Metaverse love for 2.0

I doubt they would spoil it all for us knowing they'll put this title aside for a number of loooooong months after 2.0 is IT & done.

Trust SD (since their moody tasks are already but slowly stepping into the Fantasy realms - magic & surprises included!).

Err ok. Not sure how that answers my questions.

Devs?

If FrogBoy publicly stated that the MV will receive some work, then i believe(d) him... we either patiently wait to be surprised by added supplemental candies or hope some of our priority concerns will indeed be addressed as promised or expected -- that's what i meant, neilo.

Well i didn't just make this stuff up mate. I could quote the thread Kryo spoke of this in if ya really want but in his words, roughly, "MV will get some love along with TA in 2.0". I'm not going to search for thread right now.

Now, whether that was from Brad i don't know, but i'm sure Kryo didnt just make it up either.

So..yes i can and will wait and all of the rest of your comments, but i am asking if there is still something in the works. Furthermore, your priority concerns may...no, are different than mine, i'm sure.

You can wait all you like, i'm more than happy though to simply ask a question or two.

Now if ya don't mind i'd like to hear from the devs.

Again....Brad..Devs, response?

 

It was; I was just repeating it.

On topic though, I'm not sure where we stand on this; I'll have to check on it. Certainly if there are things you find that need fixed or updated though, post about them in the GC2 site issues category so they're all lined up in/when the time comes.

thanks Kryo for the response.  At Neilo and other MV players- let's make sure that we have an organized list and secondly, not a "wish list"; let's be bluntly honest- the MV isn't going to see any big updates, so don't aim for that, but at least we can make sure the functionality is there, that the medals work, and that cheaters get caught (ie Spacetimer)

Yay!  Big updates!  I'll get started on my wish list.   

Thanks Kryo. Good thinking SB. Perhaps a thread at ToE for us to agree on a short list of updates/fixes/improvements for the MV. A thread on the topic here might get lost in the random posting that is sure to occur in such a thread.

Off the top of my head real quick though....

Medals fixed/explained. (inc purple heart, fav race icon working in DA/TA, achievements, inc krynn/korath for fav race medal)

 

bookmarking

Ditto what Dystopic said.

Sentient species taste better...

Geez, I thought everything was working.

So I guess elitism is evil after all...

Sorry to kick an old thread, but has there been any news of the MV medals and if they all are working as they should?

It would be nice to know if the achievement medals are in fact working, and if so could we please have a list of at what point those ahievements are?

 

Thankyou.

 

I didn't even realize I was reading an old thread until Neilo's last response. 

I'd just like to see some uses for all of those achievment medals. A Win all victory types medal and/or maybe a top 100 / former top 100 medal.

Bara (the new guy who stepped in for Andrew) just did an update for the MV for the EU/UL registration, so now that he has the access and info he said he can make some tweaks here and there if there are any bugs. So if you guys can get together a point-by-point list of anything that isn't working quite right I'll pass it on.

?  Translation:  We'll fix whats not working but nothing new is going to be added? 

Not sure if the non-used medals would be considered something that isn't working quite right. Especially since we don't know what, if anything. they were supposed to do in the first place. As far as things not updating of scores not calculating correctly, someone else would probably know better.

Known Issues:

MV Scoring

- While individual players MV scores were updating, Empire scores were not. This was about 1-2 weeks ago, and I haven't checked to see if its been fixed yet, but just in case, there it is.

MV UI

- MV Empire Senators are "supposed" to have the ability to admit players in Moderated empires. Except no one knows how to do this. Admittedly, this seems more forum related.

MV General

- It is unknown what or if all the original medals work.  As it currently stands, the following DO work:  Ranks up through Admiral, but NOT fleet admiral;  All Races Victory Medal, Favorite Race Medal, Top 25 medal, Current/Former First, Second, Third; Top Empire medals; Battles Won; Ethics, and Difficulty.

What does NOT work: Fleet Admiral, Achievement Medals 6-9

 

And of course, there's the obvious cheat games such as Spacetimer that are still floating on the scoreboards.

 

I think that's really it. Unless someone else wants to chime in- KzintiPatriarch, you pay more attention to the MV than I do, any thoughts?

 

That was already dealt with a week ago AFAIK,

Yup, i've got me some of that...

 

Let us load up a SandboxMode result xml file as a valid participation (after the usual cheat verifications if you must) straight into the Metaverse UI ***instead*** of having to play a game pre-defined (and maintained as such) within a pure MV session.

While you're at it - give me an alternative 'MV_System' which can handle MODDED context & principles - call me an indirect cheater if you would, but AFAIC stock defaults (as designed *for* MV) somehow limit my gameplay experience(s) to the usual well-known scoring tricks rather than specific strategic decisions based on variable elements to evaluate performance.

 

Heck, if there's even just one other person which is using X-Worlds or CoSH game conditions, i'd love to compete at our levels & balancing factors - too.

@Zyps:  I think those are a bit beyond some quick bug fixes, not that they wouldn't be cool.  But even so, this isn't a "Wish List" thread

+1 QFT

Another to add to SB's medals list is the Purple Heart medal only showing up in your MV profile, not in forum posts.

If the Fleet Admiral Medal and the Achievement medals 6-9 are working, could we get some info on what we need to do to attain them please.

One would have thought there would be a 250/500 game winner medal. If there is, as you can see below it is not working. If not and the next game winner medal after 100 is higher than 500, then perhaps a revision of the level these medals are achieved may be in order.

Can anyone really see anybody getting to 750 or 1000 just to get the next medal, let alone what level; the later medals might kick in at....5000 games one???

 

@Zyx..what SB said might be the best approach here mate. Let's not bury the poor guy with an insumountable list of things to be done. Given that, nothing would get done.

Let's get the few flaws fixed first and then push for tweaks..

I think fixing the medals and making the Senator functions, well....functional, are the most important things.  The "forum stats" also has not updated for many months, probably for significantly more than a year.  I know that I and a few other people have mentioned it before, but it's still broken.

Sentient species taste better...

I'd like to 2nd that request. It does seem that site activity has been continually updated and is correct in your User Profile (3859 replies) but that hasn't been reflected in the MV Forum Stats (2838 replies) since the major forum upgrade. There were supposed to be some kind of equivilent stats kept on Impulsedriven but that has really not seemed to work out in any kind of useful manner.

Also access to the Council area has been pretty much eliminated throughout the forums but is still accessible from the Databanks, Downloads, Journals, Screen Shots and Purchase areas. Also these areas are oddly unique in that they often require separate login from the Forums area. In any case the Council area is pretty much defunct and IIRC some threads can be responded to while others can't and I don't believe new threads can be created and so it's probably best if this area that is accessible to Diplomat (master apprentice) and above simply disappeared.

I do want to mention that I appreciate the amount of effort that went into the forum upgrade and do believe that effort which made most of Stardock's 12 (and counting) forum sites more unified and consistent was a good thing. I probably understand at least as much as any other interested bystander about the enormity of the effort (350+ unique forums, 750+ total forums accessible from 12 separate sites) and perhaps the following suggestion relates more to the forums as a whole as opposed to the MV specifically, but there does seem to be some gaps in the otherwise "seamless" transistion from one site to the next. The main one is that karma seems to be partially "site specific". By that I mean that karma given from one site may not translate to another in one case but it will in another. 

Another thing that we used to have but do no longer is forum ranks appearing with posts. In the User profiles these now appear in the new unified format (citizen, apprentice, master apprentice, journeyman, ...) but in the MV profiles these are still listed in the old format (citizen, veteran, diplomat, ambassador, ...). This is also a more global forum issue as opposed to a MV specific issue.

I missed the change from citizen, Veteran, Diplomat etc..to the new terms.

I kinda liked Veteran. Apprentice....well Aprentice sucks TBQH...

Anyway...moving on.

I'd love to see froum ranks appearing in posts. Is this a brokem feature or a were they removed on purpose. If the later i doubt we are to see them back any time soon then?