Epic (Dogs or War etc) - any news?

Perhaps the wrong place to post this and if so then moderator please feel free to delete.

I was wondering if there is any more news on the Epic Development? The dates on their news page have no year so I don't know how recent they are.

And of course if anyone has anything else brewing any updates on that would make an interesting read as well.

Cheers,
Joco.

Missed this post before. Epic took a break this summer but work is restarting with vigor. Which I think will soon be clear.

-Gtrout

I suppose this is as good a place as any to post a strange happening in Epic.

I started out in the Epitaph system, and used the debug-jump to go to the Beryl L-Point in Emerald. When I got there, I discovered three things. One, the background was gone: no stars or nebula. Two, in addition to the star’s light, everything was lit in roughly the opposite direction in an intense purple light. Third, a freighter jumped out of the L-Point behind me! It had cargo, escorts, and all! (If I recall, it was independent) I followed it to a shipyard (which played the canned greeting). The shipyard also had ships (dark blue on IFF) registered to “Caliph al Mansur.� There were also a few yellow ships floating around. I forgot to take screenshots, unfortunately, and when I quit and reloaded, everything was back to normal.

It was like the computer decided to give me a taste of what Epic would be like. Very cool.

No screenshots necessary. What you saw is what happens when a map file has no LW scene file to go with it. Basically, it's the default scene lighting. Check your LW scene lighting file for this system and make sure nothing happened to it. If flux can't find a matching file it'll just give you this default.

As for the freighter, I assume by your surprise that no other ships were supposed to be present? Can't help you on that, since I'm not involved with epic. Sounds like it was a fun surprise though.

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You must have one of the older builds that still had the EoC traffic scripts enabled. The EoC code was very well done, and even handled porting to a whole new cluster without crashing. Good news for cluster builders. As long as you don't mind the way the standard scripts work. (the only really problem one is the station attacks by hostile factions. It really is messy when you have destructable stations). It would be neat to see the Iwar system recreated, but with EoC scripts.

-Gtrout

Actually, I had the 3f release. I recall I was playing with the LWS files when it happened, so that could explain the weird lighting. But why did the star still light the place if the game had no <star> entry to base it on? I wonder what would happen if I did that to a non-yellow star?

Is it a coincidence that the lack of a LW file and the traffic activation happened at the same time? I think I’ll try to “break� it again.