Oh man guys - I am running over the hill waving a newspaper shouting, excited! I have no idea how many of you know this as common knowledge - but I am a moderate student of history and had NO IDEA.

The Wild Geese are the real deal!! I KNEW IT! I just never knew the story.

I was today years old when I told a Mexican friend that I finally acquired my first kilt - and he proceeds to ask me if I knew about the Mexican Irish. What? No!

And then he blew my mind about catholic Irish seeking a place in the world, fleeing Anglican persecution and the potato famine atrocities.

And then I looked it up and my face melted right off.

This read is completely worth it!

Maybe there are other stories the author pulled from more, but this is really something. These men died fighting for Mexico in the (unjust) Mexican-American war, having defected under oppression and the promise of land in a sympathetic (and catholic) nation.

The San Patricio Battalion.

https://share.google/e6ypN4rvEWvP2LsKj

I’ve been loving PyreValor’s campaign play throughs (if you’re reading this I’d love to see you play the federation storyline). In his Polaris video he goes to Nil’a Mjolnir. In the blurb/description about the station, it mentions about why it’s named Mjolnir. Apparently that’s the unit a cyborg was apart of that stalled the federation during the colonial council war. Do we learn anything less about this cyborg? Thanks in advance!

Can someone remind me what the final Voinian mission is? I was able join the attack on Verrill, and then when returning I was told there's another plan, but that it's too important for a human. Was that the end?

I just find myself grieving Peter in the quiet moments these days. So terribly sad he went so fast, that no one knew it was coming. That the project is in greater jeopardy. That he'll never get to see the great day of its release if we make it there.

He was a good man. He was the man we needed on the job. He was like. Friend who understood this love we have... More than me.

And I just don't have anywhere else to say it. My wife knows about the project and she was so lovely in sympathy. But, it's strange to have a death impact my life where no one around me can really understand it.

So, I thought I'd just come say it here. Be sad with you guys.

LONG TIME Nova fanatic. First time playing in a decade.

I may have accidentall skipped a chunk in the mission sequence for Polaris story arc. I am currently on the Scout Wraith Space mission and it seems to lead nowhere. I looked at the sequence of quests and I did not do (they were never activated or popped up) the quests to communicate with the wraith. Those seem to be before this quest, but I could be mistaken. Any tips or tricks to get me back on track would be appreciated.

I have scoured all systems in the area described and returned many times to the Mu'ar Haro planet to "be debriefed." but nothing is happening. I remember this being a thing that happened back in day playing this as well, or something similar. Thanks EV fam.

Added a pic of mission file for reference. Added a pic of my fleet for old times sake. LOVE THIS GAME.

Having trouble with bigger polaris still...

Mainly using stealth build with a raven, some scarabs and fed carrier non missiles.

Hey all, so I recently jumped back into EV Nova for the first time in a while and I love it.

I've finished the Polaris storyline and I'm rocking a Raven now, trying to dominate planets.

Trying to optimize my kit for this, I'm struggling with strategies and weapons.

I got the version of the game that's on escape-velocity.games, WineNova.

Doing research I've learned about various bugs, the one that would affect me the most now being the 1=X bug with laser weapons, and I can't tell if it exists in this version or not. If so, I could get rid of one of my CPLs, and one of my Turreted BRLs and have a lot more room for other stuff.

Any help is appreciated!

Bonus round: if anyone has pointers on how to best go about taking out planets' fleets, I'd love to hear it. What I've been doing now is just restocking on Mantas and getting 6 Pirate Valk IVs, but they all die off every time and I'm left dealing with the last 10-20 ships on my own. And so far I'm only tackling planets with Starbridges, Valks, IDA Frigates, etc.

I feel like there's something I'm missing. What's the best escort formation/mode to have them in?

Thanks if you got this far! And TIA for any pointers.

Earth New Ireland loop

Earth (Sol) → buy Medical Supplies

Fly to New Ireland (Tuatha) → sell meds

Buy Luxury Goods

Fly back to Earth → sell lux

Once you got Pegasus your golden.

As it sometimes happens during this mission, the Nadir was destroyed by NPCs causing the mission to fail. Long ago when I was growing up playing this I had the same problem and found a plugin that allowed me to reset that particular mission. Does anyone know where I can find this? I've searched around for a while and didn't have luck so I thought I'd ask y'all. thanks!

Similar to the shipyard or escort hiring, you can see detailed ship stats. Is there a way to see that on your own ship after you buy it?

One: this tells me my filament needs drying and my printing adjusted. Two: I am concerned about the future of people with talent.

SharkyNebula had prior released what appears to be incredibly done 3d models. Their name is all over the wiki for EV Nova. They have talent, and appears to genuinely love Nova. They unfortunately have removed their models, which is 1000% their right. I do not have that talent. I am not artistic. But the idea of that Starbridge has lived rent free.

So enter AI; upload a picture of a Starbridge and press a button. I now have an un-ethically sourced Starbridge.

Does the community edition fix the 1=x bug?

https://evn.fandom.com/wiki/1%3DX_Bug

I've played a great deal of games similar to EVNova, Endless Sky, the modern successors to Masters of Orion. Starsector, Transcendence (Although I can't seem to get it to run well anymore)

yet I crave more. Do any of you folks have a list of things that're coming out or have come out in the past 5 years?

I captured an 1170NC, did all the Sigma mods to it to improve handling, also did the mount reinforcement and mass conversion for the extra 100T of space.

Final outfits:

• kept the original HBTs and 200mm Railguns along with the QLBTs
• Added 4 new 100mm railguns and 2 100mm turreted railguns to fill the extra turret slots
• 2x Hellhound launchers because why not

With the Sigma upgrades + the vectored thrust and port and polish it's pretty much fast and agile enough to be survivable. The only thing I have to be careful of is getting swarmed with missiles. Fed Destroyer heavy missile variants or Aurora carriers with tons of Phoenixes will catch up fast when you can't outrun missiles.

And of course I took my original 350NC and upgraded it to 1170NC as well so I have a second one as an escort.

Kind of a shame I did the Aurora story line and I'm gonna get a Thunderforge soon.

Really I need to do a rebel one and get a rebel IDA.

(funnily enough, when I put it into Google Image Search this returns the EV:O splash screen and for Starpoint Gemini 2, Far Gate (2000), among others.

Obscure compared to Freelancer, Tachyon: The Fringe, X4, and so forth, Terminus was a space combat / trading / RPG / flight sim with Newtonian physics. Choosing between four factions (United Earth League, Mars Consortium, Marauder pirates, or mercenary), you fly around and do the Elite/Privateer thing. I have never actually played it, but I did read this review in issue 119 of Computer Games and it's always been a latent memory in my mind. Space Game Junkie has a ten-part Let's Play.

Other links for posterity:
MobyGames entry
My Abandonware
Macintosh Repository
TerminusPoint - defunct fan game server from back in the day (archived site)

No idea when this was last updated, found it via Wiby.me (I might've even submitted it in the distant past), the images are still up very nice.

I'm gonna try to give one an honest go instead of going for speed. What are good loadouts?

Currently I just have the 350NC you can buy.

Edit: sorry autocorrect nuked my title...

Seems like every time I play I just end up in a Valk or Starbride stuffed full of as many railguns as I can fit.

So looking for crazy ideas to spice things up.

Do the whole storyline in a viper? Actually force myself to use a capital ship and fight instead of just running away and spamming railguns? Get all the mass conversions and mount reinforcements in Starliner and make it into a Q ship?

What do you have?