Star Traders RPG v3.5.7 Update Released

[Cory Trese]

Star Traders RPG has been updated on the Android Market once again.

This is a critical bugfix release and I encourage everyone to upgrade for maximum ST RPG joy.

- Fixed Mutiny Bugs
- Fixed Acknowledge Button Defect
- Added 2 New Ship Images
- Improved Serpent's Tooth image
- New Ship Designs
- Bold Battle Stations button
- Alliance Summary on Combat Introduction
- Crew Loss Toasts
- Improved Pricing on High Population Worlds
- Improved Water-Fuel Generation
- Fixed Bugs with Orientation Lock and Keyboards
- Faction Specific Ships in Encounters
- Faction Specific Ships in Military Base
- 6 New Attack Shuttles
- 6 New Defender Class Corvettes
- 18 New Faction Pilots
- Fixed Rank Pricing on Impossible
- Improved Fuel Use Curves (more fuel) on Insane & Impossible
- Increased Pirate AI on Crazy - Impossible
- Reduced Bounty Hunter AI on Normal - Basic
- Improved Armor Soak vs. Ram
- Improved Armor Resistance for Battle Prow

[cynik]

Still no Surv for Bounty hunters on Independent area ?

Impressive list though! Congratulations!

[CoreRemnant]

The alliance summary is handy.

Did notice with the faction specific ships that the wrong factions ships are showing up in the military base;

Cadar had Rychart ships, Rychart was selling Thulun (even better as Thulun had a trade embargo on them ;D) and De Valtos had the Cadar ships.

Havn't checked to see where the others are.

[Cory Trese]

CoreRemnant -- Thanks for the report.

I would say this is a perfect example of "wrong way testing." I did a lot of work to ensure that those menus worked, but the simple logical test of "are they selling the correct ships" wasn't done carefully (or regularly) enough during dev/test.

I will fix =)

[spike]

What an awesome list of fixes and new features. Do you ever sleep?

[Cory Trese]

There is a bug.

I am very sorry.

It crashes in landscape a lot.

I am fixing now.



SOOOOO SORRRRRRY.

PLEASE DO NOT HATE ME =(

[spike]

Another bug I'm afraid:

When you Quit from the game back to Main Menu, it attempts to Validate Purchase with Google Checkout, and hangs. It never used to validate on Quit to Main Menu, it would only attempt to validate on entry into Main Menu from Android - i.e. what you would expect.

I had to use Task Killer

[Cory Trese]

spike -- how many versions have you had this issue?

[spike]

Definitely only had this issue since 3.5.7

[spike]

OK I can't reproduce this bug any more, it just happened the once. I did have about 5 apps running when it happened. So maybe don't worry about it unless someone else reproduces it.

[cynik]

I've experienced bug that I'd described in this topic

startradersrpg.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=rules&thread=393&page=1

(Screen fades, can't do anything. But maybe it's because of my custom rom or something like that? Noone besides me wrote about it.)

[oldalchemist]

The new Tooth is awesome. Bravo!

[spike]

I'm loving the new Rank Ships button.

[Cory Trese]

Google has deployed some amazing new stats for developers.

I can now see what releases drove installs vs. uninstalls and all manner of good predictive data.

Many lessons learned. I believe it will improve our upcoming releases.

[Cory Trese]

Star Traders RPG is now hardware accelerated!

android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/android-30-hardware-acceleration.html