For brave souls - a small update

[Othienka]

Awesome work! Finally my window doesn't freeze when inactive [stupid Windows7]. Turret Zoom is great, no bugs on the cargo holds of Salvagers, Praefects, Corvos, Hegemmons, Ahouduris and Spatials [that I tested]. Scrap mining works as it used before, so does copper. Testing now turret steering in actual combat. No problem in damaging NPCs. Docking/undocking worked as usual. No problem playing on widescreen and not standard resolutions.

I really can't see why people are complaining so much about the font size though. Connection ping was nearly the same, but it seemed to be much more stable, no lag whatsoever:P

[aerelm]

Didn't read the whole thread, so most if not all of these is probably mentioned already but I'm gonna sum it up in one post.

First of all - Cannon.

Then - Here are all the new features I have checked so far -

• Turret Steering*
  - Map "Turn Right", "Turn Left", "Pitch Up" and "Pitch Down" in options then use it in turret view.
  
• Turret Zoom
  - Go to turret view, hold Ctrl and then use mouse wheel to change the zoom level.
  
• Scanner update time increased
  - Now the data on scanner (Lower left box when in space) updates faster
  
• Widescreen fix
  - Screen won't be messed up before you undock and navmap grid is also fixed.
  
• Windowed mode fix
  - Game doesn't freeze anymore when you switch to another window on windowed mode.
  
• Cruise animation
  - Wraith & Templar fold their wings on cruise. Tried on a bunch of other vanilla ships, didn't work on any.
  

However, these are all tested in SP. So I still don't know about any server-side issue.

* Cannon, are you sure adding turret steering before the cap (Mainly GBs) rebalance is a good idea? I'm really expecting a huge wave of Q_Q and rage some time soonish.

[Hoban.Washburne]

Well, I found 3 issues that will keep me on the old .dll file until they're fixed:

1. Major cargo problems on transports (Some go in the negative, others don't want to take a full load...)

2. The log not appending (It overrides the command line switch....)

3. No more speed boosting in group formations (For convoys and pursuing unlawfuls, a must have...)


Kudos for the widescreen support and the new animations though!

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[Ayatolah]

for what i saw all it's okay.... except fot the full cargo glitch... i was rearming a gunboat when i can't buy the guns because "there's not enough cargo space..."

i think is a serious problem.... besides that all ok

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[Gytrash]

I logged in on my Zoner Whale and as I had loaded it up beforehand it had -30 cargo. Not that big of an issue but it is not allowing me to fill up to 5000 anymore, only to 4970.

apart from that everything I tried worked fin as far as I can tell.

The Zoom feature really allows me to appreciate the effort people put into constructing those bases. Very nice

All in all I give this 2 thumbs up. I can trade off cargo space for the lovely new features.

[Irwin]

Hey uh, what with this new turret view shift, the camera ship can't zoom in past it's old default. Perhaps lower it's default zoom?

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[Nick.Walker]

I have negative cargo space on my Resheph and Geb.... didn't check my other ships, but it's worying enough.

Same here. Unarmored hegemon reports -282 space instead of 2750 when full. UAU8 BWT reports 2423 when empty instead of 3580.

Seeing this when scanning the hauling ship too. Unarmored stork (5k) reads 4340 when full.



System wise, my framerate lag has improved...gone from 35 to 45 on the good side, and drops to 8 or 9 most of the time instead of 1-3 as it did previously.


Ping time....meh, mine fluctuates too much to tell really. Loss is down, and lag has reduced.

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[Stoat]

I have just been testing a bit together with Omicron. We could damage each other just fine. It might be just your weapons, or maybe something is just wrong on your side. Maybe it are just bombers weapons? Since We used a gunboat and a fighter, which worked fine.

This problem seemed to be affecting all my ships, across 7 or 8 accounts. VHFs, GBs, Bombers were tested. Can't retest until this evening, so fingers crossed it's all ok by then.

Unbanned. The account was autobanned because the dll was not active.

Thanks Cannon

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[Erasmas]

Ah. I forgot about that. It shouldn't matter too much.

Well of course I don't use caps for trading... but sometimes I put some "RP content" in my ships, like you know, ship crew, scientists, nomnoms for research, the usual stuff.

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[AeternusDoleo]

Some info:
- The incorrect cargo space issue is due to non-armor equipment taking up cargo space - which isn't fully working yet. It gets deducted from the "available cargo" value, but not from the "cargo space left". It's a bug.
- Scanner data update: I'm wondering if increasing the distance recalc interval also also increases missile accuracy - might be that the missile "scanners" adjust their course based on this interval as well... Someone please test this. Couple of gunboat or fighter miss(project)iles should let you know.

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