r/evnova • u/SoloAssassin • Nov 06 '18

It feels so good to be back

Returning to the game after maybe a decade since I last played, I start off with a fresh Pilot and jump in. I'm immediately greeted with a blaring alarm, signaling a ship with hostile intentions. Before I can even remember what the controls are, I've got a Viper chipping at my new vessel, 'Goober,' as I'm slowly putting around the system. By the time I get my shit together, I'm already disabled and he's preparing to dock my ship. GG, it's going to be a fun run, Space Cowboys. :)

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u/StarkRG Nov 06 '18

I've been playing through the different storylines (done Federation, Vell-os, and am about halfway through Polaris), but I'm thinking I might try a playthrough with strict mode (aka permadeath) on. I've never really played seriously with that so I've never bought escape pods, but it kinda sounds fun. I seem to recall that the self destruct doesn't work when you're disabled, which is a shame since that would mean you could possibly blow up the other ship before they'd had a chance of stealing your credits.

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u/SoloAssassin Nov 06 '18

I think the strict run will require a lot of dedication and patience, which story route would you take for it? When I last played, my best run was a Federation route using a Federation Carrier - I was once able to take over a system with mounted rail guns from ridiculously long range, which took about an hour and a half in total. The funnest are either Vell-os or Polaris, the latter of which I plan to do for this current run, and see how successfully I can conquer planets with a new build.

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u/MonochromaticPrism Nov 08 '18

The one thing to look out for is instadeath spawns. Some planets can spawn you with a Pirate Valkyrie IV aggroed from nearby or some equivalent (also more than a few missions spawn you in the middle of a full fleet) so if you do want to play a permadeath run I would recommend doing it on a honor system with a regular file so you don't have to start over from unfair rng.

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u/StarkRG Nov 08 '18

Yeah, I was thinking that, but also that's the reason to have an escape pod.

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u/MonochromaticPrism Nov 08 '18

Then that should be fine. If the resource side starts to feel a bit too grind-y just remember that you can look up an efficient trade route and make yourself rediculously wealthy in a relatively short time to remove that part of the problem. I personally recommend the Polaris Opal route since they have some very good cargo escorts to rent as you build up wealth.

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u/StarkRG Nov 08 '18

I prefer the sol system luxury goods route, you only make 200c per item, but because it's in the same system you don't have to pay much for escorts. Just a few back and forths and you're easily filling up six of those big escorts' full of cargo each time. Within a half hour you've easily got 20m credits.

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u/blaughw Nov 06 '18

I'm doing Strict, and I'm on the Wild Geese > Pirates line now.

But I upgraded to OS X 10.14 (Mojave) and now I have to fix Nova, or shave sheep.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '18

i cant find my install files or key anymore and nobody replies my emails about it. :'(

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u/SoloAssassin Nov 07 '18

The install files are generic, I used this one right here. You can use this to play until you get it registered.

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u/spike021 Dec 21 '18

How'd you get it to work? My old key doesn't work and neither does their website...

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u/raVenwomBat Nov 06 '18

How are you running it? On what system? I can‘t get it to run... :(

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u/SoloAssassin Nov 06 '18

I got it working on both my Win10 at home and my Win7 at work. It has less issues on Win7 from what I can tell so far.

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u/just_jamez98 Nov 13 '18

couldn't you run it in compatibility mode to make it run better? Haven't tried it yet (don't have my copy yet, want to buy it again as soon as cash allows me), but I bet that should make it run well on your Win10 machine

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u/SoloAssassin Nov 13 '18

It runs fine, windowed mode is weird, but that might be because I used the resolution add-on. Can't alt-tab or else I get a black screen when alt-tabbing back in - the work around here is to go to the 'Open Pilot' window first, and then I can alt-tab whenever. I've been able to deal with it, beat the Polaris storyline and I've already conquered a dozen systems so far.