As for jewelery - I don't think only those ones. I had a custom race with drengin hulls- no jewellery either.

I will go ahead and add this one here as well

as of 1.30(.016 there are the following items in PlanetImprovements.xml
Some of these might have been removed by stardock but would of been better to be commented in the xml if they are not to be used


Galactic Monument requires tech StarFederation tech is named StarFed
Nano Recorders requires tech Sensor2
Pain Amplifiers requires tech Medical Theory tech is missing
Anti-matter Power Plant requires tech Anti-Matter Power tech is missing
Extended Farming requires tech Xeno Farm Construction IV tech is missing
Ultra Farming requires tech Xeno Farm Construction V tech is missing
Hyper Distribution Center requires tech CulturalConquest tech is named Cultural Conquest (space)
Historical Preserve requires tech ArtificialSatellites tech is missing (perhaps from terror star removal)

Jack-Jack, there are still only 12 levels of difficulty, but now there are 12 levels of intelligence when previously there were only 9. 

 

 

This beta is unplayable for me.
I have the same two problems as Sam0t. Drengins are the only ones with correct ship with jewelry. None of the others have jewelry on them. The Human and Yor shipsets have strange graphical glitches all around them. In-game they cover most of the screen. I also have the lifeless planets, this seems to include all planets in the game, homeworlds and colonised. The only one that has any terrain is Earth but that's probably because it has it's own raw-file, it's completly white like all the others.

One thing that I discovered is that if I choose a race and difficulty, then go back and choose another race and click forward to the choose opponents-screen, the old race won't be the same intelligence as all the others since it wasn't an AI when the difficulty was chosen but it will still be enables and will therefor start the game with a different intelligence if no changes are made.
As I understand it, an AI:s intelligence is updated to the difficulty level when it's enabled. Wouldn't it be easier to upgrade all the races intelligence (including both enabled and disabled ones and the player race) whenever the difficulty is changed, that would remove the above problem.

Picture of the buggy graphics in race selection.


Picture in-game. It all comes from the buggy ships.

ignuss: please see my advice about changing your regional settings.

Thank you, CariElf. Changing the regional settings fixed all my problems. I saw your earlier post precisely after I had finished mine, I began writing it before your was posted
No more graphic problems and all the jewelry are back on the ships.
All the planets are back to normal too.

Ok, I have a test build that works here when I change my regional settings to German.  However, I would still like to test this on people actually running non-English versions of the OS to be certain that it works.

Got the same graphic errors with the ships and the planets. And worse: the combat viewer shows only a dark screen. No ships, no battle, just stats running. Same thing on the galaxy map. There are no more weapon effects. Just two ships/fleets next to each other and one is exploding after a second.

I'm running the english version on german Win XP version.

Jack-Jack, there are still only 12 levels of difficulty, but now there are 12 levels of intelligence when previously there were only 9.

Sorry, My oopsie

The random issue is stil a bug though right??

Cari, My interpretation of the 'random' setting next to the intelligence selection area in the game options window was that it created some movement in the races intelligence levels. This i believe was supposed to move slightly so that some races were more intelligent than others. However at present it is keeping some at the normal level and dropping others hugely. IE: -

Debug Message: Drengin Empire: Intelligence -> 19
Debug Message: Yor Collective: Intelligence -> 42
Debug Message: Drath Legion: Intelligence -> 53

The 42 to 53 split would, on the basis i am interpreting the previous changes implemented on the randomize setting, be correct. Whilst the 19 intelligence of the Drengin in this case would be wrong as it basically equates to you playing against 2 races at 'normal' and one at 'cakewalk' which is not how i understood the option to work.

For clarification i am talking about the check-box next to the intelligence selection window and not the random choice on the selection window.

I may have got it completely wrong so if i have i apologize now

JJ

When I bring up the planet list, it's empty unless I click on one of the categories. Should I post my debug.err?

Edit: Reloaded my save game and the list was working. Changed the sort from class to name and the above issue took place.

Gotta love the people who try to use a pre-patch savegame and them complain about bugs......