SE:V v1.34 Changelog

Awesome. A lot of those fixes were REALLY needed. Hope to see an official patch sometime soon.

Do turns process faster now?

"2. Fixed - Bolt weapons were not firing on ringed planets."

Does he know the bug affects non-ringed as well?

I hope that these are addressed soon:

Priorities that would be appreciated in a patch:
-the following features implemented for the AI:
Planet creators/destroyers
Star creators/destroyers
Nebula creators/destroyers
Black Hole creators/destroyers
Storm creators/destroyers
Warp point creators/destroyers
Ringworld and Sphereworld creation
-better AI
-"the fog of war" issue fixed/implemented(Opponent planets, ships, fleets, bases, etc. shown faded out with the date that information was last seen.)
-option at the begining of an encounter to not fight; the AI use this often; and let the choice affect relations
-an alliance victory
-tone down Mega Evil Empire; relations should gradually decline; alliances that MEE has should decline even more gradually; empires further away should be less affected towards the MEE
-scrapping population causes unrest and lowers relations with others; mass destroying opponent population lowers relations with others

Whooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!
5. Fixed - Old movement log entries were not being deleted properly resulting in a memory leak.
That makes me happy!

I think it safe to asume so as old move logs are no longer building up and using all the pc's virtual memory. So there will be more avalible memory and that generaly speeds up processes

I'm still hoping to see a fix for automove not using the current target for its movement. Tactical combat with large numbers of ships is almost impossible with this bug.
Overall better tactical AI is also important...

Otherwise, the bug with firing on planets and the memory leak fix are both great fixes.

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And now in the list if serious bugs, rest the one of acceleration time different results.....

Maybe is fixed in 1.35

Things i wish to see fixed :

1 : All the strategy options to work (like when ships retreat or not)

2 : Some option in strategy that make ships keep their distance, but not retreat from battle (so they can blocade a planet and not break fleet).

3 : That a planet domed status be determined by the largest population on planet. The non breather left on planet should stop reproducing and have an heavy emigration rate to breathable planet.

4 : The possibility of creating custom fleets and task forces for the AI.

"2. Fixed - Bolt weapons were not firing on ringed planets."

Does he know the bug affects non-ringed as well?

I really really hope so.

A lot of the times when you fix a bug, it ends up fixing several closely related bugs. The entire problem may have been caused by how the game handled ringed worlds, in that they may have been being applied even to worlds without rings.

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same thing goes with bug fixes breaking other stuff but I would agree with thy reaper.

Here the issue seems to have been related to the weapons range being insuficent to reach the target point of ringed and larger planets.

So with #5, does that maybee mean that sev will be able to be minimized and still allow for other things? I know it process turns when minimized now, but It takes up so much that it is immpossible to do anything else...

I doubt Aaron H. does read this thread.

But you can always send him an email regarding bugfixes/feature requests.

With those good fixed I can only hope that the next official patch will be released soon.

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Ooh, I like the error codes... those could be useful for multiplayer, so you don't have the old "submitted the wrong turn file -> AI takes your turn" bugaboo! Though I wonder with all the firing on/from planets stuff, did he get this one:

Weapons fired from platforms fire from the planet's surface. However, weapons fired AT planets have to target the planet's CENTER. This means that an unmounted DF weapon fired from a larger sized planet can easily outrange a similarly leveled missile fired AT the planet!

Another little thing I'd like to see, too - really minor but none of the text boxes in the game allow you to use the arrow keys or home/end to navigate the text, or to copy/paste... in order to correct an error you have to backspace all the way to it and retype everything afterward! Rather annoying when writing diplomatic messages...

Oh, one more... even with "warp points always visible" off, you can see the warp lines for warp points which are in unexplored sectors, and you can even navigate them by issuing a moveto to a charted system on the other side! This I think takes something away the exploration and surprise aspects of the game... imagine if aliens could pop out of a warp point you didn't even know existed because you forgot to scan that corner of the system!

Glad to see Aaron getting back on the fixes though!

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Or your Race history and such...

I hear midgets singing praises! And just why does our society have the preconception that midgets are funny or that most any smaller-than-us critter is funnier by default in many cases?

Mem leak fixed. Finally I can populate the quadrant with more than twenty AI empires! With the new patch, just wait for the new IRM and I will finally stop patching until I can enjoy a lengthy game! Hooray!

....well, provided there are no new accidental breaks, like the ring planet issue. 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

But of course you will be working too. Right WandaerDaeker....

Indeed.

"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

These also please:

-Show the ship class(along with the ship name) in the "retofit button list" and the "Fleet Transfer list" and other places that ship name is displayed. This is so that deciding which ships to upgrade will not be so tedious. Currently only the ship list button allows ship name and class side by side.

-only have the non-breathers of a planet domed incurring a penalty to production, research, etc. Still keep the term "Domed" for the games tradition sake: example: "10% Domed incurring a (??)% penalty to all types of planetary production." (Perhaps Domed population could work at 50% capacity (or what a currently Domed planet does). Thus it could read:"10% Domed incurring a 5% penalty...")
The non-breathers left on a planet will have a higher emigration rate to a breathable planet.

-The production of a planet will be divided amongst the number of ground and orbital ship yards. (Thus it might be best to build more shipyards only when production of ships approaches one or two turns.) More than one ground based ship yard allowed for planets so that more than one production at a time can take place. (If a tiny or small planet currently allow one ship yard then larger planets should allow more; especially Ringworlds and Sphereworlds.)

WADE STOP EDDITING!!!! IT SCREWS UP THE ORDER!
Just make a new post bud.

Captain. From previous experience, Aaron usually releases 3~5 beta patches before making them public. Yet Aaron also aims for the beginning of the month as his public patch release date. Given this patch is pretty significant, will v1.35 be public or beta-only?

Also, do we know whether Emissive Armour is going to be changed again?

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I really really hope to be public......

I would say due to the necessity of some of the fixes it should be made public and soon.

The bolt weapon issue is rather significant really.
Especially considering it also seems to affect bombs.
I hope it'll be out soon.

~Myrath

Well, since major AI improvements (AI able to use Cloaking, Alliances, etc., it is) aren't to be expected for now, I don't really care if it's public or not.

Just play online against other players and you won't have to worry about it.

Really the only thing that I want fixed is the planets issue, everything else will be just extra for me
Oh and I would like space monsters!!!! THATS NOT EXTRA ITS REQUIRED!!!MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA!!!!

There's many people who are experiencing the population transport minister not working.

pop transport minister not working for me.

What about the AI still making troops without weapons and drones without warheads? That seems like it would be pretty easy to fix. This still wouldn't make the AI challenging to play, but what the heck. A journey of 1000 miles, and all that.

I've been discussing the planet issue with MM, and he seems to think the problem doesn't exist with normal planets. I've sent him a save game and detailed an example, so hopefully the whole issue will be fixed in 1.35.

Also, the population minister is working fine for me. It's a bit stupid at times, but still works. Did you enable ministers for the ship?

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-I have population transport turn on in empire options
-Ship has minister enabled {CTRL-T}
-The ship has many cargo bays
-The ship has no current order
-The ship has movement point and supply
-The ship is of type "Pop. Transport" as per stock game.
-I have one full planet of population and one newly colonized

Ship doesn't move.

Doing it manually is far faster.