Paralysis

[John Channing]

Originally Posted by Floater

The game itself didn't lock up - it's just that it wouldn't respond to any commands I tried except Esc. The boat and the ship kept sailing, the sea was moving, the sound was playing, and all that. The mouse cursor was active, but I couldn't switch into "look around with the mouse" mode.

My guess is that the almost simultaneous "ship spotted" and "we've been spotted" caused some kind of conflict, since it was at that moment that the lock-up occurred.

There was no lasting damage - after escaping and continuing, everything was fine.

Did ypu have the chief engineer at his station below? I made the mistake of putting mine on watch and not replacing him and found out the hard way that you can't do nuthin' unless he is there!

JCC