I didn't.

So, just in the last couple of days I've been getting this (possible) bug - the UI element offering the at-a-glance fleet indicator around planets disappears randomly. Restarting the game sometimes helps, sometimes not. If I hover my mouse over where it would be, I get the infocard still, which tells me the indicator SHOULD be there but is invisible. Hopefully this screenshot helps. 

That's odd. Is anyone else seeing that?

LOL I need to learn to read better.

Love the graphic updates.  I noticed them right away and I play this game on three different type of computers.  A HP Pavilion g7-2118nr Notebook PC with 8GB of Memory and an AMD Radeon HD 7520G, a Dell XPS 7100 with 16GB with a AMD Radeon HD 5450 with 1GB of memory and a Dell Inspiron N5110 with an Intel Video integrated video.

The HP is the the one I have been really playing the game on the most.  Here are a few items I have noticed:

Large fleets at close zoom the graphics are slow.  Not as slow as when SOS first was released but still a bit slow.

At time the game pauses between 6-10 seconds and then starts again.  It doesn't crash.  Just pauses.

Love the new planet types.

I know designing a game that' s a hit is really hard.  And you guys have done an awesome job at really keeping the game play the same through out all the releases which is probably why it's a huge hit.

My wish list would be one or two more capital ship and a choice between Titans.  Still only allowing one to be built.  Allowing each faction a choice of two titans.  More frigates and maybe a Destroyer or two. 

I know it takes a lot to designing theses ships but the destroyer types would really make the game rock.  But they can't be cheap and they need to use a lot of crew capacity.  Like half of a capital ship. Heck even 1/4 would be a lot.

Just my input.

John

At least by the moment I can not say that the beta adds better graphic upgrades........when I was testing it with the models from my mod, I saw many problems with shadows. Always playing with the hightest detail settings at 1680x1080 and antialising 2x. 

About zoom, The unique things which I saw, it was how a close zoom value from the 1.52 was more far in the beta and I´m not sure that I like it if I can not make a very close zoom

About the original game? my eyes can not see nothing different, perhaps the changes are better with a lower detail at a worse computer.

I played it at my very old Intel Q6600 overclocked to 3ghz with 4gb of ram ddr800 (never used at 100% at windows XP Professional 32bits SP3) mounted at a Asus P5Q SE2 with one newer Gigabyte GTX660 2GB and a normal but not bad sound system with a Creative Soundblaster Fatal1ty. This mounted at a big Antec P182 with a Samsung SSD and 3 normal hardisk more (I do not go to count too much the dvd writer because I do not use it too much).

i know this isnt in the patch. and may be wrong thread. but orky dropping is still ridiculously abused. move it to tier 3? slow em down a bit?

Would you make difficulty level bonuses editable please? I have to admit that it annoys me playing against AIs that have double income rate even on Hard.

I assure you hard doesn't have double. Unfair does maybe.

Doesn't change the fact that making the bonuses editable would be awesome power for modders...

For singleplayers too, as they could choose their difficulty level according to their current skills, not needing to make huge jumps like from hard to unfair. For me the best would be a tiny bit easier unfair, but I cannot achieve it due to unmoddable numbers.

I agree, the jump between hard and unfair is way too much...hard doesn't present a challenge at all for the experienced player while unfair easily can force the player into adopting "AI only" strategies...

Either I play against an AI that doesn't stand a chance, or I play against an AI that will be spamming novas in no time...neither really is a good choice....there needs to be something in the middle that realistically mimics the capabilities of a moderately experienced player...not a pro, but not a noob...hard is too noobish while unfair's cheating is too obvious and apparent...

Sorry, gang, making the AI moddable is not in the cards.

Even the multipliers are not? Sad. 

However I would appreciate if you published an official sheet with all multipliers of difficulty levels. There are a lot of speculations here and there, but nothing seems to be clear. 

Looks good, happy you're working on the game still, because it's a damn fun game to play with your friends!

Its easy to figure out.  You can determine the amount of cheating by looking at the third charts down (for credits/metal/crystal).  To get a quick picture of how much each AI is cheating:   start a large game with each type of AI, quit after a few seconds or minutes, and look at the 3rd chart for credits "from" planet, etc.  You will see 5 sloping lines.  (Divide Hard/Normal to calculate, etc.)

For the DLC patch, cheats for Hard AIs were increased to 2.25 times bonuses.  So yes, it is in fact double Goafan!  The Hard AI now gets more than double our income, 2.25 times more credits (and metal & crystal) from planet income than you or I.  Unfair gets 3.5 times. 

Prior to the last patch it was 1.7 and 3.0, for Hard and Unfair.  And back in the days of Entrenchment, Hard only got 1.5X's more.

Current cheats:

Normal... none
Hard........2.25
Unfair......3.50
Cruel.......5.00
Vicious....7.00

(Cruel & Vicious also get speed bonuses on research times.)

I agree that the gap between Hard and Unfair is currently too large.  But I also feel that Hard cheats too much, and that Cruel (or Vicious) are just ridiculous.  I would like to see ALL of the cheats lowered to more reasonable amounts.

See some of my very old posts for more discussion of AI cheating.

There is also free starbase upgrades from my understanding starting at unfair.

Yarlen, could we possibly get some sort of response regarding this longtime issue?

any idea when will this patch be implemented officially?

Probably sometime next month.

Nor are a number of the communitys' other concerns, or mine personally. I guess StarDock just has different plans.

At any rate, thanks for continuing to support the game, StarDock.

There is another BUG or serious balance issue:

On gas giants those random explosions seem to have effect only on bombers not fighters or any other ship. they are particularly effective against advent bombers since they have lowest health meaning full health squadrons tend to disappear instantly. Haven't noticed any health drop on vasari bombers.

Now me and my friend is getting "Old Version Detected" when we try to play with the beta.

This is one beta that shouldn't have gone on for so long because it's actually a performance boost for people with slow CPUs and could effectively help them during multi-player games.

will the patch have blair's fixes for the map issues?

harpo