First of all, thanks for bringing back Privateer, and speciall thanks to Hellcat for the engine. One hell of a good engine, considering it can do realistic physics, and yet is flexible enough to emulate old WC pseudophysics ;-)
A donation is acoming, I pledge $100, just gotta go to the bank and get a MO. This week, for sure.
Now the bad news:
I'm running the Linux version, first install, medium difficulty, NOT using any previous version save games as this is my first install, and I get two savegame related bugs:
1) Occasionally it forgets what my last savegame was, or maybe it doesn't read the date and time of the files correctly, so it starts by default in the wrong savegame, and I have to manually load game and select the last savegame manually.
2) Two bugs seem to relate to the radar and to savegame. They occurr during the missions for the Oxford library.
2a. In the second mission, against Black Rhombus, if I destroy the Black Rhombus ship near me or while colliding with it, my radar loses the ID coloring, but even after returning to oxford and repairing it, the ID feature is still lost for all subsequent missions. I found the only way this doesn't happen is if I destro the Black Rhombus from a distance. I have a Centurion and the BS Omni. I say this relates to the savegame because repairing of the Omni doesn't seem to get saved.
2b. In the third mission (escorting the rare books shipment against hunters) the hunters appear green, as friends, and won't shoot at me at all, only the cargo ship, no matter how much I shoot at them. This did not happen the first time I tried to play this mission. however. The first time, the leader looks green while he says he'll take the books, then turns red; but every time I've tried to replay this mission he stays green on my radar, and so I cannot pass the mission, since I cannot get them to target me.
I say this relates to the savegame because, otherwise, quitting the game and restarting it would cure the problem, but it doesn't.
Unless you can come up with a quick manual edit I could do, I suppose I'll have to go out and hunt a few hunters, to make sure they are my enemies before going into this mission...
Cheers!