Prerelease/Expans 2.001ZD (Hive Golem, New Save Format, Train Population Nerf)
It's a chilly morning--one to bring you news about the latest versions of the Zenith Remnant Expansion! What's important in this version? A new, efficient save game system works to reduce the size and connect/sync speeds! It's important to read the following information below in regards to it before you update your game, as this still is in a testing phase. A Hive Golem that automatically spawns "minions" has been added, and tons more fixes and balances have been made to various units (notably Beam Frigates), such as 4X HP of Advanced Factories, 2X HP to Bombers. Check it all out on the topic page, because it's again, too lengthy to post here.
Topic: http://arcengames.com/forums/index.php/topic,2676.0.html
Download: http://www.arcengames.com/share/AIWar2001ZD.zip
Important: This new version introduces a brand new savegame format that is way more efficient, and which should do even better for people first syncing into large multiplayer games over slower broadband connections. This has been pretty well tested, and seems to be bug-free. However, with something of this size, just bear in mind that it takes beta trials before it is likely to be 100% bug-free. This is the first beta version with the new savegame format, so make sure and don't overwrite your existing savegames just in case -- and I would suggest testing your new savegames before you go too far with them, just to make sure everything is okay with them (nothing worse than having to redo hours of playtime, right? So better safe than sorry). Please report any errors you find, and I'll correct them asap for the next version (not that that will save any lost data from this version, so again, keep backups). Hopefully this warning is completely unneeded and everything will be fine, but with a change like this it deserves some caveats. This is your fair warning!
New: To enable steamworks integration with the beta versions, simply run the game with the command line argument "steam" (no quotes). If you put the argument in correctly, you'll then see your Steam interface pop up correctly.