Chat Session With Aaron

[Atrocities]

Lets see if they do email any questions. I will bet no one will. If any one does it won't be in any great number though.

I have a few I would like to ask:

1. How have sales been?
2. Has SFI offered any assistance in the programing department especially and specificially in working out the bugs?
3. When can we expect an expansion pack?
4. Are the semi negative reviews hurting the sales of the game?
5. Why release the game when there were still significant bugs present knowing that the reviewers would focus on that and use it to rate the game poorly thus harming sales?

[Santiago]

Is the UI going to be worked on?

[Timstone]

7. When will you supply women with the game?
On a more serious note:
8. Will you work on a patch which adds even more damagetypes?

CW:
I've e-mailed question number 8. Thanks for the notice, great work!

[Phoenix-D]

Timstone: you realize DamageTypes.txt is modable, right? you can add as many as you like..

[Timstone]

Phoenix-D said:
Timstone: you realize DamageTypes.txt is modable, right? you can add as many as you like..

Ehh... no I did not...
*sneaks away in a dark corner of The Cantina*


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To hijack this thread a bit.
Can I put in the Damagetypes.txt a damagetype that will cause the weapon in question to fire all weapons at the same time?
If not, then I want to ask Aaron that.
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[Ed Kolis]

I plan on being there, but just in case...

"You said you'd release the source code for SE2 and SE3 once SE5 came out. Any plans to make good on that promise, or does the SFI buyout preclude that?"

[Phoenix-D]

I might be there, but:

-Ships can't generate research or intelligence right now, or use any of the planet abilities (eg Solar Resource Generation). Any plans to change that?

[Suicide Junkie]

Timstone said:
Can I put in the Damagetypes.txt a damagetype that will cause the weapon in question to fire all weapons at the same time?
If not, then I want to ask Aaron that.

Wha?
Firing all your weapons at once is a function of your strategies, weapon ranges and reload rates. Nothing to do with damage types at all, aside from shield depleters vs unshielded ships, or weapon disruptors and things like that.
FYI:
Just to be sure we're on the same page; Damage Types are things like double damage to shields, or Engines-Only. Or "45% armor skipping", or "90% normal shield skipping, 66% Phased shield skipping, but only 33% Multiphased shield skipping"

[Matryx]

SJ: only reason I can think he may have suggested that would be for some sort of battle-rage-inducing-psychic-beam which forces them to shoot everything at just a single target (thus ruining point defense, or making swarm attacks harder to defend against)? Who knows