v1.12.0 Changes Discussion Thread

[xenoscepter]

Trying to drum up visibility for this, but this bug is still present in v 1.11.0, I've tested it and confirmed it.

It goes all the way back to 1.9.4, has this been addressed yet?
http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=11231.msg131041#msg131041

[Froggiest1982]

Any chance under the hood somebody is looking at why mines and 2 stage missiles in general don't work?

I saw the fix on changelog on 2 stage contributing on magazine explosions, which is fine, I am just not sure who is actually using any considering they are currently "useless".

Only buoys work on second stage and there was a report of 2 stage missiles launched and succesfully decoupled within range of MFC only but was never really confirmed as mostly all reports are just fails of any design.

[Rince Wind]

My 2 stage missiles worked just fine in 1.10.

[Elvin]

More auto assignment is a good thing in my books

Just one question: I see the priority has "0 = Low". Can I get confirmation if Ship priority works the same way? I ask as this post makes it sound like 0 is the highest priority for ships: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg104046#msg104046

Thanks!

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

More auto assignment is a good thing in my books :0

Just one question: I see the priority has "0 = Low". Can I get confirmation if Ship priority works the same way? I ask as this post makes it sound like 0 is the highest priority for ships: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg104046#msg104046

Thanks!

0 is the highest priority for ships, which had caused a lot of confusion because people have different ideas regarding whether high or low numbers should indicate priority. I think I mentioned somewhere I was going to reverse that, but the code still has 0 as highest priority so it looks like I never changed it. I've edited the post you linked to make it clear.

The above is why I called it importance instead of priority for colonies, as most people would assume higher numbers mean more important. I should probably do the same for ships in v1.12.

[Garfunkel]

I will also set the default priority to 10, so that it is easy to make one class lower priority without having to change all the others

Such a minor thing but it'll save a lot of clicks in the long run!

[Zincat]

More auto assignment is a good thing in my books :0

Just one question: I see the priority has "0 = Low". Can I get confirmation if Ship priority works the same way? I ask as this post makes it sound like 0 is the highest priority for ships: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg104046#msg104046

Thanks!

0 is the highest priority for ships, which had caused a lot of confusion because people have different ideas regarding whether high or low numbers should indicate priority. I think I mentioned somewhere I was going to reverse that, but the code still has 0 as highest priority so it looks like I never changed it. I've edited the post you linked to make it clear.

The above is why I called it importance instead of priority for colonies, as most people would assume higher numbers mean more important. I should probably do the same for ships in v1.12.

That's great. Having 0 as the lowest  priority even for ships makes sense and makes it consistent with governors, so easier to remember.

[mike2R]

The governor auto-assign looks great!  That's something I've wanted for years!  Really like having it as a tab on the colony window - I'd been thinking of it as something on the leaders window, but this looks a lot more convenient.

Anyway, about naval admin commands... 

[Froggiest1982]

More auto assignment is a good thing in my books :0

Just one question: I see the priority has "0 = Low". Can I get confirmation if Ship priority works the same way? I ask as this post makes it sound like 0 is the highest priority for ships: http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg104046#msg104046

Thanks!

0 is the highest priority for ships, which had caused a lot of confusion because people have different ideas regarding whether high or low numbers should indicate priority. I think I mentioned somewhere I was going to reverse that, but the code still has 0 as the highest priority so it looks like I never changed it. I've edited the post you linked to make it clear.

The above is why I called it importance instead of priority for colonies, as most people would assume higher numbers mean more important. I should probably do the same for ships in v1.12.

Hi Steve, here from the FAQ http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=10715.msg123266#msg123266 if you can please confirm so I can also update on the FAQ with the right information.

Thanks!

EDIT: all good, saw the post and updated FAQ.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

The governor auto-assign looks great!  That's something I've wanted for years!  Really like having it as a tab on the colony window - I'd been thinking of it as something on the leaders window, but this looks a lot more convenient.

Anyway, about naval admin commands... 

Yes, I will try to sort out something similar at some point.

[Froggiest1982]

The governor auto-assign looks great!  That's something I've wanted for years!  Really like having it as a tab on the colony window - I'd been thinking of it as something on the leaders window, but this looks a lot more convenient.

Anyway, about naval admin commands... 

Yes, I will try to sort out something similar at some point.

As long as Manual allocation it's still viable though, full auto it's never good I think for many players.

[kenlon]

The auto-assign is great, but could we possibly get an option to filter the event log to only show events that happen to an assigned officer? Because I really, really don't care about some random captain retiring, and I really, really, do care about the Admiral who's running my top fleet command doing the same.

[Froggiest1982]

Referring to change into occupation factors etc I remember discussing in another post the possibility of a colony to declare indipendence for then been told that the mechanic was not implemented as yet.

Although today I was refreshing my mind with the diplonacy rules and I stumbled upon the original post that made me believe the mechanic was indeed there already.

I then run a test very quickly to test it and find out that yes, the mechanic it's either not been coded or maybe a bug it's preventing it to kick in.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg118467#msg118467

Steve are you able to look into it and let us know?

Thanks.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Referring to change into occupation factors etc I remember discussing in another post the possibility of a colony to declare indipendence for then been told that the mechanic was not implemented as yet.

Although today I was refreshing my mind with the diplonacy rules and I stumbled upon the original post that made me believe the mechanic was indeed there already.

I then run a test very quickly to test it and find out that yes, the mechanic it's either not been coded or maybe a bug it's preventing it to kick in.

http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg118467#msg118467

Steve are you able to look into it and let us know?

Thanks.

Independence is manual only at the moment.

[rekrats]

Is there any ETA on 1. 12 ?
Would really love to start a new game, but 1. 12 has so many nice features . . .