FQM 5.00 Beta 3

[Fyron]

Announcing the posting of FQM 5.00 Beta 3, for SE5.

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Beta 3 version history:
1. Added - New fancy lightning effects, courtesy of Suicide Junkie.
2. Changed - Tweaked placement of stars in trinary, quaternary and quintuple systems.
3. Removed - Normal Warp Points can no longer have damaging abilities.
4. Changed - Warp Points now have some variation in combat sensor penalty ability.
5. Changed - Revamped planet temperature formula.

Please note that this is a work in progress. There are bound to be quirks, which you should report. All suggestions for improvement are welcome!

[GuyOfDoom]

Is it possible to use a map generated by this for a stock or a Balance mod game?

[President_Elect_Shang]

That formula looks like the idea I was suggesting with the sizes portion removed. Which is more abstract but still more effective than Stock.

[Fyron]

GuyOfDoom:
No. There is no AI/tech difference between using this and stock. You can easily combine it with the balance mod by copying all non-Settings.txt text files from the FQM\Data folder into Balance Mod's Data folder, then copy the FQM\Pictures folder into Balance Mod folder.

[GuyOfDoom]

I wouldn't be able to play this on PBW would I?

[Fyron]

You could potentially get the PBW admins to set up a copy, but you might want to wait til it stabilizes a bit more.