!.4 further update - interview with Apoch - Xenon Invasion

fulhamfcrock · Post by **fulhamfcrock** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 16:35

i love the sound of this massive battleship battles BUT... wont massive battles means massive slowdowns, which would kind of make it irrelevant

Nyax · Post by **Nyax** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 17:26

Yeah i had much the same thought. The only thing i can thing of that comes close (that i've seen so far) to the description of this mission is the Omicron Lyrae mission at the end of the plot. (i took 4 destroyers with me to do it

) and that did suffer from some nasty initial frame rate problems.

canazza · Post by **canazza** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 17:29

i was wondering if X2 has either hyperthreading support OR dual-processor support, and if it doesn't, will it be build into 1.4 (there, if THAT isn't on topic i don't know what is)

Apoch · Post by **Apoch** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 17:44

canazza wrote:i was wondering if X2 has either hyperthreading support OR dual-processor support, and if it doesn't, will it be build into 1.4 (there, if THAT isn't on topic i don't know what is)

No, to both. Multithreading support would make things worse for players who don't have HT or SMP access, and would require reprogramming almost the entire engine from scratch.

canazza · Post by **canazza** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 18:12

thanks, what about X-OU or the possible expansion... (okay, expansion less of an issue what with the required engine twiddling)

Apoch · Post by **Apoch** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 18:27

Um, no. The expansion will (naturally) be using the existing X2 code as a basis, which is why it is an expansion and not a completely new game

As for X-OU or whatever in the future, it is possible but extremely unlikely; naturally Egosoft will be reusing as much of the X2 code as possible. We're talking about literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of lines of code - not something that one rewrites lightly.

Brodie · Post by **Brodie** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 20:06

This maybe me being thick, in fact it, would be a good bet that it is, but I have long thought that what X2 lacked was any BBS missions for players who own ships bigger than an M3 Nova. It was as if Egosoft created missions up to M3 class and either forgot, didn't bother or ran out of time to produce BBS mission for Capital Ship owners. It seemed weird that there where BBS Missions for a Argon Buster but not an Argon Titan.

Anyway as I read the following:

Apoch: My biggest project for 1.4 is a new mission involving massive (and I do mean MASSIVE) capital warship battles).

It sparked the hope that my wish had been granted, so my question is this:
Does this piece of informagtion combined with the fact the Apoch mainly works on the BBS missions, mean that I will soon be able to dock my M6 or M2 at a Shipyard etc and now look through the BBS Board and accept Capital Ship Missions such as "Fly to sector x and destroy Xenon ships" etc or does it mean that after reaching a certain combat or trade rating i will be able to set in to motion a Xenon invasion possibly by the BBS.

Apoch, Abyss or anyone else in the know if you read this, please clarify this for me, if you can, if you can't then just accept my thanks for all the un-paid hard work you and all the others are doing to update my game.

Apoch we all own you at least a slice of Pizza with extra Pepperoni (and some spicy beef and halapino peppers, all truely good pizza's have them on!)

TA!!!!
Brodie

Post by **CBJ** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 20:57

No, I believe that changing the game to make it possible to access BBS system from a large ship is outside the scope of this update.

SevenSword · Post by **SevenSword** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 21:06

"[...] new mission involving massive (and I do mean MASSIVE) capital warship battles)."

I like it.

giskard · Post by **giskard** » Sat, 12. Jun 04, 21:28

Apoch wrote:Um, no. The expansion will (naturally) be using the existing X2 code as a basis, which is why it is an expansion and not a completely new game As for X-OU or whatever in the future, it is possible but extremely unlikely; naturally Egosoft will be reusing as much of the X2 code as possible. We're talking about literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of lines of code - not something that one rewrites lightly.

I am not a professional programer by any means but I seem to remember that reusing code is standard practice in the industry.

So it should come as no surprise to anybody here see Egosoft doing it too.

Giskard

The_Abyss · Post by **The_Abyss** » Mon, 14. Jun 04, 01:09

Brodie wrote:Apoch we all own you at least a slice of Pizza with extra Pepperoni (and some spicy beef and halapino peppers, all truely good pizza's have them on!)

TA!!!!
Brodie

Feel free to PM Apoch with your credit card details, and he will forward them to his local pizzary

Apoch · Post by **Apoch** » Mon, 14. Jun 04, 04:06

If anyone has the desire to donate about $400 US, I'm in the market for a new 17" LCD ...

Scarecrow · Post by **Scarecrow** » Mon, 14. Jun 04, 04:20

With or without pepperoni

Wolfkin · Post by **Wolfkin** » Tue, 15. Jun 04, 18:23

Think this one needs a "bump"

Divide Overflow · Post by **Divide Overflow** » Wed, 16. Jun 04, 02:54

I guess we have a fix on a "recommended" system configuration for running X2 under patch 1.4....

Apoch wrote: Apoch: My main system is a custom-built system with an Athlon 2400, 512 MB DDR300, GF4 Ti4800, and several hard drives for all my various files.

The_Abyss · Post by **The_Abyss** » Wed, 16. Jun 04, 04:10

Still runs it fine

TEKing116 · Post by **TEKing116** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 07:02

So, I guess i'll be fine and happy?

argharg · Post by **argharg** » Sat, 26. Jun 04, 08:13

Oh well, I guess my boundary bases will be trashed..
Still looking forward capital ships missions

DJSoulJammer · Post by **DJSoulJammer** » Thu, 1. Jul 04, 19:10

I am wondering is the respown of xenons will be fixd ?

Hendar23 · Post by **Hendar23** » Thu, 1. Jul 04, 20:45

Rushyo wrote:soon(tm)

i'll leave you with that thought.

lol

They've been saying that about HL2 for about...ohh....a year now..

egosoft.com

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!.4 further update - interview with Apoch - Xenon Invasion

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Oh well, I guess my boundary bases will be trashed..