SEV DEMO IS OUT! - Page 6

frightlever · #51 September 16th, 2006, 08:49 AM

To set Waypoint click on eg a planet and then hit ctrl-<number>

se5a · #52 September 16th, 2006, 08:58 AM

you have to use a keyboard shortcut to add waypoints.
the shortcut is... ahhh umn....
take a look in options, you can change keyboard short cuts in there, so it will show you there somewhere the current shortcut.

yes, extreme temperatures is a known bug.

so is the fleet movement.

I've moaned about the setting intel for defense being too many clicks, it should be the same as setting it for a project - just click the bar, if you moan to Aaron about it to it may help.

graphic problems - try running under safe memory mode - set this in the setup menu(which is in the first menu you get when you start the game up).

also - if you're sending Aaron a bug, include a savegame if possable, he tends to take more notice if he has a savegame.
and feel free to send him savegames and bug reports on already knowen bugs too

wilhil · #53 September 16th, 2006, 09:01 AM

all bugs so far that I have found are client side such as graphics which just clear when I alt tab, or save and reload.

wont sending loads of bugs and saves just pi$$ him off? also, I dont know if there should me for refrence to waypoints, or forget this if it was in the tutorial, I skipped it!

anyway, thanks for that.

also, i feel a little dirty talking about SEV on this board. when are we going to start moving and using the other board?

edit - I was wondering if you can ever select a lesser ship size/level? it is a bit annoying that upgrading can increase the cost, I would like it so that at every stage you can choose one for diffrent costs rather than using the latest that costs more... but I am guessing this is far to big of a think to change now and we have to live with it! hay, its just me nitpicking, its all fine!

se5a · #54 September 16th, 2006, 09:13 AM

The more attention a bug gets the higher priority it becomes on his todo list.
Yes there should be a gui button for the waypoints, but there's not. bug him about that too.

feel free to post in the other board if you like. though I don't think shrap minds - this is good for them since they can show you advertising on their games

frightlever · #55 September 16th, 2006, 09:17 AM

Can you turn off the edge scrolling of the system display? I'm actually getting sick of the new interface - is it unreasonable for me to just want to see the whole system at once without it skipping off the edge when my mouse strays off the display (which I still can't maximise - after uninstalling, deleting the directory and erasing the registry entries and re-installing. It won't move out of windowed mode.) I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome so I use a vertical mouse but it's not exactly a boon for fine control.

The SF forums are relatively dead compared to here.

se5a · #56 September 16th, 2006, 09:23 AM

you can turn off windowed mode in the setup screen (first menu when you start seV up)

se5a · #57 September 16th, 2006, 09:29 AM

also - #spaceempires IRC is normaly active.
fyron has a java web client on spaceempires.net if you don't have an IRC client already
Link:
http://www.spaceempires.net/home/irc.html
click the "connect from the site" link and wait for it to load.

frightlever · #58 September 16th, 2006, 09:32 AM

"you can turn off windowed mode in the setup screen (first menu when you start seV up) "

First time I played I selected 1280x1024x32 but I got a crash because of a conflict with a Nero audio file. Not knowing that at the time I selected windowed mode to see if it would make a difference. Which it didn't. So eventually I sorted the crash problem but I've been stuck in windowed ever since. I'm well aware of the setup options! But hey thanks for taking part.

EDIT: I see what I did wrong. I changed from "Primary Display Adapter" to my actual video card on the list. Switched back to PDA and it's working a treat.

se5a · #59 September 16th, 2006, 09:40 AM

sweet.

frightlever · #60 September 16th, 2006, 09:43 AM

I'd still like to turn off edge scrolling though. In full screen at 1280x1024 the display is just right but I want to lock it so that if a cat jumps on my desk and knocks my arm I don't have to re-centre my (2D) display. (HOW TO RE-CENTRE YOUR 2D DISPLAY - hit re-centre, switch back to 2D and then pan back out to your preferred level of zoom. It should just re-centre your display and not reset your view type.)

Of course if a cat jumps on my desk it means both lines of anti-cat defenses have been breached and I have bigger problems than the GUI.