Newbie Questions

[Spacecadet]

Hate to rain on everyone's parade (waiting for Expansion), but has anybody looked at the last time Elliot was even online?

6/14/2011.

Yeah, well that means Beta testing hasn't even begun yet so . . . . .





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[Igard]

You're correct, Spacecadet. I've actually only just gone back to playing and I'm loving it again.

The expansion will be a long way off yet.

[Data]

Even if you'd have any reason to stop playing our brave modders keep things interesting all the time. That alone makes for half the fun in this game so a BIG thank you to all of you guys that keep improving this game.... you know who you are [&o]

[Litcube]

I found my self accidentally playing Distant Worlds last night, after I told myself to stop.

[Igard]

That's a good thing. The game isn't suddenly going to become everything we all want it to be overnight. It'll take lots of little baby steps to get better and better, but it's gonna take a larger develpment team if we ever want to see the game fulfill it's full potential.

Whether that happens or not. We might as well enjoy it for what it is. A great game.

[Data]

Yap, I'm like a broken radio on this but I'll never stop appreciating that what we have so far is actually the work of a one man team, Elliot. Imagine what two Elliots could do.

[Harmonious Hegemony]

With SE5 we went though 179 patches. . . [&:]

And that was just the core game itself, not counting the mods. I agree that there are lots of little things that seem to need fixing, like the Patrol mission just vanishing, but on balance CF seems to be doing a pretty good job to me.

[Litcube]

78 patches. And it's still a mess.

[Harmonious Hegemony]

Oh yeah. 1.79 means 78 patches. Duh. The only way I could continue to play was with the balance mod (I know, off topic. I'll stop here.)

[Snake0437]

ORIGINAL: Litcube
For example, I designed all of my new ships, and I kept getting Shields: ### (Reducing). I figured out that I wasn't suppying enough energy to the ship to keep the shields going, but in the design, there was nothing obvious to let me know my design was flawed in this manner. Any ideas?

Hi to community. Woud like to back to this topic, because I've got the same problem, and can't find out, what's happening
In my home system, there is something, that constantly reducing shields on all of the ships and bases, near my home colony. This happens to everything, starport, nearly located mining base, my state ships, private ships, and even with independent ships and pirates.

I've already tried to make some experiments via game editor, redesigning starport with more reactors, adding solar collectors, deleting the starport and placing the new one, etc., but have no clue, what is causing this problem
On the planet, I didn't see any special events or planet features. I've checked all my characters, that are located on the planet and starport, but it seems, that nobody has any traits, that can cause this.
The ships, that are flying out of the planet, even in the same system, immidiately begun to recharge shields in normal way. There is also the 2nd colonized planet in the same system, and a few mining bases in the asteroid field, but they have no such problem.

Unfortunatelly, forum is not allowing to post links for me, I need to wait for 7 days so, can't put the screenshots or savegame, but I think, that send the links via PM will be possible...

Please, advice, what is this? Is there any mistake in my designs, or this is the some game event causing this? Or this is a bug?..
Thanks in advance.