As far as pushing us back due to technical issues, I can't really say with any certainty. For DoV, I just said "screw it" on the 1.04 -> 1.05 port and ran it natively with only minor string issues, because merging english.str really felt like a waste of time.

I don't mean to hijack your thread, but you did ask what it's going to mean for us in general, not just porting issues: I'm more concerned about how far it's going to not push us. If I'm going to port an entire TC over, I'd rather do it for a good reason. Right now, I'm looking at being able to create mobile shipyards properly, but it's likely Embargo drain is still broken (which has extreme consequences for the way smaller ships like corvettes are produced in the mod). I'm looking at being able to throw in 9 capital ships, but I still can't tell the ships using capital ship mechanics to stay in their damn regular shipyard, make a new shipyard, or make another page for them to separate the real capital ships from the cruisers.

That's really all I have to say on this issue. I can't be anything more than ambivalent until there's either a final changelog or the release.

They've had multiple ones - not only was there that big thread, there was a couple other ones.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can always build a mod around the restraints. It's much more rare to be able to build the restraints around the mod. I suppose we're still waiting on that.

Though that binary -> text converter Mobius from our team asked for was sure a blessing. Being able to swap around hardpoints without reexporting is great.

I just found out that 1.1 will actually HELP my mod

It turns out that the one bug I had in making my minefield implementation perfect is fixed in 1.1 (and I thought I could work around it, but it was a hard-coded problem), and I didn't even know about it until they said it was fixed for 1.1, so I'm happy about that...

It shouldn't push them back too far. The biggest pain will be swapping the texture channels on any new artwork that fell under the channel change umbrella (ships, structures and few misc items) but that's a pretty easy operation, just monotonous if you have a lot of new ships/structures. Btw, if anyone can figure out how to automate this please let the rest know.

One advantage with releasing it as a beta is you guys get early access to everything so the mods will be 1.1 compatible by the time 1.09 graduates out of beta. Also, it may leave us time to include a few more suggestions from the modders.

I'll also be posting a new ConvertData and GalaxyForge shortly after the beta goes live.

Above all, the quickest and safest way to update your mods is to do a full binary comparison between 1.05 and 1.09 to see exactly how things have changed and then do the same with your mod. I strongly strongly strongly recommend Beyond Compare and learning how to use it effectively, its the modders best tool besides a good text editor. And if you really want to do things properly, get some free source control software.

 

That's what they're calling the beta 1.1.

Not that I know anything about modding at all, but it just occured to me - can you have an ability incur a negative resource cost in order to do this?

NO! No more Overlords! Get the Starcraft Blizzbot out of these forums!

Well, no. They are kinda annoying, especially because every geek and his mom uses them.

Simple. Our fleet is under attack. That's more important than our allies. After all, we can't aid them if our fleet is destroyed. Besides, its our fleet. Without it, we can't defend ourselves. Oh and our allies suck at defending themselves, so we need to stop being allies.

What, no joke about power overwhelming?

"An ally fleet has arrived"

"Eh?" Goes to look and finds a single ally ship, usually a light frigate.

Could we get back on track, lol?

Anyways, this shouldn't push back the smaller mods like mine (AudioSINS). I haven't seen a changelog or anything yet, so if there is a major change in the files I'm editing, it could me back a couple of days. A lot of it is going to be tweaking around with different limits or terms and values. Or, who knows, maybe it'll become even more straightforward. I really want them to up the limit of entries for music. 115 tracks just won't cut it If people can add 9 uber-capital ships, I want more music to go along with the epic battles! I'll just have to wait till 1.09 goes public. And a little more until 1.1 is released.

(Pray for balancing fixes...)

A bit more offtopic (sorry mahesh), Does Ironclad actually have a plan for patches and such? I mean, look at StarCraft. Blizzard kept patching that hunk of junk till the very end! I'd like to see that sort of... devotion, let's say, to their game from IronClad.