Long overdue updates for the acclaimed
Fyron's Quadrant Mod are now ready for download. FQM Deluxe has been updated to version 2.10 and FQM Standard has been updated to version 1.23.
The updates contain several bug fixes and more No Ast Belt quadrant types. The Deluxe update features a massive reorganization of SectType.txt, new planet descriptions for some planets courtesy of Loser, and the restoration of balance between the planet types and atmospheres. You can download the upates from the
FQM web site.
The FQM Deluxe 2.10 update will break all savegames. Do not attempt to use savegames or maps from previous versions of FQM Deluxe in 2.10.
Note that a number of nebula images have been removed from FQM Deluxe. Applying the patch to it will work fine, but it will result in unused images on your hard drive.
The following is the history file of updates for FQM Deluxe 2.10:
Version 2.10 - 26 July 2005:
Files Altered: PlanetSize.txt, SectType.txt, SteallarAbilityTypes.txt, SystemTypes.txt
1. Changed - Planet types and atmospheres are now more or less balanced.
2. Added - Massive planet size, which is one step up from Huge. Only gas giants can be massive.
3. Fixed - No AST quadrant types no longer have planets in sector 1, 13.
4. Removed - Removed "Stock Standard Systems" header system as it would appear in every quadrant due to unresolved SE4 bugs.
5. Fixed - Descriptions for Ancient Ruins Unique abilities were set up improperly. Now, any Ancient Ruins Unique ability can have either of the two possible descriptions.
6. Fixed - No naturally occuring warp points will look like B5 jump gates. All artificially created warp points will look like B5 jump gates. This applies to all quadrant types except for "Balanced" quadrants.
7. Changed - No systems in No Ast Belt quadrant types have large asteroid belts, other than the occasional Stock-like single asteroid ring system.
8. Added - Added No Ast Belt versions of more quadrants.
9. Changed - Changed many planet descriptions, courtesy of Loser.
10. Fixed - Some systems with medium moons were allowed to be home systems.
11. Replaced with new images:
Nebulae16
Nebulae17
Nebulae28
12. Removed entirely:
Nebulae21
Nebulae22
Nebulae26
Nebulae33
Nova2