Questions About the Coming Gold Patch

Deathstalker · #1 April 5th, 2002, 12:08 PM

"9. Changed - Drones can only target planets, ships, and satellites. Fighters,
mines, and other drones are too small to target.
"

Just curious,why? What was the problem with drones and fighters/mines/drone targeting? Does this mean drones armed with PD can't hit them either?

Bman · #2 April 5th, 2002, 05:31 PM

> 3. Fixed - Cloaked minesweepers will decloak their entire group if they encounter a minefield (regardless of their minister settings).

Does this mean we can now safely run around with a cloaked fleet that includes minesweepers and they will auto-decloak and minesweep if they hit a minefield instead of just blowing up? :-)

> 8. Fixed - "Lucky" racial trait was not always working.
> 9. Fixed - Abilities "Change Bad Event Chance - System" and "Change Bad Intelligence Chance - System" were not always working

Looks like we need more tests done on the Religious shrines now! P.S. Has anyone ever tested the anti-intel capabilities of the religious shrines? Any idea what they do?

Atrocities · #3 April 7th, 2002, 12:38 AM

quote:
2. Fixed - Integer overflow with large numbers of units in combat.

Alright, the fighter bug has been addressed.

Suicide Junkie · #4 April 7th, 2002, 02:36 AM

Actually, I believe that was the Sphereworld-full-of-units bug.

Mephisto · #5 April 7th, 2002, 07:59 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Bman:
> 3. Fixed - Cloaked minesweepers will decloak their entire group if they encounter a minefield (regardless of their minister settings).

Does this mean we can now safely run around with a cloaked fleet that includes minesweepers and they will auto-decloak and minesweep if they hit a minefield instead of just blowing up? :-)

No, it is an AI setting and IIRC will only work with known minefields. Hit an unknown minefield and things go BUM!

Atrocities · #6 April 7th, 2002, 08:20 AM

Regardless, the Fighter bug MUST be fixed. Too many times the game has RCE'ed our on me because of the fighter bug.

(A RCE occures whenever there are too many fighters used in combat regardless of tatical or stratigic.)

RCE = Range Check Error.

Q · #7 April 7th, 2002, 11:24 AM

I am very pleased by most of the announced changes in the next patch.

However I don't understand the reasons for:

"9. Changed - Drones can only target planets, ships, and satellites. Fighters,
mines, and other drones are too small to target."

From what I've read in this forum most player seem to share my opinion that at present drones are of limited value for the human player and almost useless for the AI. So why reduce their utility further???