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EV3 Status Updated!!!

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Metzen

This was posted today! I'm glad my suggestion on banking turns is implemented!!! Oooo Boy!!!!

Completed features/changes/additions as of 1-September-2000:

  • replaced old graphics engine with new system capable of 16-bit color and translucency effects
  • replaced all uses of mission bits with new mission bit scripting system
  • game can optionally be run in a window and allow background event processing
  • increased max number of mission bits
  • increased max number of outfit items
  • increased max number of fleets
  • increased max number of governments
  • increased max number of dude resources
  • increased max number of missions
  • increased max number of simultaneous missions
  • increased max number of ships in a system
  • increased max size of desc resources
  • weapon particle effects
  • weapon submunitions
  • weapon ionization effects
  • immobile ships, for ground-attack missions
  • up to four ModTypes per outfit item
  • game speed is automatically adjusted to remain constant on all systems
  • one spob can exist in multiple colocated systs
  • restructured govt-resource ally/enemy relationships
  • added Contribute/Require field pairs to misn, ship, and outf resources
  • missions can be offered from anywhere in the spaceport
  • missions can advance the game clock
  • better beam graphics
  • outfit items can alter the max number of another item
  • each system can have its own unique background color
  • murky-system graphical effect
  • AI ships can fire guns at long range, if possible
  • AI ships are smarter about weapon selection
  • AI ships consider the odds before attacking
  • shipyard/outfitter icons are created on the fly
  • added big preview pict in shipyard info dialog
  • added optional still pictures to mission briefings
  • animated stellar objects
    *** banking-ship graphics**
  • animated parts on ships (alternating, cycling, or folding/unfolding)
  • ship engine glows
  • ship running lights
  • more default outfit items per ship
  • escape ships
  • added optional bar pictures
  • new outfit modtype allows modification of effective system murkiness
  • changed ScanGovt to a bitmask type field and added corresponding field in govt
  • fleets can display a message when arriving in a system
  • allowed for planet-type ships that can only be hit by special weapons

...still much more to come...

mcb

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Matt Burch
mburch@ambrosiasw.com
"If it's not on fire, it's a software problem." (url="http://"http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~mburch/")http://www.ambrosiasw.com/~mburch/(/url)

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mburch

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Originally posted by Metzen:
**This was posted today! I'm glad my suggestion on banking turns is implemented!!! Oooo Boy!!!!
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It was actually implemented a long time ago, but whatever. ๐Ÿ™‚

mcb

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Matt Burch
(url="http://"mailto:mburch@ambrosiasw.com")mailto:mburch@ambrosiasw.com(/url)mburch@ambrosiasw.com

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Metzen

Oh your so kind. You ruined all the hope I had that would have made me feel important... ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ˜‰ ๐Ÿ˜‰

Tell me Matt, is the banking essentially like I described here:
(url="http://"http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/Forum26/HTML/000003.html")http://www.AmbrosiaS...TML/000003.html(/url)

I'm just curious that's all. If you don't tell me here I guess I'll be stuck waiting till the EV3 Bible or EV3 which ever comes first. Oooo I hate suspense!!! ล=ลนP

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Mordon

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Originally posted by Metzen:
...as of 1-September-2000...

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Syzygy

So it's gonna take like a year to produce the necessary spฤn's for all the permutations of the different states of a ship, right?

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Tim Morgan
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andrew

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Originally posted by Syzygy:
**So it's gonna take like a year to produce the necessary spฤn's for all the permutations of the different states of a ship, right?

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No, they are all completely optional.

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Andrew Welch / el Presidente / Ambrosia Software, Inc.

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Mordon

Man, I can't believe nobody noticed I said August 8th 2000 not August 31st 2000, well I meant August 30th... I dunno why I typed 8th, 'course if I did, I wouldn't have made a mistake, now would I have? ๐Ÿ˜›
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