Discovery 4.80 beta 1 Release

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Discovery 4.80 beta 1 Release

Long-awaited beta of next version of Discovery is here! With the longest changelog Discovery's ever seen, 4.80 features some of the most important changes since Discovery beginnings. By the way, first version of Discovery was released some one year and a few weeks back, so we already have a history!

This is only first beta, so many issues and bugs may be found while testing, still it is stable enough to be installed on main server.

Therefore, everyone should get it.

Official thread for reporting bugs and posting suggestions:
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1332
Thread for 4.80 general impressions & feedback:
http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1333

Download links

http://cyrodiil.net/files/Discovery48beta1.zip.flmod

New in Discovery 4.80 beta 1:

- 14 new ships:
Albatross Frigate
Assault Frigate
Bounty Hunter Battleship
Bounty Hunter Destroyer
Colonial Viper
Corsair Gunboat
Cylon Raider
Guardian (Advanced Defender)
Lane Hacker Spyglass
Liberty Rogue Gunboat
Outcast Battleship
Mephthys (Advanced Anubis)
Talarca Light Cruiser
Zoner Juggernaut
- Three new stations: Rostock in Omega-15, Corfu in Omicron Theta, Ibiza in Omicron Alpha.
- New assignable keys available: selecting previous/next subtarget (station turrets, battleship sections).
- Option that allows to enable engine trails when activating the mod (clientside).
- 51 faction ID items added for roleplaying purposes. IDs cost 1 million credits and can be bought from primary bases/planets of each faction - if you are on friendly terms with this faction.
- New ships and commodities have correct icons now (icons borrowed from Evolutions mod, thanks to Chips for allowing to use them).
- Battleship spinning reduced (to some extent).
- 6 types of cargopods available for purchase, to customise look of transports and trains.
- Enhanced balance for many new ships (maneuverability stats, number of turrets, power supplies etc).
- Turret firing angles for many capital ships increased to improve firepower.
- 11 new weapons, including Cruiser and Gunboat modifications of Razor and Inferno, Corsair Cruiser and Gunboat turrets, Order turrets and more.
- Range for cruiser and battleship weapons increased (especially for advanced weapons).
- Gunboat forward turrets hidden, forward guns for Liberty Cruiser, Rheinland and Liberty gunboats removed from purchase.
- All ships have scanners in their default selling packages.
- Outcasts fly Huegenot (now known as Outcast Destroyer), Bounty Hunters fly Bounty Hunter Destroyer.
- Huegenot encounters replaced with Rogue Gunboat encounters in Liberty and Bretonia systems.
- 24 new lootable faction pilots added, replacing general pilots.
- Faction relations changed according to ongoing war between Bretonia and Kusari.
- The Order now has encounters in Nomad Worlds.
- Battleship Isis has a commodity dealer.
- Shields for capital ships made tougher.
- Power supplies for battleships equalized (to 6 million).
- Raven Claw hit points reduced from 10400 to 7000, Slipstream hit points reduced from 7000 to 6000, price also reduced.
- Somtaaw Light Gunboat became a Super Heavy Fighter.
- Increased number of missions available on all bases.
- Increased difficulty of station killing missions.
- Mission rewards & difficulty on some new bases increased.
- Enhanced several trade routes.
- Name change certificates for players who wish to change their character name (for multiplayer only, sold on four House capital planets, Crete and Malta).
- Fixed looting bug - advanced fighters no longer drop loot like players, will also improve server performance.
- Fixed Stuttgart bug that prevented Rheinland Battleship from launching.
- Fixed sun bugs in Omega-47 and Omega-49.
- Fixed internal turret bug for Kusari gunboat.
- Infocard errors fixed for Inverness Base, Camara and many other objects.
- Various fixes related to server performance.
- Readme file enhanced; new ship stats table contains more info and is more convenient to use.

See readme.txt for more details.

Faction ID usage is described in New Roleplaying System thread.