EMPEROR OF THE FADING SUNS - NOVA

Nova Version 1.2 - This file last updated November 29, 1997


What's new in this version of Nova?

Nova Version 1.2

It looks like version 1.1 didn't completely fix the Symbiot crash problem.
This time I think we've really got it fixed. No need for details. It's a
bit technical. Suffice to say, it was a careless error on my (Richard Wein)
part. There are no other changes in 1.2.

Nova Version 1.1

Nova 1.1 differs very little from Nova 1.0. The main reason for this new
version is to correct a problem which was causing the game to slow down and
sometimes crash during the Symbiot move. It seems that giving static units
(Guards, Artillery, Anti-Tank Guns and AA Guns) a movement allowance of
zero was confusing the AI. To fix this, we have given all such units a
movement allowance of 4. The other changes are mostly minor adjustments,
some of which should have been in version 1.0 but were accidentally
omitted.

     * Made Guards a "wheel" unit, and changed movement rating of all
     "wheel" units from zero to 4. They still can't move, but they can now
     be loaded onto Naval Transports. Note: since guards are no longer a
     foot unit, they can now be hit by direct fire and ranged space fire.

     * Increased the armor of Pestulator Artillery from 25 to 35.

     * Returned the armor and agility of the Assault Gun to their
     original values (60 and 3) and increased its indirect attack to 1/90.

     * Reduced the armor of SP Artillery and SP Anti-Air from 25 to
     20. Also reduced the indirect attack of SP Artillery from 1/90 to
     1/80.

     * Reduced the agility of the ASW Gunship from 9 to 6

     * Gave the Xyll Warbeast, which previously had no direct fire, a
     direct fire of 4/40 and reduced its cost to just 50 biochems. This
     makes the unit a lot more attractive. (An attractive Xyll?!)

     * Made Engineers a "required unit" for Guards. You still can't
     build Guards, but, if you disband them, you gain an Engineer!

     * Reduced the movement point costs for tread units in tree and
     mountain hexes to their original values. There is a peculiar bug which
     means that a mixed stack of foot and tread units is unable to enter
     some hexes. Increasing the movement point costs meant that this bug
     was being encountered more often. So we've undone that change.

     * Converted Scepters, Relics and Plague Bombs from hover units
     to tread, so they can't move on sea.

     * Converted Cargo pods from hover units to crawlers, and changed
     the movement costs for crawlers so they can only move one hex per turn
     off-road. (This doesn't affect PTS units which could only move one hex
     off-road anyway.) We did this to stop players using 1-point cargo pods
     for exploration and other non-cargo-like activities.



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