We like to keep track of the dead ships and bases in our games. Any chance you could add a fleet to each race and call it something clever like DEAD SHIPS?

By John de Michele (Johndemichele) on Monday, June 19, 2023 - 01:13 pm: Edit

The Commercial Convoy Route areas of the map are misspelled as "Commmercial Convoy Route", for both sides.

By Paul Shutter (Cusimanse) on Monday, June 26, 2023 - 02:46 pm: Edit

James, just a couple of things I've noticed while playing:

The neutral PDUs fighters aren't registering for COMPOT or when moused over.

Kzinti FCRs aren't registering the fighters in brackets.

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Monday, June 26, 2023 - 05:29 pm: Edit

Good news is the Z-FCR was fixed a while ago (in my working copy).

The neutral fighters look right. But they don't report. I'm going to have to dig into that.

Map has been fixed. Not currently planning on a dead ships pile; I figure that everyone can figure their own solutions to that. (But now I think about a place for them to park with separate tracking... bah.)

Even better news, I'm nearly done updating all the save game files with the WYN in them. Then its back to adding the ISC and Minor Empires additions, and 2.1 should be ready.

By John de Michele (Johndemichele) on Thursday, July 06, 2023 - 11:32 pm: Edit

I just saw this while doing turn 10-A: the Hydrans are missing KNHs and their variants. I know they weren't historically built, but according to the SIT they can be.

By Lawrence Bergen (Lar) on Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 11:00 pm: Edit

James not sure if you noticed but the Tholian starting fleet listed in the Emprire Report is counting certain LDR units as Tholians.
The ones I can remember are CL, CW, CWS, DW, FF, MP, MPS, POL, and MON-V. They throw the Tholian count off showing 77 instead of 59 (when one deletes the ships)

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Thursday, July 20, 2023 - 11:32 am: Edit

That was reported very early on. You can actually fix them with the 'recapture' command, as the only thing wrong is the initial value, not the values the capture menu items set them to.

This is of course fixed in the upcoming 2.1. (Need to get the Vudar done.)

By John de Michele (Johndemichele) on Friday, September 01, 2023 - 05:27 pm: Edit

Not sure if this is a known issue, but there are no base versions of any empire's HDW. Also, SFBs (stellar fortresses) seem to be missing as well, even with the extras included.

By Ryan Opel (Feast) on Saturday, September 02, 2023 - 03:52 am: Edit

Stellar Forts weren't in the game on last update, I'd have to check on th HDW base thing.

By John de Michele (Johndemichele) on Sunday, September 03, 2023 - 07:30 pm: Edit

They have been in the SITS files since at least 2020.

By Ryan Opel (Feast) on Monday, September 04, 2023 - 12:05 am: Edit

For SFB:

V1.3.1 or V2.0 are from 2012 and 2016 respectively.

For HDW:
Don't know but why would you build one unconfigured?

Generally speaking, the base version of the HDW is the HDW-K combat version.

FEDS concurs.

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Monday, September 04, 2023 - 10:07 pm: Edit

Stellar fortresses weren't an official F&E unit until TO came out, and I don't think there were any good stats for it until then. I need to polish off the v2.1 update (close now), which will have SFBs and SFXs along with all the other TO units, with the same type of EW controls as the existing SB pieces.

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 03:29 pm: Edit

At long last, the new version of the F&E Vassal module is out! The file is attached to this thread.

Please save the zip package to where you keep your modules, and then extract everything. The extensions will then be seen by Vassal (as inactive) once you open the main "F&E 2.1.vmod" file through the module manager. There is also a new version of the User Manual PDF, which I recommend you look through.

Right after releasing 2.0 I started work on a 2.0.1 to fix some problems (most notably LDR ships initially reported as 'Tholian' in the inventory windows), and then went to 2.1 when I added some new features while playing "Konya wa Hurricane" with Byron. I got some feature requests that, along with the need to upgrade all the save game files, made the finishing touches drag out until the project backburnered itself. And then Tactical Operations came out.

I have, in fits and starts, spent much of this year adding all the new units from that to 2.1, finished off the upgrades, and a couple new extensions. The full list of changes is in version history file (look in the Help menu), but here's the main highlights:

• Each empire's Home Fleet now has a bigger box, so they can take bigger collections of ships without all the fleet boxes chewing up screen real estate.
• Reserve fleet boxes are smaller, but now have a grid to lay out your force in.
• The large map now has sector and cordon borders that can be turned on/off, like the small map.
• There is a new 'Control Panel' window where you can manipulate the scenario borders, Orion Enclave, and turn off unneeded ship capture dialogs.
• Units from Tactical Operations have been added, including moving BBs from an extension to the main module.
• There are new extensions for the Carnivons and Paravians.

By Mike Curtis (Nashvillen) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 03:33 pm: Edit

James, thank you for your continued hard work on this.

By Nick Blank (Nickgb) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 03:44 pm: Edit

What version of vassal does this need? I don't remember which I have installed, but I know I haven't updated in ages.

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 03:46 pm: Edit

The last version I used creating this was 3.6.17. Probably, any 3.6.x would be fine, and the current 3.7.1 will be fine. (Older ones would also be fine, as I don't use any advanced features, but Vassal's version control won't let you attempt it.)

By Ted Fay (Catwhoeatsphoto) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 04:59 pm: Edit

Thank you!

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 08:11 pm: Edit

AWESOME, Thanks.

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 09:34 pm: Edit

James,

Were the lastest 2010's or later OOBs used for the scenarios?

How do we submit scenarios to be added?

Ryan

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 10:07 pm: Edit

Possibly not the latest OoBs, I don't think I updated anything for the main empires past the FO 2016 additions. (ME and WYN TO OoBs are in there.)

If there's any scenarios that don't have set ups that you'd like to contribute, just send them to my profile email, which is also referenced on the splash screen of the module and a few other places. But it might be best to ask about them here or in email first before going through the effort.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Thursday, October 05, 2023 - 11:05 pm: Edit

Simone got the new one loaded.

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Friday, October 06, 2023 - 02:06 am: Edit

Yes, and many thanks to her.

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Friday, October 06, 2023 - 02:51 am: Edit

James,
you certainly made us all an bunch of merry men.

May I ask, what ships are included in the Extra expansion?

They are included in the several menues but I lack the overview about all the ships to distinguish between the ships from official products and the extras burried in between.

Many thanks for your hard work.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Soeren Klein

By James Lowry (Rindis) on Friday, October 06, 2023 - 11:17 am: Edit

At the moment, not much, as most of the Extras were in TO, and therefore moved to the main module.

Let's see: F-BC1 (BCP), F-BSC, F-NAF, R-KGW, R-KXW, R-KVW, R-KEW, Z-CAM, Z-DDS, Z-WSCS, Z-DWVP, T-NSCS, H-TEM+, H-D7X, L-JGX, L-CLS

And a bunch of ISC classes, and a lot of WYN classes.

By Soeren Klein (Ogdrklein) on Sunday, October 08, 2023 - 06:42 am: Edit

Thanks for the answer, James!