I must say, I'm a sucker for the cheating ways. I usually just get right up next to it and pummel it with the forklift. (Which, in 1.0.1 anyway, doesn't hurt me any but hurts him plenty)
Quite frankly, I don't think I've ever tried without the forklift before... (even in 1.0.0...)
While I'm here, does anyone think it would be interesting to have varying background textures available in the game? Like, you could have the normal starfield, a cloudy starfield for in a nebula, maybe some distant asteroids in an asteroid belt, or even ground textures for simulated atmospheric flight (all changeable by plugin makers, of course) Obviously, this is for a future upgrade, not 1.0.2. Hey, maybe even implement it in a sequel... (yet more wishful thinking)
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Knucklehead, Aeon Productions
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