GalaxyView V2.6 released

From: Roland Scholz <scholz@pb.izm.fhg.de>

Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:00:00 +0000

A new version of GalaxyView, a turn viewer for Galaxy (standard,
GalaxyNG
and Blind Galaxy), has been released.
You can get the new version at:
http://www.pb.izm.fhg.de/~scholz/GalaxyView/
Here is what's new:
V2.6 (10/09/00):
   . GalaxyView now can do a forecast, i.e. it can execute
     the move available in the Move Editor and then display
     race information, planets information and group
     information for the next turn. A forecast also shows
     possible battles, which can be simulated directly.
   . Ship Designer improved.
   . Move Editor can now load moves in unix format (those
     moves will be converted to dos format and the original
     file will be saved as <filename>.bak).
   . Blind Galaxy: Move Editor now supports partial techs for
     upgrade command.
   . Border agreements can now be based on planets and
     co-ordinates.
   . To sort a table ascending or decending, the left mouse
     button is now used, because most programs uses only the
     left mouse button for this purpose. Using the right mouse
     button on a table will do nothing now.
   . To fill in a group ID (or a racenbame) in a command dialog,
     you can now select an entry in a group list (or in the race
     list).
   . If you simulate a battle from the News dialog, battle section,
     you can select, which race belongs to which side (defender or
     aggressor).
   . You can now specify comments to be used in every move you
     create with the Move Editor (see online help for details)
   . The size of dialogs and table columns should be correct now
     on desktops using big fonts.
   . Blind Galaxy: To increase industry by one, you need 0.5 CAP.
     In Standard games and GalaxyNG, you need 1 CAP. The
     'Develop Planets' algorithm always used the 1 CAP for one
     industry rule. This has been fixed.
   . Move Editor no longer creates commands with trailing spaces,
     because there seems to be an NG server having problems with
     this.
   . GalaxyView sometimes had problems with reports, where
     two battles occured at the same planet. This has been
     fixed.
   . GalaxyView should now have no problems with names of races
     and ship types longer than 20 characters.
   . The formula for the p[kill] value in Ship Designer was wrong
     and has been corrected.
   . Bug in planet ownership algorithm fixed.

Regards,

Roland Scholz