cannot find MRLS or Shield Gen for Shadow Frigate On OS X Snow Leopard

[relmz32]

It looks like there is a bug in the image lookup for the MRLS and Shield Gen modules for Shadow Frigates under OS X. 

it looks like the / and \ get mixed up in these calls, see the attached images.

[keith.lamothe]

Whoops, I guess my OS provinciality reared its ugly head

Will try to find where I did that, thanks for the report.

[relmz32]

Happens to the best of us
At least it doesn't straight crash.

[keith.lamothe]

Ok, fixed that for 5.053.  Will get that out soon, first taking a look at a possibly-easy way to make it clearer in the lobby how to actually add a champion.

[Draco18s]

Ok, fixed that for 5.053.  Will get that out soon, first taking a look at a possibly-easy way to make it clearer in the lobby how to actually add a champion.

Thought:

Allow the champion in the P1 slot, even when no other players, and if selected, it automagically adds a "normal" player in the P2 slot?
(or shunts the champion to slot 2)

It makes it transparent and easy, rather than a "you have to add a second player" note.

[TechSY730]

Ok, fixed that for 5.053.  Will get that out soon, first taking a look at a possibly-easy way to make it clearer in the lobby how to actually add a champion.

Thought:

Allow the champion in the P1 slot, even when no other players, and if selected, it automagically adds a "normal" player in the P2 slot?
(or shunts the champion to slot 2)

It makes it transparent and easy, rather than a "you have to add a second player" note.

Way ahead of you:

Since this seems to be a big potential stumbling block, why not automate it?
If there is only one human player (connected, reserved, or otherwise), and that human player has chosen the Champion type, then choose the next available open slot (should be player 2 in this case), make it a Champion player (that is reserved), make the human player a Normal player, and then you basically have fulfilled what people are expecting.
A few wrinkles I can see: player color (as the Champion will be under a different player, an automatically set up one, who knows what color will be chosen for that second "player"?), player name (Who is this "???" in player 2 slot?), and player count (why is it listing two human players when I am the only one playing?)


This would only fire when there is one human player in the setup screen. If there is more than one player (again, connected, reserved, or otherwise), you need to start caring about player assignments and details, and thus you must figure out who will be the "regular" player in this case.

But yea, this may be one of those "Great minds think alike" type situations.

[keith.lamothe]

Ok, fixed that for 5.053.  Will get that out soon, first taking a look at a possibly-easy way to make it clearer in the lobby how to actually add a champion.

It's out now.  Also made a change to the lobby text that should make things clearer without anything invasive for the player (like some kind of popup message when they first enter the lobby with AS installed) or invasive for us (like having to make the 1st player's role select automatically manipulate other lobby settings under special circumstances)

[Draco18s]

But yea, this may be one of those "Great minds think alike" type situations.

HA!  Fancy that.

And of course great minds think alike, otherwise we'd never get things like this.