General Discussion • Re: Up-to-date Test Snap
weekly updateCode: v0.5.0/stable: v0.5-rc3-38-g59084dbca 2024-03-20 (431) 215MB - latest/stable: v0.5-rc3-38-g59084dbca 2024-03-20 (431) 215MB - latest/beta: 2024-07-12.0739705f6 2024-07-17 (446)...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Ship Hulls understood at last
Been piecing bits together as I played but I recently found a super pedia entry listing all the lines. I imagined there were more actually! Also amazed that Organics don't go on forever as it seemed....
View ArticleProgramming • Std::filesystem? Unicode woes
Is there some objection about using std::filesystem (c++17) rather than boost:: filesystem? At least in some critical placesThe way FreeOrion wants to deal with Unicode file paths access issues on...
View ArticleProgramming • Re: Std::filesystem? Unicode woes
Looks like nowadays it should be possible to convince Windows that the particular application is doing its thing in UTF-8 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windo ... -code-page rather than setting the...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Thoughts on stargates
It seems to me they are best used only to emergency shift a large fleet from one front to another, not for bringing up ships one by one as they are built to the front. The fact that it disrupts the...
View ArticleScripting & Balancing • Re: Are carriers too cheap?
My two coppers:Yes, but only a tiny bit. I base this on the efficiency rating (Combat Value/PP) shown. So far any carrier design I've come up with beats any gun design by a few points. e.g. 10.78 for...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Thoughts on stargates
I believe the way they work (through focus) stems from technical limitations of game engine, similar thing is how shuttling planets around works through a focus, and a building or ship part needs to...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: guides subforum?
I made a new forum: viewforum.php?f=32Statistics: Posted by Geoff the Medio — Tue Jul 23, 2024 6:12 pm
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Bioterror Bragging Rights
3. move the genome bank well up the tree so that the victims need to desperately throw all their research into getting it once they find they are being hitThat part I like.Once the concept of...
View ArticleGuides / Tutorials / How To / Tips • test
testStatistics: Posted by Geoff the Medio — Wed Jul 24, 2024 5:19 am
View ArticleGuides / Tutorials / How To / Tips • Re: test
can read and post in threadStatistics: Posted by Ophiuchus — Wed Jul 24, 2024 5:41 am
View ArticleGuides / Tutorials / How To / Tips • Chapter 2 - a new thread
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View ArticleOther Game Design • Re:
Now for technology based on crystalline ship:Harmonic Resonatorwhenever the equipped ship's hull takes damage, the resonator channels energy into the ship's shielding systems.Oh, I like it !Spore...
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Other Game Design • Re: Obscure Technology Ideas
You ARE aware that you're replying to an 17 year old post, right?Babies born around the time those ideas have been posted are almost adults now... Statistics: Posted by Vezzra — Fri Jul 26, 2024 12:15...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: I am unable to use my actual email to register on this forum
Alright, I looked into this and apparently all email addresses ending in *.me are banned/disallowed (and so are the TLDs *.biz, *.cc and *.info for that matter).@Geoff, is there any reason for this?...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Re: Re:
Spore WeaponA weapon used exclusively by organic ships/races. It can fire a multitude of spores with various functions:- Acidic/corrosive spore: A incredibly damaging spore that eats through hulls, it...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Enemy Stealth upgrades sitreps
Are nice. But there is no warning when they adopt cont. scan pol. Ouch. :- )Statistics: Posted by Atreides — Sat Jul 27, 2024 3:22 am
View ArticleSupport • Planets bombed graph?
So it is blank in a game where I've not only used bombs to kill enemy pop. but have actually entirely depopulated 3 planets that way!Does it mean something else? Or is it a bug I found?Statistics:...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Ubuntu PPA
Uploaded version 2024-07-23.1c23eeb to ppa:o01eg/freeorion.Statistics: Posted by o01eg — Sun Jul 28, 2024 11:39 am
View ArticleScripting & Balancing • Re: git blame did not collect any matching author...
is this a problem of the tooling or something wrong with what i did in PR-4979?At a quick glance, you define RULE_APPLY_ALL_EFFECTS_AFTER_PRODUCTION twice.I guess the second one should be...
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