What changes were made to EVO to produce version 1.02?

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EV Override™ 1.0.2 Notes
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Change history:

Version 1.0.2 -- Initial released 6/5/2000

-- Removed spaceport bar from Verrill prime after destuction

-- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the warp out sound to play multiple times

-- Changed default secondary trigger to the control key

-- Fixed some spelling errors in various mission text

-- Added a field to force up to 4 pers ships to always appear in a system

-- Weapon ammo type -999 will now cause the firing ship to be destroyed

-- Added ship type pilot skill variance

-- Finally fixed the bug that would cause all ships to appear the same

-- Zidagar ships given natural fuel regeneration (not player)

-- ships with solar panels (including player) given natural fuel regeneration

-- shield-related outfits drain fuel

-- UE Cruisers will appear via dudes after appropriate missions done

-- certain weapons (dispy rockets, defence pods) will detonate when count is up

-- brief 'Fine' mission added in relation to space mines

-- a few other changes implemented for b4/5

-- Made beams display a little nicer

-- Added a little randomness to keep computer ships from stacking up

-- Afterburners implemented for numerous ships.

-- shields reduced slightly for all fighters and other highly manoeuvrable ships

-- missing STR# added for Miranu Station (found this one myself : )

-- smoke trails implemented for a few weapons

-- x-offsets implemented for a few ships (UE and Voinian fighters)

-- marine outfit is given out to player during the UE D'Erlon missions

-- blind spots implemented for a few ships (human freighters and cargo transporters)

-- Missions can take away the player's money if desired

-- Added an activate-on-bit-cleared option to oops resources

-- Purchasing outfit items can alter mission bits

-- Outfit items can have secondary effects

-- Fleets can be controlled by mission bits

-- Allowed default inherent AI type in dude resource

-- Added flags to make AI ships more selective about missile selection

-- Beam weapons now stop when they hit something

-- Extended most resource templates by a few bytes for future expansion

-- Added a StartBitSet field to mission resource

-- Made the planet picture in the communication dialog a little nicer

-- Added a flag to optionally show target's armor on status display

-- Added mission bit support to 'dude' resources

-- Added a flag to support flak-type weapons

-- Added projectile weapon strength decay option

-- Adjusted freefall bomb speed

-- Added support for anti-fuel-scoop type outfits that drain fuel

-- Added oufit resource picture conflict workaround

-- Ships can have default outfit items at purchase time

-- Ships can have inherent fuel regeneration ability

-- Fixed a bug that was causing turrets to be somewhat inaccurate

-- Fixed the crooked beams problem

-- Fixed the start-disabled flag in the govt resources so it works again

-- Added the capability for AI ships to use afterburners

-- Added a "Marines" outfit type for plugin developers to use

-- AI ships can perform slightly more complex combat maneuvers

-- Added a fix for the users who couldn't hyperspace

-- Added reverse target-cycling (hold down shift + target key)

-- AI ships are no longer confused by rear attacks

-- Fixed a bug that would prevent some fleet types from appearing

-- Improved beam visibility slightly

-- Added ability to specify turret blind spots

-- Added the AvailShipType field and some related flags to the mission resource

-- Fixed the flickering communications message bug

-- Cycling targets once again allows a "no target" selection

-- Added an x-offset capability for unguided projectiles and beam weapons

-- Moved the armor indicator label into a pict resource

-- Made combat AI difficulty proportional to combat rating

-- Weapons can have smoke trails

-- Added a RefuseBitSet field to the mission resources

-- Unlicensed copies of the game no longer crash on startup

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Version 1.0.1 -- released 10/5/98

-- Added an option to use QuickDraw for graphics, offering greater compatability

-- Added code to ensure that hyperspace jumps won't accidentally stop

-- Added a flag for plugin designers to show SpecialShipSyst on map

-- Added a workaround to fix unexplored-visbit-system problem

-- Hyper route is fixed when a visbit interferes with the system layout

-- No more selling back mass expansions and having too many outfit items

-- Plunder dialog no longer offers captured ammo the player can't use

-- Random missions to hidden systems will no longer be made available

-- Captain Hector no longer appears the same day the game is registered

-- Fixed problem with incorrect missile behavior with extremely low game speed settings.

-- Changed to latest version of Sprite Animation Toolkit.

-- Fixed crash-on-quit bug that occurred when switching back from 8-bit color

-- Fixed some drawing artifacts in the message area

-- Various (mostly mission) bug fixes including: New Tokyo has bar desc after VisBit change, cargo delivery confusion fixed for numerous missions, Azdgari warship targets in 'Hunt ' missions given proper names, and fixed bars with no available escorts

-- Eased up on mission abortion penalties

-- Added a few new interesting bits & pieces

-- Messed about with weapon stats a bit (speeds and damages up and down)

-- All weapon speeds accelerated by ~125%

-- Checked a few outfits could/could not be sold

-- Most turrets take up gun slots to prevent multiple gun/turret combos

-- Adjusted ship turret/gun slots to match this

-- Included some extra descriptive text to explain some outfit items' behaviour

-- Various other minor alterations

-- Enabled 'green arrow for misn ships' for appropriate missions

-- Moved SC recruitment mission from New Tokyo to Molos - makes less sense but is bugproof

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Version 1.0.0 -- Initial release 4/29/98

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Originally posted by MiG:
What changes were made to EVO to produce version 1.02?

Version 1.0.2 was a result of early development on EV Nova, and as such, the AI is a bit more difficult, and there's some impressive under-the-hood changes. For more details, see what Blackdog said.

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David Arthur
(url="http://"http://members.aol.com/darthur1/talon-ev/")Talon Plugin for Classic EV(/url)

What in 1.02 makes pilot files from previous versions incompatible?

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Originally posted by MiG:
What in 1.02 makes pilot files from previous versions incompatible?

I'm not sure why the pilot file format changed. It might have to do with the changes in the way certain resources are activated.

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David Arthur
(url="http://"http://members.aol.com/darthur1/talon-ev/")Talon Plugin for Classic EV(/url)