SE5 patch 1.20 is out

[StarJack]

The good news is even version 1.17 saves that crashed after strategic will now process in 1.20! The ever annoying fleet splitting bug is still present though. I'm also seeing something I've never seen before. What are the white stars showing up under planets I've splattered? I also have them over one planet that strategic combat indicated I had obliterated, but now shows enemy population, and the game will not let me attack it again. Whatever the white stars are they are they will not let me move ships back over the planet. This becomes a problem when the fleet splitting bug has left ships damaged so bad they can not move over the planets. I can't move a repair ship back to help them.

[Phoenix-D]

Why'd you stick the screenshot in a doc file?

At any rate, unless I miss my guess that's a minefield icon, and your ships aren't moving onto it because they don't want to die. Either clear the "ships won't move into minefields" setting or select the hex and clear the marker..

[StarJack]

Well because I couldn't remember what the save screen shot in game commmand was, and it's not in the manual. It's funny that when I first attacked those planets there were minefields, and they went right ahead with the attack and said they'd cleared xx number of mines? There are sweepers present, so why wouldn't they move onto minefields?

[StarJack]

And where might the "ships won't move into minefield" setting that doesn't work on the initial attack reside?

[Phoenix-D]

empire options. If you don't know mines are there- if there are no markers- the ships will always move there.

[StarJack]

OK, so just because I see them in the flag display doesn't mean the ships know that they are there. Thanks! OH, and how do I save a screenshot to disk from the game?

Well, I went and unchecked that box, and the ships now move onto those planets, but no boom, and no mine sweeping? OK, after processing two turns the minefield indicators are gone...

[Ed Kolis]

Do you have a treaty with the owner of the mines which includes minefield code sharing?

[President_Elect_Shang]

I suspect you blew all the mines away than, but the icon should disappear or you might need to go and unset that area as a mine field. Do we still have that ability in SE5, to mark known minefields? As for the screen shot; the way I do it is to take the shot (Ctrl + Print Screen) then paste it into a pic editing software. I use PhotoStudio 5.5 (the program I did your rank with) but Windows paint works just as well. I suggest saving the photo as something other than a bmp though to conserve size and upload/download time. Speaking of your rank Sergeant comes at 200 so PM me around 190 and I will fix it up.

[President_Elect_Shang]

If I understood CPT Kwok right mines have become uncloaked somehow with this patch. I suspect it may be related to the Active and passive scope attached to the hulls. Besides the mines may have been cloaked before you first attacked but after that your ships know they are there so there should be an icon; but white stars? That crap needs moded out ASAP, anyone know where the setting/bmp for it is?

[Baron Munchausen]

Phoenix-D said:
Why'd you stick the screenshot in a doc file?

At any rate, unless I miss my guess that's a minefield icon, and your ships aren't moving onto it because they don't want to die. Either clear the "ships won't move into minefields" setting or select the hex and clear the marker..

There is a problem with minefield marking. When your ships successfully SWEEP the mines, the sector should NOT be marked as a minefield -- you just cleared it! This is a mistake. We should request that MM change this so that only when all ships are destroyed with an unknown number of mines remaining should that automatic flagging be triggered.