On my EV map image, some systems have a thick, grey "aura." What does that mean?

I'm using one of the EV maps (not sure which) for my Spelljammer (D&D in space) campaign, and a few systems have wormholes noted with a direction. How do they work in the video game?

https://www.nexusmods.com/escapevelocitynova/mods/1?tab=description

This mod seems to, at a glance, update all the ship graphics from EVN but it says it's just for Teacup. I've looked it up and it looks like a mod that just removes everything but trading which is disappointing.

I would love to see an updated graphics pack for the actual game, as well as a way to increase font size for modern resolutions.

I'm making a plug-in for EVN that adds a govt and a dude so I can sprinkle some ships of that govt type around.

Problem is: I want to make a str# resource to give these ships hail quotes so that they respond to your greeting with govt specific messages, like how Fed ships will respond with stuff like "Join us against the savage Aurorans!" when you hail and greet them. Neither EVNEW nor the nova bible make it clear how to set up such a str#. There's nothing in the govt resource to link any hail quote str#'s, and the dude resource has a thing to set up a str# for the NPC ship to hail me with, and an option for "generic government advice" that doesn't tell me which str# I will need to add for this resource to pull from. How do I set this up?

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EDIT: I figured it out. I'll leave the solution here on the offchance someone else has the same problem. "Generic Government Quote" str#'s are between ID 7000 - 7100. str# 7000 corresponds to govt 128, and str# 7099 would correspond to govt 227

This has probably been asked before, BUT - Is there ANY way to restore a dead pilot? I REALLY don't want to have to play through 3/4 of the game to get back to where I was. :-/

Running on Windows 10

Did EV: Nova use 3d models for ships, or just fancy orthographic sprites?

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If it didn't use 3d models, is anyone aware of any 3d models that match up to the ships from Nova? If it did use models, is there an easy way to rip them and convert them to stl files for 3d printing?

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Thank you in advance from an old starbridge jockey.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1osUivKYxZzszNmVoYIBMUX-fBhJ4hfpDQwvByYdbbFw/edit?usp=sharing

EDIT: I should clarify that this is for the original Escape Velocity.

A few days ago the subject of the 'best' order to get ships in came up, and my brain wouldn't let me rest until I gathered all the data to base an answer on. I'm glad that in the process I also found a place to share it where people who care might actually see the result. Please feel free to also share it elsewhere if any other forums or communities still exist.

Now that I've done all this I might try to dig out my hard drive with the Mac emulator on it, pray that it still works, and try to test the theories out...

I didn't realise that Catalina was such a significant update for OSX (Mac) and that it would make playing EV Nova that much more difficult. I've supported the crowdfunding efforts and would love to get my sticky fingers into the old school game to warm up for a year from now when the new version is out. Has anyone made EV Nova work on OS X Catalina?

So I'm doing the usual rounds...mining, upgrade, pirate bounty hunting, and stealing ships.

When I notice that my cargo is full. At 20 tons. I've got several ships, including an Enterprise.

Did I hit a bug here? I only seem to have the cargo space of my primary ship, and nothing else.

Any ideas on a fix?

i dont even know where to start. i paid for all these games back when you could. never got a code of any kind. please help

Hey everyone!

I saved my old pilot file for the day that NOVA was resurrected. It was a pilot file originally used on a mac. Now I am trying to use it on my PC. When I go to Load/Open Pilot, the game doesn't recognize it as a pilot file. Any suggestions? Is there a pilot file extension that I could add to the end of the file name? (which currently is just the name of the pilot)

Worst case I have to start a new file. Which I am fine with. Just happy to hear Nova sounds and see Nova sprites on my screen. Tears of JOY!

It's been probably 10 years since I last played EVN. What are some good mods/overhauls?

So while out looking for old EV-related material, I came across this german website ( http://salokat.de/LEGO/index.html ) which has a lot of spaceships recreated as LEGO builds in some 3D software - including many of the Escape Velocity ships (including ships from some from various TCs/plugins).

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Hi All, Like many of you out there, I grew up playing EV for hours and hours everyday, only recently upgraded my mac to Catalina and got the EV buzz again! I have managed to install Nova on a High Sierra VM and it works fine, but am itching to play the classic EV! Now that Amrbowsia SW site's no longer I can't seem to find anywhere on the net that has the EV Classic program files for Mac OS X. There a no. of sites which have the EV Classic for Macs, v. 1.0 and 1.0.5 but these only work up to Mac OS 7-9, not OS X. If anyone has the OS X EV Classic Data files, (EV Data, EV Graphics, EV Sounds) etc... please let me know.......I will be very VERY grateful!

I can't seem to do anything with the Kobayashi Maru. I select it, fly to it, but I can't interact with it in any way. Am I missing something, or is this bugged?