by Avatar Frogboy - 5/31/2003 1:07:50 AM
The free expansion pack is coming along pretty well. I thought I'd give you a head's up on some of the stuff that's already working internally:
1) Rally points. These rally points are like nothing you've seen before. They're quite powerful. Includes a way for managing them, hot keys to quickly send ships to them, and can be clicked on and managed like a quasi fleet. It's very cool.
2) Hyperlinks. If you right click on various things, it'll take you to more pertinent information. Example, in the trade screen, right click on a ship and it will bring up a new screen showing where that sihp is located as well as if it's in a fleet.
3) The Tech navigator will let you go through the technology tree and see what does what.
4) A bunch of new anomalies that visually look quite stunning.
5) The star graphics have been all replaced with ones that are bigger and nicer looking.
6) You can lock the sliders in the domestic policy screen.
That's just off the top of my head here at 1am on a Friday night/Sat morning. The team has put in a bunch of other stuff that I know I'm forgetting. But in a couple weeks when the beta shows up on Drengin.net, you'll be surprised at just how many new screens and such there are.
So that we're clear on the schedule:
June: The beta of it will show up on Drengin.net. Drengin.net is our full gaming network that includes The Corporate Machine, LightWeight Ninja, Stellar Frontier and of course GalCiv. The Political Machine should show up relatively soon on it as well. You can upgrade to Drengin.net for $30.
Late Summer: Finished and released. The released version will be available for free to all registered GalCiv players.
The above things I mention (feature wise) are the things that we have done already. Between now and the end of summer a lot of other goodies will show up. I know I have a bunch of events and AI updates I plan to work on when I get ready and the team has other stuff in mind as well.
         
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I hope those hinted at "linked events" make it in as well. 
Just kidding, you guys (and gals) do great work. I'm really looking forward to the expansion pack.
*shameless plug* Hey, you should use my Writer when whipping up your events... 
   
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by Citizen 4D - 5/31/2003 7:04:09 AM
hmmm.. I need Drengin.net
Sure you don't want to release just one beta to the GalCiv public?
 
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Excellent Brad! Hey, and for you people not on Dregin.net, consider the $30 upgrade a purchase of the expansion pack. It sounds like it will be worth that. And I must say that Stellar Frontier is a good game to play too.
   
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Any chance we'll get some way to tell how overpopulated a planet is? I still have a hard time figuring this out.. :
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by Citizen Droste - 6/1/2003 9:57:56 AM
Beautiful! Rally points will make the late game much easier! Kudos to you guys for providing such awesome support.
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by Citizen hmr666 - 6/1/2003 6:05:13 PM
 We're not worthy, we're not worthy! 
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by Citizen Scanner28 - 6/1/2003 11:42:04 PM
Good Evening,
In the expansion pack, any chance we will be able to see trade route lines on the big map? I know I can see the routes from the government policy screen, but star base placement using the smaller map is tedious at best when playing in a huge galaxy.
Keep up the great work. You're making me so eager for more so quickly, I'll have no choice but to sign up for Drengin.net.
Cheers,
Henry
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by Citizen B L - 6/3/2003 8:34:57 AM
Or, along with Bearcave's request, another size between Medium (64 sectors) and Large (144 sectors -- more than twice as big!). A 10x10 galaxy size would be great for those of us looking for something a bit larger than medium but without the time to play a Large galaxy.
Thanks
 
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Autoexplore for scouts -- Please? I want a pony.
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Ditto. Also could you make it a blue pony. I like blue. Thanks!
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Oooh... not to be a wet blanket, but in my view:
New linked events that are exposed via text files to the modders, so we can make more ourselves = EXCELLENT.
New linked events that, like the current Draginol event, are hardcoded into the .exe meaning we can't modify/make more ourselves = NICE TO HAVE, BUT IN GENERAL PRETTY DISAPPOINTING.
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