In June I announced and did a relative big update which later on caused some instabilities.
A fix I released worked for most of the players but for some unknown reason it didnt work for all.
Personally i assume that this fix didnt work for only a small group of players which by default seem to have problems with the game.
I cant tell for sure but some players constantly appear in the cheat logs with bad installations.
Since all other players never appear in the logs I can only assume that the affected players are either doing something wrong or something causes problems so that patches and fixes can not apply correctly.
So for meanwhile half a year I am in the situation to know that something is wrong, but I have no possiblity to tell what it is since on my PC everything works great and I wasnt able to find one of the affected players being able and willing to allow me to do the required tests on their PCs.
With other I have no possibility to check what is causing the problems for a relative small amount of players, and no possibility to check if the problems with the June update and ongoing "bad installation" bans are in any way related.
The planned re-release of the mod in 2016 was canceled due to these problems and I dont intend to do a re-release until I really know whats going on.
However, its end of the year, winter holidays, etc. and I decided to release a new patch for the mod.
Unlike before I didnt want to deliver more content (systems, bonus missions, etc) but focus more on making the existing game a bit more interesting.
So the patch which I intent do release end of December 2016 / beginning January 2017 will focus around the good old dynamic universe feature that was known from earlier Crossfire versions.
This feature has its main focus on multiplayer.
To be honest I am not sure yet how detailed this feature will be. Maybe I manage to create the settings for the full dynamic universe with all possible events. Maybe I will just release a basic verion of it containing a few events and make regular updates in the following weeks.
Events that might be possible are:
- alien invasions into Sirius and Altair space.
- jumpgate/hole malfunctions
- space weather -> ion storms, increased solar radiation... etc.
- other random effect (dunno right now).