Prerelease 3.106 (Borg square removal, anti-armor, MLRS, autobomb, engr buffs)

[madpinger]

Any time.  After all,  Its the best way to spend my gaming time.  Playing

[Kjara]

Well, imo anti-armors are now possibly a bit too powerful (I'm of the opinion that they were pretty much ok how they were before . I'll have to throw together a game to abuse them.

Edit: I'm in favor of the MLRS buff though .

Edit2: On golems, I'd be happy to have them take a bit of a power hit in some fashion to lose the massive reinforcement bonuses.  I mean if it at best doubles my fleet strength, but gives the ai a huge reinforcement boost on entry(on say an unalerted world that hasn't been reinforced much yet), and 3x reinforcements while I'm there, then its pretty much a net loss even if it was free.

[Awod]

Did auto-explore break?

[FrostyThePyro]

Did auto-explore break?

The key impute doesnt always recognize, or so i am to understand, i never got it to work, admitidly I only tried a few times

[x4000]

New version: http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,4967.msg34625.html#msg34625

[SmileyFace]

-The assistance boost rate of Mark II engineers is now 2.0 instead of 1.5.  The assistance boost rate of Mark III engineers is now 3.0 instead of 2.0

-The energy costs of the higher-level engineers now goes down instead of up, the shield rating of the mark II tier is now doubled, and the metal/crystal costs and time to build the higher-mark engineers is now reduced instead of increased versus the lower-level engineers.

I know there's a new version, but just wanted to say these changes are great Much more incentive to research engineers, now... Or steal them.

[keith.lamothe]

Did auto-explore break?

It only works for scouts since a few releases ago (since only scouts can go through an unexplored wormhole), and the key combination is a bit cantankerous about the order in which you press the keys.  It also only works when you have unexplored (not un-scouted) planets, of course.

[keith.lamothe]

I wasn't seeing this, but I'm sure I know what the lockups must have been related to.

Updates in 3.106:

-AI Unit coordination has been disabled, as it was causing lockups.

Ah, sorry, I could have told you that wasn't ready for prime-time, that's why I disabled it from the Avenger

[x4000]

-The assistance boost rate of Mark II engineers is now 2.0 instead of 1.5.  The assistance boost rate of Mark III engineers is now 3.0 instead of 2.0

-The energy costs of the higher-level engineers now goes down instead of up, the shield rating of the mark II tier is now doubled, and the metal/crystal costs and time to build the higher-mark engineers is now reduced instead of increased versus the lower-level engineers.

I know there's a new version, but just wanted to say these changes are great Much more incentive to research engineers, now... Or steal them.

Thanks!  Glad those are a hit.

I wasn't seeing this, but I'm sure I know what the lockups must have been related to.

Updates in 3.106:

-AI Unit coordination has been disabled, as it was causing lockups.

Ah, sorry, I could have told you that wasn't ready for prime-time, that's why I disabled it from the Avenger

Yeah, you did mention that, but I wasn't sure what the deal was.  I tested it some before the prerelease and it seemed not to be having any issues, so I figured I would try it out and see what happened (and we saw what happened  ).  How far away is this from being ready for prime time?  The code seems pretty robust, and it would be a cool thing to have in place if it's just a couple of hours away from being ready.  If not, or if there are larger worries, we can just leave it off until after the next official release.

[keith.lamothe]

I actually wasn't getting any critical problems like lockups, so I don't know what was going on there, but in my tests the bombers escorting the avenger would randomly "lose it" when it went through a wormhole, despite the code explicitly trying to get them to go to it if it was off planet, etc.  Lots of mysterious behavior, and a few hours of debugging didn't really reveal the culprits.

And with it causing lockups in some cases for some people but not others... the big problem would be knowing when I was "done", in the sense of it working properly, which is a bit of a concern for reaching official-level stability.

[x4000]

Fair enough -- maybe good to hold off on it for now, then.