v2.0.0 Changes Discussion Thread

[Shuul]

Damn, 1.14 has already so many critical fixes listed that Im, again, hesitant to start new game till next patch. Was hoping to have 1.13 going though.
Steve, do you plan to release it soon? Those fixes seems like important.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Damn, 1.14 has already so many critical fixes listed that Im, again, hesitant to start new game till next patch. Was hoping to have 1.13 going though.
Steve, do you plan to release it soon? Those fixes seems like important.

There aren't any major bugs that prevent the game being played, so I am in no rush at the moment. I have started work on a new spoiler race so I need to finish that and then run a test campaign, plus I have a few holidays booked.

[Stormtrooper]

Wouldn't it be possible to just release those fixes alone as 1.13.1 or something? Since they're already coded and stuff. This obfuscation everywhere looks ugly so while not game breaking is rather impactful I'd say.

[Steve Walmsley (OP)]

Wouldn't it be possible to just release those fixes alone as 1.13.1 or something? Since they're already coded and stuff. This obfuscation everywhere looks ugly so while not game breaking is rather impactful I'd say.

There is no 1.13.1 as the database is already updated. I don't keep a detailed change log of what was modified for each change or bug fix.

The two obfuscation bugs are in non-essential areas that were only introduced in v1.13, so v1.12 worked fine without them.

[Froggiest1982]

Damn, 1.14 has already so many critical fixes listed that Im, again, hesitant to start new game till next patch. Was hoping to have 1.13 going though.
Steve, do you plan to release it soon? Those fixes seems like important.

Every patch is essential. One thing I've learned is that if you pass from 1.10 to 1.12 for instance, you have so many changes to assimilate that almost "ruin" the experience. My advice is at least to play 1 small campaign a 1 big campaign per iteration to help yourself with the transition.

So far my biggest campaigns were made on 1.10 and 1.12 and they are totally different experiences because 1.10 was the first stable release after so many bug fixes and qol improvements, also the new NPR designs and threats kept me hooked for a while. 1.12 on the other hand, changed the terraforming and the parasites along with formations, automated exploration, and a new AI mechanic.

[Shuul]

automated exploration,

Yeah, guess ill just go on with 1.13
But what you mean by automated exploration? wonder if I missed something.

[Froggiest1982]

automated exploration,

Yeah, guess ill just go on with 1.13
But what you mean by automated exploration? wonder if I missed something.

there are a set of rules and orders that allow you to send ships on permanent exploration tasks without the need of you to micromanaging it if you that kind of person at least. In the beginning, for me, it's not that handy as I usually proceed carefully and I pick my jumps. Later when you are with 100+ systems and you need to look after 30+ jumps at 10 or more systems away from Sol it does really help. I call them exploration eras. Sometimes I just do 1 year or more years of wild exploration while doing other stuff before calling the eagles back in and only then look at the findings.

[Droll]

On the tactical map left-hand display panel there is a checkbox called "No child/parent overlaps".

What do?

[MarcAFK]

I have a minor issue with the removal of the tokamak, its too cool to remove, could it come back to replace the generic 'magnetic confinement reactor' used for magnetic confinement drives ?
Afterall it is a magnetic confinement reactor itself, and even the previous stellarator is also a magnetic confinement reactor,. It might introduce some confusion to people familiar with previous tech levels though. In fact maybe some of the other generic reactor types could be renamed.

Improved Pressurized water reactor - Pressurized Heavy water Reactor
Improved Nuclear Thermal Engine - Liquid Core Nuclear thermal engine
Improved Pebble bed - Molten Salt Cooled Pebble Bed
Improved Nuclear Pulse Engine - Liquid Metal Core Nuclear Pulse Engine

[Droll]

Improved Pressurized water reactor - Pressurized Heavy water Reactor

Pressurized Deuterium Reactor sounds cooler and pretty much means the same thing IIRC

[MarcAFK]

Improved Pressurized water reactor - Pressurized Heavy water Reactor

Pressurized Deuterium Reactor sounds cooler and pretty much means the same thing IIRC

Yep. All these were taken from the wiki page for those reactor techs with merely a few minutes of skimming so there could be slightly better terminology, but its better than just 'improved'

[nuclearslurpee]

With the new GU scrapping capability it seems like we're only a couple of automation steps away from being able to implement upgrading of GU formations, which is excellent progress.

[skoormit]

we're only a couple of automation steps away from...

Said every software development manager ever.

[QuakeIV]

I agree that tokamak is a rather interesting name and should probably supersede something rather than going away.

[Demetrious]

I am very happy to see Steve add that 100 ton wiggle room for not auto-adding a bridge when you go over 1,000 tons; it's always been a pain in my rear end when designing FACs (I like FACs so I use them a lot.)

Not so thrilled about the crew training change, however. Chucking a fleet into a training admin command was simple, straightforward and easy. Now I'll have to micromanage swapping out commanders for smaller ships without an auxiliary control for an XO? No thanks. And inexperienced fleet fire delay penalties are bad enough to make this matter. Maybe the new fire at will option will mitigate that? Iunno. I might just play with experience penalties turned off, instead. Guess we'll see.