Star Traders 2 - Alpha Phase 1 - v1.0.25

[Cory Trese]

**** This release REQUIRES that you uninstall or delete the previous install ****

If you don't uninstall before upgrading, it will crash!

**** Uninstall the app before reinstalling the new version ****
**** Win32: Delete all files in "%LOCALAPPDATA%\StarTraders2\" folder ***
**** Android: Use "Settings > Apps" to completely uninstall old version ***
**** iOS: Completely uninstall old version ***
**** Mac OS X: Delete All files in "~/Library/StarTraders2/"

v1.0.25 - 2/18/2017
- Major rebalancing of combat for Difficulty levels + Combat Boost System
- Rebuilt Exchange UI: control quantity with slider, sort, filter, see illegal, clearly marked Permit requirements
- Implemented Big Trade Talents for Merchant
- Improved Rep warning and Conflict identity in Exchange UI
- Removed Patrol and Station status - all Crew add their Skills to Pools at all times
- When leading or defending against boarding, any Crew with fighting job, all Officers, and Captain are available to be picked
- Improved display of many ship components -- Medical Rate, Jump Cost, Exploration modules
- Implemented and improved Traits
- Rebalanced minimum levels for Talents, now granted at Job Levels 1, 5, 8, 11
- Changed Rumor/Contact passive Talents that were firing On Recruit to fire in the Spicehall
- Reduced list of available Starting Contacts to 11, improved service offerings
- Fixed Exo-Scout and Combat Medic duplicate Talents
- Maps now display Quadrant and System ownership by Faction
- New Game Faction Selection now lists Faction quad and zone counts

[Officer Genious]

Oooh, just got it downloaded on Android. Will open when I'm done watching this stream!

[Cory Trese]

This release is so good

Couple of other things:


- Fixed Zombie Crew
- Fixed Crew Combat Bugs
- New Game Officers Don't Max Out Job Levels

[athios]

Sweeeet! New game, new character class. Let's see... Smuggler it is!

[John Robinson]

Just finished watching the Twitch Tv stream for v 1.0.25. If you want allot of concentrated information about ST2 this is the way to go. There will be regularly scheduled streams.  Fellow Alpha Testers don't miss out.  If you want to ask questions, or comment in real time setting up an account is really fast.    

Thanks Guys!

[Cory Trese]

Yeah, was a fun stream. Looking forward to Tuesday. I'll be posting our schedule tomorrow.

[grävling]

Also fixed -- when you Patrol over a planet their military doesn't come and try to blast you out of the sky. When good things happen you do not lose rep with them.

[ChocoCrowbar]

Those are some very sexy sliders.

[tenbsmith]

Installed. The new sliders are better on Android.

Interesting that you removed On Patrol/On Station. 

Quick note: The install still seems a bit slow on my device. If I reset my sleep timer to 30 minutes and just let it sit for a while that works. I usually have my sleep timer set to 30 seconds, and install in problematic under that condition.

[Cory Trese]

Feb 19, 2017 9:20:59 GMT -5 tenbsmith said:

Installed. The new sliders are better on Android.

Interesting that you removed On Patrol/On Station. 

Quick note: The install still seems a bit slow on my device. If I reset my sleep timer to 30 minutes and just let it sit for a while that works. I usually have my sleep timer set to 30 seconds, and install in problematic under that condition.

That's crazy! Installs on my devices in between 10 and 30 seconds.

[Officer Genious]

Same here. I wish I could help tenbsmith, but I don't know how.

[tenbsmith]

This is not a big issue, it takes well under 30 minutes, but takes longer to start actually downloading data than I'm used to with Google Play. Regarding changing my sleep timer, I'm going to test if that is necessary on the next update.

[Cory Trese]

Feb 19, 2017 12:05:00 GMT -5 tenbsmith said:

This is not a big issue, it takes well under 30 minutes, but takes longer to start actually downloading data than I'm used to with Google Play. Regarding changing my sleep timer, I'm going to test if that is necessary on the next update.

I think this is just that HockeyApp is a lot slower than Google Play.

[grävling]

I think it is less tolerant of slow/intermittant wifi connections, too.

[johndramey]

Been busy at work (and have a vacation coming up, a week in Phuket!), but gotta say the new exchange is *awesome*