ETA Date for 1.15?

Hexxon · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 06, 2008

Hi Capt.

We're thinking about starting a new game, waiting for the 1.68 patch. Is there an ETA and a change log for 1.15 yet? we might wait for that as well because it is not compatible with 1.14 and under.

Thanks in advance.

CaptainKwok · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:44 am Post subject:

I'm aiming for early April.

Here's the current changelog:

ekolis · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:04 am Post subject:

Removing the anti-ship special damage type warheads (which honestly I had no idea existed in the first place)? Why's that? Sad

Speaking of warheads, could you please make the warheads use different pictures depending on their damage type, not based on what hull they can be mounted on? It's rather annoying to have all the mine warheads be yellow so you can't tell them apart at a glance on the design screen or the scan window! Razz

Since when did players start with level 1 in racial techs that that would be removed? Or is that a typo - "not" in place of "now"?

What if you are crystalline AND organic? What hulls do you get in that case? Hopefully not "no hulls"? Wink

It would be cool if you got some sort of "composite materials" hull with both crystalline and organic abilities...

CaptainKwok · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:10 am Post subject:

Those are the Drone based warheads, since they didn't make too much sense for a mobile unit like a Drone. I kept the special mine warheads, where those kinds of warheads are useful.

If you're organic and crystalline, you'd have both hulls.

Hexxon · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 06, 2008

DROOL.. okay we're definitely waiting. Surprised

BTW, if you have a release candidate that need to be tested, I should have some time coming up to lend a hand.

kianykin · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 17, 2007

i used anti-ship warheads on drones basically just long range cruise missiles. Not really useful with current game mechanics, but I don't see a reason to remove them either.

Crissa · Space Emperor Joined: Jan 07, 2006

The special drone warheads worked but the special mine warheads do not work in 1.66.

CaptainKwok · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2008 2:23 pm Post subject:

Just to clarify, I kept the plain Anti-Ship Warhead and Anti-Planet Warhead for Drones. I just dropped the special damage type ones.

neofit · Space Emperor Joined: Dec 26, 2006

Sorry for bugging you with this, but I am itching to start a new game of SEV after being away from the game for a year, and was wondering if it was possible to get an updated ETA for v1.15 of the Balance Mod?

Thanks.

devnullicus · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:03 am Post subject: Bug in Script_AI_Construction.txt

I was looking through the AI files from BM 1.14 trying to modify them to work with DevnullMod, and I noticed a bug in your version of Script_AI_Construction.txt

in the method Get_Facility_Construction_Percentages, there is a line that reads:

mrWHO · Space Emperor Joined: Jul 28, 2007

Will 1.14a saves be working with 1.15 ??

albi_joe · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 19, 2005 Location: USA

I'm pretty sure the good Cap'n said 1.15 is a game breaker; 1.14a is there to allow games to continue, and doesn't have all 1.15 features.

CaptainKwok · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:11 am Post subject:

The v1.14a and eventually v1.14b are to allow BM 110+ folder games to continue on PBW etc. with some of the non-save game breaking changes.

I've been away on vacation for the last week, so progress has been a bit slow. My test games with my nephew this week have shown a few more items to fix and there's still a few AI functions to put in. My best guess would be a couple weeks from now assuming I have a "beta" out this week.

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The monolith boolean variable is missing its NOT.

Althial · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 14, 2008

We have been playing a BM 1.10+ game for some time now ( 3 months, 1 turn/day ) and we have both an organic and a crystalline race present. I realize the posted change notes are somewhat outdated or have already been introduced into the game but some of which are quiet interesting.

Are the changes regarding organic and crystalline techs/components still in mind? Will they ever take place? Especially the one reducing organic armor tonnage to half its current value. That'd be one heck of change so I'd like to know in advance. Yes, I am the one playing the organics Wink

Althial

crazydog · Space Emperor Joined: Mar 09, 2007

Just for clarity...

Is 1.15 have some (put the list please) or all of the Stellar functions?

Is the AI capable of creating managing alliances?

For me, these are the two things that made 1.15 the revolutionary and not the evolutionary version...

CaptainKwok · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:10 pm Post subject:

So far I've just put in a function for the AI to create planets, but I intend to put functions in for all stellar manipulations for v1.15.

The problem with Alliances is that I'm not really familiar with the alliance functions that are working correctly. If you or someone with more alliance knowledge can post in some detail about which areas are working correctly, then I can make sure the AI can handle those.

CaptainKwok · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 11:07 pm Post subject:

Just a bit of an update...

I've got most of the stellar manipulation ministers working now. Trying to finish up the changes to ship design and fixing the bugs introduced by the new design scheme.

There's also a couple of SE5 quirks which are preventing the new AI anger system from working as intended - a number of diplomatic messages and combat events get missed by the built-in script functions during sequential turn games, which means the AI's mood is mostly determined by political relations. I'm looking for workarounds to counter this or fixes from MM.

On the data file side, just finishing up some changes to the quadrant files to fix a few outstanding issues.

M-5 · Space Emperor Joined: Feb 21, 2008

Any hope for a 1.14b? I'm running a PBEM game and don't want to scrap it (but would love some of the upgrades).

CaptainKwok · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:41 am Post subject:

There'll be a 1.14b to fix a few outstanding bugs.

Tron · Space Emperor Joined: Apr 11, 2008

Hi Capt!

Don't mean to be a pest but we are in mid May and I recall you were planing on treating us to your new offering in early April...
A 1.14b patch would be nice but a 1.15 release would be awesome! Very Happy

Keep up the good work, the fans are holding their breath. Razz

CaptainKwok · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject:

There's a couple of SE5 bugs/quirks that are hurting the current v1.15, so I'm going to wait until the next SE5 patch is released before posting the new update. Fortunately, that shouldn't be too much longer.

I did take some time this week to re-jigged all the turn and acceleration rates for ships. I think most users will like the new combat movement physics.

Tron · Space Emperor Joined: Apr 11, 2008

Excellent! I knew there had to be a reason. Do you happen to know when the next SE5 patch is coming out?

CaptainKwok · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:26 pm Post subject:

Optimistically I would say 2-3 weeks at most. There's a few critical bugs in v1.71 that need to be taken care of.

Shrike · Space Emperor Joined: Jun 17, 2006

If you mean by that that MM will need to fix them first, then your guess on when to expect a next patch is better than ours. It's a bit frustrating not knowing what his bug priority list is and I imagine it doesn't help you much either Mad

mrWHO · Space Emperor Joined: Jul 28, 2007

Hey Kwok, is it possible to turn on that option to be able to use warp points in space combat? You said it's off but I wonder if it's any chance to turn it on in BM or in any upcoming SEV patch?