Hi, guys! I'm Brian from the Pioneer dev team. I maintain the issue tracker, amongst other things.
Glad to see some of you have found us, and that you're finding the game fun. Pioneer is free software (you will always have the freedom to download it, mod it, break it, fix it, even put it in a box and sell it), so do feel free to grab yourself a copy.
We've recently made some big changes to the rendering system of Pioneer, and it's in need of some play-testing. If you guys want to help us out, please grab the most recent build (download links are on our twitter feed,
http://twitter.com/pioneerspacesim ) and let us know if you see any glitches or problems with rendering. Those builds are more recent than the latest alpha; new ones are made each night.
If you do, please let me know. You can either let the dev team know on the
main issue tracker, on this thread (I'll be watching) or by email to me (
[email protected]). If you have problems, we'd be grateful if you also let is have a copy of the opengl.txt file that Pioneer creates in
My Documents\Pioneer. That tells us what your graphics card's capabilities look like, and will help us out.
Any feedback is welcome, though! We like informed criticism. Do bear in mind that balancing and gameplay are utterly unfinished, but the physics engine is stable and very pretty.
Finally, for all you old Frontier fans, we're doing this because the surest way to get the game we want to play is to write it ourselves. We're trying to preserve Frontier's feel, but in a much more modern game. Frontier destroyed my degree studies, and I love it still.
Thanks all!
