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

Like the new support ship option. A bug I've noticed is that if you send your support ship to warp out of the area, their + icons remain on the hex grid.

 

I don't even have troops on my StarWarrior corvette but I like buying a Destiny troop ship and using it to help soak up attack damage. But I think the AI around the borders didn't like that and sent a Liverpool Frigate after me.

 

Also with the two options of follow me and hold position it would be easier to tell what command it is at if one of them is highlighted as 'selected'. Right now its hard to tell which one it is at.

 

I think if it in 'hold position' the support ship should have all its shields up on all sides and go defensive.

 

Minor bug, sometimes it says invalid selection when you select or unselect the tickmark thing for support ship on the roster.

 

"- Officer upgrades do not have combat prerequisites and cost less"

They do require battles.

Also seems there were some major ship refactorings.

The Mendi III sucks now. If you hurt my Montana III....
I really hope starting with Mendi III hasn't been a poor choice now.
Yeah... just the Mendi III was nerfed.? All weapons now do 1 damage instead of 2 1,2 2
-Yup, like the two fastest Agile Flyers, the two fastest Mendis have been nerfed. -Vesuvius

I have to go re-learn all the stats ... maybe just a few changes?
-Those are the only changes to ship stuff -Vesuvius

It appears that the webside shipyard data is not being read from actual game files and is horribly outdated!
-Well yes, I actually build those cards manually with a graphics program and make Jpegs out of them. They aren't done magically, this isn't EA, just me. Shipyard data is not horribly outdated, just modified for 4 corvettes I listed above. Once all the changes are made before launch, I will re-edit all the ship cards necessary... manually. -Vesuvius

I have no way to know the stats of the Genari ships I am facing or if any of their corvettes received a similar nerf.

However, it seems as though you may have heeded my warnings about a super-corvette fleet downing a dread on a single dual-turn alpha strike. If the trend continues with ship changes, that should be impossible now.

 

Still getting MaxHull-1 Repair bug. Can spend points but not recover last hull point.
Seems to happen if you were at full and took exactly 1 damage.

Captain Initiative seems to be giving it's proper +2 (Rank 1)

And so begins the tedium of 'kill one ship, alt-f4 back to base for battle credit/skill reset'
-Until the rage quit option is no longer there, where AI takes over on battle map if you log out. -Vesuvius

Need incentive for players to work together (co-operative rewards besides just tile capture). ZERO reward scouting for allies..
-Actually there is, just not implemented yet. -Vesuvius

Ally spawned nearly in range of enemy AI, AI proceeded to stare at him and do nothing. Did it again mid-combat (Star Warrior IV AI staring idly at Halifax)
-We need to figure out why some of these AI ships turn into zombies, its annoying and needs a fix. -Vesuvius

Receiving General Error (Invalid target like) when attempting to fire on target at point blank (rare).
-By any chance does it happen only on the first or second rounds? Or was it 'deeper' into battle? -Vesuvius

Combat/Battle credit not awarded for ship damaged (quite heavily at that) by a player that is later finished off by another player/AI.
-You should get damage XP, just not the kill XP. If that isn't happening, then something is bugged about it. -Vesuvius

Allocation phase is extending beyond 60 seconds with many entities on map, may vary (5 preset, more or less).

 

Good to know only a few ships were changed. Might be a good idea to have the data in those cards populated by game files (and overlayed on the card background) instead of manually created. It's a good bit of work to set up, I know, but how much work will it save you from having to manually update?

I wouldn't call it rage quit in this case Either way, it will then become 'go to sector border' or simply leave during free flight, quit, restart at base for reload, proceed.

I noticed that bug on first or second rounds after a ship entered combat and after I left the field and returned to an ongoing battle, turn# for the AI unknown, but both ships that were out produced the error.

You do get a tiny bit of damage exp, though small compensation for valuable work. Scouting is extremely important, same as repairing or taking a hit for an ally or disabling a ship (marine pods, engine hits, targeting, etc.). Ships that are good at scouting like the Mendi III with high mobility and enough scan power tend to not have huge (now even less) firepower. Focusing solely on 'last hits' for the bulk or all of the reward seems like a bad idea when one guy goes in for a surgical strike to disable a ship and then the next gets the most of the reward. Not good for teamwork. You have to intentionally plan for how much damage your allies can do and try to stack the numbers [and turn order] around that so you can get your pay.

 

Here's an idea: If the 'battle' condition was 'to be present when a tile was claimed' rather than killing a ship, people would work together to acquire their battle counts instead of being concerned with last hits. This would also serve as a better limiter to Officer upgrades than the arbitrated 22 hour cooldown.

-I actually really like this idea, and maybe down the line 'combat missions' is replaced with conquering regions. I think it is better, but I'd still keep the cooldown counter haha. By the way, the combat mission requirements will be much higher on game launch, as much as tenfold, though I know you might not like that Xeen. -Vesuvius

Yes, it may be possible to rack up mission counts in a short time if you just happen to join the end of each sector's capture. With the 24 hour lockout on a sector, capturing and 'bouncing' tiles back and forth will be just as time consuming as the current arbitrated 22 hour officer upgrade timer.

A system like this would have an inherent balancing-effect between factions too. The more tiles that faction 'A' owns, the fewer and more zealously defended (by faction 'B') their options become thus drastically slowing down faction 'A's Officer progression while allowing more options for faction 'B', and as ships are lost along with extremely valuable officers, replacement is ever more difficult. So goes a war of attrition with checks in place.

Again, is it supposed to be 22 hours per officer per ship, or just 1 upgrade every 22 hours for the entire ship?
1 per 22 hours for the whole ship (As is) is reallllly slow.
1 per officer per 22 hours (or 2 for a Tac Officer) isn't too bad.

Need ability to purchase multiple of a ship. Going to buy a whole line of ships and just upgrade them 1 each per day in parallel.... losing one would be catastrophic.

Also, what about the Sol Medical Officer escape pods/recovering officers?? HUGE advantage over the Genari.
How will that work?
-Its a complicated skill to implement for now, hence why its not in place yet. However, the Marine Commander skills can be also considered a Huge advantage over Sol, even if you don't think so. The idea is not to mirror image races, but keep them very different. When Ma'Alaketh comes out, it will also be very different. -Vesuvius

 

General error bug several turns after ship was on map... I fired one of 4 weapons then got the error for all 3 others even after moving.

-I hope this was fixed on the new build. If not, time to report this in more detail. Its one of the last of these strange gameplay bugs. -Vesuvius

Damage display while hovering does not reflect officer Damage Boost, but I suspect it is still being applied.

Reasoning: Fighting a ship with 19 hull (I think), 4 point blank boosted shots at 1 charge each should be 4x3 = 12 dmg, then firing 3 more the next round scores a kill after 1 or 2 points repaired.

General error again many turns later against same ship in same battle after defeating another ship.
-Same for this, if you can report them in any detail in jira....

 

Losing a ship with 50 battles on it means nothing if it was only 1 day old.

Battle/mission count and the time limiter have a huge disagreement, especially considering battle count is acquired for each officer and the timer is for ONE officer upgrade per day.

 

Can apply 'Sol Commander I' as a 1-star captain when it says 2-star is required (cannot apply it at previous rank of no-star 'captain').

 

Will they be playing on the test server? I'd love to drop in and uh... introduce myself to them

Yes they will... be nice. -Vesuvius

 

Uncertain: Sol Captain Initiative ranks are giving cumulative bonuses instead of the given terminal bonus for a rank.

Rank 1: +2, result +2
Rank 2: +5, result +7

-It shouldn't be cumulative, but strange nonetheless, if Mendi is only getting +7. Its a bug alright, but I will need to know what ships are getting +7 besides mendi. -Vesuvius

I don't suppose it matters either way too much so long as everyone gets it the same.

Seems only the Mendi was getting 7, the M3 is getting the expected +5

 

Please Please Please put the end/pass turn buttons on a hotkey and/or a background that cannot be clicked through to send unwanted movement commands to the map.

Having to constantly manipulate the camera to put it on empty space to avoid erroneous movement.

Agreed wholeheartedly. We do need an end turn/pass turn hotkey. What do you think it should be? I was thinking the enter key. -Vesuvius

 

Ships at the shipyard have incorrectly listed Maneuverability:

Back to the precision/rounding up errors.

Case:
Faction - Sol
Ship - Montana III
Power - 75
Movement Ratio - 4:1 (was previously in error at 5:1)
Listed Maneuverability - 19 (18.75 actual, rounding up)
Actual Maneuverability - 18 + 3 spare power (72 of 75, 76 power required for 19th base movement point)


Also, the Att and Def ratings seems to max out at 150 on the display even if the ship is stronger than that.

-Att/def max 150 -- That's a bug/ticket I've written long ago that still needs to be addressed. -Vesuvius

PS - I uh, started playing a little bit again M3 rolling out.

 

Am I supposed to be able to pick the alternate test environments and go to the dev server?

(Some of this I've probably said before)

Requests:

-Faster movement and weapon animations to consume less of our precious battle turn timer.

-Ability to exceed or equal 100% chance to hit normally (without the use of Lucky Shot, just regular passive acc. boosters), not force-capped at 95% either as an upper limit to chance to hit or arbitration at 1-hex range. Unknown interaction between hit chance limit and evasion skill.

-Automatically save all power changes if and when the allocation phase timer expires.

-Bonus for capturing territory.

Note:

Faded xp and other messages still very faintly visible on the left below officer notifications.