SE5 v1.77 Patch Available

[Captain Kwok]

Note there is a bug in the v1.77 patch where a ship that loses its crew before its weapons will be able to fire them near infinitely until its supplies/ordnance is depleted.

This is more prevalent in stock than the Balance Mod, but it can be easily exploited in PBW games in either.

Hopefully MM will make a quick patch for this item.

[StarJack]

Look forward to the next release of Balance Mod!

[reverend]

Indeed, a nice surprise. I still fire up SEV from time to time, complete with my own mod (combination of balance and a couple of other UI mods).

[Captain Kwok]

For players having an issue with v1.77 and the BM, you'll need to grab a new version of the PlanetSize.txt file that you can extract to your BM data folder to fix the problem:
http://files.spaceempires.net/user/9/PlanetSize.zip

[Q]

This is indeed a very strange bug: supply and ordnance capacities for planets of more than 1000000 seem to cause the problem. But why only for simultaneous games??

[Ed Kolis]

Has anyone seen this thread yet?
http://home.spaceempires.net/ftopict-6079-.html

Apparently the "infinite fire rate" bug occurs even when a ship has crew, but its weapons are disabled!

(At least for point defense weapons...)

[Captain Kwok]

I'm suspecting the ship is losing another one of its critical control components. Likely due to skip armor/null-space weapon damage. I saw dozens of combats with v1.77 and never noticed the rapid weapon fire bug, so I don't think it's happening outside of a critical component being lost.