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EARTHDATE: September 25, 2016

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UPDATED WORKBENCH EDITORS COMPLETE WITH NEW LOCATION PROPERTIES

by Hazed

Regular readers will know that we have recently added two new properties for locations, that flag up weapons shops and locations in space where fighting will be allowed.

We’ve now released a new version of the location editor that contains those properties. Plus, Alan has fixed a bug that meant the location editor wasn’t remembering where you saved your files.

There are also new versions of the other editors (message, object and event) and the Tesla planet checker, which have internal code changes that make them more efficient, but that are not visible to the user.

This is the Windows version of the workbench and you can download the complete workbench here: http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/workbench/windows/index.html.

We have made a change to the way we offer you the editors. Previously, we split the workbench into two downloads: the basic workbench which contained the location and message editors together with Tesla, and the advanced workbench which contained the object and event editors. The reason for doing this was because most people just wanted to do the minimum amount of work necessary to get a planet into the game, by designing the maps and maybe customizing their no exit messages; they had no interest in the complexities of events.

But now that you can auto-link your first and second planets, most people never use the workbench at all. Therefore, we’ve done away with the two downloads and instead just offer the complete workbench as one download. After all, now that everyone has broadband, it’s not like it takes forever to pull down the file!

Having got the new version of the workbench out of the way, Alan will now return to the ship fighting code. Next, he will work on the background code needed to allow you to attack another player.

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