Valar Morghulis

[Buster's Uncle]

Well, no incest at AC2.

-I just made that rule up, but I'm gonna enforce it now.

[DrazharLn]

Clearly, the power has gone to your head. 

[Geo]

Even with Yang's example to learn from?

[Buster's Uncle]

I know, I know; I'm being a nerdbadged aspie prude, but if anyone figures out how to commit incest online, they may not do it here.  I'm not inclined to budge on that point.

[poolside]

* Sometimes, starting a new game will result in a game with an incomplete interface (no menus and zero information in the lower part of the interface). I have no idea what triggers it.

Ah, an example of the no-interface bug. Interestingly, the data below is from a previous game. The map isn't, though.

[Yitzi]

* Sometimes, starting a new game will result in a game with an incomplete interface (no menus and zero information in the lower part of the interface). I have no idea what triggers it.

Ah, an example of the no-interface bug. Interestingly, the data below is from a previous game. The map isn't, though.

That seems like it'd be a fairly difficult one to fix, and borderline impossible if there's nothing you can do to cause it to happen.

[poolside]

(Using 2.5j.)

Alright, this is a major issue. Thus far I've managed to avoid it by playing smax on Windows XP. This issue appears, I believe, in all versions of Windows post XP. (I know for sure that it appears in Windows 7 and 8.1.)

When the game boots, I am left with this.

[Yitzi]

(Using 2.5j.)

Alright, this is a major issue. Thus far I've managed to avoid it by playing smax on Windows XP. This issue appears, I believe, in all versions of Windows post XP. (I know for sure that it appears in Windows 7 and 8.1.)

When the game boots, I am left with this.

Strange...I've never seen that, and I play on Windows 7.

[DrazharLn]

I also don't get that on win7. What does your AlphaCentauri.Ini look like?

Try setting DirectDraw=0 (under [Alpha Centauri]) and ForceOldVoxelAlgorithm=1 (under [Preferences]).

Also, where did you get your install files for SMAC from?

[poolside]

(Using 2.5j.)

Alright, this is a major issue. Thus far I've managed to avoid it by playing smax on Windows XP. This issue appears, I believe, in all versions of Windows post XP. (I know for sure that it appears in Windows 7 and 8.1.)

When the game boots, I am left with this.

Alright, I think I may have discovered the culprit. MacType hooks into the terranx.exe process and re-renders the fonts to a black font. So they look better, but you can't see them.

[Buster's Uncle]

You're a Mac user?  If so, 55 would love to hear from you in the Mac users thread in ToE a level up...

[poolside]

You're a Mac user?  If so, 55 would love to hear from you in the Mac users thread in ToE a level up...

Uh, no, I'm not a Mac user (I wish!). MacType is a font renderer for Windows. https://code.google.com/p/mactype/

[ete]

Also, ete, Kyrub's patch probably won't be merged into mine for a while, as porting from SMAC to SMAX may not be that easy and Kyrub isn't ready to do that until there's full SMAC'ing capability, which I do plan to get to but not that soon.

It'll take some time/effort (and wait until he wants to focus on it), but I thought it was he did not want to start until we had a proper plan rather than until everything was ready?

[Yitzi]

Also, ete, Kyrub's patch probably won't be merged into mine for a while, as porting from SMAC to SMAX may not be that easy and Kyrub isn't ready to do that until there's full SMAC'ing capability, which I do plan to get to but not that soon.

It'll take some time/effort (and wait until he wants to focus on it), but I thought it was he did not want to start until we had a proper plan rather than until everything was ready?

Not sure; maybe you can ask him to clarify.

[poolside]

Major pain in the butt: the enemy reminding you that you have committed an atrocity against them every single time you come into contact with any of their units or bases. Proposal: disable these notifications altogether or have them appear only one time or provide an option to disable them. (Gee, I sound like a Progenitor now.)

But holy crap, this is hilarious.