After finally getting my hands on the Gold update for this stupendous mod I've put in a couple of hours of play ... it's just like being a beginner all over again as I have no idea what order to research things in, what bit of tech does what etc etc
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However (and I hesitate to bring this up as it seems churlish given the immense amount of effort that's gone into this), I've come across a few niggles and I wonder if they've been brought up before or if it's the result of something I've broken when I installed the files?
Firstly, the Gold update 'patch' has an error in the Minbari Scout entry in the DesignCreation.txt file; the text for Default Strategy was 'Maximum Weapon Range' rather than 'Weapons'. Every time I ended a turn this scolding dialogue would come up about an invalid entry - luckily it was specific about where it was so it was easy enough to fix.
Secondly, in the star map that I generated for the game, several systems have no name (and of course neither do the planets in those systems). No exactly a fatal flaw but a bit odd.
Thirdly, when you're in the Ship Design 'forms' the info box for the Ion Bolt weapons loses the text for Abilities at the bottom - it looks as if something is overlaying it and obscuring the words.
Fourthly, trying to use the Tech Areas part of the Technology Tree viewer (but not the Tech Levels strangely) causes an Access Violation in SE4.exe. Plus, you can't Export the tables for viewing outside the game (again, no problem with the Tech Levels).
An extra wrinkle is that if you use the page-up/down keys rather than the scroll bar then this happens much less. I found a text error under the Advanced Planetary Weapons entry in techareas.txt ('Balistic Weapons' rather than 'Ballistic') which I thought might be the cause but it wasn't
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I hope you chaps who worked on this don't take this as whiny criticism as I'm immensely impressed by what you've done. So any help or hints you can give on how to cure these minor ills would be much appreciated.
[ June 05, 2003, 21:57: Message edited by: Sukerkin ]