SEV DEMO IS OUT!

[AMF]

Anyone figure out if there is a way to play simultaneus turns with the demo?

And, if there was a way to stop the darn thing from warning me at the end of each turn that I haven't allocated any of my zero intel points, that would be nice...



(and so the griping begins!)

[Randallw]

Are we going to create a thread just for bugs?

This isn't exactly a bug I suppose but there is something wrong when my rock world has a surface temperature of
-400 °C .Absolute zero is -273.15 °C

[frightlever]

"This isn't exactly a bug I suppose but there is something wrong when my rock world has a surface temperature of
-400 °C "

Just think how efficient your computers will be.

How do you go fullscreen? I initially played windowed and decided I'd rather go fullscreen but no matter which option I pick in Setup I'm stuck with windowed. Is there a setup batch file somewhere I can hand change? I had a quick look but didn't spot anything.

I don't like the 3D planet display and the 2D version is a bit hard to read once you've panned out to view the whole system (ie the construction yard icons - I'm playing with the un-resized flag icons though I may switch back for the aforementioned reason.)


Guess it'll just take a while to get used to.

[wilhil]

@randallw, any graphics related bugs, I have encountered a few, if you alt tab or press the windows key on the keyboard, and switch to windows then alt tab back to game, it seems to fix most things.

if you dont have any other programs open, press the windows key then run, and type calc or notepad (something small and fast,) then alt tab or click on the game to get it back.

@AMF, it is best to just put 100% of intel to defence.

my wishlist so far, on planet view, I wish there was a way to see both build queue and how many buildings are there. I liked SEIV where I could see what planets are idle/producing nothing and the x/x list of how much room and how many factorys are there.

lastly, dont know if it is possible already, the end turn dialog is either on or off and gives warnings. I would like it so that it is off by default, and if there are any warnings, it would display it.

[frightlever]

And to put Intelligence defense to 100% you have to click on a button 100 times. That's wrong.

[wilhil]

hold shift, and use both mouse buttons to click!

at the moment, I cant figure out how to set waypoints, anyone know?

I have looked at almost every button, but I just cant figure it out.

[Raapys]

Tried top-down view yet?

Ah, just found out about the top-down view. Still getting used to the GUI, alot of sub-menus hidden in there.

I found a bug/exploit as well; I sent a couple of ships to join my fleet a few hexes away, and when I put them in the fleet they regained all their movement points( or rather, their lack of momvement points wasn't taken into the account when moving the fleet).

[frightlever]

To set Waypoint click on eg a planet and then hit ctrl-<number>

[se5a]

you have to use a keyboard shortcut to add waypoints.
the shortcut is... ahhh umn....
take a look in options, you can change keyboard short cuts in there, so it will show you there somewhere the current shortcut.

yes, extreme temperatures is a known bug.

so is the fleet movement.

I've moaned about the setting intel for defense being too many clicks, it should be the same as setting it for a project - just click the bar, if you moan to Aaron about it to it may help.

graphic problems - try running under safe memory mode - set this in the setup menu(which is in the first menu you get when you start the game up).

also - if you're sending Aaron a bug, include a savegame if possable, he tends to take more notice if he has a savegame.
and feel free to send him savegames and bug reports on already knowen bugs too

[wilhil]

all bugs so far that I have found are client side such as graphics which just clear when I alt tab, or save and reload.

wont sending loads of bugs and saves just pi$$ him off? also, I dont know if there should me for refrence to waypoints, or forget this if it was in the tutorial, I skipped it!

anyway, thanks for that.

also, i feel a little dirty talking about SEV on this board. when are we going to start moving and using the other board?

edit - I was wondering if you can ever select a lesser ship size/level? it is a bit annoying that upgrading can increase the cost, I would like it so that at every stage you can choose one for diffrent costs rather than using the latest that costs more... but I am guessing this is far to big of a think to change now and we have to live with it! hay, its just me nitpicking, its all fine!