Happy Thanksgiving to you too, and thanks for the updated list of changes

Happy Thanksgiving from Europe to you guys! I was invited by some american friends for a Thanksgiving party tonight! Looking forward to it!

By the way: You guys from Stardock are insane... Do you actually earn any money for your working time with all those free updates and fixes...? Thanks a lot!

And how do I give Karma to the OP?

Ok, found it... There is an invincible button on the right next to the number of Karma...

I agree - the TS is quite useless. BTW - how big is the increase in military rating by this? This would be one factor that could make it more useful in an easy and realistic way - just the pure military pressure the development of a super weapon puts onto other civs.

Woot! Change log.

Will this apply to all ships in orbit, or just what your logistics can handle? Can you turn it off for each individual planet? I don't always like to burn through defending ships against a stronger opponent just because I can. Having them fight one at a time can sometimes buy you a few turns as the enemy has to burn through a bunch of weak ships before it can even invade.

Does this occur indefinately? If not, to what end? Does this change at the very least help the economy limited civs?

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Anyways, enjoy your thanks giving. What I mean when by saying enjoy, I mean eat lots of food, and by that I mean don't come back until you gained atleast 5 pounds.

This is awesome, and a required addition.  There's a problem, though.  That pop-up, has everything else in the background faded out so you can't see the stats of the planet you're colonizing.  This is a problem because we generally base which governor to use on the PQ.  When the background is faded, we can't see the PQ.

This little change affects gameplay a lot. In the past the OFM was quite useless to me, therefore i had most of the time no ships in the orbit, trying to defend planets rather by intercepting the enemies transports before arrival. My style of play changes a lot with this for it is now possible to have guarding fleets on every planet without sacrifizing a tile every time for the OFM (and the time to build them).

It is hardly to believe how good this game gets over time, the AI really seems to become very nice, i actually had to use it in my first game because korath and drengin allianced very fast and i was bombarded by transports and spore ships. I may have overdone the colony rush, my area of influence was overwhelming that time, but obviously i lacked military capability because soon the terrans joined in, realizing i had my problems. I lost this game, though it was "painful" only. I remember games in the past the opponent seemed way more passive than in this game, but actually that isnt what i want out of an enjoyable game. Great job, SD.

If there's a drastic difference, you might try reinstalling.  Jonnan managed to run into an economics bug that made it something like 5-10x harder that was fairly impossible to reproduce, but he fixed it by reinstalling.

The first thing to check would be your first turn tax income on your home planet.

At the default tax rate of 33%, my custom race with 10% morale and no economics bonuses is at 74% approval on the home planet (TA) at 8.0B pop and an income of 22BC from it on Tough (sub-normal difficulties give the player an economic bonus).  Raising my tax rate to 49% leaves me with 52% approval and 32BC income.

This is without colonizing the secondary, to keep things simple.

The next question would be what two versions you're comparing here.  Especially in the early betas, TA went back and forth along the entire spectrum of economic difficulty.

That doesn't sound *quite* like the economy bug I got, but it sounds like it might be a relative - {G}.

It seems vaguely plausible the 'illegit' disk you bought was buggy in the first place, maybe a leaked beta or something similar - I would uninstall the whole thing an reinstall from impulse.

In other news - just finished off my last 1.95 game with a tech victory, updating to 2.01, will kick it up a level I think, and we'll see how this goes!

Jonnan

Hmm, I didn't notice that, but I have an awesome monitor.  I'll have to look into that, but you can modify the alpha transparency of the background of the governorwnd in the meantime if you want to play with DesktopX.  It's probably what I'm going to end up doing to fix it. 

Umm, I believe it's just what your logistics can handle, unless you have that other super project on that specific planet, and no you wouldn't be able to turn it off.

There doesn't appear to be a cap on tourism, and it will help anyone who has influence.

I asked CodeCritter about that and we couldn't exactly remember the problem, what caused it, or how we might fix it, and we didn't have time to look into it for 2.01. 

When I looked at the XML, it seemed to be consistent with improvements that grant an x% boost to built ship hp.

Edit: Verified in game.  It is definitely a built ship hp boost.  I would assume this is unintended.  Interestingly, since you can demolish and rebuild OFMs, it is not exactly a retroactive boost but a realtime boost-any ships built from said planet will gain the hp boost if the planet has an OFM, and if the OFM is destroyed/decommissioned/overbuilt, their hp goes back to its "normal" levels.

I don't have the exact thread_s (which described in details the particular stuff) but AFAICR this is the most 'important' fix to do in my mind.

I'll extrapolate a bit further so that you can at least refer to this issue from here on end just in case you don't want to be bothered with scanning through the whole forum for nothing!

- Once the homeworld surface pops up, the 72 tiles available can all be clicked on for "inspection". Most green tiles are Prairies as they should and the upgradable Yellow is sometimes a Desert or a Swamp, etc. If you happen to select a random number of those tiles (on THIS planet), the engine somehow keeps tab of the string (text) displayed as the usual query routine must do it *AND* slaps the corresponding image for it. Ocean, Artic, Mountains can also be clicked for... and will indeed show correctly on THIS planet.

- Send your colony ship to the nearest planet and NOW; inspect that new surface. Surprisingly, whatever you were looking at in every spot on the 12X6 grid of tiles from the homeworld will be reproduce on THIS planet too if the selected tile is empty! The surface would pick the swamp location from HW (say the 8x4 spot) and put a picture of a Jungle (etc) but name it a Swamp (or what was on the previous planet).

- Keep colonizing, but IF you were to NOT click on anything expect to build an improvement on a number of planets... the entire pool of 72 tiles should eventually loop to fill a memory region so that every slot ID is freezed as the main reference from now on. Image & Query names, included!!

- Knowing that ocean is the most common tile anywhere -- and this mix_scramble up is occuring -- it is not rare to find that every improvable tiles on any new planets are (you guessed it) shown as Ocean when they are in fact Desert, Jungle, Swamp or even prairies!

Visually, the height maps do make sense and perform the coloring shemas (in DA, btw) but as soon as a scan is performed between more than two planets, this memory slog outputs wrong info about tiles - recursively grabbing a looped resource of 72 references all the way to the last planet.

Thus, the Interface hands over false tiles text and matches anything, as a result, with the wrong query images. More so in the Equatorial regions (greater chances) and rarely for Mountains in Polar edges, etc.

Here's hoping this loooong description was clear enough for you to fix this strange "mess"; so that i can, finally, put in the Abyss, Coast, Volcanic, etc (and specific extreme tiles) on my raw maps for X-Worlds & have the UI give the right query images & text strings for anything - everywhere!

Alrighty... many & plenty (xxxxx) of well deserved Thank You's!