wandering into fires...

Just like Dwarf Fortress...

[Trorbes]

Just ran across a problem with the beanpole campaign.  The person who gave the mission is currently unavailable; Attempting to call him fails, and upon completing the mission (find the raiders) it told me he was at "Door."  It's possibly because I took so long to complete it (I spent about two weeks doing police missions on another spinner).

Edit:  I should mention that it didn't inform me of a deadend, either.

Edit 2:  I found the guy, so I was still able to complete the mission.

[Joseph Hewitt]

Quoting: clasic_traveller_diehard

is there still going to be player owned space ships?

Yes, there will.

Quoting: Trorbes

I'm curious as to how Taunt isn't working properly; I've used it and it seems to work, though its range is pitiful.

It's not very useful; I'm thinking of changing it to automatic use for the PC, as is now done for NPCs.

Quoting: Trorbes

Space travel should also include a meal;

Yes, it should. I've noted this problem.

Quoting: Trorbes

Mechs should have some form of short-range radio communication integrated into the cockpit.

Yes, they should. I've noted this as well.

Quoting: Trorbes

The person who gave the mission is currently unavailable; Attempting to call him fails, and upon completing the mission (find the raiders) it told me he was at "Door."

Argh, this is a terrible bug. I thought I had fixed it once before but it turns out I hadn't. For the time being I'll mention that if it claims an NPC is in "Door" it really means that they're in a metascene/temporary building.

[Burzmali]

Quoting: Joseph Hewitt

Quoting: Trorbes
I'm curious as to how Taunt isn't working properly; I've used it and it seems to work, though its range is pitiful.

It's not very useful; I'm thinking of changing it to automatic use for the PC, as is now done for NPCs.

Actually, it gets very abusive at higher skill levels.  One of my characters regularly talked everyone else on the battlefield out of their mechs.