Up to date History file from SE:IV Gold Beta

[Dracus]

Hope I don't get in hot water for this:

Version 1.58:
1. Fixed - Only warheads of the correct target type will damage targets in
combat that are rammed.
2. Fixed - The AI would accept systems in trade that the offering player did
not own.
3. Fixed - Increased chance for AI to send certain political message types
(like demand surrender).
4. Fixed - Added Drones to the Manual page "Status Icons".
5. Added - Hotkey Shift-A to Tactical Combat to select all available weapons.
6. Added - Hotkey Shift-C to Tactical Combat to de-select all weapons.
7. Fixed - The AI will now decloak its drones before attacking their target.
8. Fixed - The buttons to cloak and decloak are now available for drones.
9. Changed - Added a defense bonus to drones much like small ships.
10. Fixed - If a combat piece was in a fleet it would always use the fleet strategy,
even if it had broken formation.
11. Fixed - Simultaneous Games were still playing out combat in player order. The
defending players should always get to move first.
12. Fixed - If you have the setting "Automatically use Individual Ministers for newly
built vehicles", then any ships captured through intelligence
operations will be set to individual minister control.
13. Fixed - After a combat where multiple ships were selected in the Ship List, some of
them would still have "ghost" orders.
14. Fixed - Drones will no longer "dance" around warp point. They will charge through. If
they get into combat, and their target is not present, they will select new
temporary targets until combat is complete.

[Q]

"3. Fixed - Increased chance for AI to send certain political message types
(like demand surrender)."

Great!! I can't wait to get my copy of SE IV gold.
Thank you for the information Dracus.

[Atrocities]

Dracus gets boiled alive. But it was worth it to the rest of us to have the info. His sacrafice will not go unforgotten.

[Puke]

im not so sure about 10. what if you want to use the fleet strategy, but want your ships to break formation?

[capnq]

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im not so sure about 10. what if you want to use the fleet strategy, but want your ships to break formation?

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Then you set the individual ships' strategies to be the same as the fleet strategy.

[Phoenix-D]

"Then you set the individual ships' strategies to be the same as the fleet strategy."

Except of course that affects ALL the ships in your empire, not just that fleet.

Phoenix-D

[Repo Man]

All I can say is wow.

I while back I was trying to tweak the AI to end the perpetual war syndrom. Real life got in the way. Looks like that may have finally been fixed.

Looks great! Even though I'm very part time here, its still pretty cool to watch this game evolve.