Changes in 1.0.3.9:PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS- improved performance when calculating construction yard wait times, especially for large gamesFLEETS- fixed Prepare and Attack fleet missions to properly evaluate need to refuel- fleets now wait for all fighters to board carriers before hyperjumping- fighters boarding carriers now move at maximum speed when returning to carrier from far away- fleets now more careful to have enough available ships when auto-assigning attacks against targets- fleets more careful about completing attack missions (e.g. raid) when all fleet ships have completed the mission type- ensure disable action buttons when select fleet of another empireCOLONIZATION, MIGRATION AND TOURISM- improved selection of queued colonization targets by existing colony ships that already have population loaded. Will now also unload population if necessary so that can load more suitable population from existing colonies- added new mission type to unload passengers for colony ships with colonists onboard. Access by selecting colony ship and right-clicking on one of your empire's colonies for pop-up mission list- altered auto-assigned migration missions to prefer higher suitability destination colonies- tourism missions now properly ignore colony population policy settings (tourism to destinations with policy of Do Not Accept, etc)- further improved race selection for new colonies, even for independent colonies, i.e. attempt to use most suitable raceOTHER CHANGES- tweaked default design templates for colony ships and troop transports to maximize chance of sufficient reactor energy output to power hyperdrives atfull speed and thus extend travel range- fixed exploration ships sometimes pausing exploration of home system when have not yet found fuel source- fixed black hole vortex range so that exploration ships can properly complete mission- suppress incorrect initial mouse-up when enter research screen from main view header (would sometimes incorrectly queue the hovered research project)- fixed faulty weapon damage graph for tractor beams in Ship Design screen- fixed fighters sometimes incorrectly boarding carriers and then immediately relaunching- disabled ships (cannot move) no longer count as threats and thus do not show up on threats list or block colonization or construction at the location- fixed bug where destinations were sometimes failing to receive resources via freighterART BUNDLE CHANGES- fixed various issues in the art bundles with incorrect texture sizes as well as uncompressed or unstreamed texture settings
.....and with 'its a learning game' the litte red, behorned, trident carrying martok on my shoulder assuaged my guilt and convinced me to add a compatible moon to colonise between me and the games real offering - and were off to 'learn' about colonising shit
Dear Lord someone help me…….I’ve designed ‘support frigate’ all sexy torpedos and missiles, set to cautious to sit at the back and launch the doom Then I ‘copy as new’ and create the ‘close in frigate’ all ion cannons and in your face, set to aggressive but this overwrites the support frigate so do it again and it overwrites the other way…… sob How do I make 2 different frigates
First of all, ship tactics set in the design editor are not linked to ships using that design. THis means any changes to tactics have to be done by selecting each ship individually.The alternative is to override at the fleet level which precludes say a carrier set to evade while an attack ship is set to aggressiveSecond is the design of fleets. One design per role isn't enough.Each design needs to be it's own "line" vs one "line" per role.Finally the interplay of fleet automation, ship tactics, and fleet tactics are unclear. This leads to single ships retreating when you don't want them to or engaging when you don't want them to, or not engaging at all.So lets say, early game I want my escorts to run away after popping off missiles before they get hit. I set that in the designGreat.Now as the game progresses I want my escorts in fleets.Well, what ends up happening is that the fleet jumps in, and those escorts book it away at the first sign of trouble.Now to fix this I have to select each escort one by one and change their settings or override at the fleet level.Another example is setting roles. Either the fleet overrides these as needed or I have to manually change every ship that was built prior to changing the design from Attack to Close EscortSo if I had to wager, the issue isn't with you on setting up fleets, it's with how the systems in DW2 are set up and interact with each other creating significant friction against making ANY changes that don't involve fleet settings or overrides.The result is a blob vs a fleet with roles
I’ve watched a video that addresses a few issues or at least explains why some things happen and others don’t particularly the ship behaviour at individual level and fleet level with regards to engagement rules when on auto - I can maybe see a patch in the future that dumbs down the amount of choices you can make here as it’s clear too many is complicating the ai
