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Re: Don't Let the Stars Fade Away Sun, 29 April 2007 08:44 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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There is a new release of Nova available on the homepage and on SourceForge. The following changes have been made since the last release.

The primary racial trait Hyper-Expansion has been implemented.

The number of conditions required for victory has now been implemented.

The victory condition Percentage of Planets Owned has now been implemented.

The game parameter Minimum Game Time has now been implemented.

The Player's Planets and Player's Fleets reports have now been implemented (see the screen shots at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ken-reed/Ken/Reports.htm).

The secondary racial trait No Ram Scoop Engines has been implemented.

The secondary racial trait Improved Fuel Efficiency has been implemented.

The secondary racial trait Low Starting Population has been implemented.

The Interspace 10 engine is only available if No Ram Scoop Engines has been selected.

The Fielded Kelarium armour now contributes to a ship's shield strength.

The Croby Shamor Shield now contributes to a ship's armour strength.

The Galaxy Scoop and Fuel Miser engines require the secondary racial trait Improved Fuel Efficiency.

Shift+Drag in the ship designer dialog will now add up to 10 modules to a hull module slot.

Ship cargo capacity is now implemented as a native hull feature rather than as a hull component as was done previously.

The Next and Previous buttons for the fleet and planet displays are now in the same relative position on the screen.

Planet production queues now work just like in Stars! (previously you needed all resources in one go to manufacture an item).

A plasma-type effect has now been added to the star map display in the Nova GUI.

Scanner range displays are now semi-transparent to allow a little of the new background to show through them.

The GUI screenshots on the Nova website have been updated to refelect the new layout (see the screen shots at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ken-reed/Ken/MainWindow.htm).

The report screens use the new (.Net 2.0) DataGridView control so columns are automatically resized to suit the size of the report dialog. Also, report columns can be dragged by the user into any order they would like to see. For example, the last column of the fleet report (Mass) could be dragged to be the second column, next to the fleet name.

By the way, there are two problems with the reports: the headers are not centred correctly and there is a blank line at the bottom of each report). If there are any DataGridView experts who can tell me how to clean-up these issues please e-mail me.

Until now, Nova has really only been suitable for use by people with software skills that can build it from the source code. However, it is now sufficiently stable that it is not far away from being able to be released in binary form so that non-developers can play with it. Text has been added to the Nova home page to mention this and I hope this will be available in a June release. If not, the binary release should be available by July (pre-Alpha).


[Updated on: Sun, 29 April 2007 08:56]




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