Privateer: Ascii Sector v0.4.1 (now also for Linux!)
Christian Knudsen
- [b]First Linux release![/b]
- Fixed bug with captives counting against your passenger space.
- Fixed bug with '2' and '3' not toggling guns on/off.
- Fixed bug with wrong names for named ejected pilots.
- Fixed bug with contents of mission cargo containers.
- Fixed bug with ship sending docking message while fighting.
- Fixed bug with the tracking of critical wounds.
- Fixed bug with locking missiles when flying a capital ship.
- Added "+FirstName+" and "+LastName+" script functions.
- Added nav bouys to "empty" nav points.
- Added type of ship to escort in mission descriptions for escort
missions.
- Added an icon to the Win32 executable.
- Added ship stats to the manual.
- Added keypad support.
- Bases you're banned from will now also show up as red on the
quadrant map.
- The nav computer will now tell you where to collect payment.
Christian Knudsen
- Fixed bug with characters sometimes getting "stuck" in a spot on a
base.
- Fixed bug with target's name appearing in your left hand box when
melee attacking a character.
- Added large font size option.
- When generating a smuggle mission to a base, the game will now check
that the contraband to smuggle isn't available there.
Christian Knudsen
www.asciisector.net/download.html
- Fixed bug with captives counting against your passenger space (fer
realz, this time!).
- Fixed bug when calculating the payment for "Join Convoy" missions.
- Asteroid fields now gradually thin out as you reach the edge.
- You will now be able to enter autopilot if there are enemy ships
nearby, but they aren't attacking you.
- When escorting a ship, you can now order it to engage hostiles.
- Miscellaneous minor changes and fixes to escort/convoy missions.
- When escorting a ship to a docking, the ship to dock with will now
engage hostiles instead of just sitting there.
- During ground combat, innocent bystanders will now move away from
the combatants.
- Missions are now sorted in the order they're accepted (first to
last).
- Your risk of being scanned at a nav point is now based on: your
confed and militia standing, how often you've been caught smuggling in
the past, how controlled the nav point is by confeds and militia, and
whether or not you've just attacked or destroyed any pirates, retros
or Kilrathi at that nav point.
Auric__
> - Missions are now sorted in the order they're accepted (first to
> last).
Wouldn't it make sense to give the player a choice with the sorting? It may
seem trivial, but maybe some players would want the list sorted (for example)
alphabetically, so they can quickly scan for the mission's name (or
whatever).
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Radomir 'The Sheep' Dopieralski
Auric__ wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:04:58 GMT, Christian Knudsen wrote:
>
>> - Missions are now sorted in the order they're accepted (first to
>> last).
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to give the player a choice with the sorting? It may
> seem trivial, but maybe some players would want the list sorted (for example)
> alphabetically, so they can quickly scan for the mission's name (or
> whatever).
Too many meaningless options makes bad user interface.
Chosing one useful and logical sorting method add consistency
and makes the whole interface easier to learn and follow.
Spending development time on option that is rarely used not only
wastes that time, but also increases the chance of introducing
bugs and makes the whole code a little harder to maintain.
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Christian Knudsen
implementing different sorting methods. Anyway, when I play the game
myself, I only have max. 3-4 missions at any time, so sorting isn't
all that important.
David Damerell
>Auric__ wrote:
>>Wouldn't it make sense to give the player a choice with the sorting? It may
>>seem trivial, but maybe some players would want the list sorted (for example)
>>alphabetically, so they can quickly scan for the mission's name (or
>>whatever).
>Too many meaningless options makes bad user interface.
Not if the options are sensibly presented (not drowning the player in
them).
>Chosing one useful and logical sorting method add consistency
>and makes the whole interface easier to learn and follow.
Choose a good default - yes - but add options as well.
>Spending development time on option that is rarely used not only
>wastes that time, but also increases the chance of introducing
>bugs and makes the whole code a little harder to maintain.
This I do agree with.
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