Gilmoy

Those are just XML typos. Don't worry about them. There is no deep mystery; it's just a typo (or several). Stardock has no "GC3 tree of buildables" tree editor, so they use one big fat Excel file. Humans are poor at manually enforcing tree-wide consistency from raw source code. Hence we go to such lengths to build compilers (including TeX/LaTeX) and application-specific editors (CAD, Visio/PowerPoint/graphics, spreadsheets, home/online tax prep), and le

Hehe ... my college roommate Kevin objected to the AD&D class system on the same grounds. He said, " If I want to play a non-human fighter/cleric/magic-user/thief (which I shall hereafter call the "ziggy") with no weapon, armor, or level limits, then I darn well shall do so". His ziggies can cast mage spells and backstab while wearing plate and wielding two swords. He even went so far as to grant to any player who had the gall to run a ziggy all

[quote who="Taslios" reply="42" id="3520390"]... I would really like SOME element of surprise, or connectedness ... Right now the four areas do not link, and force a separation that is NOT found in real science.[/quote] By deliberate choice. Non-branching tech trees is the Tao of Stardock . I'm fine with that; I don't expect one game company to cater to everybody's whims (even mine). As some posters repeatedly point out, Stardock is just one game

SI invited Jimmy Buffett to write a feature article. He said, "What do I know about sports???" ... but then, he realized, hey I spend half my life in shorts and sandals on boats hunting big fish. I'll write about ... that time I missed a strike, and a pair of five-foot tarpon swam lazily past my boat in six feet of water. And it was fascinating -- made you want to go hire a guide and wrestle a mako for four hours. Meanwhile, two small fighters flew past m

Known since Beta 2 (and maybe earlier). Work-around: Manually delete the project, then re-add it, and it will "forget" its Rushed buggy state. It's a game mechanism that evidently hasn't gotten any dev time, as they prioritize bigger fish.

So right now, it gives you +0.05 logistics per fleet? :) That's enough for, like, a dashcam GoPro ...

In lieu of responding directly, I'll give my typical meta-response, in which I see this problem-instance as one exemplar within a (much) larger space of game ideas. 4X is (surprise!) not the only genre that exhibits this symptom. Hence, my arch-solution to the problem category will also somewhat transcend a 4X's scope. [quote quoting="post"]- Star bases require more micro management ... - [Constructor spam] is time consuming, and tedious, and really not all t

I support the OP's terminology! Wormholes as first-class values! Then I can write a lambda function that returns a wormhole, remote-run it on your PC, and your entire call stack falls into the wormhole! ... but some programmers argue that this has already happened in the past. From the outside, it's a Big Crash. From the inside, it looks like a Big Bang ...

Could edit the original post to say "RELEASED ON 01/30" :)

3) flexible 4) working as designed :) I agree that Micro Sucks, but I disagree on the fix. You want to dumb away the micro by removing the decisions. I want a full script language to write my own automation. Neither of us are going to get what we want ;)

Somebody check the (new Beta 4) mass value of the Survey Module. I suspect it's huge, and no longer fits at all in a medium hull. Hence the autodesigner tries to put a survey module in, fails, and then it fills up the empty capacity with Navigational Sensors instead. Can anybody verify? (Just select your ship, click Details, list all of the components, and manually add up their masses, cross-checking with your own Designer or XML files as needed to get the raw nu

[quote who="a0152570" reply="6" id="3518761"]The ... cannon fodder t[r]ick works well, however they really lack movement pts slowing your fleet down and taking a long to send in replacements.[/quote] That was a classic Russia tactic in Avalon Hill's Third Reich: Prefer to k ill the minor neutral infantry. Minor neutrals are the conquerable nations of East Europe, and whomever conquers them gets to rebuild their units as his own. Even wi

[quote who="Casorian Emperor" reply="23" id="3518760"]The fighters in Battlestar Galactica never took out a huge cyclon ship, did they? Capital ships fought it out with nuke missiles and some type of heavy beam weapons. I also seem to recall some AA guns shooting up the fighters as they got close.[/quote] Depends on the series :) The original BG (let's call it "BG1" - late 70s, immediately after Star Wars in 1977 -- gosh I'm old ) established the canon that a sin

Actually, your ship should utterly crush those two ships just by cocking one eyebrow at them, because their stats are way negative. They'll actually repair you as they hit you [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e] ... oh, are you the Drengin? whoops -- I mean, congrats, you found a bug!!

Note that Beta 4 greatly increased all ship "module" components' masses. They went from mass 5 (ridiculously light) to mass 40-50 each. You can't even build an early double-ctor any more because the 2nd ctor module doesn't fit. So maybe a "survey module" also got huge(r) in mass, and no longer fits the old survey ship designs. Maybe that causes the ship-generator function to just omit the survey module.

[quote who="jhanglyn" reply="2" id="3518448"]... even at turn 160 my initial surveyor will have a scanner range dwarfed by all other surveyors i have in my fleet despite having hit the most anomalies and hitting that bonus many more times.[/quote] Click on your initial survey ship's Details, and look at its components. It probably has the default sensors with range 1 each. By the time you have tech high enough to build new surveyors, your sensor modules could be rang

[quote quoting="post"]I usually will not pick the Benevolent Research bonus boosts until I start a NEW tech in fear that Ill lose those 150 or 500 points.[/quote] The placeholder UI for Ideology rp grants actually works fine; it's just clunky and utterly non-informative. Summary: You don't(*) lose any rps. (c.f. baseball has an arcane rule governing a baserunner who homers but tears an ACL while rounding a base. To simplify, just remember: "it is

[quote quoting="post"] The research Screen. Trying to find a prerequisite tech for what I wanted to research long term was impossible "Specialization" Techs. If we are allowed to research all of them what is the point of making them sub techs? Just make them top level techs [/quote] 1. When staring at the tech newsbot, click "Tech Tree" in the extreme lower left. It shows you the tech tree like a (draggable) w

So noted. Good test! The most likely cause is that the numbers simply aren't balanced yet. Remember that planetary invasions, AI valuing its own ships way too cheaply, and (apparently) 0.70 influence are similarly out-of-tune. (Also, Combat Viewer II will add more detail, which likely would have changed carrier math regardless.) In modern Earth tech, carriers do absolutely rule a radius slightly less than their planes' round-trip ranges (although we don

I could envision some races (more generally: biomes) that would naturally skip the wheel. The wheel makes sense wherever you have a need for speed, and flat solid terrain. Right away, we can violate each word of those requirements: Geological life, e.g. smart rocks that think via diffusion of minerals through silicates, or something. Smart trees, e.g. Orson Scott Card's piggies in Xenocide. No movement, no need for a wheel. They could still

[quote who="Larsenex" reply="1" id="3517843"] ... vcredist\2012 Run the 'vcredist_x64.exe' ... [/quote] Aha! My "gaming" laptop is also my (planned) dev laptop, so I do have the compleat, entire Visual Studio 2013 installed. Which surely is a superset of the 2012 Redistributable. Geeks of the galaxy, untie!

Gosh, I envy your specs I started an Immense, played 18 turns (in 1 hour), zero problems. I can zoom all the way out and drag the map arbitrarily, with only momentary pauses. Alienware M17X R2, 8 GB, ATI Mobility Radeon 5760x1 or 2 (the Crossfire may have failed), with DisplayPort output to a Dell UltraSharp at 1200p, and HDMI output to a Sony soundbar. Windows 8.1, 240 GB SSD.

The Release version will come with a manual booklet/PDF. For Beta, it is not yet written, and so we just learn as we go. Some things are not intended to take you hours of trial and error, but they can. Don't be afraid to ask. Beta games should churn quickly (which means you play many different ones). Don't invest too much effort trying to play the "perfect" game in your first 5 (or 50) games. Just use them as throwaway trial-and-error experiments,

Carry-1 My Wayward Sum ... me, I just micro-manage it by pixel click-hell :p

Um ... send another constructor and choose Repair Starbase? :D