Star Traders RPG Release Friday

[Cory Trese]

Hello Captains of Star Traders!

The development team (that's me) is about to release a big patch for Star Traders RPG that addresses a number of issues with the DRM system.

I am really nervous about this and the possibilities that it might not work correctly for some reason I'm not able to test for.

The patch SHOULD make the game cache Google DRM permission for months AND function in offline mode even when the market server cannot be contacted for several hundred games.

If you will be around I intend to deploy it to the Android Market in 2 hours and will post an update. If you could try the newest update when it comes out that would be SUPER.

[Cory Trese]

it also adds plot course buttons for ships, fixes ship display, buffs 2 rumor types (upgrades) adds 10 (powerful) new ships (300K cost) and fixes some display bugs in zoom map, status window, and ship list

[slayernz]

1 hour to go ... then yup, I'll be testing feverishly ... as if I need any excuse to play this evilly addictive game. you know if you created an online multiplayer version of the game for like $1 per month, you'd have a large number of players from here playing feverishly against eachother. I for one would like to have an encounter with old Alchy and see if his hat really is as big as he says it is!

Oh .. I guess that last paragraph was a bit off topic. None the less, I'm set!

[slayernz]

The DRM change is noticeable. it's important that you have one game start/resume when you have internet connection once you have upgraded to 3.6.21. After that, even if you are in the office toilet (in the heart of the deepest part of the company where no 3G/Wifi/natural light ever reaches), you'll have no problem starting up a game.

Just for the record, I didn't test this functionality from the toilet - but playing the game with airplane mode on works just as effectively

[hashassin]

Ten new ships you say? ^_^ time to put down cyberknights for awhile and go buy me some shiny new toys.

[hotpoo]

The new cache mode works great! Nice work!

[hashassin]

So far I'm digging this royal class ship. Pretty effin' sweet. Still looking for the rest.

[HateSolstice]

I've had no issues with it so far. I'm afraid I also don't really know what kind of issues you're looking for.