Drox beta patch 0.917

[Chumpy]

If you're set for weapons (3-5 weapon hotkeys), just equip another power plant. Unused power load increases your energy regen.

Extra heavy slots are pretty much just for extra weapons, armor (if your Structural went up for some reason), or power plants. Extra drives are useless if you have two thrust items and you're keeping up with Helm. I'm not sure why there aren't more heavy options either.

[Roswitha]

Now that you've added the Drox, Win, Lose screen, can you make a hotkey for it?

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by Roswitha

Now that you've added the Drox, Win, Lose screen, can you make a hotkey for it?

I'm thinking about it. I'm not sure what key would make sense as a default though.

[Roswitha]

Originally Posted by Shadow

I'm thinking about it. I'm not sure what key would make sense as a default though.

You could call it the Status screen and map it to T.

[Crisses]

Originally Posted by Roswitha

You could call it the Status screen and map it to T.

Or Victory screens? V (I don't remember if V is taken on QWERTY)

I managed to get nearly all keys on the left hand, though... which is really cool

[Roswitha]

Originally Posted by Crisses

3) Bug: Ship build time estimate keeps resetting to :59 seconds left. Does not display minutes. Very annoying. Originally reported in Typo thread by Roswitha. Confirmed for me too. Seeing as I don't know how long I have to wait, I just get restless...

If this isn't an oversight, and you don't want to give us the exact time, I'd much rather have minutes than seconds.

[Shadow]

Originally Posted by Roswitha

If this isn't an oversight, and you don't want to give us the exact time, I'd much rather have minutes than seconds.

It's not on purpose. I so far haven't been able to reproduce it. If anyone has a save game with this problem, I would love for them to email it to me.

[Excellion]

Originally Posted by Roswitha

If this isn't an oversight, and you don't want to give us the exact time, I'd much rather have minutes than seconds.

Originally Posted by Shadow

It's not on purpose. I so far haven't been able to reproduce it. If anyone has a save game with this problem, I would love for them to email it to me.

Just to confirm that i have noticed the same behavior in my own games, most specifically on the "Protect planet X until reinforcements arrive". I spend about 25 minutes circling a planet, waiting for a ship to spawn and each time the times reached 0:00 from 0:59 it would just reset to a higher value. Counter seems quite jumpy anyway, since it often displays a twice higher or even a much lower value if you click the status button within a couple of seconds.

In MOST cases where spawns for an unprotected planet took exceedingly long that empire seemed focused on something else, such as a war on two fronts. Since the quest itself is quite rewarding (Up to 10x regular quest XP) i just assumed that this was to compensate for the boredom of flying circles. If i notice it again sometime, ill see if i can forward my savegame.

[Crisses]

Originally Posted by Excellion

I spend about 25 minutes circling a planet, waiting for a ship to spawn and each time the times reached 0:00 from 0:59 it would just reset to a higher value.

I only saw it on the "Protect planet" quests. That might be the only time it happens... have you seen it happen another time?

[Roswitha]

Quick question for Shadow.

Is it supposed to take one minute for the ship to be created, or does it vary?