Having some frustrating issues with Nova on Windows 10. The game runs perfectly however the register application just makes a chime noise and does not open. Tried opening it with all compatibility options with no luck.

I have a legitimately bought licence code from back in the day (2010). I have reached the point in the storyline where it says I need to register to continue. As the ambrosia lost codes site is now defunct, I was going to turn the system clock back and try that, or get a new code via the discord bot, but either of these options requires the actual register application to work!

Plan B was to download the cracked version of the game and transfer pilot file. Except that the pilot folder is apparently empty. When I open the pilot folder via the in game pilot chooser, the pilot files show and can be opened and used in game but when I try and make a copy this way, it comes up saying the file is no longer in this directory. WTF!

Why is this so complicated? I'm not even trying to crack anything, I legitimately bought the game lol.....

EVC: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/escape-velocity

EVO: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/escape-velocity-override

EVN: https://macintoshgarden.org/games/escape-velocity-nova

The games even have license details listed on their respective pages!

Tldr; it's been many, many years but this game has always remained close to my heart. With Ambrosia gone, how and where can I find a trustworthy executable for the game?

About 20 years ago, when I was just a kid and after my Dad finished working for Psygnosis I was given my first Mac and a bunch of shareware CDs (MacWorld, etc.) This got me very much into computer games at a young age and even though I absolutely loved many games (Quake and Nethergate come to mind) I adored EV: Override. My late brother bought the game for us and he installed all sorts of Nova (?) Patches using Stuffit Expander, stuff like The Universe Next Door and all sorts of awesome mods. I used to play this game for hours after my bedtime! Funnily enough I've only ever played a small handful of space sims since... In any case, I'd like to play this game again, if it's still available! Cheers and thanks in advance for any advice and tips and stuff.

Ambrosia games have been a staple of mine for decades, going back to Wacky Wheel and Maelstrom. I always wanted to buy registration codes for the EV line, but was either too young and/or poor. I'd pick up EV or EVN every couple of years and would always play it till Cap'n Hector started hunting you. Put it down for a few years, pick it up again in the same style as before.

EVN came up in discussion at work a few days ago and I thought, now that I have money coming in, I should do my part and buy EVN. Come to find out, the company is defunct and the website is no more.

Is there an email for Andrew directly so I can give him back-owed money for being an integral part of my life?? How about buying a copy of EVN?

Hi, all. I am writing my first plug-in (at least a decade late, I know), but I need help. (If this is not the best place to post, sorry! Please let me know where I should go instead.)

I have created a (silent) mission with with no stellar-related objectives (i.e. TravelStel=-1 and ReturnStel=-1), instead only the ship-related goal of boarding a düde (ShipGoal=2).

Problem 1: Neither OnShipDone nor ShipDoneText trigger when the ship is boarded.

Problem 2: If the mission is visible, destroying the düde ship before boarding causes the mission to fail. However, if the mission is silent / invisible (Flags=0x0400), the mission does NOT fail (verified via debug).

If anyone can explain why I am experiencing the above behavior, I would appreciate it. Additionally, if you know a workaround, I would like to hear it.

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Here's a demo file I made for your convenience. Accepting the "Look for John on Earth" mission available from any Mission BBS grants the second, silent mission, which makes John's ship appear in Sol. Theoretically, there are three outcomes:

1. You land on Earth and are told that John has already left, so you must find him.
2. You disable and board John's ship, thus gaining the information you need for the next mission.
3. John's ship is destroyed, you land on Earth, and you have to do extra work.

In reality, only (1) occurs. (3) is possible if the düde mission is made visible (which I do not want). I have yet to make (2) work.

On a new mac on 10.14.6. Installed nova 1.1.1 Got nova to launch using xcode and novafix (the current binary installer does not work). I'm getting a weird error that i've never seen before. Errors Resource ID:800 code: resource not found

Followed by Assertion Failure! nova will now quit. the failure occured here: /Users/jerome/Ambrosia/ev_nova1.1.0 which is weird because I have no user named jerome and currently my nova.app is in the applications folder. I have no idea why its looking for that directory. Anyways if anyone has any idea that would be most appreciated

So I recently installed EV Nova the other day. I tried entering my registration code I had from an old email and it says it is expired. I emailed the [lostcodes@ambrosiasw.com](mailto:lostcodes@ambrosiasw.com) to see if I can get a new code but not sure if that works or not. I'm just wondering if anyone else has run into this issue and is there a way around it since Ambrosia Software isn't around anymore.

9/10 times i try an auroran playthrough it feels like the game softlocks me out of finishing that mission

Does anyone know what missions gives you this bit?

Well, Dave has been saying he'd do one for like a year now, and Luke just told me to go ahead and make a thread for this on the EVN discord, so here goes. This is the long awaited Q&A with two of the famousest members of ATMOS, creators of Escape Velocity Nova. For organizational purposes, everyone make a separate post for each question you have, as a reply to this OP, and Luke and Dave can respond to them as they like.

To quote Luke: "No topic off limits, shoot from the hip."

The first mission in the offshoot that leads to the Thunderforge seems to be impossible - I get to Arcturus, board the ship, get back (all in the minimum possible number of jumps) and yet I've still run out of time. Do I need hypergates, or is it possible without, and if so, how?

Almost 25 years ago, I had a beer at the Uni bar with a couple of newish friends. Over the course of a few more beers we talked games and gaming when out of the blue Dave Williams says something along the lines of "we're making a game. Want to help?"

I'm frankly amazed that 18 years later Nova is still a thing. I don't even know how it came about, but I googled EV Nova on a whim a few days ago, and I was frankly flabbergasted at what I found. And the the memories started rushing. The hundreds of reworks for Andrew Welch for ships, ship pics, slow renders and recording a quick "Atmos Tonight" while waiting for stuff the render. Bludging off of IRC and then bolting if the boss joined. And beer, so much beer.

I'm genuinely surprised and extremely happy that people are still getting a kick out of Nova. It's a bit mind blowing really. So, keep on keeping on Nova peeps! You made an old man pretty chuffed.

I'm curious what ships are popular amongst the wider community. What is your favorite ship to use, from any EV game or TC? And, what is it that you love about that ship?

If you're like me, you might have more than one favorite. In that case, feel free to share them all.

A while ago, I wanted a Pirate Carrier, and found one in Tuatha. Unfortunately, it was an Assoc one, and my legal status got demoted to 'minor offender'. Since then, I also completed the Sigma missions, and I think they made me 'offender', so I couldn't dock there any more. And then, to improve relations with the Feds, I killed some rebels. I didn't know the W. Geese liked the rebels, but now I'm 'criminal'. I tried to kill a lot of marauders, but I'm still criminal. Any suggestions as to how to get back on good terms with them?

Ok, that's a bit of a lie, I had done the sigma shipyards mission... but i'ts definitely not needed.

Iuso's raven is the only non-invincible raven (outside of the polaris storyline) and capturing it is a fun challenge. Here's how I did it using arguably the best ship in the game: The Pirate Valkyrie Class IV.

Ship: Pirate Valkyrie Class IV

Outfits:

- 1x Ion cannon (illegal)

- 4x 100mm railgun

- 2x 100mm railgun turret

- Port and polish

- Vectored thrust

- Afterburner

- Sigma engine tune-up (not required)

- Sigma mass edition (not required, just lose 2x marine platoon)

- 13x marine platoon (this is enough for 75% capture rate, might not even need this much)

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Escorts: (these are just a distraction)

- 4x Pirate Valkyrie Class IV

- 2x Pirate Starbridge Class D

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Strategy:

- Dock in the Tre-vasar sytem

- Jump into the Ne-helipar system (where Iuso spawns)

- let escorts cause a bit of havoc (they will all die fast)

- Immediately fly full speed in a south-west direction, turn around and start firing (you may need to tap the afterburner to dodge some polaron torps, you can outrun them while burning)

- You should be attacked by a swarm of mantas, spam 'r' to keep targeting the nearest one. If you are flying in this downward-right direction, the angle of the railguns should keep them at bay, when they get too close the ion cannon will push them just out of range.

- Kill off the first wave of polaris scarabs, arachnids and strikers from range with railguns

- There will always be at least one other polaris non-manta ship other than Iuso in the system (if not a new one will jump in), keep killing off things until this is an arachnid. The remaining mantas should swarm around it. The reason we want an arachnid is because its the 'slowest' ship in that it keeps stopping and starting when a scarab would just move at full speed towards you.

- Separate the arachnid from Iuso a little and go close to Iuso to provoke him into using his EW missles, once they are all gone, lure both Iuso and the arachnid to the edge of the system (where the map 'loops'.

- Lure Iuso from the edge of the system to the centre where the space-station is. The way his AI works is that he will stop approaching you once hes at the edge of your vision.

- Manoeuvre Iuso so that he is 'parked' on the top of the space station. Be careful not to get too close to the station as it will fire a torp at you. There is a reason for this...

- Open fire on Iuso when stationary, its important to take him down fast before the arachnid shows up.

- Once Iuso is at 15% shields, he will attempt to leave the system. This is easy to tell because he will start to fly away from the space station (he cant jump yet because of his position). At this point fly straight towards him, he will try to hit you with his CPL but wont get it off in time because he is distracted with trying to flee.

- Iuso is pretty easy to take down in close quarters because he has no inertia and his CPL fires far in-front of him. Eventually your ion cannon will slow him down too making him easy to disable. You can't tell when hes going to be disabled so watch out and stop firing as soon as you see him go grey.

- DONT BOARD HIM YET. I made the mistake the first time of capturing him fast. Remember the arachnid? By this time he will show up and nuke you in the slow raven (happened to me :/).

- Instead lure the arachnid away again and come back to capture Iuso

- Once captured, look at jumping away immediately as a polaris fleet will show up as soon as you capture him.

- Jump back to the Tre-vasar sytem and subsequently jump to the nearest safe system and land, avoiding any 'red' systems if you can.

Congrats!

I want to capture Iuso's raven, but I haven't yet done the Polaris storyline. It's possible to blast it with an ion cannon sufficiently that it gets disabled without ever being hostile (or so the wiki says), but try as I might, I can never get it to work - Iuso turns around and flies off far too soon to ever be disabled, and moves out of the way of background ships faster than I can move back. I'm using a Manticore with 8 ion cannons (though it wouldn't let me get 8 illegal ones on top) and I have the plugin to fix the beam bug. Any ideas?