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what are YOU talking about? Heroes.

I noticed that I had conquered and colonized a planet while 2 enemy shield generators were at still at full strength. Shield generators don't prevent planet bombing, they just reduce the damage the planet receives.

May 19-21 Technical New report of disappearing fighter models ( Link ) I encountered this problem to it is because you have to many ships ether on the map or in the system I had a 300 ship fleet and at times I couldent see 3/4 of it and it wouldent even show the icons for half the fleet even when I was zoomed out Ships need

Also IMO it should be possible for the fleet to jump in such formation... If you use the group jump option, the fleet will form up into layers before jumping. But there's no option to maintain formation outside of phase jumping at the moment.

This may be the 90 degree thing that Blair mentioned but the ships shouldn't have to move to the phase lane to jump. They should be able to jump from any point on the half-sphere facing the destination gravity well. That's exactly what +/-90 degrees from the lane end means.

I don't recall if it's on by default, but SDC has an option to automatically back up the current version of a program when you update it, and it can eat up space fast. You can turn it off in the options, or set it to overwrite the last archive when it does it, so it only keeps one for each game/program.

May 18 Gameplay Complaint that the game is too much RTS, not enough 4X ( Link ) Dito - its nothing like a 4x/rts hybrid game right now... Its like a RTS with a limited map right now that makes you hop over from one planet to another. The patch notes at this stage show they are also concentrating on the RTS part more then ever, nothing about new research, development of the empire

Crashed. Dump sent.

I don't remember offhand if there's one in the game or not. But SDC will indeed tell you the version you have installed, and whether there are any more updates available. The latest is 0.66b.010.

Gravity Well's are 3D spherical zones. Phase exit points to the next gravity well should be anywhere along the gravity sphere side facing the destination gravity well. Hmmm, that sounds pretty confusing. My thoughts exactly. Rather than letting ships jump from anywhere outside the well, or requiring them to jump from the exact lane endpoint, why not go halfsies and let them jump anywhere +/- 90 degrees from the lane endpoint?

I downloaded the latest version from Stardock and I assume the game's been auto updated by doing so Yes, the version on SDC will always be the latest one. If SDC doesn't show any more updates available (if you installed after the hotfix was posted yesterday), then you're at the latest version.

May 17 Gameplay Request for a screen showing other factions' relations with each other ( Link ) I'd love to have a screen that easily shows every race and their current treaties/wars going on as I found it difficult to tell who was fighting who while allied with every race. I agree with that you would not w

To my experince, it has something to do, with what team color you get. I thought that might be the case as well, but Blair said it's completely random.

May 16 Gameplay Requests to further dim the skyboxes ( Link ) I know next to nothing about photography but I thought that pictures of space tend to appear overly dark b/c the exposure time isn't long enough to capture the dim light from stars. That being said, I also find that some of the backdrops are a bit too colourful. I'm in the

the only problem was translucent planets (they seemed to be the only textures that didnt fully load. Can you post a screenshot to show exactly what you mean?

People with single-core machines and DX9 video cards +1

found this, it hurts. The goggles, they do nothing!

May 15 Technical Some color banding in the dark blue skybox ( Link ) But if you look at the first image in fullscreen, you can see what i mean. Its like (if any of you ever tryed it) when windows is set to 16 or 256 colers. Numerous issues with the new patch (IC) (<a href="https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/?forumid=440&aid=

Beta 2 is expected to begin sometime next month. You can get in immediately though if you purchase the game through TotalGaming.net using tokens.

May 12-14 Technical Issues with recordings after overwriting a prior save ( Link ) 9. Saving over your game causes the game recording to break up into parts (I think) instead of being one continuous file. 10. At the end of the video recording, the game locks up. Gameplay Ong

May 11 The True 3-D thread continues.

May 10 Ongoing gameplay discussions: True 3-D The benefits of Pirates in this game....

There's nothing to sign up for--when beta 2 is ready, you'll be charged and granted access to it in Stardock Central; there's nothing more to do until then but wait.

May 9 Slow day... RTS Battle Mechanics and Ships goes on, but not much else of substance.