SE:V Changelog v1.28

16. Fixed - Improvements for "Total Targeted Damage" strategy option.
17. Fixed - Improvements for point defense spreading of damage.

This is goooood~~~

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Thank you for the update, Captain Kwok.

6. Fixed - It was possible to start a game with an empire breaking the tech or racial point limits.

..doh. I kind of liked that one. If its what I think it is.

Looks like next version will be realy playable (working PD, able to alt tab and do something else when procesing turns)

8. Added - "Change Email" and "Change Password" buttons to the Empire Options window.

Good for PBEM and answers a question I had about changing player passwords in game. No it was not but it will be

14. Fixed - After conquering a planet through ground combat, units that did not take part in ground combat dissappear (but are still there).

I was most diaapointed when it looked like I had captured some saterlites but then I found they would not launch and I could not even scrap them

Can we not get a choice when we build an atmospheric convertor as to what to change it to? Maybe a different plant for each atmosphere?

That would be nice but being able to change the atmosphere to that of the dominant race on the planet makes it worth building atmospheric converters on anexed or conqured worlds. Even more of an advantage in games where the AI will actualy surender.

You couldn't scrap the satellites? I could tell them to launch, but all it did was create an empty satellite group in space - they actually remained on the planet, and I could tell them to be scrapped which did get rid of them.

Changelog looking good. The improvements to TTD and PD are great, and the even distribution has bothered me for some time

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I would really like to see the problems with supply for fighters launched from fleets fixed. Right now if you don't launch fighters or drones all at once, the second wave has no supplies...

This seems like a pretty serious bug right now.

Javaslinger

When to be released?

SEV, more than a feeling.

probabably at the end of the month perhaps a coupel of change logs further on

What we need is AI scripting for cloaking

For that, couldn't you simply script something that checks what your default atmo is for your original race? Such as defaulting the facility to generate a set atmo as part of processing at game setup?

I have a stingy (or sadistic) habit of not sharing my planets with any but my own species. If I bother to capture, rather than glass a planet (I like a clean slate), I generally eject the offending captured populace into space. I also find this to be bordering speciesism, but it's a game so I will ignore the philosophical ramifications of xenophobic genocide. o.O;

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and will always long to return." ~Leonardo DaVinci

Then use transports to remove one race and deliver the other race. Then the converter will do as you want. But,yes, it would seem preferable to choose from a list of atmospheres if a converter is on a planet. Perhaps under "Settings Orders" in the bottom right panel on main screen.

I like that better too. I mean if I own the atmospheric converter, why can't I just tell it to convert the atmosphere to whatever I want. Hell, I can tell it to suck up all the atmosphere if I'm really in the mood. Maybe implement a button that can change the final atmosphere goal? Come to think of it, why can't I make my planets as unpleasant as possible? Not everyone believes in making their planets all nice and comfy.

Also, does it ever bother anyone that when you eject 4000M of an alien species into space no body makes a fuss about it? Even the other members of that race remains blithe. No loyalty drop, no happiness drop. I guess aliens are just things?

Ignoring the "ethical issue" of spacing a planets population, you do suffer a loss in the functionality of the colony as repopulating it with your own species will take time.

Personaly I would set things up such that spacing population would generate a severe reputation hit in any game and potentialy be a Mega Evil Empire trigger

I usualy have only my population, captured population is good only if it breathes different atmosphere and i use it to build facilities on world where my own cannot breathe. Once it is full (including Atmospheric convertor), they will get tickets to space and my colonists will arrive to nice BIG citties.

That sounds rather lengthy and unnecessary, but if it's your empire's style then so be it. Until Aaron makes racial traits apply to captured citizens and crew members (i.e. alien crew on ships built on alien colonies) there's no difference between our people and their people aside from what atmosphere is breathed and how fast they reproduce.

I once played an empire where my own people had difficulty reproducing so used alien citizens/slaves as my primary population.
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Happines traits works for captured population.
So if my pop is Emotionless, i does not have to worry about riots, even if I have colony in enemy system full of their ships.
If thgere were their population, they would not be em-less, so they would riot soon.

Anyone know if the mine cloak bug is fixed in the last series of patch fixes?

Thanks,

Javaslinger

havent seen that one in either of the post 1.25 change logs so far bu there is time for it to be

may be I missed the fix, so bear with me.

There is this vastly annoying bug about Repeat Order which is cancelled as soon as a way point is reached, and this other where the Pop transport minister don't work, or very lethargically (processing one order every x turns).

Are these fixed for the next patch?

I really wish someone was in closer contact with Aaron to give us a better timetable of when these things would happen and if he was truly aware of them.

Javaslinger

I´ve noticed that I get the message "your population is happy due to this treaty" (or whatever) when I am the one that accepts a treaty, but I get nothing when it is another player the one that accepts my treaty proposal.

Is this a bug? Shouldn´t happines work in both ways?

Master computers still need to be fixed... Since they don't scale to the size of a ship, they are too valuable for larger ships.

Adding the get_vehicle_size() function to components.txt could fix this.

Im thinking Aaron should try and tackle the memory leak problem in the next patch. It's probably the last major show stopping bug. Does anyone have any news on that?

Personally I think "drones can't be aimed" and "units deployed into existing group don't get initial supplies" is a much bigger show stopping bug than "you need to save and quit every 10 turns or so due to memory leak". But it's his choice ultimately. I'm just waiting for it to come out at all (start of next month) so I get "suicide warheads aren't overpowered" and "load/drop/launch cargo remotely" isn't broken.

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I don’t think that there are any actual total show stoppers to be honest there are some prize annoyances several candidates for which have been mentioned the one that gets me is the one hex short issue which has wide spread effects and was introduced in 1.25 grrr.

Hey Captain, perhaps you should report to Aaron that some religious buildings are a bit buggy at least in stock... The nature shrine isnt´t improving the value or the conditions on any planet in my systems.

I agree completely... these are my 'favorite' bugs presently...

Javaslinger

You cannot deny that the memory leak is really annoying. For everything else you can devise strategies how to get around those gameplay issues - but not for a memory leak where you can play 30 minutes and then you have to shut down the game and restart it.
I had a BM 1.03+FQM+Shipsets game in a 250 systems galaxy and memory use increased by 60MB every turn. That is clearly not normal.

If you want to talk about 'showstoppers' - start at the ludicrous AI in stock. (Yes, there are better AIs out there, but still they do not provide much of a challenge to experienced gamers.)

Mind you, you're having a much bigger memory leak than I am I admit. I'm playing a 50~70 Paradise system IRM+FQM game. So long as I remember to restart every hour or so, I've never had a problem with the memory leak.

And yes, we can agree that the poor AI is a problem - but that's something to fix slowly as more and more AI functions and scripts become available for Modders to get their hands on.

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I have a suspicion that the memory leak is partly at least pc set up specific I can play for about twenty turns before it irritates and I save and quit on of my two Pc's and much longer than that on my other Pc both are AMD 2500 single core machines with different makes of mother boards both have Radion graphics cards though not the same model one has about 8meg left on its primary partition and the other over two hundred with one meg and four meg of ram respectively. The machine with the higher memory and larger availed disk space lasts longest it also has a larger virtual memory max since it has a larger Primary partition.

On both I find minimising the program makes things worse and alt tab tends to crash it sufficiently frequently that I don’t do it any more. On the first machine setting auto save makes it worse but on the second it has no visible effect whatsoever. Both will eventually grind to a halt in end of turn processing and report that I am running low on virtual memory when I get back to windows both are running windows xp one home user one professional all drives etc are up to date.

I admit that it’s not a definitive sample but it makes me think

Nature Shrine works perfectly for me. You know it only works once every 1.0 year (10 turns) and only functions when the year is at .0 (such as 2403.0, 2412.0, 2407.0).

And anyone else notice the AI using organic weapons? I've only heard everyone seeing APB's. They've been behaving with organic tech as far as I've seen... o.O;

"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and will always long to return." ~Leonardo DaVinci

They used organic weapons against me in 1.25 with BM 1.03.

ver 1.35, BM 1.07 toxic injectors do not do anything, plague bombs report they will inflict a plague level 0 on a planet. I tried it anyway thinking they would just get a cold and pretend to be too sick to go to work the next day, but the PB caused a level 2 plague.

Please fix.

Has anyone successfully transferred just C.K.'s BM A.I. to stock? (for those who like more tech levels and a longer game)...

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