Checking in, current version most play?

[Kilkakon]

Been a while. Thinking of polishing up some of my old content Hope everyone's held up alright, shame to see AC2 having trouble.

What's the current patch of the game most people play? I think I was alternating between a scient and a Yitzi patch, but both would be several years old now. Wondering what's currently in use.

 

[Induktio]

It seems this question gets asked very often on different forums. Scient's Patch is recommended when you want to play only the vanilla game, since it could be classified as bugfixes only and there are several very important changes. Anyway the most recently updated patch is probably Thinker Mod (thread) since version 4.3 was released a couple of weeks ago. It is more oriented towards AI improvement and general gameplay modifications, so take a look at Details.md to get a complete overview of the changes provided.

 

[Kilkakon]

Thanks for the response. I'm planning to update my old Lost Eden mod, from the looks of it the Thinker project adds a variety of features so I would need to use it exclusively if I understand correctly. Certainly some AI fixes are badly needed though, like the AI forever builds naval transports in my mod to the point I had to make them have clean reactors.

Your random map generation looks much better. Is everything listed under "Improved combat mechanics" on by default, like the Creche and healing changes? It's unfortunate that multiplayer has issues, as the work here does look really good.

It's a bit of a long shot but just asking to be safe--do you know if the colours that are used for minerals/food boxes when they get too small to use the interface.pcx images are exposed anywhere? They don't seem to use the text.pcx colours for instance.