PlaneShift
Fan Area => The Hydlaa Plaza => Topic started by: Garile on April 25, 2007, 12:20:36 am
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http://www.voidofspace.com/
(http://www.voidofspace.com/)
I have a friend who is trying to make a game from scratch al by himself. So far I think he is doing terrific. Would never have thought he has only worked on it for just over two months.
Anyhow he is looking for some people to give him feedback so who better then nitpicky people from Planeshift who know where to look for bugs. *giggles*
Have a look and let him [Kronon] or me know what you think.
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*disables images* Hmm. Unreadable text. On the join page, "these rules" should be distinct from "about". I spent a few moments going "What rules?"
There's no background behind the text after submitting the form to create an account... :/
Right, not supposed to be critiquing the website :P (it's also all done with tables, and the submit button on the contact form is missing a >)
Ahh...There's no manual!
On this page-
http://www.voidofspace.com/omnipedia/tech.php?id=5
"there" really should be "their"
Game looks interesting. It would be nice if there were more detailed pictures for the buildings and surface, though. .. And a manual. I still have no idea what I'm doing.
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*smiles*
I know what you mean about the manual, but seeing he is still heavely updating every week or two he hasn't made one yet ;)
PS: Kronon said he has a friend working on the pictures on the planet so might be updated soon (no TM)
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This is actually quite an addictive game, although slow to play. I've been checking back every day to set stuff building. I wish I knew how well I was doing.
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The wallpaper he used is something I could probably get off of google. He needs to fix it in place so only the boxes of text scroll and not the background with it. The background also has the website he got it off of written on it, it's in red so it's hard to catch, but it's writing nonetheless.
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http://www.voidofspace.com/ranking.php?gameId=4 (http://www.voidofspace.com/ranking.php?gameId=4)
You are third in the rankings so seem to be going well Kiirani ;)
PS: changing the number of the game-id to see the other games is what I useally do, but there is a score menu at the start ;).
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Oh, sweet!
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;D MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA I'm number 7! Number 7! I have won and I just started ;D
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ahh well still several people who only look around a bit and don't even use their first colonizer so making sure you are not on the bottom of the list shouldn't be to hard untill people start building their armies and those inactives get conquered ;)
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It reminds me of Master of Orion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Orion), of course different concepts on a same area(4x space empire-building), but that one was a great game and a true classic.
P.S.: I feast on Wiki Links :P
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Fans of Master of Orion should seriously play Galactic Civilizations (http://www.galciv.com/)
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Fans of Master of Orion should seriously play Galactic Civilizations (http://www.galciv.com/)
Off:
Thomphoenix, I think you did
(http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/8/8e/Spambox.jpg) :P
On:
It isn't a free game like void of space. :(
Guess I will have a try too, soon 1th place in Rank Lists will be mine! >o)
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Looks like a little PS competition here ;)
Game 5;
# Player Score
1 Kronon 421
2 Kiirani 408
3 bartjeje 338
4 Laragorn 289
5 Zan 233
6 Socius 211
7 ThomPhoenix 181
8 Bodacher 175
9 u23x 175
10 John80sk 175
Good luck to you all, You are going to need it (http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i10/LARAGORN/smileys/devious.gif)
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*laughs*
I'm not playing in that game but indeed a lot of planeshift people in that one ;)
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ahh well still several people who only look around a bit and don't even use their first colonizer so making sure you are not on the bottom of the list shouldn't be to hard untill people start building their armies and those inactives get conquered ;)
Ehhh I kinda "trashed my colonizer.. I clicked the - buton and it was gone :P
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Lets see if my many hours (days/weeks/months) of playing MoO2 have any effect on my abilities ;)
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*EL seems interested but blinks cluelessly*
GAHHHH too much thinking... well, I have one planet colonized :P
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Update ;)
1 Kronon 439
2 Laragorn 437
3 Kiirani 423
4 bartjeje 338
5 Raleigh 317
6 Zan 265
7 Socius 232
8 Earl_Listbard 201
9 Idoru 190
10 ThomPhoenix 181
11 Bodacher 175
12 u23x 175
13 John80sk 175
14 L3gion 175
15 altas 175
16 ron reynolds 175
Be afraid, be very afraid.....(http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i10/LARAGORN/smileys/schwarzeneger.gif) I will show no mercy !!
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Be afraid, be very afraid..... I will show no mercy !!
/me trembles.... of laughters
:P
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Heyyyy I made the list! And I only own two planets...
but soon... three.... :D
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*smiles*
Well a new game has opened up. Laragorn is the dirst one there. Anyone want to give him some competition in the new game? ;)
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How long do these games actually stay open?
I was just getting comfortable with the last one ;)
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*smiles*
Laragorn is the dirst one there.
den does de decond derson dere?
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I had a little problem in game 5 ;) I guess my accountant wasnt to bright :P I have some money issues, but I'm not out :)
So, I thought I would start another game with a better financial plan. Idoru has joined me, anyone else wanna give it a go ?
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sure thing laragorn.
*EL sets a course for the new game.*
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There is a certain amount of players who can join a game depending on the size of the galaxy I believe. When enough players have joined or there are no longer any free systems the game closes for new players and a new game is opened.
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My internet died just as I was about to go and update my game :| just came back today.
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1 Kronon 483
2 Kiirani 471
3 Zan 400
4 Idoru 338
5 bartjeje 338
6 Laragorn 334
7 Earl_Listbard 258
8 Socius 248
9 Raleigh 231
10 ThomPhoenix 181
11 Bodacher 175
12 u23x 175
13 John80sk 175
14 L3gion 175
15 altas 175
16 ron reynolds 175
Score for game 5 updated... and it doesn't seem you lost much distance ;) though I just got my solar engines working... HOSHAW!
game six, coming a little slow, but then again just started... know a wee bit more here, I think you will soon know thy galatic emperor.
1 Laragorn 361
2 Earl_Listbard 307
3 Raleigh 209
4 Idoru 208
5 wolfgang 206
6 normus61 175
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Line engines and sencers online :D I think its time for a nuclear visit to a friends place (http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i10/LARAGORN/smileys/devious.gif)
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Line engines and sencers online :D I think its time for a nuclear visit to a friends place (http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i10/LARAGORN/smileys/devious.gif)
You sound like a "Momentum-style" one, not the "Builder" type(I usually stick with "Hybrid" play on my Civ and AC games).
You may beat one or two, but nothing can beat the army-building power of a well-developed infrastructure :P
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Line engines and sencers online :D I think its time for a nuclear visit to a friends place (http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i10/LARAGORN/smileys/devious.gif)
Uh oh. I'm still working on my economy :/
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Not to wory ;) I have to go away for a few days, so all are safe :D well from me at least :P
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hm. It would be nice if technology research were saved, so you didn't have to re-wait for it to go when you switched for a while. It would make more sense, too, because I mean, switching to something else doesn't lose the research you've already done.
That way if there's 25 minutes left on something, and I want to go to bed, i can put it on something else overnight, then switch to the 25 minute one in the morning.
Queueing technologies would be nice also.
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Glad to hear that people like my game:).
Suggestions are alway welcome.
The game should be more like a mix of pax imperia 2 and ascendency but ofcourse still different.
I must say that I like the ideas that have been posted here on research, so I've put it on my todo list:).
PS. The first part of the manual is out. It is still a bit :beta: but atleast every one will know what they are doing;). You can find it on the main site.
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PS. The first part of the manual is out. It is still a bit :beta: but atleast every one will know what they are doing;). You can find it on the main site.
;D Now i can do something except from dismissing my colonizer :D I always have the tend to push buttons which I shouldn't push xD
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*smiles*
dismissing your colonizer? hmm thats indeed about the worst start you can get ;)
ahh well just build a new one as soon as you can and it shouldn't be to big a disadvantage.
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*smiles*
dismissing your colonizer? hmm thats indeed about the worst start you can get ;)
ahh well just build a new one as soon as you can and it shouldn't be to big a disadvantage.
Hehe. I ignored mine until I had the technology to build a new one, because I couldn't work out how to fly the thing XP
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From old Civ
What would you go for here:
Infinite Colony Sprawl(Smallpox) or "Largepox"?
# Smallpox (spox)- Freeciv term for Infinite City Sprawl, see ICS in general glossary, although 'smallpox' usually refers to building lots of cities with no city improvements very close together, while 'ICS' usually refers to any tactic that relies mainly on building more cities rather than improving existing cities.
# Bigpox (Largepox, lpox) - Freeciv term for strategies involving improving a few cities and building in depth rather than expanding. Bigpox games are games where the rules are changed to favour such strategies.
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^^ I'm back, though My new colonizer is a orbital structure ??? Already made another one "ASATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" :lol:
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I am wondering how to speed up Tech research ??? Once you have 4 or five planets, wouldnt research time be reduced as long as you had 3 or 4 research centres on each ?
I like your idea Kiirani, it makes perfect sence.
A question to my fellow space heads :P Does anyone have something other than a ceramic hull yet ?
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well sceince is determined from how many science points you get from the science building, but ofcourse as you advance the technologies will require more sciencepoints to be completed ;)
You'll have to ask Kronon for the specifics ;)
Crystal will get you the new hulltype Laragorn ;)
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Thanks Garile :)
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Ranking of game: 4
# Player Score
1 Pestilence 3581
2 Kronon 1677
3 Kiirani 1616
4 Mike 475
5 Alfdaur 395
6 Skythorn 207
7 olgo 203
8 Devors 186
9 peterpans 175
10 muffin_man 175
11 huluhao 175
12 raistlin 175
13 xyz990 175
14 Ralas 175
15 ALYO 175
16 howay 166
Go Kiirani :D
PS: game 7 has opened up so for everyone wanting to have a peek it's a new game so new chances for everyone there ;)
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Hmm. Did I just jump from fourth place on game 5 to first?
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iI do believe you did :thumbup:
Edited to add: Let me guess a new colonized planet ?
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iI do believe you did :thumbup:
Edited to add: Let me guess a new colonized planet ?
Possibly, I'm not really keeping track.
Are sensors supposed to be able to view the surface of other people's planets?
And wouldn't it be neat if we could colonise suns XD
Ugh, I always end up tempted to put myself in the red financially >_>
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hmmm I know what you mean
But better be carefull or you're fleet will get sold to pay for the debts ;D
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Why is it that the build time is so long when you have items in cue?
example; lets say you are building a research centre and select a mall to be built in the next building sector. The build time shows something like 3 days and 21 hours, but if you cancel and select the exact same sector and building type, the time goes down to a more reasonable 3:41:00
Anyone know ???
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The systems doesn't like you?
More seriously, I think you pointed directions to a bug:(.
"Fly school" has been added to the manual. So if you want to know how to move your ships, you can read it there:).
Combat will be next, you will only read that it's automated:P.
Kronon.
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wow, my first game, and im up to 4th \\o// can anyone tell me how you can get the option to build an invader though?
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*whimper* I'm not earning enough money.. Must earn more money...
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okay, so im a bit confused about the technology part. Once you have trained the technology, does that mean you have it always, and if so, where can i see or check that? If not, then I have just finished training my first technology, and it has disappeared from the technology tab, and says none selected now.
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Check the "Omnipedia (http://www.voidofspace.com/omnipedia/)" of it to know what new features each tech adds to your empire. Once it's researched, you have all its benefits.
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ahh okay, thank you for that info :)
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Hmm. Problem with a tech that provides new buildings coming up is I don't want to waste my money on more of the current ones, as they'll just be replaced. I also don't like leaving my planets idle.
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personally, i think this is a great game, but i think that technology research needs to be sped up some, 8hrs to research one of the earlier techs tends to make the game a tad bit boring, other than that, im liking it
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how cool, im in 2nd, lol, dont know how i did that...
Ranking of game: 7
# Player Score
1 Laragorn 490
2 wither 447
3 Raleigh 394
4 Kiirani 350
5 Kaylain Marshall 327
6 Kronon 317
7 wolfgang 270
8 Choren 226
9 101man 187
10 Socius 181
11 Farren Kutter 181
12 Jonimus Prime 175
13 Katana 175
14 Iridena 175
15 jmduarte 175
16 goliatuy 175
17 Icefalcon 175
18 coldsteel 175
19 Cado 174
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Drifting Offtopic: I have to be glad I didn't have a anti-ad banner-blocker for the first time in my life! A banner in Void of Space has shown me a MMO game I would definitively put above anything else on the genre :)
While browsing some banners, I stumbled into this (http://ng.neocron.com/)...(Definitively not mainstream, but up to my tastes)
A (PG 18+) Cyberpunk MMOFPRPG, with real combat instead of *yawns* "kill mob a 1000000x, click on tougher mob b to attack it with your now levelled character" of crappy MMO(RP?)Gs, where you can conquer territory like in a huge "Battlefield 1942" game(And that from some reviews, is some kind of "Deus Ex MMORPG" (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/neocron2beyonddomeofyork/player_review.html?id=285903&om_act=convert&om_clk=gsreaderreviews&tag=readerreviews;continue;5))... if I only had the money and bandwith for lagless netplay...
For your luck(or lack of luck), I don't, otherwise I would probably say: goodbye Planeshift!
P.S.: Of course I would like some serious reviews of this Neocron first, but after reading this one (http://www.gameogre.com/neocron2review.htm) I got both happy and sad as well as I can't afford it
Some of the stuff that got me really willing to try it:
A detailed political system, that you can choose to be a part in or not, gives way to warring,allied and neutral factions, supply raids, corruption and just about as much complication as you could come up with in a real political system.
The HackNet is a kind of matrix, a three-dimensional virtual cyber-net where hackers fight security programs, viruses or other hackers with different types of software...
- Last time I saw something like this was on an old Genesis RPG named "Shadowrun" and on "System Shock 1"
Perhaps it would need more refinement, but MMOFPRPG is a definitively promissing genre, and have much more appeal to me than MMOTRPG(Massively Multiplay Treadmilling Roleplaying Game)...
I really loved this quote from an user's review :D
"Definitely beats seeing elves (sp) and killing rats!"
Quick turn back to topic:
If you didn't notice already, Void of Space is a great game for the casual gamer, you don't need to spend too many continual hours playing to succeed, 1-2 hours per day, or the occasional minutes on several points of a day are more than enough.
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that game looks good, but ill hold out for the server myself.
As for void of space, i did get that it was casual, its just i have all this spare time with the servers being down, lol, its all a bit sad really.
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Ngh. *Rubs head* How did my score DROP? How is scoring calculated?
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perhaps you got invaded by someone???
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I am wondering the same thing. The scoring system seems to change almost at random sometimes. A new colony should increase the score, and sometimes does, but it ussualy drops ???
A breakdown of the score tally would be nice to see ;)
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The score system is pretty simple. It uses (income, expenses, science income) * factor (i). I know that the scores could be calculated "more precise". But I haven't had time for that, so I came up with this simple system.
Must say that the score gives a pretty good indication, but it may bounce a bit.
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What do you think of the next image. Is it okey for in the solar screen?
(http://www.voidofspace.com/s10.gif)
If not, how can I improve it?
P.S. Clearly I'm not an artist( as you can see) :P.
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Looks good to me :thumbup:
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;D I wouldn't know how a solar screen would look,like :P Though it's a pretty picture
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Hmm. My score in game 7 is way down. I've been given the smallest system possible :/
I did, however, get Automation in game 4! After a few days of researching :/
For scoring system, shouldn't there be different categories ? (Here's where the fact that I'm a huge age of empires fan comes out)
It's just I think what about a military score, an economic score and a technology score. That way getting I guess the "full game experience" achieves a higher score than just colonising a heap of planets and building buildings on them to raise your economic income (which is all we're scored on at the moment)((So far, from my exploration of game 4, this seems to be Pestilence's strategy.. Still looking though)).
Things like size of fleet, number of planets colonised, average level of buildings, yes, economic income, too, KILLS/INVASIONS - LOSSES, Technologies researched, with perhaps a bonus if you've researched all. Systems explored, players discovered..
Edit: Ehhh?! I dropped 200 points!
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I like that idea Kiirani ;) I am not sure how hard it would be to impliment ??? but it would give a much better look at ones progress.
I have seen your home system, and it is kinda small :D but you are doing very well for such small start. I am still trying to figure out why our scores sometimes drop for no aparent reason. Maybe our extra income becomes to low, and we are penalized for it ??? I dunno
It isnt to hard to regain your score this early in the game. You can see that in game 5, I dropped right down after over extending my finances :( but I came back fighting :P so rest assured, you will rise to the top in no time ;)
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Any more thoughts on the image?
I see that some people want to know why there score drops. I don't really know why, but I can show you the score calculation.
science * 9 + income * 4 + outcome * 6
The idea behind this is the more load you can carry the stronger your empire is.
All in all thats true, but when you colonize a planet your costly colonizer is removed from your outcome.
This gives score drops.
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Yup Yup
Colonizers give you a pretty big score bonus i the beginning so if you colonize planets your score drops, but ofcourse it's an investment for when that planet gives you more income ;)
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Ahh. So the more money I'm spending, the HIGHER my score is. And here I was thinking I needed to bring a lot more money in before starting to build ships.
Sigh. I'm at a point in game 4 where I really need to leave everything alone for a few days to make more money. (Heaven forbid I drop below 14k.. k? )
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14K ? I have a hard time getting over 7, I just spend a little too fast i guess ;)
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14K ? I have a hard time getting over 7, I just spend a little too fast i guess ;)
I had those couple of days where I couldn't play. Anyway, it's in the earlier game. I think I have about 8 in game 5.
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Too bad money can't be used to rush building like in some Civilization games...
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I agree with the money issue. I'm trying to find an sollution for it. Funny thing is, at the beginning there whas an opposit money problem.
*Off topic* My computer works again! \\o//It was broken for almost a year now.
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Can citizens grow on colonised planets? Like, mine seem to be stuck at 3.01k. Why don't I end up getting more (and more..) as I build more and better buildings? Buildings that don't require citizens to operate wouldn't add to the count. That would be nice.
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Thats a good Question, I just noticed that as well. Only the original planet is at 5k ???
Another thing I noticed is the time it takes to build anything, Once selected everything is rounded up or down (usually up) to be in sync with the other items being built.
Does everything work with the same timer, or is this a glitch?
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I might not play much for a couple of days. Got other stuff going on.
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Actually the game is tick based. The timers are just there because people don't want to calculate the nr of turns back to the time they take.
I've also added new ship images.
Hope you all like them.
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I noticed that, but since this is my first time playing I thought it was normal :P
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Here is a development screenshot of the planet display.
Please tell me what you think about it.
http://www.voidofspace.com/dump/sol-develop.jpg (http://www.voidofspace.com/dump/sol-develop.jpg)
I had a guy who would make images for me. Bus as it is taking a real long time for him to make some. I have created some temporary ones.
P.S. I know that building 27 and 28 are in orbit;).
[Image changed to link to prevent side scrolling. --Neko.]
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I thnk they will be a nice addition for now, they are much better than the symbols that are being used now :thumbup:
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My balance keeps sliding down into the negative even though I have a positive income, bug or player influence?
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Balance = Income - Expenses. So you will get an negative balance when you have more expenses then income.
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UPDATE:
-Lane plotting is now done by star map.
-Fleet grouping of ships will be added this week.
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Okey, I have updated the fleet control:).
Also improved look of images unther internet explorer and removed and update bug that only happend in internet explorer :thumbdown:.
The fleet control will need some extensive testing. So if any one wants to help me, its deeply appreciated:).
Url is posted in the first message:).