Okay so what do you think?

[Phoenix-D]

"Will any new mods or future updates that use the Gold Standard ever be useable by those left behind?"

Mods, maybe. Updates, no. you kinda came on board riiight at the wrong time..

Phoenix-D

[dogscoff]

Well, I'm very excited about it and I will definitely be ordering. I do have some questions though:

1> For the community: Now that TCP/IP is out, will I still be able to gt PBEM opponents? I won't ever have the time to sit and play TCP/IP for 6 hours straight, but I can spare an hour a day for a PBEM / PBW game. DOs anyone else share this concern?

2> I've read all the threads and press releases, but I haven't seen this one clarified, so this question's for Shrapnel: Let me get this straight, 1.49 is the Last ever patch that can be applied to the non-gold game. Is that right? The Version history listed on the other thread applies to Gold-CD owning players ONLY.

3> Have the Gold CDs gone into print yet? What Version wil be on the CD? 1.55? Later? If the CDs go into print soon, but the game doesn't ship until Feb, will that mean there will be a patch on the website by the time the game's released? Or shall we let Aaron enjoy Christmas without bugging him for features?

4> Richard, you said there's still time to update files which are to be released on the CD. How much time?

[Richard]

The Version number will be later as we still have a month of testing to go before we go Gold.

I would say that it would be good to get your mod info in ASAP so that it can be tested with the new code, but we will not actually go Gold until early Jan 2002.

The person who can help get your mod on the list is Chris Traber, he is helping me with this.

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
1> For the community: Now that TCP/IP is out, will I still be able to gt PBEM opponents? I won't ever have the time to sit and play TCP/IP for 6 hours straight, but I can spare an hour a day for a PBEM / PBW game. DOs anyone else share this concern?

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PBW will still be around as long as people still want to play PBW. TCP/IP is just a new option for play. SEIV Gold will still support non-TCP/IP simultaneous turn games. In fact according to the Gold release announcment there will be some stuff on the new CD related to PBW.

Geoschmo
PBW Admin Team

[Captain Kwok]

I'm looking forward to the new release and it has really sparked my interest (again) in the game. Some of the features that I'm liking are:

Alternate Bitmaps!
New Sectors types!
Drones!
Lots of Goodies!
300 systems!

The only problem is that February is so far off!

[dogscoff]

Thanks for the reply.

quote:

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The Version number will be later as we still have a month of testing to go before we go Gold.
I would say that it would be good to get your mod info in ASAP so that it can be tested with the new code, but we will not actually go Gold until early Jan 2002.

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OK. I believe the Vikings are already on the list (So far Rollo has handled that side of things) but I have some graphical updates to go on there.

quote:

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The person who can help get your mod on the list is Chris Traber, he is helping me with this.

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OK. I'd like to ask him including about the neo-standard then. It would be nice to get it included into the official release. With the new secondary image feature it would be a powerful addition, and it might only take up as little as a few extra kilobytes of disk space.
I think the best way to do implement would be to include the neo-generic images (not necessary, but a nice touch) and then add a page to the manual explaining to shipset creators and modders what the standard is aboout and how to use it.

If this makes no sense at all, go to the non-standard ship sizes thread. There's a summary there somewhere.


I think I'm going to alter my .sig file: "I can't wait until February"

[ 04 December 2001: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

[Q]

There is one open question for me:
Can you make reasonable mods for the gold Version if you don't have the beta Version of it??

E.g. any AI you make with Version 1.49 will not use drones.