SE:V v1.33 Patch Available!

[Raapys]

From what I can see the memory leak is still there.

And (modded) point defense efficiency is still affect by the combat time rate O_O

The new combat speeds are nice, but there still needs to be some AI ship movement optimization.

Now the wait for BM1.05 for a real test game.

[Grumble314]

Well I haven't gotten a peak memory usage up to 600MB yet and it used to get up to 900MB and lock up so working much better for me

[Phoenix-D]

Can anyone change strategy details? I saw a post saying they couldn't at SE5.com, and lo and behold- it doesn't work for me either. (things like what range to engage at, damage amount, retreat settings, etc).

[Kamog]

It's time to start a new game! Just in time for the weekend.

The patch download was much faster than usual, too. It only took about a minute instead of 2 hours like those previous patches.

[Wade]

4. Fixed - Facilities were not showing up in Ground Combat.

I think this means that we can now destroy facilities during ground invasions. So, if your invasion begins to fail then target facilities. The AI might do the same to us though; or maybe after improvements to the AI.

[AgentZero]

Phoenix-D said:
Can anyone change strategy details? I saw a post saying they couldn't at SE5.com, and lo and behold- it doesn't work for me either. (things like what range to engage at, damage amount, retreat settings, etc).

Despite what I said in the SE5.com forum, it seems I'm unable to change strategies too. Retreat Settings, Retreat When & Target Type Order and Settings all are unchangeable, but Movement Options & Targeting Priority Order do work.

[Wade]

4. Fixed - Facilities were not showing up in Ground Combat.

There are not any facilities in the ground combat simulation. I did not try a real invasion.

[geoschmo]

We are pleased to announce we’ve added support for SEV version 1.33 to PBW. If you can download it now from http://www.spaceempires5.com/files/se5patch_v133.exe.

1.33 implements a lot of great fixes including a couple that will help with the turn processing on PBW. It should reduce the amount of time it takes turns to process, and it gets rid of the black screen that would take over the desktop when turns would process in previous version. This made it difficult to do anything on the server while turns were running.

Because of this we are doing something a little different than previous versions. With this one we are encouraging everyone to upgrade to the latest version as soon as is practical. The previous versions will still be supported for existing games, but game owners will no longer have the option to create a game with the stock versions prior to 1.33, or with the mod versions prior to 1.25. Game owners will also not be able to change their games to these obsolete versions. As soon as version 1.33 mods are available we will obsolete the 1.25 mod versions as well.

Geoschmo

[Uncle_Joe]

Your v1.03/1.04 copies will cry about missing entries in settings.txt when you load the mod - you can get around that by adding the new fields from the standard settings.txt to the mod's settings.txt - I believe they're just entries regarding UI element colours.

I did this and I can launch the game OK, but I get crashes to desktop and access violations if I click on a star or often any other features like storms etc.

If I start a new 'stock' game, this does not happen so I'm guessing there is some other setting buggered up somewhere between BM1.04 and the 1.33 patch.

[GuyOfDoom]

geoschmo said:

I wonder if it might be possible to make the exception to the rule and have v1.33 with BM v1.03 so current games of BM can update. If those versions are even compatable.