Today's work on GalCiv II v1.7

A little here and there

from JoeUser Forums

Tomorrow we plan to put out the beta of GalCiv II v1.7.   My work has mostly been on tweaking the AI and some of the values.  I made morale buildings a bit better and made the spore stuff a bit more expensive.

v1.7 should definitely have stability improvements for players.  The new garbage collector code should reduce the memory foot print which will hopefully resolve the problem with out of memory errors that some players have run into. 

Another improvement is the AI ship sorting should be significantly faster and keep the AI from touching ships that have been destroyed (a rare but existing crash problem).

I'm pretty happy with what v1.7 has done so far.  It definitely needs more play testing since there are quite a few new features and other tweaks in there but I think players will be happy.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Wheee! I really hope to be finally able to play an all abundant gigantic map
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I believe you mentioned an overhaul of leases and starbase management. Will that be in the beta?

Can't wait, regardless!
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Sounds good. I am very happy to hear it is coming today
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'll give it a thorough testing when it arrives.

By the way, there are a few graphical glitches that show up when I play. I ussually save and quit at that point, because either I can't play because its a black screen with a little flicker, and the game ussually crashes sortly after. I've been meaning to report them. I'm wondering if 1.7 beta be a good time to report them (if any show up)?
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Software developers do like to isolate issues, though. Mixing Nvidia/Vista issues with 1.7 beta issues could be harder to debug.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
can't wait! I even checked for the update before coming here. Hurry Brad!
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
is it me, or is Brad being more vocal (well, textual) than usual today? there was a fair period of 'radio silence', so to speak, then the fall release schedule was announced, and in the last two days i've seen several very interesting posts from Brad.

we missed hearing from you - i did, at least.
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Are we there yet?
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Usually the announcement goes on IRC first, then SDC , then here.

Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Usually the announcement goes on IRC first, then SDC , then here.


Oh, didn't know there's an IRC channel. Thanks for enlightening me.

Reply #15 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
it's available as of like 10 seconds ago!
Reply #16 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
what server/channel?


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