Tetrasodium

I could never really get into the civ series because they always felt pale compared to xcom, Alpha centauri & sim city/earth/etc. With that said, I hope that this is the turning point for a new page in the book. Back in the day, those sorts ofgames all had semi-credible/credible competitors in their own generes with their own takes on the general concept just like there used to be mechwarrior, starsiege (no not tribes, mech game tribes killed off), & a few others. &

While there is a lot in the op's post that I either disagree with, might not agree with, feel that he's expecting a google style"beta" or something else, his diplomacy & UP point makes me nod a bit at a few points and wonder about some things • I wonder if more of the upr's should have short/victor targeted cease fire addendums included • up has a definite tendency to be owned by one faction given time. I think that the instant leader chooses upr>e

aww http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8524487/kernels-that-run-fast-on-multicores-but-relatively-slow-on-gpu is a pretty good quick summary on what kinds of things can be offloaded,he said it a little more nuanced than "not taking advantage of" but sorta Writing parallelized multithreaded code is comparatively harder than serialized multithreaded code

starter colony ships always spawn with 2.5mil even when the modules are modified to have

[quote who="thetrees" reply="4" id="3516358"] "Cloud computing is, ironically, going to be the biggest beneficiary of DirectX 12. That sounds unintuitive but the fact is, there’s nothing stopping a DirectX 12 enabled machine from fully running VMs on these video cards. Ask your IT manager which they’d rather do? Pop in a new video card or replace the whole box. Right now, this isn’t doable because cloud services don’t even have video cards in them typi

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="6" id="3516143"] I wanna yell no, but you are suggesting an expansion, or an option. If you have read the previous posts, and listen to what the devas think. You would know that a lot of us think this is a bad idea. There are plenty of games with an RTS element why do you have to turn all TBS games into RTS. I know that is not exactly what you said. Galactic civilizations is to complicated of a game to make it an RTS. In order to do this you would h

Very cool getting a developer's take on dx12's changes & how they effect limitations they run into. Thanks Brad!

I'm more of an ops guy than dev, so c++ isn't my strongest language, but I feel like I understood it decently enough to comment :). One thing that I notice is that it doesn't consider if getting to pClosestPlanet would require sending warships through $ThirdFactionSpace, that or it's part of another function. I make this commentr partly because larger galaxies mean that $A could be at war with $C e

it seems like this is a request for a less flexible & more complicated version of the ideology tree shown during the last devstream

[quote who="peregrine23" reply="1" id="3516111"] [e digicons]:no:[/e] [e digicons]:no:[/e] [e digicons]:no:[/e] [/quote] This! Turn based strategy and RTS games have different needs of both UI & strategy/simulation focuses. It's taken a good 10-15 years for publishers to accept that & start accepting tbs games again after years of chanting "RTSRTSRTSRTSRTS", turning back that clock is a terrible idea akin to trying to rewrite the rule

tHESE ARE THE default labels right now without extreme worlds in: Uninhabitable Planet Habitable Planet Uninhabitable Planet Gas Giant Green world Arid World Oceanic World Ice World A dead world, devoid of life A world barely able to sustain life A fertile Earth-like planet A home filled with lush vegetation A paradise for new life The jewel of the universe

This post got me thinking if perhaps there are actual plamet classes not grounded in copywritten trek(TM). After doing some searvhing, it turned out that... there is not quite... but there are a number of good similar things that have a great saimulation friendly naming scheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_potentially_habitable_exoplanets had a full listing:

Tight now on 0.61, UPResolutions.xml makes use of ResearchTag & the sole use of it in the tech tree (NonMilitary) as far as I can tell. There are a lot of ways that these could be used (events/more resolutions/etc), but with only the single tag it limits the use& gives the appearance of a much more constrictive thing and increase the likelihood that tech tree modders will carry on that way making modding anything that makes use of them more difficult to combine with other mods w

yor assembly and synthetic population caps are wildly different from the organic nonsunthetic population mechanics. Those differences arre one of the most interesting things they offer .m making them more like organic reproduction would be silly

[quote who="Franco fx" reply="2" id="3515290"] Okay, I get what you are saying. It is not dependent on a rally point if a ZOC exists. Still, if for any reason it seemed a good idea to do so, you could establish a way out rally point where you have no ZOC. The only thing that would work when it got there is a constructor (which would establish a ZOC). I suppose the question is, why would anyone want to do that? [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] I&#3

what kind of industrial output did you have? Below a certain amount, and none will be assembled. where are you -seeing) +0?, be never noticed it but had no problem ssembling more yor

different ship types have different wireframe models on the zoomed out menu I believe. I'm not sure if it does anything else given the contents of StrategicIconDefs.xml

[quote who="markmid" reply="22" id="3515230"] Quoting Tetrasodium, reply 20 My roommate has 16 & has said that he was disappointed the only time it gets used is when he loads up a few monster vms in the background with a big chunk of ram but low cpu needs That

[quote who="markmid" reply="19" id="3515212"] I was thinking of going up to 16 gigs myself from 8. Ram goes through phases of being cheap or expensive relative to supply and demand, I was wondering if people think it cheap or expensive at the minute relatively? For slower computers, as I found out in my modding experiments, one thing you can manually do is reduce the resolution of all event pictures, I am not sure if you can do this for icons etc but it might help.

[quote quoting="post"] Played my second game as the Yor, finally won an influence victory after eliminating two races. Observations and comments. Played on a large map with random density of habitable planets - the setup gave ZERO -0- planets outside of home systems as habitable. That's why it went so long. Everyone despised the YOR, yet were always willing to make them UP chair and UP HQ. Always voted for Galactic Peace and then went back to w

[quote who="markmid" reply="4" id="3514937"] BK2 Movie Files work in events So far my tests have allowed me to play game made bk2 files in events! If we can ever encode our own for our custom races etc, you can play movies in your event files. I don't know if regular BIK files will work but that will be worth a test at some stage, or just other bk2 files to see if we can already make our ow

[quote who="thenewteddy" reply="15" id="3515117"] After more playthroughs I am now convinced the problem is in fact related to certain things being on the page file. Is there any way I can tell my computer to use the paging file more sparingly? [/quote] No. not without adding more ram, and even then no not really. Nor would you want to... during times of relative low;/idle i/o, windows will cop

For what its worth.. I've been unable to find the location in xmls that defines how far a starbase reaches (what it dies hells yea, nust not range :(. Star wars are another story & (I think) a work in progress, I've been unable to really make the do much of anything interesting yet , but I think will have effects more akin to the Hyperion planet improvements and/or improved efficiency I vaguely recall that in galcIvII one of the stardock folks adm

I started with these files because they seemed the least likely to undergo significant changes. Shipdefs/imptovements/etc are probably more common mid targets, but almost certain to be getting more changes

[quote who="Moogle65535" reply="2" id="3514710"] I must have missed that line, seems you've tried the triggers, maybe i'll tinker some myself(time permitting), sorry if that was a completely unnecessary post. [/quote] LOl, don't worry. xml file modding is one of those things that a lot of people assume to be super technical because it tends to have a "pretty"/readable format with lots of CamelCase and , discussion about it is almost