The minor races are no longer 'minor' , the last few patches have let them evolve like wildfire, i just bumped into the Caranids VERY early on and they had 11 decent systems LOL

Also on the diplomacy screen either its a bug or the AI cant add up I ask for 200 , use the slider on the little window to increase the months, the text turns green at 5 months, so thats 1000. Now if i decrease the amount to 100 and use the slider i can go to 13 months which gives me 1300 ...

Darkspire,

It's not a bug. It's what some of us like to call "interest". An AI will pay you more if you extend the payments. Try asking for 50BC and it should give you an even greater amount overall.

And yes, the "minors" are definitely more interesting now!

I fixed the political party images and the minimap scrolling. 

Everyone gather in the Temple for worship of Our Lady of Software, CariElf!

Thanks!

Oddly, it seems that the only UP events that ever come up are the tax on war and the "which planet shall get to host the UP for a 50% influence bonus."

How do we get them to work on our games?

Lord Megatron:

They were code changes so you won't be able to get the fixes until we put up another update. You can copy the polpartylogos folder from the gfx folder to the mods folder for polpartylogos to get them to show up, but there's no workaround for the scrolling on the minimap.  One of our new coders deleted the function call that handles the scrolling without knowing what he was doing.

vincible: that could be a random thing.  If you take those events out of your directory, does it pick others?

I will try it. But I'm certain it's not just luck. This just got posted an hour ago (in the Fellowship thread) and already two other people have said they've seen this behavior.

CariElf
tried, tested and they dont show. even on council screen place for icon is blank. guess i will have to wait for update. hope it wont be too long?

Lord Megatron: perhaps I was too ambiguous? Did you put them in the mods\gfx\polpartylogos folder?

It probably won't be too long before we put up another update.  We usually give an update about a week to make sure that we've caught anything new features might have introduced before putting up the next one.

Same problem as vincible (#30) Ive had the same UP issue in the last 6 meetings. The permanent tax on war one.

MntlDfct

~SDC~

CariElf
yes. copied all polparty files over (inc old ones). no logos appear anywhere in game. thanks for your help though. look forward to update. guess im just a bit picky on small things like that. rest works great though. nice idea with the mods folder. it is nice to play the game as it was 'shipped' sometimes. by the way if you ever come to england we have some great restaurants. would offer to take you but wife would kill me

Yes, I can also verify the UP issues are limited to two, the permanent tax on war and the UP host issue.

Agreed, that is all I am ever seeing at UP and I have no mods at all.

Me too!

Now where you say it... I thought it was just bad luck but somehow I don't remember having seen anything else the last few games...
Wonder how a patch can affect things that were working before... Mom, no... I also have seen the "Shall the XXX give 5% of their Eco every turn... hmmm *notsure*

:notsure:

Ok, I found the bug that causes only 2 up issues to be used.  The fix will be in the next update.  We probably would have caught it before it went out if we'd compared notes when testing, but since up issues tend to repeat and only happen every 4 years, it wasn't that obvious.

Either sarcastic or NOT a programmer (or both). I try to fix at least two bugs for each one I introduce during the fixes. I *usually* succeed.

By the time I finish the two games I have in progress, 1.13 should be out! -- HtL (aka Admiral Glacier)

the "break alliance" button covers up the "trade embargo" button

when you look in the diplo screen you can see the embargo button under the break alliance button. i tried to click the part showing but couldn't tell if it worked or not. i was using the cheats at the time.

Cari:

When do you think the update with your fixes will hit the street?

Thanks!

Bill

~SDC~

russelmz2: the idea is that if you're allied, you can't embargo against that alien.  So first you have to break the alliance, at which point you can then place an embargo on him.  Although you shouldn't have been able to see it at all...

Bill Ko: I'll ask Brad, but I'm guessing next week, to give you guys enough chance to report any more bugs.

cari is it possible for you guys to tone down the minors expansion? they now behave more like majors than minors. love the way they stand up for themselves, but in latest game two of the minors owned more planets than all the majors combined!

I'll ask Brad about it.

Well the only slowdown i seem to notice is whenever im loading a save game, the other day when it got to 100% loaded it took 3 mins for the game to start. I guess the more planets ships and stuff you have the longer it takes, oh well. btw am i blind or is there actually a way to change resolution???