Elemental – Beta 1Z4 is coming

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While the vast majority of users who actually have Beta 1Z voted for moving forward (the publicly displayed poll isn’t designed to filter based on downloads but rather whether they have an Impulse account) we believe another Beta 1 is still in order.

There are some Windows XP issues we want to nail down in particular with regards to stability and memory and there were a bunch of fixes that got finished that didn’t get checked in in time for beta 1Z3.

We are probably going to dispense with the polling unless I can get IT to spend time to filter out users who don’t actually have the beta (incidentally, the votes include the user ID and the IP address for the guy who put in 11 no votes with the same IP with different accounts, tsk tsk). 

The forum discussions alone were enough to convince me that one additional beta 1 build made sense.

It IS important, however, that anyone who experiences problems report them. Don’t assume that we know about them. Read this post.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

You will find me ready :)

Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Nice! We are not ready to move to phase 2 yet. Either way..what poll?! I haven't seen any polls. Where was it posted? :omg:

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Tormy-, reply 3
Nice! We are not ready to move to phase 2 yet. Either way..what poll?! I haven't seen any polls. Where was it posted?

That. What poll? Where? Who?

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

The Phantom Poll?o_O

Users ID of the cheaters or it didn't happen.:P

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

I think it has since been 86'd.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

It was the top here:

https://www.elementalgame.com/journals

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 7
It was the top here:

https://www.elementalgame.com/journals


Oh damn...I haven't visited that link for ages....I didn't know that the polls will be hosted there. :(O I guess I will visit that link on a daily basis from now on. :rolleyes:

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Tormy-, reply 8



Quoting Frogboy,
reply 7
It was the top here:

https://www.elementalgame.com/journals





Oh damn...I haven't visited that link for ages....I didn't know that the polls will be hosted there.  I guess I will visit that link on a daily basis from now on.

Neither have I. I always assumed the poll would be in a new dev journal, or an e-mail or something. Or even on the front page, like the Sins and GalCivII polls.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Frogboy, reply 7
It was the top here:

https://www.elementalgame.com/journals

Eh, with all the journals on the front page, I never visted the journal section itself. And the poll wasn't linked at the front page. :)

Reply #11 from Elemental Forums Top

Hmm... so taking into account the "Chaetor" (misspelled for dramatic effect), instead of about 50/ 50 the poll was more 80/20?

In either case, this Thursday we will have yet another Beta 1, so yey for us. Hopefully the Chaetor has been dealt with, for the Chaetranid Race has a tendency to rapidly expand and infest the various star systems, consuming all in their path.

Hopefully in future installations we won't suffer encounters of Chaetranids ... although I suppose the possibility always lurks within the darkest corners of the Sector.

May the emperor protect us.

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

Maybe the chaeter was a john titor-esqe time traveller trying to prevent some bugs in the release of elemental. We just don't know.

Reply #13 from Elemental Forums Top

CHAETOR!

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Don't worry, I'll get john to travel back and tell me to spell it correctly. Damned if I'm gonna use the edit function.

Reply #15 from Elemental Forums Top

hehe.

In any case, join with me by stating the need for a Chilling, rapidly expanding "super-enemy" in elemental :) 

(I am sure that there is one within the lore already, but still ... just in case. FFH had the Infernals, even though they had an easy counter (Mercurians) and weren't that much of a threat in most Sand-box games)

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Oh damn...I haven't visited that link for ages....I didn't know that the polls will be hosted there. I guess I will visit that link on a daily basis from now on.

Me too. Makes me want a poll on how many folks missed that poll.

Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting GW, reply 16

Oh damn...I haven't visited that link for ages....I didn't know that the polls will be hosted there. I guess I will visit that link on a daily basis from now on.
Me too. Makes me want a poll on how many folks missed that poll.

Ha ha yeah, I currently only visit the site when the rss feed tells me there's a new dev journal up.. so I didn't see that poll either :D

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

I don't know if my forum account is even linked to my impulse account. I didn't use the same name, but I don't think I ever visited the /journals page.

How about adding support for polls directly to Impulse instead? That way developers with impulse can release polls to their userbase on just about anything. "How do you feel the latest patch is working."

Actually it'd also make a neat feature for Impulse:Reactor for game devs to be able to leave announcements and polls for their users there.

Reply #19 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting pedroente, reply 2
Can we at least get another map?

Too close to making the beta fun. Your eyes shall be made to bleed for your affrontery! }:)

Reply #20 from Elemental Forums Top

frogboy will roads be reintroduced in z4?

Reply #21 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting blix2006, reply 20
frogboy will roads be reintroduced in z4?

No.

Reply #22 from Elemental Forums Top

I think another Z is prudent.  Stability is greatly improved for me in Z3 (I got to 1000+ turns in a game finally!) but I'm still seeing too many CTDs, Freezes, Windows Crashes, and an OutOfMemory.  Plus things like houses disappearing when cities upgrade.

Fast is slow and slow is fast.  The best way to get Elemental finished ASAP is going slow now.

Reply #23 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm glad to hear a Windows_XP system is being used for testing at Stardock.  The current build seems to crash often for my Windows_XP_64Bit  system.  I noticed beta testing is 32Bit...  when will the 64Bit beta testing begin?

Reply #24 from Elemental Forums Top

Glad to see another beta. :)

In the typical games I am amongst the happy few who encounter next to no problems - for example Empire: Total War seems to have been a huge bugfest when it came out, I never had anything but a stable game... - but  here I am amongst the few who have not even played a single game in 1z3. The game crashes at at creating a new world and it consistently does so. With this in mind I am pro anything that makes me get a few turns in in the new beta.