Re: Things we\'d like to see in the next patch
 

The ability to mod treaties....

I.e. I would like a level above partnership where what ever you research is given to your partner since this is already available. It would solve all that screwed up tech trading and you would not have to worry about.

Re: Things we\'d like to see in the next patch
 

Ten pages in this topic with wishes only for the next patch!!!
If I was Aaron this would give me a serious headache http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

Re: Things we\'d like to see in the next patch
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, hopefully he will just see it as a good thing. At least it's ten pages of feature requests instead of ten pages of bug reports. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

And maybe if some of these things don't ever make it into an SEIV patch, they will be considered for SE5.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, hopefully he will just see it as a good thing. At least it's ten pages of feature requests instead of ten pages of bug reports. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
Geoschmo</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, I've only heard about 2 bugs so far: some kind of problem with the ship/fleet window scroll buttons, and a bug with certain special damage types (the .5x, 1.5x, 2x, and 4x vs. shields damage are applied to both shields AND regular damage now).

Re: Things we\'d like to see in the next patch
 

Various warp point effects would be an amazing mod tool... like "create warp point - unstable X turns" where X can be any number up to 10 for example. Or "create warp point - random turns" where the worm hole will close spontaneously after a random number of turns. Then it would be so easy to simulate various types of FTL propulsion, etc. etc.

This might be asking for the sky, but how about "create warp point - unstable X ships" where any number of ships up to 10 can pass through before the worm hole colapses!? Of course "create warp point - unstable random ships" would be an obvious addition http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Man, we could do some nifty stuff with this.

Re: Things we\'d like to see in the next patch
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thats what I say also. In SE III you could do just that. Idon't know why Aaron tossed it out.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">While I am not opposed to the idea of retreat in principle, I have yet to hear a suggestion for how it could be implemented that I like. Simply allowing ships to reach the edge and withdraw as they could in SEIII would be fine for turn-based games, but it would have some serious issues in simultaneous turn games. Since you can't change orders in mid turn and allow a retreating ship to go on it's way, you could very easily pull an enemy fleet way out of position by giving your ship a retreat order.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I can't agree with you more! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yes...we have an artificial system now where ships are in a box... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: Things we\'d like to see in the next patch
 

I think the best solution to the combat map problem is that when a ship reaches the edge of the map it should be able to "withdrawl" or "retreat".