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Mmm, two updates today? It's a good game tho' :D .

well, according to the sites clock, it's tomorrow already, and I have to update to that so <shrug> you're just lucky like that I guess!

How can that be according to the site's clock?
On the front page it still has the same date. :D

I don't mind though, in fact, I'm enjoying this two in one.

EDIT: Nevermind, that's strange, it said 11 before.

maybe you just read it wrong :ok: But yes, it is a good game.

I accidently pressed the one button when I went to give it a score.
I played this awhile ago, so I was going to give it a 4 because of past good experiences, now I just brought down the score considerably.

Oops.

I still have this for Amiga(if only the dang thing worked) it gives me a wonderful bit of nastalga to play this game again... I recall the graphics being a lot better on the Amiga, however(maybe that's just how it is in my memory).

Now you'll have to upload the sequel to this game, Magatraveller II: Quest for the Ancients(I believe it is called). That game is much improved interface-wise. I remember playing it for long hours in the day... My friend would come over and we would use the character creation system over and over again to get the best possible character.

Retro gaming rules!

:D :ok: :Brain:

True story

Fixed :ok:

Hi,

just donloadet the game although i never heared of it before. The first impression is really interesting! One of my favourit Bands, The Lord weird Slough Feg, wrote a concept album called "Traveller" about the original pen & paper game... really awsome for heavy metal fans... check this out at www.slough-feg.com, if you're interested in this kind of music!
Unforunately I don't have the time to check the game out no cause a got a nice little cat yesterday which neads my attention :-)

greetings from germany!

THIS GAME TOTALLY OWNS!!!! i got megatraveller 1 and 2 on a disc :D

You could emulate it? WinUAE just recently hit 1.0, in fact. :)

:help: Can someone help me with what the skills are doing?

and one more thing here`s a cheat i made myself. take one of your characters money and place it in your party account and sell his items if (you wantto ) then kill him recruit a new character make the same with him and then do this some times.then you got plenty of money :D

Why, you're an evil genius!

:w00t:

502 KB, gee, is your connection that fast?

That's an old one which we've had since Bard's Tale and Might and Magic. Every seasoned player of that genre of RPGs knows it.

Hello.I dont know if this belong in this thread...but I would like to ask for your help regarding Megatraveller2.My problem is that I cant get past the question that game(copy protection?) asks before you start playing.I have manual and space map but game asks for distances beatwen systems and distances are not mentioned in manual or on map.What is the catch.From where can I get this distances and how.Can someone please help me.
Thanks.

Hi there. Thanks for this awesome site by the way. Extremely well organised and full of fantastic games. I could probably spend the rest of my life playing all this stuff.

I have the 2 Traveller games as I was a pen and paper Traveller player (in fact as a kid my friend and I bought the original black boxed set on its first release, which shows you old I am).

These games are not the best RPGs ever, by a long chalk, but they have a particular nostalgia value and they are not bad for whiling away the hours.

Both games have a few bugs, mainly inaccuracies in the data table. This has some weird effects because the price and performance of certain items and equipment is silly. For example automatic weapons are no different from semiautomatic weapons, the ammunition for one kind of laser rifle costs a ridiculous amount, etc.

Because I am a total pedantic freak and idiot I spent a few weeks reverse engineering the data files of both games so I could create patches. I have some patches and also some documentation of how the data files work. Useful if you want to cheat, among other things.

Someone posted a question about how the skill system works and I think my notes shed some light on this (I can't remember as it was several years ago that I did this work). Anyway if anyone is interested in these patches and docs please drop me an email telling me what to do and I will upload them / email them.

Spike

PS: Big kudos to anyone who can explain the origin of my username on this bulletin board!

Here are the distance codes requested by RW, above, for Megatraveller 2. You will need to paste these into a text document and drag out the window so it is very wide. I would upload as a spreadsheet but I don't know how to upload, sorry.

Spike.

Megatraveller 2 codes



Aramanx Bevy Corfu Djinni Efate Enope Focaline Inthe Knorbes Lablon Lanth Nutema Porozlo Quopist Rech Roup

Aramanx 000 451 163 400 458 278 167 293 429 217 707 261 402 494 418 363
Bevy 431 000 595 457 701 564 428 386 598 649 538 180 181 156 429 541
Corfu 163 595 000 401 339 182 199 333 350 076 734 436 509 536 441 298
Djinni 400 457 401 000 276 222 218 106 174 466 368 375 269 180 041 143
Efate 478 701 339 276 000 180 334 317 100 397 560 559 519 468 322 140
Enope 278 564 192 222 180 000 157 209 166 253 571 420 421 417 260 103
Focaline 167 428 199 218 334 157 000 132 286 263 545 241 307 358 253 212
Inthe 293 386 333 106 317 209 132 000 240 405 431 257 204 210 113 182
Knorbes 429 598 350 174 100 166 286 240 000 418 467 491 440 358 203 069
Lablon 217 649 076 466 397 253 263 405 418 000 817 471 560 600 495 376
Lanth 707 538 734 368 560 571 545 431 467 817 000 561 397 222 322 482
Nutema 261 180 436 375 559 420 241 257 491 471 561 000 185 351 374 429
Porozlo 408 181 509 269 519 421 307 204 440 560 397 185 000 183 241 390
Quopist 494 356 536 180 468 417 358 210 358 600 222 351 183 000 144 346
Rech 418 429 441 041 322 260 253 113 203 495 322 374 241 144 000 184
Roup 363 541 298 143 140 103 212 192 069 376 482 429 390 346 184 000

Having trouble downloading the manual... Any other files available that might give me a clue which keys do what? :blink:

i would guess you are looking for starkiller sheridan of the earth alliance and later of the interstellar alliance. also not only does this game rock but so does this site, i grabbed covert action earlier, now i have mega traveller 1, so many memories, been playing both games on and off for about ten years, if you add mega traveller 2 add a manual too, i loved that game but simply didn't know how to fly the goddam ship.

I still have the original MT 1 and 2 games myself, on good old 5.25" floppy disks (which my computers no longer can use, LOL). Never did finish the second one, but since it's available at HOTU I think I'll d/l it and give it a try...

There is one thing you'll probably want to do if you play either game, and that's crank your CPU cycles 'way down. Your team will be attacked as soon as they're off the ship in almost every space port you enter, and you need to stop and split everyone up to return fire (with the 'p' key) fast. (The 'p' key is actually the party access key, but it also automatically pauses the game). In fact, IIRC, you begin MT 1 with an immediate shoot-out in a bar, so remember that this game was designed to run on a 386 and set your cycles accordingly!

There are a couple of ways to make big bucks fast without murdering party members. One is to hit the casino and save/restore a lot. Another is to stock up on vacc suits and take a passenger liner (middle passage, NOT low passage) to one of the nearby low-level tech planets (see the docs for tech levels). The markup on a good vacc suit is huge, and you won't risk running into pirates (who will toast your ship until you get a lot of expensive upgrades) if you fly commercial. The team can carry quite a few vacc suits in inventory: sell them off, return to base, and rinse and repeat.

Once you have a ship that can survive interstellar travel without getting reduced to rivets, the abso-damn-lute best cargo run you can make is water from Efate to Louzy. After fuelling costs, the return is in the neighborhood of 36:1. (Yes, I still have my old notes to the game. I never throw anything out)

-- Mal

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Glal @ Oct 12 2005, 07:13 AM) [snapback]167265[/snapback]</div>Yes ^_^ I even have WinUAE... Works great!

This should probably be a separate topic, but I wasn't allowed to start one, sooo...

:sos:

I can't buy fuel. Whenever I go to a starport and try to buy fuel, a screen will appear that looks as if I'm supposed to be getting fuel, and then nothing. I've tried clicking on everything there is on the screen. There are no options available on this screen. I've tried rearranging my character positions aboard the ship - everything I can think of. It doesn't matter if I try to have a character pay for fuel, or the party account. I'm sure I must be doing something very basic wrong, but I can't find a clue in the manual as to what it might be. So basically I can take off, zip to another system, and that's it. Not much "mega" in that kind of traveling. So if anyone can tell me what I might be doing wrong, it would surely be appreciated.

--M

I cannot figure out land combat, namely how the order function works.

Can anyone help me with this?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MattV @ Mar 18 2007, 04:47 PM) [snapback]284092[/snapback]</div>Hit F as in 'Fill' to add fuel, or A as in 'All' to fill completely.

Hit P as in 'Pay'.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(malthaussen @ May 16 2006, 08:40 AM) [snapback]230811[/snapback]</div>It's pretty simple to hex edit a .SAV saved game file, too... to accomplish almost anything, not just to get ridiculously rich.

I have the boxed version of this, inside is a little yellow piece of paper with an advert for the strategy guide/tip book hahaha Wow...did anyone ever buy that?

I like this game a lot but find it impossible without a journal, I do wish I knew a little more about it though, there's not much info on what skills do what, and I still don't know if it's better to have an extra point in sword or an extra point in strength.
I had a very strange bug with it once upon a time, it replaced everything in my inventory with these weird items, they were like graphical vomit (if you know what I mean) and worth an absolute fortune! I mean trillions of credits. Sadly this overwrote the 3 items you get at the beginning potentially making it unwinable, but it was fun walking about in battle dresses and having a super space ship.
At some point I'm going to sit down and beat it! It's one of those games that I need to play in the day time rather than at 3am and with a journal!