*** CLOSED BETA UPDATES & DISCUSSION/BUG REPORTS VI ***

Some neat additions. Here's my thoughts:

What does 'ion drive' do? [Edit: Spoke to V in-game, some sort of future tech not yet implemented]

Sol ships tend to have equal or less engine power compared to Gen up until C9/10, which seems like 'strong high tier ships' covers that. Particularly the C4-C6 Gen ships have some of the best in class engines and actual performance capabilities (on the same ship) in the field for the class.

+ Sol's operating costs are higher practically across all tiers (plasma beams/warheads, shields to compensate for small hulls) and require more MP overhead to use mutli-arc weapons. (AKA Efficiency for Gen , they are cheaper to power and lower maneuvering overhead, generally)

The Mendi III and maybe some Orchis models (sortof) very closely tie Gen corvettes for engine power, but not for damage potential, hull, or XP. (Part of Gen Strong Low Tier Ships)

Aren't Sol supposed to have marines of their own at some point (not really supposed to be a Gen-only thing, but is for now)? I guess you can change that later when both sides have them and another faction comes in.

Doesn't seem to be a point to listing Ion Drive for Sol or Marine Pods for Gen, at least not in the big picture.

Totally agree on removing bars and showing numbers instead. Would also be nice if players could see ship details from this menu to get an idea of the # and layout of weapons + operational cost of the ship and other systems (2x or 1x or no shield gen, radar capacity, marine pods, etc). The ratings only give you a general idea, and it is quite possible for a lower rated ship to out-perform/be more viable than a higher rated one.

I think a lot of that may have been cleared up with 3rd/4th weapon charges on Sol basic type laser beams (not plasmas) no longer costing 2 power each (now same as Gen). There were a lot of cases where 2 ships had the same damage potential with # of weapons and range + officer bonuses factored in, but one would have a cheaper operating cost because of charge distribution AND could have a lower attack rating while being just as effective for less power.

Ultimately, since corvettes are all super cheap and C2 is no longer an option, you can't really go wrong with the starter ship selection.

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General error seems to be related to the game server processing commands out of order, namely 'End Turn': Before the anti-movement queuing and after, what can and did/does happen is that you queue up a bunch of stuff (could happen with movement or weapons) and then end turn quickly after doing so. The 'end turn' can somehow be processed before the other commands (more noticeable with higher latency/unstable connections), a general error is popped because the server receives your other commands that it cannot honor AFTER your turn is determined to be ended even though the order in which you sent the commands was correct with the 'end turn' being the last command you issued.

I believe what we are seeing with the new anti-queue + auto-end is that upon firing all weapons or spending your last movement point then finishing all possible remaining actions (weapons or movement, whichever is left), there is a conflict between your last action and the auto end-turn feature. I seem to get this EVERY time I've fired all weapons and then maneuver until all MP is spent, usually my last 3 in for reversing 1 hex.


#2
You are gonna make me pull hair out... lol

This is what I had been telling you about since a long time ago + that bug I recently ran into (now a third time the other night when I broke the Gen defense line) where XP doesn't show on target or side log = fast animations and combat, no adverse effects (you still earn the XP, animations and sounds do not appear to have any problems operating at higher speed).

I think my comment was deleted from JIRA about the same thing, stating that combat resolves quickly/smoothly without the XP posts and the pace could be increased >< It was related to the bug about the resolution of combat, ship destruction, and ability to leave map before animations finished as a result of q'ing multiple shots.

 

I was gonna say the same as eXe, give it some different flavor other than 'once per round' (like targeting, only one that's once/round iirc) or 'once per sortie' (once per battle is misleading), requiring dock to re-arm.

You could give it some restrictions like 'the following allocation round, drives must recover and you have 1/2 of the boosted amount LESS power to spend' OR the engines take minor damage from the ability (bordering on a mini stress-engines here) but allow it to be used every other round/more frequently than 'once per sortie' (I think all those once per battle skill descriptions should be changed, 'battle' -> 'sortie'). Thoughts, not recommendations/expectations.

*zips it*

 

Fighting in G-1313, killed an AI C6 after trying to help some allies (who were killed before I arrived), no CP was awarded. Going to kill more and see what happens. There's no deficit afaik.

Killed a player, still no CP.

Seem to always be greeted by a cold, evil load screen instead of observer mode when attempting to join a battle in progress.

 

cp = crew point? if the case i try to report it(perhaps i dont understand how it work) but nobody reply to my post ^^

 

CP = Control/Capture Points for claiming territory.

I've only seen this happen twice now, and it probably reset itself once all players and AI left the area.

 

Hiding the grid in preferences should be something that can be done on the map at every time.
At the moment you can only change that before entering a map.
That's were a bug came in, i can't target and fire any ship without the grid, funny enough if you switch the grid back on during combat , which doesn't show the grid again, let's you target ships again.

 

Yep, V knows about that one. He's done ss's of every ship for cards and such with grid off. Heard him talking about how you lose the UI and can't fight or maybe even can't leave map. Don't get mad, I'm just letting you know that this is a known issue and it will be taken care of sooner or later, so you don't have to do anything else.

Not sure about the Legacy Medals. Since it was JUST implemented, it's probably a minor flaw that it shows from the officer screen and doesn't pose any gameplay issues. I'll check to see if I have all the same Legacy Medals as from captain/normal panel. Yeah, all the same. It's just a button that points to Legacy Medals, no difference where you access it from. Heck, there's even one for the account level at the login (top right before server select).

I've seen that object before. It looks like the weapon mount or a light or something that I see on Gen ships. Likely just an art/model bug specific to that ship (TONS of those if you look close, you can see weapons in wrong places, pointing wrong ways, objects disconnected from ship, wrong warp animation directions on NPC/support ships). It moves around with the ship, right? not floating in space on that particular hex. None of these seem to cause gameplay issues. Even when weapons are pointing the wrong way, they still fire on the correct arc.

We could start a thread on just ship model bugs!

 

Bug Report for Credit Purchases in Pounds and Euro so far.
500 credits cost 4 euro or 3 pound
then it gets weird until
5000 credits cost 37 euro or 42 pounds

 

500 credits for $5 ? Is that 50 a typo?

Is this the thing that was holding back the steam submission? The money/conversion issues.

 

Seeing a lot of goodness in the update, from gameplay to backend to 'nice to haves'.


Still eagerly awaiting fixes to the very rare radar problems and the much more common double/triple pathing on click-to-move (this can really get you into trouble burning up MP if you click more than once due to lag or whatever when trying to use click-to-move).

I was hoping the bit about not being able to queue additional movement in the last update was the fix to the later, but it seems to have made combat more tedious and time-consuming without correcting the problem.

Lenor observed a radar bug with being unable to see me last night and Tobias/Zero had one when he was streaming a few nights ago and unable to see an AI target I was fighting by the time he entered. Both cases resolved when I forced an update through breaking range/LOS.

 

Question about portraits: Is it 100 credits each time a player changes or is it 100 credits to unlock and can freely changed purchased portraits to any unlocked premium or standard?

 

So your above is missing a 0 after the 50 for $5