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There should be a program named "Launcher" in the vegastrike directory or Start Menu. This program provides a list of game choices:
 
There should be a program named "Launcher" in the vegastrike directory or Start Menu. This program provides a list of game choices:
  
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== Select Mission ==
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== Start New Pilot ==
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This allows you to select which Vega Strike mission to play.  Once selected, you start the mission by selecting Selecting New Game, Launch Last Savegame or Launch Nosavegame will begin the mission. Most missions do not involve save games and will ignore those options.  The default, however, in the mission/exploration folder '''will''' utilize the save games you specify. If you ignore this option you default to the standard trading/bounty hunting mission.
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To start a new pilot (game) in the Vega Strike universe, select this button.  If no scenario has been selected beforehand (below), this button loads the default Exploring the Universe scenario.
  
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== New Game ==
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You start with a dinged up old Llama and head from your starting sector with the hope of finding profit and adventure on the frontier.
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Start a new game in the Vega Strike universe. You start with a dinged up old Llama and head from your starting sector with the hope of finding profit and adventure on the frontier.  The "New Game" option is actually the same as the "Load game" except it makes a new game if a current saved game does not exist. To start afresh, you must delete the old saved game first.
 
  
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== Load Saved Game ==
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== Play Saved Pilot ==
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This opens up a saved game you had finished playing before. To save you must dock at the base, enter a Cargo or Weapons Computer, Select Options and Save. NOTE that if you choose the LOAD button from a base IN GAME, your ship will be destroyed so you can press respawn (semicolon) and continue where you last saved from! This is not quite as intuitive as we would have hoped :-(.
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This button loads the selected saved pilot to load into Vega Strike.
  
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== Recover From Autosave ==
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== Continue Last Game ==
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This button allows a player to recover their most recently played game into their selected save game upon next run. If the player quits or the player docks, and then dies, it will restore to the last saved position.
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This button loads your last saved pilot automatically into Vega Strike. If you do not choose a mission, you will start in the standard trading/bounty hunting mission.  Differs from Play Saved Pilot in that you do not choose which saved game to load.
  
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== Launch Last Savegame ==
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== Game Settings ==
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Use this button to launch Vegastrike from a saved game or mission. If you do not choose a mission, you will start in the standard trading/bounty hunting mission.
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This button accesses Vega Strike’s game settings for configuration.
  
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== Launch No Savegame ==
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== Recover from Autosave==
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This button allows you to launch the selected mission without using a saved game.
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This button allows a player to recover their most recently played game into the selected save game upon next run.  If the player quits or the player docks, and then dies, it will restore to the last saved position.
  
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== Options ==
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== Change Scenario ==
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Brings up the setup screen to configure Vega Strike.  Refer to [[Manual:Config|Config]] for information on configuration selections.
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This allows you to select which Vega Strike scenario to play. To select, highlight the requested scenario and click “OK
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== Help ==
 
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Pop up help window with this information.
 
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== Exit Launcher ==
 
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Exits the launcher.
 
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[[Category:Manual|Save and load]]
 

Revision as of 05:27, 15 March 2005

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Commandline/Direct-Start (all users)

All the Vega Strike savegames are in your home directory under .vegastrike (or in the vegastrike directory under .vegastrike under windows). Change the save game by editing the file save.txt. The file is called save.4.x,txt in Vegastrike4.x.

Mac users

...should do the following (because .vegastrike is a hidden directory):

  1. In the finder choose Go To Folder from the Go menu.
  2. Type ~/.vegastrike to open the vegastrike folder in a Finder window
  3. Drag the folder from the title bar of the Finder window while holding down the alt and command(apple) keys to make an alias of this folder on your Desktop.

Launcher (windows/linux/unix)

launcher.jpg

There should be a program named "Launcher" in the vegastrike directory or Start Menu. This program provides a list of game choices:

Start New Pilot

To start a new pilot (game) in the Vega Strike universe, select this button. If no scenario has been selected beforehand (below), this button loads the default Exploring the Universe scenario.

You start with a dinged up old Llama and head from your starting sector with the hope of finding profit and adventure on the frontier.

Play Saved Pilot

This button loads the selected saved pilot to load into Vega Strike.

Continue Last Game

This button loads your last saved pilot automatically into Vega Strike. If you do not choose a mission, you will start in the standard trading/bounty hunting mission. Differs from Play Saved Pilot in that you do not choose which saved game to load.

Game Settings

This button accesses Vega Strike’s game settings for configuration.

Recover from Autosave

This button allows a player to recover their most recently played game into the selected save game upon next run. If the player quits or the player docks, and then dies, it will restore to the last saved position.

Change Scenario

This allows you to select which Vega Strike scenario to play. To select, highlight the requested scenario and click “OK

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