Latest Patch Rating

[Atrocities]

Since I have not downloaded it yet, I consider my self neutal. However, I am very interested in what many of you think. So to gain a good average, I will ask that you give a ranking on the following scale:

10 = The best
09 = Outstanding
08 = Good
07 = Ok
06 = Average

Below this point is unacceptable! If you rate it with a ranking of 5 or lower, would you please say why.

05 = Displeased
04 = Mis Guided
03 = Poor
02 = Horrible
01 = Unacceptable

[CaptSpoogy]

I guess I'll give it an 8. It fixes some big bugs like the fighter stack - just today I had a 40 strong fighter group that got hammered - not just by point defense but regular weapons too! - before the patch I would have trashed a fleet of 5 dreadnoughts!

I still haven't used it all that much - but it'd better than the 1.35 patch...

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[Crazy_Dog]

8, i think.

Some nasty bugs corrected.
Is much more stable.

Still, exist many optimizations to be done yet.

[Q]

I agree 8.

[rbyrd]

It may have corrected the fighter stack problem, but I still can't figure out how to divide fighters into Groups in Strategic mode. All the fighters launched from a carrier or planet still go in one huge group. The only way I know around this is for planet A to launch x fighters per turn and send them to planet B while planet B launches fighters and sends them to planet A etc. Same thing if you are going to guard a jump point, your carrier has to start dropping its fighters as it approaches and have them fly the rest of the way there.

I like using a lot of fighters with rocket pods, so one huge group is worthless unless you want to be able to kill one ship 10 times over, but have nothing left for the others. Personally I wish they would up the cargo capacity of planets and not allow fighters to end their turn in space, but as long as they can they should make them work properly by allowing you to divide them however you feel like at the beginning of tactical combat.

Satellites are also still a problem. They should be evenly distributed around a planet or jump point even if in one big group.

[capnq]

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It may have corrected the fighter stack problem, but I still can't figure out how to divide fighters into Groups in Strategic mode. All the fighters launched from a carrier or planet still go in one huge group.

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I don't know if it can be done for planets, but in theory, you should be able to set your carriers' fighter group size under Strategies/Launch. I say "in theory" because I mostly play in Tactical, and have never actually used fighters in a game in Strategic mode.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"