NewHorizons

NewHorizons

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[quote who="Major Stress" reply="4" id="3123714"] Ive had similar problems, and its not just the Coronata that has the issue[/quote] This probably also explains missing exhaust trails I just noticed with a TEC fleet. The ring of the Coronata appears OK to me, but the particle effects for Unity Mass don't always appear, but that could also be caused by Major Stress' particle/texture limit theory.

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I agree with a argument that titan research is currently too low down the tree. It always seemed odd that the last phase of titan tech is at a lower tier than that for heavy cruisers, the very units that often make up the backbone of mid/late game fleets. Titans were perceived by many (myself included) to be a faction's ultimate fleet breaking weapon, and as such, were expected to require high tier research. Not unlike the tech requirements for super-weapons in the

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Doesn't look like a there is an environment variable, from a Windows user profile, that points to your "My Documents" folder. Your best bet would be to derive the location from %USERPROFILE% which should isolate you from the difference between XP and Vista/Win7. In an auto-install file creator... If you're writing this in C/C++, and you're using the Windows API, then take a look at the SHGetSpecialFolderPath() API, passing it CS

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For me, Rebellion also saves a smaller minidump in the program directory, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\sins of a solar empire rebellion", so it may be worth checking there. I've had this type of crash happen only a couple of times, although not since I noticed the above, so there may well be no crash file. If there's a save game that replicates this crash, then send it to [email protected] , see

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One minor concern I have with reporting crashes to [email protected] is that I may be reporting the same crash over and over. This is counter productive as it means that Stardock/Ironclad have to sift through lots of bug reports which may end up being caused the same problem. So, now that v0.76 includes the developer executable (Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion Dev.exe) should we be using that to report crashes?

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[quote who="Cheesenium" reply="29" id="3122771"]Does the Advent Loyalist Titan have that nice laser beam effect from the cinematic in the game? The one in the game doesnt seem to have the laser beam firing from the halo effect.[/quote] [quote who="Mr. Haze" reply="30" id="3122775"]That beam from the halo was the Unity Mass Beam, it's an ability.[/quote] Sometimes not all of the particle effects are visible, affects both the main and the two pre-fire beams.</

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[quote who="MayallCommunion" reply="11" id="3122199"]I have suggested it before but moving Augmented Defense Grid, Phase Jump Inhibitor, and Hardened Cities tech to the security tree would fix this problem.[/quote] That may only be a partial solution, it would free up space in the Harmony tree which is now getting a bit crowded. I was thinking of new technologies. Not a serious suggestion but, for example, loyalists could research a tech that grants an x% chance of Mas

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The Advent loyalists seek to prosecute their vengeance on the TEC and assimilate any rival population into the Unity. That's hardly cooperation with other factions, as their titan says: "They will join us or die!" - not very diplomatic language. I see the loyalist policy as one of unyielding conquest with few compromises with other races. While their fleet is subjugating one part of the galaxy, other factions would take the opportunity to attack their empire somewh

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As boshimi says, a saved game that replicates the crash is probably more useful than a minidump as the devs can see (using a debugger) what bit of code is crashing. They can then use that same game to verify than any fix to the code actually works. You could also looking for crash files in the same directory as the game itself, I've noticed a fe

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The sound of this effect seems strongly dependant on the quality of the speakers. Through the internal speakers of my laptop it would be terrible - the original opening sound of the Ironclad/Stardock logo was highly distorted. However, through my half-decent (20-year old) hi-fi Unity Mass actually sounds very effective, although I'll admit it is rather loud. This loud volume, coupled with its high pitch, would also make this unpleasant to listen to using 'phone

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Both Advent factions have no new defensive nor diplomatic techs. It would be nice for the Advent rebels to have some new diplomatic techs, as they would be more inclined to cooperate with other races. The Advent loyalists probably should get some extra defensive techs as they would be unwilling to accept any accord with another race/faction.

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[quote]1 Advent still have the old blue charge for a phase jump. It might be on purpose and if it is disregard.[/quote] It's actually slightly different, it now looks like an eye opening which fits in with some of the Advent phrases: "Arrival location visualized" etc. The Advent still use the old "comet" effect while travelling in phase space, which I quite like. My guess is that each race now has their own phase jump effects - I hope the effect for the Vasari is s

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@Cat Empire - Unfortunately, you just fallen victim to the 'missing ships' bug. It's already known about, but no one has found out how to replicate it happening. From other posts it seems to happen with a large group of ships, but in your case it didn't sound that many. However, there does appear to be a pattern forming - it seems to occur after a battle where lots of ships have been destroyed. Can anyone else confirm this? <

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Now that the Unity has returned, I'll post some minor buglets: 1) Advent tech trees still use TEC names. Eg:Military, Defence, Civilian, Diplomacy, should be Hostility, Security, Harmony, Understanding etc. 2) Mine Control ability icon for the Aeria is not correct, looks just like the Incendiary Shells icon from the Marza. 3) Foremost sections of the hull of the Rebel's titan project through the shield - visible when under fire.

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[quote who="Yottsu" reply="2" id="3120192"]It only includes, however, Titan experience, Number of Titans built and Titan level.[/quote] It did look a little sparse, probably work-in-progress, but at least the devs have considered the feedback suggestions. The number of titans lost/killed should probably be added to the Combat category, along with stats for other unit types. [quote]also the new capital ship isn't here either[/quote] It would be nice if the s

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[quote who="sporemaster" reply="106" id="3119457"]why would they pull the accidental release of the advent when they will just re-releases it in a week?[/quote] Because it gets in the way of beta testing. There's no point in the community finding and reporting bugs that the developers already know about. That wastes both ours and the developer's time - the latter is something that we all want to avoid as that just results in a delay for the final rele

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[quote who="Timmaigh" reply="41" id="3118418"] Quoting Flumsi, reply 40Change request Advent Loyalist Titan - sound firing special weapon Please remove this scratchy sound. It makes me aggressive and kills my loadspeakers. Thanks! Agreed, its horrible [/quote] It could do with the volume being reduced, it was a bit loud. I actually quite liked it, the build-up reminded me of the Emperor's force lightening - quite a

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[quote who="Pbhead" reply="30" id="3118308"]I do not understand the purpose of testing old builds. I do not understand the reasoning behind withholding new ones. [/quote] 1) There are known bugs in v0.6 that IronClad have yet to figure out and fix**. It's usually easier to fix bugs with the simplest test case, for SoaSE this will be minimum of races, factions, units & unit types. If we can do our part by trying to find methods to repeat these bugs the

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I must admit I did want to see the Advent in Rebellion, but I was really surprised to see them so soon in the beta testing phase, considering the bugs the community has found in v0.6. Yeah I was a little disappointed they've been pulled, but it's not really a big deal - finding & reproducing bugs in v0.6 is more important to the devs and ourselves. It was fun while it lasted, and it was nice to see some of the work IronClad/Stardock have made internally. Th

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[quote who="sareth01" reply="3" id="3117601"]the only downside I see with the advent is: the voice acting of the new units...they seem screechy and annoying... I enjoyed the advent for the mellow soothing babe whispering in my ear.[/quote] Agreed, the Discordia and, as others have commented, the loyalist corvette could do with toning down.

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[quote who="rogue_ghost" reply="3" id="3117480"]only a ring shows, not the typical gravity well.[/quote] Confirmed. In fact you can see it in yottsu's second screen shot. Didn't notice the corvettes swaying, but the voice for the loyalist corvette is still cringe inducing. Names of Advent tech trees have TEC names, eg Civilian, Defence, Military instead of Harmony, Security, Hostility etc BTW: the dev.exe is also included in this update.

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[quote]... I notice at times after my enormous fleet has jumped to another planet ...[/quote] This bug does seem related the number of ships that are making the jump. I've just had it happen with v0.63 with a level 5 Kol - the game was started in v0.63 to eliminate any the possibility of corruption caused by duff game save data from bugs in the earlier beta versions. Unfortunately, it was already missing in the last autosave (AutoSave-20), so I looked for the

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