SEIV GOLD Patch #4 Now Available

HEMAN · #1 February 26th, 2004, 10:02 AM

Hi everyone i just downloaded the patch 1.91 from my current 1.84v, everything downloaded was processed fine (self extracting zip). Next i went to my SE4 launcher mode, Selected my current mode which is Gold-D-2 mode.Looks fine,No problems playing game,played 10 turns in turnbase game.What i see in the mode that are different are:
(1) New entro screen..
(2) Waypoint tab > New screens,1st one shows vehicles enroute to waypoints/ 2nd shows spaceyards with automatic moveto screen

..Note: i didnt know players wanted/thought of this, but im very glad whoever suggested this to MM.
(3) Transferr population > added extra tab 100 population.
(4) Scrap button > Extra tabs ,,order by name/ order by Class.
(5) Planets Tab > Shows more info on allies colonies,top left.
(6) In game, Help Icon ? symbol > most/any game details selections,you can get a printout email to etc.Once your mouse pointer is over a designer window.Blue Outlined displays.Never new this, if this is new or not.
So far this is all i know.
Just letting you new /interested players know, so can be prepared.

[ February 26, 2004, 08:06: Message edited by: HEMAN ]

David E. Gervais · #2 February 26th, 2004, 12:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
The new splash screen image is overrated. It is nice, but not much of an improvement over the old one IMO.

What did I do to deserve this? And Fyron, how can it be overrated when there was only one comment on it looking good? Was this one comment "I like the new Splash Screen" too generous in it's praise?

Well, I think I owe you a great big apology for not making a new intro pic that is up to your particular, precise, phenomenal, perfecting standards. The good news is I have a solution,.. just create a new .bmp with a black canvas and use that instead. Seriously, eye-candy is for dim-witted, pea-brain, casual gamers only. Besides REAL gamers prefer ASCII right?

Muahahahahahahaha

David E. Gervais
One Voice, One Mind, Many Thoughts and Always Kind. (Also a proud member of the dim-witted pea-brain casual gamers society.)

geoschmo · #3 February 26th, 2004, 01:14 PM

Aww David, don't worry about it. You know that in art there is no accounting for taste.

Fyron is entitled to his opinion, but I agree that I'm not sure where he gets that it's "overrated". I must have missed where it got "rated".

Rollo · #4 February 27th, 2004, 02:04 AM

*Rollo rolls up a newspaper and spanks Fyron with it.

"Bad Fyron!"

Captain Kwok · #5 February 27th, 2004, 02:22 AM

It's really his gamma - it's out of control.

gregebowman · #6 February 27th, 2004, 02:50 AM

I installed the patch over my current copy of the game. I then started a new stock game, and got the new splash screen. Good work, btw, David. But then I had a problem with the races missing certain sections from the settings and fleet files. It took me awhile to realize that I need to update the extra races I put into my race folder. I got out of that game, and tried the ST Mod I've been playing lately. To tell you the truth, I didn't see any new changes. Especially these points we're supposed to be getting. I think I'll re-install my SE4 and then try the patch again.

Fyron · #7 February 26th, 2004, 07:51 PM

Well if you visited #se4 regularly, you would notice that there were people talking about it in there. That, combined with that one post, created a general sense of it being great.

Then, that other thread that was created recently about it goes right along with this general sense of it being great... Again, it is overrated. "Overrated" does not require it to have been given a specific rating on some arbitrary numbering scale or anything like that. But really, the image does not IMO live up to the hype spoken (typed) to me about it by a certain set of beta testers...

And yes David, eye candy is for the meek.

[ February 26, 2004, 17:53: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]