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Faustus
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From: Austin, Texas
|  Posted: 2004-03-11 10:34
Just letting everyone know whats in this next patch for 1.481...
- New spawn selection interface.... basically, spawn selection and ship selection have been combined into 1 screen. You'll now see the navigation map on this screen, with all the spawn points displayed on the map in white. Additionally, you'll see blinking red indicators showing you where the enemy has been detected on the map (this change applies to the normal nav map as well).
- Load-Balance calculation changes... basically, I'm now using CPU usage to balance the servers instead of noun counts. I do have some concerns about how well this is going to work, it may require some more tweaking over the next few days to get it just right.
- New planet event Blockade!... If enemy ships are near one of your planets, it may become blockaded... if blockaded, no resources can move out or into that planet until the blockade is lifted... in other words, go destroy the enemy ships to lose the blockade.
- Enemy detected messages... planets will now send a message to ships in the same zone when enemy ships have been detected. Additionally, a blinking red circle around the planet appears on the navigation map.
- Stored ships locked to the last shipyard/gate used. If the SY gets captured, then you can spawn that ship out at any available spawn point.
- New command /focus... this command controls your focus area, which is basically the area round your ship for which you receive network packets. The focus area is set automatically, based on your BPS detected. However, you can use this command to override that setting if your lagging out really badly during a battle, just type /focus 1025 to make your focus area 1025 gu in size (any objects further away then 1025, you won't receive any updates).
- Fighter bays have been reduced from 10 to 5... This should cut down on the number of fighters active at any one time.
-Richard
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| Posted: 2004-03-11 10:36
Keep up the Great work Faustus, 
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Bobamelius
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From: Ohio
| Posted: 2004-03-11 10:42
Oooh, Demo editing F's posts. 
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Gideon
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From: Oregon, USA
| Posted: 2004-03-11 10:50
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On 2004-03-11 10:34, Faustus wrote:
Just letting everyone know whats in this next patch for 1.481...
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- Stored ships locked to the last shipyard/gate used. If the SY gets captured, then you can spawn that ship out at any available spawn point.
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-Richard
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Recommendation:
- Stored ships locked to the latest shipyard/gate used. If the SY gets captured/destroyed, then you can spawn that ship out of your faction's home gate.
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Faustus
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From: Austin, Texas
| Posted: 2004-03-11 10:54
I would almost like, you couln't spawn at all... so basically, if your SY gets captured, so is your storage... (hehehehe)
Gives players alot of motivation to make sure that they store their stuff in a good location...
BTW... Just to ease everyones mind, if you get disconnected or logoff without docking your ship, then your ship can be spawned at any spawn point in the MV. I know some of you were concerned about that issue.
-Richard
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Demorian
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From: Charlotte, North Carolina
| Posted: 2004-03-11 10:56
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On 2004-03-11 10:54, Faustus wrote:
I would almost like, you couln't spawn at all... so basically, if your SY gets captured, so is your storage... (hehehehe)
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Hear hear. I totally agree. Make entire fleets come out to defend shipyard planets... the way it should be.
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BTW... Just to ease everyones mind, if you get disconnected or logoff without docking your ship, then your ship can be spawned at any spawn point in the MV. I know some of you were concerned about that issue.
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Hmm. Okay.
- Player(s) spawns station in friendly system during a raid of a distant enemy system.
- Player(s) log off and waits a minute or two.
- Player's team builds a shipyard on a barren planet with little resources.
- Player logs back in, spawns at impromptu shipyard.
- Back to the old ways. Just a little more complicated.
Translation: Do not perpetuate this problem. Have the server remember where the ship spawned, and if they log off in space, tough luck... they go back to where they docked.
-Dem
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Gideon
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| Posted: 2004-03-11 10:58
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On 2004-03-11 10:54, Faustus wrote:
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BTW... Just to ease everyones mind, if you get disconnected or logoff without docking your ship, then your ship can be spawned at any spawn point in the MV. I know some of you were concerned about that issue.
-Richard
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Devil's advocate:
So, I can just disco, wait 2 min, and then teleport to anywhere in the MV I want?
Hmmmm...
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Tbone
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Joined: July 21, 2001
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From: Vancouver
| Posted: 2004-03-11 11:12
Lamer Flamer:
System damage isn't a priority I guess.
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TAZ
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| Posted: 2004-03-11 11:48
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On 2004-03-11 10:56, Demorian wrote:
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On 2004-03-11 10:54, Faustus wrote:
I would almost like, you couln't spawn at all... so basically, if your SY gets captured, so is your storage... (hehehehe)
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Hear hear. I totally agree. Make entire fleets come out to defend shipyard planets... the way it should be.
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I totally agree with this as well......taking a shipyard planet should be a crippling blow!!
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From: Germany
| Posted: 2004-03-11 12:35
Whats with UGTO's Flux?
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Faustus
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From: Austin, Texas
| Posted: 2004-03-11 12:55
Update...
Now, if the shipyard gets captured, any ships you have stored at that yard are not usable until you capture the planet back.
Planet events are now only sent to their own faction, had to do this because the enemy detected event would confuse everyone if they were the enemy.
-Richard
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MrSparkle
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From: mrsparkle
| Posted: 2004-03-11 12:58
Kluth's doomed We never have FAs or wormholes available.
But let's see how this works.
EDIT: you know there's another problem here. Kluth need to mod ecm. Our cloaks are worthless without it. And we can't rely on planetary ecm because that lets pcms through. We just can't use stock ships.
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TAZ
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| Posted: 2004-03-11 13:08
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On 2004-03-11 12:58, MrSparkle wrote:
Kluth's doomed We never have FAs or wormholes available.
But let's see how this works.
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Hey sparky.....what about last night....IM an FA and I was making wormies available........dont I count??
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MrSparkle
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From: mrsparkle
| Posted: 2004-03-11 13:19
Yeah Taz, last night was great!
But try being on during the day. If there's 5 of us on that's a lot, and if more than one of us is an admiral that's like hell freezing over.
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| Posted: 2004-03-11 13:24
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On 2004-03-11 10:56, Demorian wrote:
Translation: Do not perpetuate this problem. Have the server remember where the ship spawned, and if they log off in space, tough luck... they go back to where they docked.
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I second that.
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