Bugs / Improvments after 1.27b

[Crazy_Dog]

New ideias / concepts / problems in / for SE4 (1.27):

In the creation of galaxy:
random size and type

New tech:
Stabilize planet core
Restore Star nucleus
Expand Warp (remove problems that damage ships)
Universal colony

In the tactical combat
if you start with fighters outside carriers they are reported, otherwise not ->fix

In the Empire options, add the directives for ministers:

minimum nº troops p/planet (ships don't remove above that number, and the minister try to build up to it)
type of ship priority to build (attack / colony / etc)
mines in all waypoints
satellites in all waypoints
create defense stations

In the Ship designs menu add:

Info about the maintenance of the design
Ship / unit can be build by minister
Maximun number in service of this design (the minister don't build more)

In the ships/units menu add:

Ships of class xxx

upgrade to class yyy
mothball
unmothball
scrap

All Ships AI controled (on/off)

If units, units of class xxx scrap

In the planets menu add:
change all planets type xxx to type yyy

Change the Ship Construction minister :

Generic Ship
Colony Ship
Units


If you have the flag 'Automatically use Individual Ministers for newly built vehicles',
it must include the ships captured or that join you (race surrender / crew insurrection)

If a race surrender to you and have techs that you can't (cristal) you can't research it but
can build the itens that they have discovered (if surrender to you, they give you the blueprints)
Also, the blueprints of units/ships they have designed must be acessible

Add the system's Minister

Manage the creation of system's wide facilities (like urban pacification center)
If exist duplications of SWF in a system, remove redundant.
If a planet in the system is rioting / angry, call / build troops or UPC.

The troops minister must have the capability to send troops to rioting planets

In the construction queue, add a check if you try to build more units than the planet can get.
Also add the line 'up to max cargo avaiable' (like the one 'one turn worth').
The minister responsible to build units must have a check control before trying to build more units in
a planet than is possible.

If i send order to 10 ships to retrofit on a planet and in that turn only can retrofit 3 the others forget the order.

The retrofit rotine, must take in consideration that exist ships with cargo and add the
capability of removing it temporary (if exist avaiable space in the sector)

Add the capability of the Ships that can close warp points to only do it to
warps with possibility to damage ships (else is too dangerous to asign a minister).

If you put a fighter bay in a ship (you can put it in all), it only have use if the ship is
of design type carrier, otherwise the ministers igore it.

If i put a cargo bay in a carrier (to add more fighters), the minister start to load generic
cargo. Is possible to stop this ?

If i build a ship that have minelayer capability / large cargo / shipyard , is possible to
add a flag for that shipyard only build mines ?

If i build a ship that have satlayer capability / large cargo / shipyard , is possible to
add a flag for that shipyard only build satellites ?

Is possible to add 'netmouse' support ?

In some games, the minister insist in building small / older models of weapons platforms (even obsolet ones).

[Stave]

Great suggestions. I'd like to add one little one (maybe it's already there and I'd forgotten- haven't played in a while).

I'd like to see a race option that would determine how well occupied planets of different races (e.g. you invaded their world or their empire surrendered to you) react to you as their new rulers. For instance, I've played games where I conquered a few different races, and no matter what, they continued hating me for the rest of the game. Their homeworld was always on the edge of rebellion, even with Urban Pacification Centers and troops, and any time I shipped them off to colonize new worlds, the new colonies would rebel in a few short turns.

Is there any way to combat this, other than lots of troops and facilities? I'd like to see a race stat for "Kindness", "People Management", or something along those lines to ease racial tensions (or make them worse if you want to be the cruel overlord type- and hey, who doesn't?). Or maybe have tensions be lowered depending on how close the society types are. After all, it's easier to take being occupied by people with similar cultures/philosophies than by your antithesis.

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Concerning martial
valor, merit lies more in
dying for one's master
than in striking down
the enemy
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[Sinapus]

I wouldn't mind having the Last known scan of a system staying on the screen for that system instead of disappearing as soon as you don't have a colony/ship/treaty/etc giving you that information. Maybe put a little bit of information in a corner stating the amount of turns it's been since you Last scanned that system or something.

Would be -very- useful for those treacherous types who get a military/partnership treaty just so they can figure out where all the spaceports/resupply depots/space yards are.

Not that I'm one of those people. Nope. Not me.

Maybe traits besides atmosphere breathed should travel with races as well. Say, resource gathering traits, plague immunity, etc.

Some traits should be empire-based while others should be racial-based. (Yes, sort of like MOO2. Capturing Silicoids could make those toxic worlds useable. Assuming you weren't overrun by the Silicoid Empire.)


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"What do -you- want?" "I'd like to live -just- long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this..." *waggle* "...can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"

[This message has been edited by Sinapus (edited 22 February 2001).]

[Spyder]

quote:

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Originally posted by Crazy_Dog:
New ideias / concepts / problems in / for SE4 (1.27):

In the creation of galaxy:
random size and type

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I would like to see ALL the galaxy options have a randomization option.

[Spyder]

How about a setting to automatically remove Climate Control Facilities, Atmosphere fixers, etc, when the task is done....you get the message that "the atmosphere is breatheable, Atomsphere fixer scrapped."

[SunDevil]

Spyder,

That was fixed in the patch.

6. Fixed - AI should check if the planet already has the desired atmosphere
before building an atmospheric converter.
7. Fixed - AI should scrap any atmospheric converters if the desired
atmosphere has been attained on the planet.

[eSnaffu]

The patch .txt file addresses this issue for the AI, but is there such an option for the human player(s)?

[This message has been edited by eSnaffu (edited 22 February 2001).]

[Crazy_Dog]

One of the most annoying thing if you have the retrofit minister on is the message(s) 'cannot retrofit xxx because as cargo.'
If as cargo, the minister can have a check prior to try to retrofit, right ?

[Crazy_Dog]

I received several times this:'A cloaked vehicle cannot launch units into space'.
1- I don't have any cloacked ship.
2- this report to a battle of 2 AI's.

This message replay about 100 times (i think is the number of fighters inside the cloacked carriers).

[capnq]

I have two really trivial suggestions:

1) Alphabetize the the design names in states.txt . It's the only list that isn't in alphabetical order, and the first thing I changed in every Version I've installed. I like to use the design name to remind myself of the ship's function: attack ships start with "A", etc.

2) It would be nice if there were a way to edit the race description text after you've saved an empire. As far as I can tell, if you make a typo or think of a better description, you have to create an entire new .emp file to make a change.