Post 1.84 beta history - Page 12

Spoo · #**111** January 30th, 2004, 04:34 PM

When you give a ship a move-to order to an unexplored system, the system name is revealed in the ship's order queue.

Cloaked planets still reveal their name.

Roanon · #**112** January 30th, 2004, 08:13 PM

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Originally posted by Spoo:
When you give a ship a move-to order to an unexplored system, the system name is revealed in the ship's order queue.

Yup forgot that. Even worse: In the ship�s order queue, a colony ship given colonize orders into a sector of an unexplored system reveals the planet's name if there is one. And, if there are several planets in that unexplored sector, even the dialogue with the planet choice comes up, revealing the number and their pictures.

Loser · #**113** January 30th, 2004, 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by Roanon:
Yup forgot that. Even worse: In the ship�s order queue, a colony ship given colonize orders into a sector of an unexplored system reveals the planet's name if there is one. And, if there are several planets in that unexplored sector, even the dialogue with the planet choice comes up, revealing the number and their pictures.

Oh, my.

This does not work on systems for which you do not have a warp point, no?

Roanon · #**114** January 30th, 2004, 09:02 PM

Works on every system, you just have to click it in the small map to bring up the area with "unexplored" over it in the main window.

Loser · #**115** January 30th, 2004, 09:48 PM

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Originally posted by Roanon:
Works on every system, you just have to click it in the small map to bring up the area with "unexplored" over it in the main window.

Well, well, well. It's a poor man's Ancient Race.

Of course, you don't get the stats, or if it's occupied, or even what type of world it is. But you're poor, obviously, and you can deal.

Roanon · #**116** January 30th, 2004, 11:43 PM

I don't think it's worth any effort, except maybe in a few special cases I cannot think of now. Would be really bad if you could get data like owner or population. You only can get the layout of the system before officially exploring it, and this with a lot of mouseclicks. If I would have that much time, I would rather start another PBW game

Still, it should be fixed.

[ January 30, 2004, 21:44: Message edited by: Roanon ]

Grandpa Kim · #**117** January 31st, 2004, 06:27 AM

Yes, that is a sweetheart list of changes.

Say, Fyron, I've never seen your smoothed pop modifiers. Where can I get a look at it?

Fyron · #**118** January 31st, 2004, 06:32 AM

Its been up on SE.net since August.

Smoothed Pop Settings

Grandpa Kim · #**119** January 31st, 2004, 06:43 AM

Thanks Fyron.

Apparently my brain is too complex to think of something so obvious.

Kamog · #**120** January 31st, 2004, 07:07 AM

Wow, I didn't know that you could use that trick to view unexplored systems... I tried it just now, but I very quickly got tired of clicking the mouse in every sector of the system. So I didn't systematically click across in a nice row or column, I just randomly clicked around rapidly, and I didn't hit any planets. Figuring that I might have picked a nebula or black hole or something, I tried a few other systems but I still didn't catch any planets. It will take a lot of patience to take advantage of this method...