POLL->things we'd really like in Next Patch (Platinum II)

[geoschmo]

RE: Adding facility spots. It's not as "sexy" maybe as adding a new hardcode feature toy, but you can mod in combo facilities that have the ablilities of different kinds of facilities, or enhanced facilities that are like two of the same kind of facilitiy. Does the same thing pretty much.

Geoschmo

[Skulky]

*light clicks on in head* What if the views of these systems you "saw" were stored on YOUR harddrive? YOUR hard drive would take a "screenshot" each turn, then check if it needed to update it with a new one from the current .gam file. If it didn't then it would save it for your viewing. I already do this for one of my games with the "print screen" command and then placing it in a .ppt file only it doesn't have as much detail as a game generated one would.

If it was turned on in the normal game then each player (depending on their HD space) coudl decided whether to use it or not. I don't think you'd have a problem with hacking either, despite the generally honest nature of everyone here, because, unless you tricked the game into thinking you had a ship there you wouldnt' get a "newer" update.

Hope that makes sense.

[Will]

That could work... screenshots would be vastly inefficient, but saving system information into a seperate file (e.g. gameName_playerNumber.map, or whichever file extension) could work nicely. Would be more... graphical than keeping a Notepad (either the Windoze or the physical variety)archive of each game.

Thus, it becomes an individual player's option, and doesn't bog down TCP/IP, PBW, PbEM... Why didn't I see that?

Oh well.

[Suicide Junkie]

What about the ability to save simultaneous game turns, and continue later?

[Quikngruvn]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
What about the ability to save simultaneous game turns, and continue later?

I second that! (Heck, it was hard enough picking three out of the ones presented....)

Quikngruvn

[Q]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
What about the ability to save simultaneous game turns, and continue later?

That's the main reason why I usually don't play simultaneous games although it would be much fairer against the AI. If it takes more than half an hour in the later game for me to make the turn, it is annoying that I can't interrupt, save what I did and continue later.
That should not be too difficult for MM to implement.

[Skulky]

OMG, when you're almos done with a turn, and gtg but leave your computer on and it frezzes and now you have an extra 2 hrs of work (which you just perfected).

AHHHHHHH, this i want to not be a problem, no?

[Desdinova]

i would like to see an option on the starmap editor that would allow you to select a position on the starmap then randomly create a starsystem at that location. then edit the system as usual from there.

[Mephisto]

Latest patch infos:

Version 1.82:
1. Changed - Ships in combat will now follow their fleet's strategy regardless
of whether they are in a combat group or not.
2. Fixed - Computer Players which had a "Computer Player Bonus" set above
None were not using all of their bonus funds.
3. Fixed - The largest ship in a sector was not always being drawn on top
in the system display.
4. Fixed - Planets in combat would not fire all of their weapons (sometimes).
5. Fixed - Planets in combat would not fire enough seekers against a target
to guarantee its destruction (sometimes).
6. Fixed - Improved the Transport minister a little.
7. Added - The Log Window will now return you to the item you had selected the
Last time you were in the window.
8. Fixed - Ships with a Tractor Beam would not fire weapons located after
the tractor beam in their design.

[tesco samoa]

. Fixed - Improved the Transport minister a little...

What ??

did it go from a horrible status to a half-A%% position ??

Please explain!