Derek Paxton

New patches every day? It seems like new patches every 5 mins!

Once again there seems to be a lack of any testing on Stardocks end!!

For all my general pessimism, I would like to say that the ~daily beta patches are the best thing since sliced bread.

We are doing a beta test of the patches in conjunction with SD's testing group.  If you don't wish to participate, then don't download the beta.  I mean how can you really complain about patches every day this past week...sheesh   It's been awesome!

Haven't gotten too deeply into any games since last patch yet, hopefully will have some time later this weekend to help beta test. Did encounter some generally low priority bugs:

- Sometimes when quests are completed the shiny light animation on related tiles doesn't go away

-Got an early spouse in one game, equipped her with a spear and set her to defend capital while I explored with Sov. Bandit conquered capital without any battle happening as if no one was defending it. Reloaded autosave and experience the same thing. Reloaded again and just sent her out to kill the bandit before it reached capital. This started an autobattle, ending in Spouse Victory.

- Experiencing some random clothmap errors where it does not show things like goodie huts and special features.

- Weird errors in tactical battles such as incorrect health/armor/attack values displayed. For example, I'll send a guy with 2 armor into battle with spiderlings who have 3 attack, and it will claim he has 3 armor. This is obviously disproven when he still takes 1 damage. So unless there is some crazy rounding going on with the calculations between units in tact battles its just an annoying graphic or description bug.

I'm very pleased with the progress on the game this week.  Night and day kind of difference, but there is one issue that I've seen mentioned many places on this forum that still doesn't show up on this list, that is really disconcerting.

The issue is the start of a new turn, when the game has multiple things to tell you, like you need to research a new tech, and/or a new spell, and/or a city needs to do more development and/or what ever.  What happens is that the game reports the first part of one message, then the first part of the message for the next thing, then the first part of the message for the next thing.  So for example, it tells you that you need to select a new tech, then instead of popping up the new tech screen, it start into the messages for the next thing.  This feels very disjointed.  I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to produce a save game that shows the problem.  I'm planning to play today, so I'll see if I can come up with one.

Hope I've described the problem well enough.  There are many posts on the forum about this, I believe.

I just hope all this work doesn't burn the team out.  That's the one thing I'm afraid of, I've never seen a team work so hard before- you guys must have put in a 60-70 hour week this week.

Sad thing is that there's still some work to do, but it's a lot less then what there was one week ago.  

It's turning out to be quite a gem, I was playing for several hours today and had a good time

Thanks for re-enabling the ability. However +10% hit points really doesn't do that much (Kind of like brave). Maybe we could have that ability be more beefy (say +25% or something) and apply a -1 prestige modifier (or a -25% prestige penalty. Who wants to be sacrificed?).

Just Some Thoughts,

Jec

If you guys addressed unit card info not being saved when the game is saved in this patch, I'd be mighty happy.

Any sign of a Destiny's Tutor quest fix? Every time I do the quest, I go to the spawned quest location and nothing happens and no response at the goodie hut that gave the quest.

 It's the only thing I got to complain about at the moment

So have you guys abandoned your original concept for making sovereigns complete bad asses? It's fairly sad to feel threatened by a 1 on 1 with a lowly bandit.

Brad was originally drawing comparisons to characters such as Sauron for inspiration for sovereigns.

This won't be fixed for 1.1.  But it is on my post 1.1 list.

Unfortunately it isn't a simple change.  When you use a infocard picture the game saves it for 3 turns and then drops it (we don't want to waste the memory holding onto all these images, we will just rebuild again if required).  But the rebuild process doesn't look at the actual unit where you configured the custom portrait, it looks at the unit type and pulls a generic image.

So we know what's wrong, it will take time to fix, but it can't get through lockdown.  It's in the list of issues we will address after 1.1.