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Old August 26th, 2002, 07:54 PM

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Default Re: Newbie pulling hair out

It seems like SEIV is not very good about being upwards-compatible. I'm surprised this isn't on anyone's wish-list for future Versions.

Sure, it might be hard to make a mod-race take advantage of new technologies, but it should be easy enough to give all of these new fields reasonable default values, which is what everyone is doing with the cut'n'paste technique. Old fields should always carry the same semantics, too...if anything major changes, a new field should be defined, and the deprecated one should just be ignored.

Each of these files should also have a Version/revision number as a field, so that you could set an option like "Gold Version AI only" in your setup screen.
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