SourceForge Solar Empire News Page II

Image Pack 1.2 Released!  

Weve removed all the large ship images because they are pointless and take up a huge amount of space. The small ship images were also replaced with brand new renders. Only 1 ship was pulled from Image Pack 1.0 and placed in Image Pack 1.2

Some great new equipment images along with new map and star system images to improve the game's interface, especially within the equipment shop. Equipment includes alpha/gamma/delta bomb images (explosions), genesis device, fighters and shields.

All of the old planet images have been replaced with new renders of smaller sizes. 2 planet images were pulled from Image Pack 1.0 and placed in Image Pack 1.2

Posted by  2005-11-12

Generic 2.9.5 (updated)

A mere 10 minutes after Generic 2.9.5 was released, wiz kid Mjac decided to fix several more bugs. A new revision number was not created; instead the files for 2.9.5 were replaced with the updated versions. If you downloaded 2.9.5 we strongly recommended that you re-download 2.9.5 to insure that you have the latest code build.

Posted by  2005-11-12

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Generic 2.9.5 Released!  

Maintenances have now been replaced by service.php which runs separate parts of the original maintenances at different intervals. This must be run every two minutes or so for the best results. Turns can be set to increase every minute providing more action for the player.

Images are now used on the universe generator and the mini-map can now be used to navigate the galaxy. Transparent PNG images are used over star-links to great effect.

Several hundred bugs have been fixed.
The auction house actually works.
Attacking is slightly improved but needs more work.
Random events have been removed.
Database fields have been changed; a lot have been removed.
Many CSS and XHTML updates, the interface looks better than ever.

Posted by  2005-11-12


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2.2.1, released.

In the spirit of "release early, release often", another release of generic SE.
This one contains a re-written login system with security as it's basis. Should be rather more secure than the previous version.

Also in this release are a few bug fixes and minor tweaks.

Posted by  2004-04-25

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New release - 2.2 available

Generic Solar Empire version 2.2 has been released after almost 1 year's worth of hiatus.
The new release incorporates:
A second generation attack script;
An Admin forum;
in-game Bug tracker;
ship editor;
A lot of new server-admin functions;

and a lot more! check out the changelog for details.

Hopefully this is the begining of a new spate of releases.

Posted by  2004-04-19

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Solar Empire 2.1.1 Release

Version 2.1.1 of the Generic strain of Solar Empire has now been released.

This version incorporates numerous changes and improvements, amoungst which, a new improved, and unified universe generator can be found.

Solar Empire is an online browser based strategy game that allows players to pit their wits against each other in a space simulated environment.

A list of working SE servers can be found at:
http://www.solarempire.com/

Posted by  2003-06-21

First release of Quantum Star SE  

I have released the first easily accessable open source version of Quantum Star SE courtesy of Maugrim the Reaper.
This version of SE includes numerous refinements and bug fixes over version 2.0.2 which it is based upon.
It does not include the image set, but this set has now been released as a seperate package (as its a full 1MB), which will work with either Generic SE or Quantum Star SE.
Version 2.0.2 is now also available in a "small" vesion that does not include images either.

Moriarty

Posted by  2003-02-01

New version  

About a week ago version 2.0.1 of Solar Empire was released. This version incorporated many bug fixes as well as numerous improvements such as black-markets, player relations, and a new planet overview page amoung other things.

By my (rather dodgy) maths the games administrators now have about:
1.12068900421632 + e202 different game setups to choose from.
Thats got 202 "0"'s on the end of it!!!!
So the game is definatly open to a lot of variation (mind most of those games would be the same, but even changing the important vars could create many thousands of different games and play styles!).

I have just now released version 2.0.2. This version incorporates a few bug fixes over the last version. Nothing else.

Moriarty

Posted by  2002-07-12

New version

I am now releasing a newer version of SE. Version 1.2.
This contains only a few basic improvements over 1.1, as well as the obligitary bug fixes.

This release does not contain any recent code as its purpose is simply to give players a functional copy of the code.

A new version will be coming out shortly which will incorporate black markets, clan inforation, etc etc.

Until then, enjoy this version.

Moriarty

Posted by  2002-06-17

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New License

As the original copyright holder of Solar Empire, I do hereby relicense Solar Empire and all it's releases as Public Domain software.

It is now free for use, public or private, without any restrictions.

My reason for doing this is that I now feel that the GPL license stifles development, due to it's viral nature.

Freedom for all. Vote Libertarian.

Posted by  2002-05-01

New Release v1.004 available now  

At long last another release of Solar Empire. This one fixes a number of bugs, and incorporates all changes that were made for version 1.003, which was never officially released.

The main changes include lots of bug squelching, but it also incorporates lots of new user options, and admin options, ranging from universe manipulation, down to choosing the tow method used to tow a players ships.

This release should be just a popular as 1.002 was, and will probably be the last one for a couple of months.

Moriarty

Posted by  2001-12-20