[Re-release] Long Range Scanner

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Re: [Re-release] Long Range Scanner

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Switeck wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 5:39 am
Cody wrote: Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:54 pm
Cheats for players, tools for devs! The misjump was originally a dev tool.
Misjumping was a dev tool in the original Elite game?
I doubt that original Elite supported expansions at all. So I believe that the misjump oxp aas intended to be a tool for OXP developers. Whatever is it's current status.
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Re: [Re-release] Long Range Scanner

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Switeck wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 5:39 am
Misjumping was a dev tool in the original Elite game?
The deliberate misjump, yes!
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Re: [Re-release] Long Range Scanner

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hiran wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 9:29 am
Switeck wrote: Mon Jun 12, 2023 5:39 am
Cody wrote: Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:54 pm
Cheats for players, tools for devs! The misjump was originally a dev tool.
Misjumping was a dev tool in the original Elite game?
I doubt that original Elite supported expansions at all. So I believe that the misjump oxp was intended to be a tool for OXP developers. Whatever is it's current status.
Not an OXP. There are OXP's which enhance misjumps (cim's is brilliant, but there are also a range of others - see Misjump on the wiki).

Misjumps usually happen as a result of poor maintenance (along with fuel leaks), leaving one stranded in a ghastly glowing green space shrouded in fog and mist between the systems. I always presumed it was "witchspace" but that's not the way it works in game (see various OXPs such as Alnivel's rejigged Tionisla Chronicle Array, Cody's Coyote's Run & HIMSN).

You can force a misjump.

By the way, Cody is an adept practitioner of the misjump - and Switeck probably deserves a university chair in the theory!



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