SE:V v1.54 History

Aaron > *

Jeez... I very much NEED this release... I'm going to find Aaron and kidnap him... I can't take it much longer!!!

Javaslinger

He's not saving all this for some kind of deluxe expansion pack is he????

Javaslinger

No more trying to colonize enemy homworld, becose i forget that this empty planet is not empty.

Nice update.
I like 9 the most, and 3-5 also look interesting.

I got a little patience left as far as waiting for the next patch to be released.

If a 1.55 change log/history shows up on the forums, and an official patch isn't released soon after, then I will start to whine and complain and if no patch happens at that time then I probably just sulk and ignore SE V while depressed and then go back to SE IV...
(I got a Mega Evil Empire image to uphold in SE IV, the "Eee" shall become the "Eeek!"...)

#9 =)
Groovy Baby Yeah!

I had given up on any remembered sight, then Aaron gives us #9! I believe this is the first time any sight of this kind has been in a Space Empires game.

Also... bring out the patch! Bring out the patch! *gathers countrymen together, whom all summon up pitchforks and torches out of nowhere*

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A project a day keeps the deadline away.

So does that mean that the planet won't show up in a 'Colonizable and Empty' list now if you've seen it with a colony on it?

Yea! Number nine ROCKS! I wish we could get this patch soon!

"9. Added - Limited Sight Memory for planets. If you see a planet with a colony on it, then when that planet is no
longer in current sight it will show the last empire's flag you saw there. The flag will be darkened in
the Main window and darkened on reports and on the Planets window"

THANKYOU! Now I can try to make time to start playing Space Empires V again! Maybe after another game of Civilization IV Beyond the Sword.

There are a few more items in my wish list for an update/patch that I'll post again another time; but this was one of the main items. Thankyou!

So when do we get to purchase an expansion that incorporates a version of space travel like Faster Than Light/Warp along with the warp points and much improved AI and many other items later? Huh? Please? I'll also post them later again. Many of us have posted our wishes. Thankyou for reading and caring! We continue to support Malfador Machinations (Aaron) for the continued commitment to OUR beloved game/hobby. Even us "lurkers" are still watching, playing, and waiting. Thankyou!

"1. Fixed - The default AI strategy file had some extra text which was causing an error."

This sounds like a focus in the AI improvement might be starting. Please and thankyou!

-Wade

I think #7 should apply especially on Quick Start and Tutorial games. Because for newbies, it's confusing when you accidentally hit ~ and none of your key presses work any more. Since you didn't hit ~ on purpose, you don't know you need to hit ~ to stop. You might not even notice the letters appearing in the lower left corner when you type because they're in a small, dark red font.

Wow! If Aaron's still trying to fix alliances after that savegame I sent, he ain't afraid to tackle nothin'.

I suspect #1's going to help a bit, particularly with the 1.53 fixes.

They'll need to do something special the day this patch is released, like make the background of the entire forum "glow" by continually changing colors. There should be no chances taken that someone might lose precious minutes before getting patched up.

I hope the popular #9 will get an equivalent for the AI's but I think we're all happy to see it in any form.

Just watch me be out of town when the big day finally comes. Murphy's Law. Maybe I'll do you all a favor and leave early.

#9 --- Great! So simple and basic that it's mind boggling why they forgot to put it in the first place! Thanks to the developers for this I hope you don't stop improving the game as there's still a lot that needs doing.

Repeat after me people WE WANT THE PATCH NOW WE WANT THE PATCH NOW ETC..lol ..kiddin no but seriously i'm like checkin every day for that so promising patch and it's pure torture to make us wait that long for it , but i understand that the longer we wait the less buggy the game will be .. and thanks for that 1.54 changelog and your hard work..

#9 is HUGE. This is a mega enhancement that will streamline initial gameplay. Amazing. I'm thrilled. Time to reinstall this game and call my buddies and tell them to buy the game. Course, gotta wait for the patch...

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Yah, transit times for WPs would be very neat, and hopefully something that we might see in the near future.

I expected #9 to be in the expansion but it's a great suprise.Release the patch.

I feel compelled to add my two cents worth: RELEASE THE PATCH!

Sorry for the pile-on, but yes, it really is time for a public patch.

Piling on is fairly pointless, since Malfador will never see this thread..

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I wouldn't expect warp-style drives before SE VI, if ever.

"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it /is/ a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.

it's no good if the patch gets released broken...

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an se5a is a ww1 fighter, it is also a car.

Look on the bright side. Only 46 more little patches and we are at SE VI!

Asking when the patch will come out is the gaming equivalent of "Are we there yet?".

"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it /is/ a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.

#9 is great, although I was puzzled by how so many people weren't touching SE5 until it had colony remembrance, even though SE4 didn't have it either and it was never patched in.

#9 is great little feature, but it wouldnt stop me playing the game.

I think it was a just a couple of users making an awful lot of noise about nothing.

Darren

Nothing to you perhaps but look at all the responses about this. This one is HUGE!

Groovy Baby Yeah!

Only noise I hear is the belittling BS spewing forth from your bloated lips. STFU and stop invalidating others posts. You make me sick. You should be banned.

Come on you two, this bickering is pointless. Now calm down before you get a time-out.

Sigh, where are the moderators?

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StarCraft 2, it's about damn time!

Yeah, it's a big deal for some.
Even I consider it a big deal.
"Drushocka controlled system" or "Drushocka colony/colonies here" in the system notes just isn't very informative at times.
Even if I tried to take down more detailed notes, I can get absent minded in the monotony of sending ships here and there and would probably forget to note down which planets had whose colonies with whatever population/stuff on them.

Even if I did make the notes, they wouldn't help if I forgot to check them, and seeing an empire flag o some planet in the middile of nowhere would remind me to check the system notes to see what I did remember to write down.

It also helps give a basis of a quick and easy way of estimating enemy expansion if you know where they have colonized already without having to look through the notes of each system seperately.

I'm glad this functionality is being added, but honestly, I'm a little surprised that some folks have labeled this a "shelve it" issue.

In any event, though, a short term workaround is to mark a known colony planet as a minefield. Imperfect, but it's at least a reminder that can be used in conjunction with the system notes.

I understand how cool it is to have #9, but I read a lot comments to the effect of "Back to SE4 until they fix this", which is a strange attitude considering that SE4 didn't have it either.

I made such a 'back to SE IV' comment myself, but I was refering to a new patch in general, with all of the fixes made after 1.44.
#9 alone wouldn't cause me to put up SE V in favor of SE IV.

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Cool, #9 will reduce the amount of work you need to put into the game by a lot!

"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it /is/ a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.

This patch is huge!

I really can't wait to start a new game with 1.54 or later.

It would be my guess that Aaron will start working more on the AI and balancing issues in the future since it looks like most of the problems are solved.

..unless there are more problems that we don't really know about.

Alliances and TCP/IP games are two of the remaining features with major faults. After those, I don't know of anything significant.

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A project a day keeps the deadline away.

TCP/IP might have been fixed. There was an item back on 1.47 (I think, could be 1.48) that addressed files failing to be transferred in MP when the host hadn't completed their turn. Nobody seemed to notice or comment on it besides me, though.

I hadn't noticed that, but I was thinking more along the lines of making it more intuitive. I have yet to get a game that can connect without the use of hamachi. And it seemed that the host was dedicated, rather than listen, and so can't play. Am I right about this?

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A project a day keeps the deadline away.

When should the host make his empire, then? When the players make their empires, the host has that option greyed out. Is it after you start the game that the host is given the opportunity, or does he create his during game setup?

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A project a day keeps the deadline away.

I like the #9 feature too, and rditto48801 summed it up best. However, will the next patch be playable or will it be like 1.44 from 1.35? Then if so, will an "easy fix" be withheld when an "access violation" error gets fixed, like it currently is? Its kind of crappy to me. So, when others have said "back to IV" until fixed, I can see why.

Since there are some big changes coming with the next patch perhaps when the next "access violation" error gets fixed, a patch to fix it should be released right away, otherwise its "back to IV".

A phong trader? Is that an alien lingerie dealer....

Groovy Baby Yeah!

http://www.spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/4092

has TCP/IP instructions for SEV. (It was posted in the wrong forum.)

"Good morning, Pooh Bear," said Eeyore gloomily. "If it /is/ a good morning," he said. "Which I doubt," said he.

I like it when I go over to see my friend and she is wearing a Phong and T-shirt...

1.56 Sounds like two or three more weeks to me. Rats!

Such is the way of things.

Though Kwok should know better than to trust his intel source, he could very well be an Eee wearing a Phong mask .

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So...Captain Kwok has a Phong on his face?

Not Kwok, but his source...

Based on a SEIV joke about intel gathering in that game, I think SJ did this?

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p49/Varek_Raith/SEIVIntel.png

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StarCraft 2, it's about damn time!

Alright. Yes, I remember seeing that joke. It's good speculative irony.

I was just trying to use funny word combinations. "Phong on his face"...