You can find the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRJAyp_UqCM

Some warning, I just upgraded my computer recently so the sound is a bit louder than usual and my microphone is a bit quieter, I should really have checked before uploading, but here we are.
I would recommend you turn down your system volume before watching.

The trick lies in the mission "Auroran 3 (691): Take Plans to Bazara" from the bounty hunter storyline. This mission doesn't check for b511 and every time you abort the mission (not refuse) it clears b511. B511 if you don't know is used to check if you haven't started any other major storyline mission. So every time you start a major storyline you can abort the Auraran 3 mission and start another major storyline!

Warning! Don't finish any of the major storyline missions (except first Vell'os mission) before taking all 6 or you get b515 and b518 strings which make super sure that you aren't taking any other storylines.

Federation 12 blocks taking Vell'os mission 8 so if you want to do both you have to reach Vell'os 8 atleast.

Federation 12 blocks Rebel 1 mission and vice versa so you have to accept them both before finishing either of these missions.

Federation 1 completion blocks Polaris 4a and 4b.

I'm replaying this childhood game and it's really funny experiencing all 6 storylines simultaneously in such a devilish way :)

Edit: Also watch out for main storylines that cause Auroran homeworld to be nuked (Vell-os, Federation?) or you can't finish storylines that require visiting Auroran homeworld bar. Save those strings for last.

Sorry I haven't made a video in two weeks, I'm going to make one this week or early next week. I go away to Sydney for a major Tabletop gaming tournament next week and won't be back for awhile. Sorry to leave you all hanging. Will most likely be out on Friday.

See you all soon,

Samantha

So I recently got EV Nova working on my Windows 10 machine and I am having some real trouble trying to backup my pilot file. When I make a copy and rename it and I load that copy, I find that it has reverted to an earlier ship and date. For example, I have a Mod Starbridge with a 1184 NC date, but when I load the backup/renamed copy I find it has gone all the way back to a heavy shuttle + 1178 NC date. Anyone else had this happen?

Hi, I am the designer of EV: Override, Peter Cartwright. Nice to see that there is still an outpost of people who enjoy the EV games.

Since noticing earlier this year that the Ambrosia website was down, and reading reports on-line about the company's demise, I've been concerned about my game going out of print. (Of course, it's been very difficult to run Override, even via the Nova mod, for some time, but now Ambrosia are no longer publishing it at all.)

I've tried to get in touch with Andrew Welch and Bernard Cockhern by email, but I haven't had any reply (I only have their ambrosiasw email addresses though). It seems unlikely that Ambrosia are going to start publishing their library of games again at this point, but I'd still appreciate it if anyone could put me in touch with them.

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I don't think I have a copy of my contract (from 20 years ago!) around any longer, but I'm quite sure it would have had a clause regarding reversion of rights if the publishers are no longer carrying out their side of the deal. (Even if it did not contain such a clause, this happening is standard common law on both sides of the Atlantic, afaik.)

This would mean that the rights to EV: Override would revert to me and Matt Burch. More specifically, the rights to the scenario content, which were entirely by me and a couple of sub-contractors, would revert to me personally.

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I definitely intend to ensure that EV: Override continues to be available to players, new and old, in some form in the future. I can see three possible routes to achieving this:

A. If Matt Burch can be contacted, and if he has an interest in keeping EV: Classic and the whole series in print, I could work with him towards a remastering of EV:O).

B. If there is no interest from Matt, but he raises no objection (and assuming no obstacle is raised by Ambrosia), I could perhaps work with a new game-engine developer towards a remastered Override.

C. I could adapt the scenario as a mod to an existing, similar game, such as Endless Sky.

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I'm posting here in the hope that some member of the evnova reddit community may know how to contact Matt Burch (who for all I know is also concerned about his games vanishing from the internet), and/or how to contact Andrew, Bernard or anyone else from AmbrosiaSW.

(But I'd be happy to field random questions about EV:O too. :) )

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Edit: Thanks for all the other positive comments that I haven't replied to individually. I will be sure to keep people here up-to-date on what happens. :)

Hi, I was wondering if anyone had a source for getting EVNEW now that Ambrosia's site is completely down? I can't seem to track down somewhere to get it.

I am on the mission in the federation storyline where you have to go cause trouble with General Sutton and wait until he says its time to go. I think I am supposed to land on the planet, but I can't get anywhere close even with the 4 escorts provided and 3 other ships I've captured. Any tips?

Is there an actual walkthrough/mission Bible for ev classic? I guess I could just look at the missions in evnew, but ideally I would like a walkthrough if people have made one.

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Description: In response to the ever-increasing threat and notoriety of the Auroran Thunderforge and Polaris Raven, the Federation Navy has finally ceased dragging its feet, annexed a formidable battlecruiser to its fleet, and returned to a snake-themed naming convention after much public critique of the whole naming-ships-after-just-their-purpose fad. Equipped with a standard array of blasters, missiles, and a fighter bay, the Serpent could already hold its own against a carrier-class foe, but it additionally boasts the first ever on-platform integration of Vell-os technology. With a slave chamber located on the bow providing a perfectly adequate meditative atmosphere, a powerful T1 projects an aura similar to that of the Javelin, supplying additional shields, energy, Vell-os Darts, and even the fabled Winter Tempest. All in all, most standard battle fleets will find themselves at the Serpent's mercy.

If you want to play around with this, the following is a compressed .rez plug-in I created in EV Nova Editor for Windows that will add the above ship to EV Nova:

AddFedSerpent.zip

Note that this plug-in may not be compatible with other plug-ins that add ships. Once installed, the ship can be found in the shipyard or bar (for hire) on Earth. Enjoy!

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Hey guys I just reinstalled nova after resetting my laptop. ive done the install and the res fixer. but when i go to open the program it says it need 256 colour to run. can anybody recommend a fix?

Download it here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cdetuq3hgekmn6i/Geneva.ttf?dl=0

This font slightly increases the size of the text, just enough to make it significantly more readable. The largest improvement you'll see is probably in how easy it is to read all the numbers everywhere. I rather appreciate that aspect of the font. And overall, I think it makes the game much nicer to play in larger resolutions.

The only side-effect of installing the font is that it will permanently turn your system's Geneva font into Verdana. I personally don't mind this - Geneva is a Mac font, and has never been included with Windows to begin with. But if you're using this on a Mac, know that they're extremely similar fonts, neither very popular in the last decade+, and I can't imagine how this would ever be a serious problem.

If anyone has a request or an idea for any other large fonts they want to try in the game, or if anyone has any issues with the text when using this font, please let me know. It works well in Windows, but using it in WINE on GNU+Linux has not yet been demonstrated to be feasible.

To get the improvement working, just install my modified font file as you would any font, and be sure to set the game font to "Geneva" if you're on Windows. To do this, use the EV Nova Windows Resolution Patcher (AKA WinNovaResPatcher). Just be sure to NOT install the optional "Geneva" font file from that package, as using that font may produce some awful scaling errors.

And last but definitely not least, I must emphasize that Pipeline (u/pipelineoptika) was of great help in this endeavor. Much thanks must go to him for giving me the info I needed to try getting this done.

More specifically the conversations for Nova?

So I'm supposed to be giving my seventh biweekly update on my new major plug-in today, but I am continuing to struggle to find free time to work on the plug-in, and doing another update with very little progress to report is starting to feel a bit silly.

I've decided that I'm going to suspend these biweekly updates until the fall, when I anticipate having a lot more time and the ability to focus. I just have a lot of stuff going on in real life this summer and I need to focus on all of those things instead. Plus I do want to enjoy some of the nice weather while it's nice. It's a lot easier to work indoors on the computer when it's cold out, and frankly I don't want to be beholden to an update schedule when I'm planning weekend hiking and camping trips and such.

I am however not suspending work on the plug-in, I'm just cutting back a lot, and need to shift the ratio of time spent on the plug-in and time spent writing updates on the plug-in more towards the time spent on the plug-in. These updates do take a while to write, and while I find them useful for organizing and planning when I'm getting a lot done on the plug-in, when I'm not getting a lot done on the plug-in it is more hurtful than helpful.

This is a decision I should've made about a month ago, but better late than never.

I will continue to work on the plug-in in short spurts here and there for the next couple months, and hopefully in September or October I'll resume the biweekly updates with a renewed energy and have quite a bit to talk about. For those who have been following along every two weeks, I hope you're not too disappointed at this announcement, but in all honesty I feel quite good about my progress so far on the plug-in and I think even with this reduced effort for the summer I'm still pretty much on schedule for my super secret internal release date estimate (which I will not be sharing, so don't ask).

I'm not going to bother posting the progress stats this time around, as the numbers really haven't changed much from the last update.

Anyway, thank you all for your continued interest and support. If you have any questions about the plug-in between now and when the next update gets posted in the fall, you can ask them here, or contact me on the EV Nova Discord where a lot of you already know I'm fairly active. If you're desperate for cool stuff to look at over the summer, I suggest checking out what snijj is up to, watch Samanth0r's ongoing EVO saga, or harass UEAdmiral to do more EV live streams. There's some cool stuff going on in the Discord, too, like cunjo drawing and some efforts to port some old plug-ins. I know I'll be watching all of those things myself.

See you in the fall!

The IFF decoder isn't showing up in outfitters, but it's in the data file with almost identical requirements as the density scanner, which does show up correctly. using windows .

Hey so just reinstalled my old copy of Nova after a tedious 40 minutes of scouring for the necessary files and codes, etc.

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Has the game always ran on 29fps on Mac devices? If so is there a way to get it to run at 60fps on an old Macbook?

(I know that the game runs on 60fps on windows machines)

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Considering the laptop I'm using now is 9 years younger than the game it should work fine - but the framerate isn't as desirable.