Author Topic: Prerelease 1.009F (Unit Relative Exports, Ship Bars, Planet Name Changes).  (Read 2454 times)

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Here's the latest prerelease:  http://www.arcengames.com/share/AIWar1009F.zip

That version is an upgrade from version 1.008, so you have to already have 1.008 (or greater) installed. Just unzip it into your game folder (usually C:\Program Files\Arcen Games\AI War\ unless you specified something else). Please make sure that your unzip process keeps the folder structure from the zip file, rather than just unpacking all of the files into the base target directory.

What's new since 1.009E:
(Cumulative release notes since 1.008 are attached at the bottom)

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-The planetary summary should never now overlap the scores display when it is just at the threshold of being too long for being two columns instead of one.

-The Planet Notes editor in the galaxy map now also allows for the names of the planets to be changed.

-The green bubbles for ships under force fields were not showing in recent releases until the ships were shot at.  Fixed.

-All of the resource and constructor ships are now immune to reclamation by parasites/leeches.

-The recharge bar on ships (formerly red) is now white instead.

-The health bars of ships now show up as yellow when less than 66% health is remaining, and red when less than 33% health is remaining, and the usual green otherwise.

-Performance-affecting entries in the Game Settings are now shown in either yellow (for items that can improve performance) or red (for items that can reduce performance).

-There is now a settings option for turning off the recharge bar display on ships.

-There is now a settings option for always showing the ship bars (health and/or recharge) in far zoom icon view.

-It is now possible for any player to export the unit relative chart by using Ctrl+Shift+F5 (partial), or Ctrl+Shift+F6 (full), when the F3 debug info is visible.  See the controls document for more information.

FIXES FROM PAST PRERELEASES
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-Astro Trains no longer wait for other ships to go with them through wormholes.
« Last Edit: July 07, 2009, 12:09:44 am by x4000 »
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I'm just going to call this the "Admiral" release, despite its short and abortive life before being summarily replaced. :)

-Performance-affecting entries in the Game Settings are now shown in either yellow (for items that can improve performance) or red (for items that can reduce performance).

May I suggest "green" might be a better color for performance improving options? :)

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I'm just going to call this the "Admiral" release, despite its short and abortive life before being summarily replaced. :)

Yeah, this was full of your stuff. :)  I really love the changes to the health bar colors, by the way -- and I'm finding that I now play with the health bars showing in far zoom, too.  Those were really excellent suggestions in particular.

-Performance-affecting entries in the Game Settings are now shown in either yellow (for items that can improve performance) or red (for items that can reduce performance).

May I suggest "green" might be a better color for performance improving options? :)

Oh, sure, if you want to be logical about it. :)  Yellow is just my general highlight color, but that makes sense.
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Oh, sure, if you want to be logical about it. :)

No; obviously you didn't hear my *evil cackle* loud enough. I just wanted to spite all the people with red/green colorblindness, of course - now they can't tell which options are *evil cackle* evil and which ones are *sigh* good.

(N.B.: JUST KIDDING!!!)

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Oh... :)
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Time to beat a dead horse... Just in case anyone is still confused...

I was serious about the green color for the "good" options.

OK, back to my daily cow tenderizing...

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Serious that you would like them, or that you think they are not a good idea?  Right now they are green.
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*kicks self for being repeatedly confusing*

Serious that I think the "performance enhancing" options should be colored green instead of yellow.

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Okay, good -- that's what I thought you meant.  No worries. :)
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