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Re: Any improvements to StarEd? (or my other software) |
Fri, 07 February 2003 02:22 |
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Verker | | Master Chief Petty Officer VML mod guy | Messages: 99
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It would be nice if StarEd supported 2.6j rc4 officially (I guess that's why you want to update). Mind you, the beta showed importing 2.6j rc4 as a wrong "2.7j rc4".
It would also be good if you fixed changing TF cost with StarEd(esp concerning TT) affecting real production queue cost, not just the value in the tech browser - but I'm not sure if that is really due to StarEd.
Finally, I'd prefer being able to change the name, when I want to save (to) an exe. I tend to start loading from a modified exe, doing changes and saving directly, father than using a .stm file. It would be nice if I could write another .exe without overwriting the one I started from (hmm, thinking about it, I remember a backu0p function in StarEd - maybe I'm just missing the point and simply have the backup function turned off?)
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Re: Any improvements to StarEd? (or my other software) |
Fri, 07 February 2003 12:53 |
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piratelordx | | Crewman 1st Class | Messages: 34
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Verker wrote on Fri, 07 February 2003 07:22 | It would be nice if StarEd supported 2.6j rc4 officially (I guess that's why you want to update). Mind you, the beta showed importing 2.6j rc4 as a wrong "2.7j rc4".
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Just a typo and easily fixed
Quote: | It would also be good if you fixed changing TF cost with StarEd(esp concerning TT) affecting real production queue cost, not just the value in the tech browser - but I'm not sure if that is really due to StarEd.
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I think it's a stars! thing. Some sort of production queue override. Bet this really buggers up VML now?
Quote: | Finally, I'd prefer being able to change the name, when I want to save (to) an exe. I tend to start loading from a modified exe, doing changes and saving directly, father than using a .stm file. It would be nice if I could write another .exe without overwriting the one I started from (hmm, thinking about it, I remember a backu0p function in StarEd - maybe I'm just missing the point and simply have the backup function turned off?)
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Good Point. I've totally forgotten what the Backup option does.
I do recommend that you do make a STM file now and again. If your Stars! becomes corrupted for some reason, and you have no STM file, you have to start again from scratch, unless you copied the last updated exe elsewhere.
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Re: Any improvements to StarEd? (or my other software) |
Sat, 08 February 2003 01:02 |
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Verker | | Master Chief Petty Officer VML mod guy | Messages: 99
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piratelordx wrote on Fri, 07 February 2003 18:53 |
Quote: | It would also be good if you fixed changing TF cost with StarEd(esp concerning TT) affecting real production queue cost, not just the value in the tech browser - but I'm not sure if that is really due to StarEd.
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I think it's a stars! thing. Some sort of production queue override. Bet this really buggers up VML now?
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It is a shame - one of the concepts behind VML is to better the balancing between PRTs significantly. I would have loved to take away some of CAs superiority, by making something, that CA gets for free, significantly cheaper for other PRTs.
I really, really hope that we get a pointer from Jeff how to fix that "production queue override" as you call it. I am afraid he doesn't bother to read here on a regular basis, but since Ron is able to contact him via e-mail, maybe that would be a way to get his attention on this particular problem (Ron?).
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Re: Any improvements to StarEd? (or my other software) |
Sat, 08 February 2003 07:11 |
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piratelordx | | Crewman 1st Class | Messages: 34
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Verker wrote on Sat, 08 February 2003 06:02 |
piratelordx wrote on Fri, 07 February 2003 18:53 |
Quote: | It would also be good if you fixed changing TF cost with StarEd(esp concerning TT) affecting real production queue cost, not just the value in the tech browser - but I'm not sure if that is really due to StarEd.
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I think it's a stars! thing. Some sort of production queue override. Bet this really buggers up VML now?
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It is a shame - one of the concepts behind VML is to better the balancing between PRTs significantly. I would have loved to take away some of CAs superiority, by making something, that CA gets for free, significantly cheaper for other PRTs.
I really, really hope that we get a pointer from Jeff how to fix that "production queue override" as you call it. I am afraid he doesn't bother to read here on a regular basis, but since Ron is able to contact him via e-mail, maybe that would be a way to get his attention on this particular problem (Ron?).
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How about changing the TT scale from 0%-30% to 0-20%. Usually, only CA take TT, so this will offer a bit less. And if the technology is spread more over the Biotech range, this might even things up against those who don't take TT.
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Re: Any improvements to StarEd? (or my other software) |
Sun, 09 February 2003 06:12 |
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Verker | | Master Chief Petty Officer VML mod guy | Messages: 99
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Strategic wrote on Sun, 09 February 2003 04:13 | I assume you mean that the terraforming cost in the production queue is different than what's given in the tech browser? If this is so, then I find that very strange. Why does the rest of the technology receive cost information from the same area in both the tech browser and production queues when the terraforming doesn't?
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Exactly, your assumption is correct. It seems that there is some kind of "production queue override" in the coded area of the Stars! exe. AKAIK, that is the one and only case in Stars! where such things happen (apart from MT items - their values seem stored in the coded area for the most part).
I am afraid, that without help from Jeff or someone else able to decipher the code, my attempt to weaken CA over the other PRTs will fail.
It would be enough if he provided an exe file of 2.6j rc4, that has a changed override for TF cost: 60 resources for TT TF, 80 for standard TF, say. That would correspond with Stars! original 3:4 relation. It would not be necessary to reveal any part of the code!
If I am not mistaken, it would possibly only take a few minutes to provide such an exe for the community. Anyway, it is only wishful thinking until it happens.
Another wish that I had concerning PRT levelling would be to strenghten PP. Out of 16 players designating 3 PRTs (48 total) each in my current game, noone designated PP. IMHO, PP should be as cheap as SD concerning RW point cost, to make it attractive again. It still would be a costly PRT, apart from RW points.
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Re: Any improvements to StarEd? (or my other software) |
Thu, 24 April 2003 04:37 |
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As for Xtreme borders here's something I'd like to see:
[perhaps I've just missed turning this on somewhere]
*an Open Recent set under Files, or starting in the last folder opened.
*allowing manual addition of data (such as stargates or ownership) based on what I know, not what stars knows.
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Re: Any improvements to StarEd? (or my other software) |
Thu, 24 April 2003 07:18 |
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quatch wrote on Thu, 24 April 2003 04:37 | As for Xtreme borders here's something I'd like to see:
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*allowing manual addition of data (such as stargates or ownership) based on what I know, not what stars knows.
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You could edit the .pxx files to correct data. They import into Excel quite nicely.
Not as nice as something in Xtreme borders allowing you to do it, but it's possible.
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