I also notice that when a squad is destroyed, you can see them kind of pop back to where they came from to be regenerated. I know it's a new squad, but it appears like they are magically transported back to the structure that where they were made. pek
I usually do a "ctrl#" each time I add ships, never can remember "shift#", so my fleets are always in "order". Makes it easier to check cap ships and update them if I need to> pek
OK, I'll try. As I see things, if you double click on a fleet, the camera will try to follow the single ship that was selected (i.e., in a fleet of 5 ships, if you have fleet on "1", the first time you double tap "1" you will select the senior ship in the fleet, each time you hit "1" after that it will cycle the camera view through each ship). Now, if you zoom in close to follow the action, the view isn't confusing. but, if you zoom out, the motion doesn't scale down, the entire galaxy will m
OK, I see what the camera shake is. But. It's not the effect I was talking about. At any zoom level, the systems seems to crawl across the screen in little jerks. I figured out the slow crawl after you slected a fleet and then single left click on a system, the camera is still locked to the movement of the ship/fleet. When there's a few squads in teh selected fleet the movement the the planet/system can get really swoopy. On a real bug, I've found that if a planet had culture tranmi
I've had those set forever for GC & GC2, the beta doesn't use those settings, it uses it's own that you can't change, at least not on the beta. I've got the stardock & tgn directories on another drive. I see where GC & GC2 saves are in "My Documents\my games" but the beta doesn't use that directory for saves. The beta has it's saves in: "C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\SavedGame" and I can't change that or the install directory:
OK, found the option, I'll see what it does. Does the camera shake off stop the sloooow crawl across the screen? I thought it was my mouse, my drivers, my eyes or my mind. Changed the first 2 and the last one but it didn't help, stuck with my eyes. Trying to concentrate with that slow crawl can be madening. pek
Oh yeah, major irritation for me, I wnat to be able to choose where the game installs and keeps its files. The beta scatters files across 2 directory trees from root (c:\). They should all be in stardock/totalgaming. pek
A couple of things I've found about way-points, I think they're bugs. 1. I had a game where I sent ships from system A to system B, one jump away, and they wanted to go via system Z. This happened in 3 connected systems, A to B went A to Z to B; and then to go from B to C, they went B to X to C. The direct systems made a line of about 80 degrees on the screen. 2. Can they make the waypoints so a ship only uses explored systems? I sent a slow little colony ship 2 jumps aw
Finally, M**3 SP2!!!! No, really, it's great so far, it's getting to be a real time sink, 6 to 8 hrs for a game (in one sitting). One thing, can you make the background nebula anything but GREEN???? It's really, really hard to make out your (and allies) icons & stuff when everything is green. The best I've had so far is the plain starfield background, mostly black with just stars. Or make the background user selectable in the options. Thanks, pek