new ico causes crashes.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/337896

Beta2 Changelog...has all info you'll need.

np...

good question and don't know if anyone rightly knows, but I would venture that as they were hitting the "dog days" of fixing the balance issues of Entrenchment, they were doing no other coding.  But now that those frantic days of coding nightmares are over for another week or two (till they get the next batch of complaints and opinions of what should be done), they are probably filling their down time with thoughts and visions of micro-2 running through their heads.  And who knows, maybe a little coding on that as well.

Plus, I seem to recall somewhere that their timetable is to release both the micro-2 and micro-3 before the end of this year.

GO IC!!!

We (Ironclad) have already begun work on the second micro-expansion. We are also hard at work on a new project.

I get the distinct impression that all of IC is made up of robots tha work 24/7.

YES! new project, eh? how I missed those vague teasers ...

bring in a part-timer and the increase may yet reach 666%. you already have one pact with the devil (ms, GfW ) so what difference.

Heh heh.

Thanks for the info re. other progress.

Btw, will we be getting new music for the expansions? I haven`t seen this subject mentioned anywhere before - more variations on the current themes would be great, to vary the accompaniment as we eventually play with the new mechanics & assets.

Ditto I imagine with voice work, though I would be more keen on music.

Very nice.  Had me rolling over here.  The new project is fine and nice...the new micro is fine and nice...hell, even micro-1 is fine and nice.  I'm just glad you guys are still in business and that the whole thought and aspect of releasing games with no DRM has not back-fired (not that I thought it would).  Cause now we "loyal" gamers can really enjoy some great game playing time with some great games.

Keep up all of the great hard work that you guys are putting in.  We love everything that you do...(well most everything... )

I'd guess at least a couple months

Well it would be nice to have time to play Sins in a finished state, not just rush from one beta to the other..

DUnno if this is the right place, but i wanted to give some more feedback after the latest beta patch.
Overall, things have improved massively. Mines are no longer scattered accross every gravity well, that in itself is a huge relief.Keep the autocast off... Though i do note now that the advent and vasari ai uses extremely sparse use of mines.

The mine clearing abilities have also improved, and you were right about the extra banks on a defender or flak frigate being useful, though there is still a tendency for the ai to chase a scout frigate or two through an enemy minefield.

The changes to the starbase have worked to my knowledge, and they now work as well as id first hoped. The fact that vasari starbases have the obvious advantage with movement doesnt bother me, like pre patch.

The bank upgrades have made for much quicker battles, which is also nice.

The only thing i can say i was confused at was the strangeness of some of the ai. In  a couple of game ive played the ai has just stopped attacking and gone into a hibernation of sorts, puttting all of its resources into ship production. However even when they have a large fleet (I counted 350 ships), which outnumbers all of the other opponents, it just sits in its planet and doesnt move.

Overall though, a great improvement, and is really ready for release! congrats!

I've finally got my Entrenchment working but stand-alone still will not start, instant crash.  While playing Entrenchment under the lastest update I get an instant crash (bug) when I'm selecting an assign number group.  I hit "1" to Select that fleet and instant crash, restart.