SE:V Changelog v1.25

Me thinks the games starting 1.25 (or 1.26) and BM 1.03 are different kind of beast ehehehhehehehe

Wow

Lots of updates; I can't wait to get the patch

Will it still be released tomorrow?

Almost definitely. It will probably include the modding doc, too.

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Watch for my mod - codename: Dimensions - coming by Summer, 2007!

Hopefully next month's release (end of Feb) will be the patch that will fix the many drone problems, which will bring the game to an extremely playable state with me. Well, ideally I'd also like asymmetric Task Force formations to be handled correctly (sometimes, Escort/Picket ships just don't like being in the formation I wrote for them) but that's something I can do without for a long time.

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Playing Touhou games (Go here if interested . No, nobody else is that good/insane as that replay). No rush for SE V bug fixing.

is has been particularly interesting to watch how the AI handled my previously-seemingly-unstoppable empire after i switched positions...

It's odd how that empire has suddenly adopted the tactic of sending lone ships into systems FULL of massed enemy forces.

What did Rommel say?

It doesn't matter how many tanks you have if you let me destroy them piecemeal?

Does the AI have no "MASS FORCES for attack" concept?
Or - as Psieye implies, memory/awarenes of deadly places?

Does it take "note" of such conditions?

Troll? No, Sir, I am a BADGER!

OH
MY
GOD

...speaking of something really changing balance of the game...

I know its all been mentioned before, but not that it amtters anyway:

things change.

So what's the current scoop?

Troll? No, Sir, I am a BADGER!

Things may get scary with:

It will it will already use them if you make it build them and has done for some time. I hope it will do so without being made to.

Anyone notice if population ministers are fixed as of yet? That is the most mind numbingly repetitive task and the only thing I would love to delegate to a minister....

Thanks,

Javaslinger

I have seen the population minister sort of work in that in the few games where I had multiple home worlds on late on it did in stock dident in IRM and Balence Mod. I have got it to work by flying population transports off into space a sector or two in sensor range of a large highly populated planet then seting up the minister. Some times bu not allways the ship will then fly to the planet fill up and then distribute population but not always. One thing to note is that if it starts it will continue until everywhere is filled up.

I agree with Javaslinger it and the colony minister are the prime two I would use particularly once I had more than one colony tech. I have a real talent for sending t he wrong ship type to colenize a world.

I managed to make it work in IRM. But transports are not controlled by population ministers, they pretty much act on their own. They scan for planets to pick stuff from, then find a planet to drop them on. It work fairly well for my AI as many have found out, but difficult to get working when you are too selective with your ministers. Enabling/disabling ministers seem buggy.

It's here.

SEV, more than a feeling.

And we steam-players have to wait at least half-a-day extra........

explains a bit...

i was annoyed my steam kept calling mine version 1.20, doesn't seem to update, and won't let me download the patch...

urrrrrh.

Troll? No, Sir, I am a BADGER!

he he, 125 fixes total for patch 1.25

Should I update to the patch immediately or should I wait if I'm playing in a few PBW games? It doesn't mention anything about backwards compatibility.

If you've got PBW games to consider, it's probably best to wait until the PBW site has it up and running, since that's where the turns are processed. I know that I don't plan on installing the patch until then.

Hopefully an updated, backward-compatible Balance Mod will be out soon, and then PBW will get it installed. I have no predictions as to how long it will take, for all I know there could be some compatability issues that muck things up.

nice... was waiting for this long time, prolly gona wait bit longer.

They need to put in the option to not have patches and the start of a new game change your settings and preferences.

BM 1.02 isn't backwards compatible with 1.25, you have to make a one line change in settings. Thats all it takes as far as I have seen. Kwok, confirm/deny?

Kwok & Fh...
noticed some ofyour banter and wondered...

if they changed some of the scripts you modded...

would the patch effectivley "patch over" your changes, making the mod jsut 1.25?

Or perhaps make some of your script irrelevent?

Simply curious - noticed last night that the AI in my IRM game...

suddenly seems pretty inactive.

Maybe not; maybe its this or that- but i'm a bit suspicious.

btw: in discussing settings, i had thought crew boarding strength meant the BOARDERS crew not the SHIP crew-
set it back to .3, and now my 40-marine boarders take a colony ship about 50/50 - just a little update for ya's.

Troll? No, Sir, I am a BADGER!

What exactly does this mean? What is the 'previous empire' of a subjugated nation? Why should their migration habits be any different than any other group?

You might say like a steam cleaning..

Maybe i didn't read the changelog carefully enough & shouldn't be surprised?

But for those with the Automatic Steam Update;)

When it updated to 1.25

IT CHANGED MY DATA FILES

It didn't get my MOD folders-
which may or may not be Why my once-beloved IRM AI is acting so . . . paralyzed?

But what it DID get?
My personal mod's i'm working on for stock.
I have a simple old game i run little changes on to sim battles... playtest my torpedo theories, for example.

Guess what?
my "missile launchers" turned back into Capital Ship Missile launchers.

my torps are boring old torps again.

I don't know what else changed...

But just a heads up - if you have mod'd component or other data files, you better back them up before you upgrade.

say cheese!

Found out the hard way.
Never thought of my changes as ambitious enough to warrant their own folders...
Sigh.

s'okay - the real work had Just BeGun.

I think that I just don't understand the how the game uses 'migration'. I was under the impression that citizens of other empires could migrate to your empire and vice versa.