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Originally posted by acceleratemvmnt:
**the "no new features" rule?
could somebody please explain this?
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Sure. Whenever a medium to heavy engine change is requested by the developers, Matt Burch always answers "There will be no new features in EV:N." In other words, this thing has been done, thus he does not want to spend the time, effort, and debugging for stuff that is not absolutely crititcal to the current scenario.

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Originally posted by UncleTwitchy:
**Matt Burch has stated over and over that no new features will be added to the Nova Engine. Bug fixes, yes. New features, no.

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Specifically, no new engine changes.
(Read: What UncleTwitchy wrote)

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Originally posted by UncleTwitchy:
**Matt Burch has stated . . . that no new features will be added to the Nova Engine.

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new features . . . i.e. additions or enhancements to let's say the escort commands, possibly expanding the control window to include individual escort commands rather than only individual types of ships and maybe a formation dialog box offering different escort formations based on those set up automatically by nova, the number of escorts in a player's fleet, and the size of the escorts including "The ship's length in meters. Currently unused in any calculations". Ha, ha. anyway just curious. i've been thinking about a few things that might enhance a project someone is currently working on. this would seem to be fairly light in effect though it would possibly add to the combat in Nova. but as an actual undertaking . . . i do not know. thanks for the the replies everyone

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Originally posted by acceleratemvmnt:
**new features . . . i.e. additions or enhancements to let's say the escort commands, possibly expanding the control window to include individual escort commands rather than only individual types of ships and maybe a formation dialog box offering different escort formations based on those set up automatically by nova, the number of escorts in a player's fleet, and the size of the escorts including "The ship's length in meters. Currently unused in any calculations". Ha, ha. anyway just curious. i've been thinking about a few things that might enhance a project someone is currently working on. this would seem to be fairly light in effect though it would possibly add to the combat in Nova. but as an actual undertaking . . . i do not know. thanks for the the replies everyone

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None of the above will ever be added to EV:N.

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Originally posted by seant:
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In theory, a similar method could be used to provide new planets with defense fleets (where -1 is what the defense count would be for an unused spob). I think this would fall under the "no new features" rule, however.

-STH

(edit) it just occurred to me that the engine could set all the pers bits to 1 by default upon making the pilot. I don't know if the engine would gracefully deal with that situation, however.(/edit)

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Wait, spobs created by plugins used after starting a new pilot dont have a defence fleet?!
These both things really really suck. *cries, cause it means that theres no point to a plug that makes new spobs, and a developer cant put any pers's in, cause nobody is gonna make a new pilot just for one stupid plug unless it's a TC.*Wonders what other things nova does to kick plugdev'ers in the pants
-Az

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Originally posted by Azratax2:
**Wait, spobs created by plugins used after starting a new pilot dont have a defence fleet?!
These both things really really suck. *cries, cause it means that theres no point to a plug that makes new spobs, and a developer cant put any pers's in, cause nobody is gonna make a new pilot just for one stupid plug unless it's a TC.*Wonders what other things nova does to kick plugdev'ers in the pants
-Az

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This post is based on one assumption: That spöbs regenerate their defense fleets, no matter how slowly.
If they even regen one ship per decade, then this can work.

Set the plug with the new spöbs to have a mďsn that is in the BBS and auto-aborts. Have the mďsn advance the time by whatever number of days required for the spöbs defense fleet to regenerate.

That is all

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aaaaaaah. Very clever. Good idea indeed.
-Az

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Originally posted by Chuckles:
**None of the above will ever be added to EV:N.

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e will ever be added to EV:N, cannot be added to EV:N due to restrictions, or will never be added to EV:N by Matt Burch himself/

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Originally posted by acceleratemvmnt:
**e will ever be added to EV:N, cannot be added to EV:N due to restrictions, or will never be added to EV:N by Matt Burch himself/

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The developers have stated that they have no intention of releasing the source code for any of the EV games in forseable future, and Matt Burch has mad clear that no new engine features will be added to Nova. Also, it is highly unlikely that there will be a 4th EV game, at least anytime soon so I think we can safely assume the features you suggested will never be implemented in a game of the EV series.

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Originally posted by pesimist_guy:
we can safely assume the features you suggested will never be implemented in a game of the EV series

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i'm secretly thinking "half full". sorry for asking so many probably obvious and uninteresting questions, just had to find out for sure. i'm sure you all understand. thanks for the replies

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Originally posted by Krypt-tokh6:
**This post is based on one assumption: That spöbs regenerate their defense fleets, no matter how slowly.
If they even regen one ship per decade, then this can work.

Set the plug with the new spöbs to have a mďsn that is in the BBS and auto-aborts. Have the mďsn advance the time by whatever number of days required for the spöbs defense fleet to regenerate.
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Question: Can this method be used to restore pers's? Or is the bit that represents an alive/dead pers different from the one for an active/inactive pers? I have heard that dead pers's come back no matter how many times you kill them.
-Az

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