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When asked about the lack of updates for Starfury, Aaron told us that he hasn't "gotten many bugs reports in the last 6 months for Starfury. If you have new ones, please email me."

"After SE5, we're starting work on Starfury 2. Unimplemented features will have to wait for Starfury 2. Talking to other ships really needs some voice acting. What Starfury 2 really needs is a campaign editor."]]> Sun, 23 Oct 2005 00:19:25 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article184.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article184.html
You can visit the new forums with the following link: Space Empires Universe Forums

Interstingly, the setup of the forums is almost a direct copy of Shrapnel Game's SE4/5 forums, containing exactly the same subforum categories, though at least they added their own description text. Strategy First has apparently taken great pains to help the crossover of fans from the Shrapnel forums to the new SE forums at Strategy First. We here at SEnet believe that most of the current fans of SE will likely remain on the Shrapnel forums for some time to come, however.

Strategy First also seems to have neglected to list the new Space Empires forums on their community page.]]> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:37:50 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article172.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article172.html
Patch download locations:

Strategy First
SpaceEmpires.net

The following was taken from the History.txt file in the patched version of Starfury:

Version History for Space Empires: Starfury
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Version 1.17:
1. Fixed - Improved high resolution timer.
2. Fixed - Potential Access Violation when shutting the game down.
3. Fixed - Better attuned the Direct Sound usage to the hardware capabilities.

Version 1.16:
1. Fixed - The mouse pointer no longer dissappears at screen edge.
2. Fixed - Font sizes standardized on different displays.
3. Fixed - Improved sound buffer allocation and usage. This should fix
crashing problems for users with limited sound cards.
4. Fixed - The sound for dropping and item into space and picking up an item
from space was not in 3D.
5. Fixed - Problem on some video cards where background space would appear warped.
6. Fixed - Rare Range Check Error with a ship's engine glow brightness.
7. Fixed - Shield hits were living longer than they should.
8. Fixed - Sometimes a crash would occur from commodity prices of zero.]]> Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:52:20 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article169.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article169.html
The following was taken from the History.txt file in the retail version of Starfury:

Version History for Space Empires: Starfury
---------------------------------------------------

Version 1.17:
1. Fixed - Improved high resolution timer.
2. Fixed - Potential Access Violation when shutting the game down.
3. Fixed - Better attuned the Direct Sound usage to the hardware capabilities.

Version 1.16:
1. Fixed - The mouse pointer no longer dissappears at screen edge.
2. Fixed - Font sizes standardized on different displays.
3. Fixed - Improved sound buffer allocation and usage. This should fix
crashing problems for users with limited sound cards.
4. Fixed - The sound for dropping and item into space and picking up an item
from space was not in 3D.
5. Fixed - Problem on some video cards where background space would appear warped.
6. Fixed - Rare Range Check Error with a ship's engine glow brightness.
7. Fixed - Shield hits were living longer than they should.
8. Fixed - Sometimes a crash would occur from commodity prices of zero.]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2005 08:08:53 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article162.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article162.html
The game specific forums have been shuffled off to new locations.

The Space Empires IV and Space Empires V forums have been merged into a new Space Empires IV & V forum, located in the Shrapnel Community category.

The Space Empires: Starfury forum has also been moved to the Shrapnel Community category.

The Dungeon Odyssey forum has been moved to the Our Archives category. As such, it is now closed to new postings.]]> Tue, 17 May 2005 10:04:01 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article131.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article131.html
The title will sell for $19.99, placing it just above the bargain bin rack.

Unfortunately, Strategy First's press release is somewhat misleading. Jay Podilchuk, the Producer at Strategy First, is quoted as saying that you will be able to "conquer the universe in one of the first 3D 4X games ever created.” Starfury is most certainly not a 4X game, or even a strategy game. It is in fact a so-called "action RPG."

Read Strategy First's full article for more information.]]> Thu, 12 May 2005 04:30:39 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article130.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article130.html
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The two forum categoires are located in the Mods section. There are two forum sections for The People's Mod:

The People's Mod General
The People's Mod Development

Note that the mod files will be uploaded to the Downloads section within a few hours.]]> Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:16:40 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article111.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article111.html
Gandalf will be online starting at 3PM UTC tomorrow (Saturday, February 26, 2005) and hopes to stick around until the problem can be solved and we can get Starfury running on Linux. Hopefully this will allow Space Empires V to also run on Linux... ;-)]]> Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:24:22 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article97.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article97.html
#se4 is located on the Gamesnet IRC server. For information on how to connect, check out the #se4 Web Site, which has a connection guide.

If you will be unable to make it, but still have questions for Malfador, please post them in this thread on Shrapnel Intel Forums, and we can compile a list of them to ask during the chat.

Hope to see you there!]]> Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:21:37 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article53.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article53.html
MMchat10-21-03.txt

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Here is a history of changes:

Version 1.08:
1. Note - Patch 1

Version 1.07:
1. Fixed - The game crashing when a sound card does not support 3D sound buffers.

Version 1.06:
1. Fixed - Problems with Shield and Armor readout displays when readout ability missing.
2. Fixed - Changed text of message when Quadrant Map or System Map unavailable.

Version 1.05:
1. Fixed - Abbidon Battleship had shield slots mixed up.
2. Fixed - The Images and XFiles subdirectories under a campaign directory weren't working.
3. Fixed - Some of the game pre-loaded graphics were not being overriden by campaign graphics.

Version 1.04:
1. Fixed - CD Checker was only checking drives J or less.
2. Fixed - In Campaign 2, the Fazrah Stealth Cruisers were not showing up.
3. Fixed - Beams weren't doing damage in slowed time mode.
4. Fixed - All lowercase pirate ship name.
5. Fixed - Bases were not showing up on the radar map like the System Map.
6. Fixed - All job ships will always show up on the radar and system maps regardless of range.
7. Added - Option to show the name of the ship in the System Map Window.
8. Fixed - Names of objects on the System Map would occasionally not show.
9. Added - Text will be displayed on the main window if you are carrying illegal cargo.
10. Added - Text will be displayed on the main window if you leave the boundaries of the solar system (and your speed is set to 10%).
11. Fixed - You could launch fighters and mines by right clicking on them regardless of whether you
had fighter bays or mine layers (hotkeys were working correctly, right-clicking was not).

Version 1.03:
1. Fixed - Missing objects from SpaceObjects_XFiles would cause the
game to crash during map generation.
2. Fixed - Reduced list font size for better multi-machine support.
3. Fixed - LRS button was showing up for non ships.
4. Fixed - Point Defense would fire on fighters that were exploding.
5. Fixed - Can only have one Multiplex Tracking, Neural Combat Net, or
Master Computer component per ship.
6. Fixed - "Crew" on the main window would sometimes be transparent.
7. Fixed - Static in the display will only be shown if the Bridge is damaged
(as opposed to not present).
8. Added - Time scale settings of 1/8, 1/4, and 1/2.
9. Fixed - Better time scaling for extra effects like exposions, shield hits,
and firing flares.
10. Fixed - The Pirate Cruiser had a shield slot that provided shields to the wrong side.

Version 1.02:
1. Fixed - Sithrak Portal Warp Point was too high.
2. Fixed - Employer names weren't showing up in jobs.
3. Fixed - Possibly fixed the occasional missing textures problem.
4. Fixed - Invalid Index in combat.
5. Fixed - Bad internal damage allocation.
6. Fixed - Ship Purchase screen would error if there were no ships to purchase.
7. Added - Restriction Type and Restriction Value to Components.txt.
8. Fixed - Only one Bridge, Combat Sensors, or ECM is allowed per ship.
9. Fixed - Shield & Armor Piercing Damage was having both Shield Piercing and Armor Piercing Resistance applied to it. Now, which ever resistance
is higher will alone be applied to the Shield & Armor Piercing Damage.

Version 1.01:
1. Fixed - Set the Combat Sensors and ECM back to a size of 10. The increased
size was causing problems with ship designs.
2. Fixed - Ships should not fire on their own fighters, either with normal
weapons or with point defense.
3. Fixed - The Abbidon Carrier would cause a Range Check Error when purchased.
4. Fixed - Enemy designs would put multiple "Must Have" components.
5. Changed - Engine glow level is now based on current speed.
6. Fixed - Bolt weapons will now lead their target.]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2003 15:46:55 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article46.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article46.html
Check out the Official Press Release by Shrapnel Games for further details.]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2003 04:36:51 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article44.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article44.html
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If you wish your story to be posted, send it along to fanfic _at_ spaceempires _dot_ net.]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2003 22:34:57 GMT http://www.spaceempires.net/article11.html http://www.spaceempires.net/article11.html