Freeorion still needs peroidic reboots

[godel]

Feb 2015, Sept 2015 both had me rebooting.
The symptoms vary, but generally the most common are that the list of things that can be made gets too small to play.
And now this one also.
Turn 134 before it got too uncomfortable to tolerate.

I do know that there are reasons for the list not to display something. So I went back to an outpost that I had left for many turns and checked it. No colonies available.


This is what it looked like before reboot:

OK, how do I take a paint file into here?

[defaultuser]

When you post a message to the thread, scroll down and there will be a section for attaching a file. Once you add it you can specify whether it should be an inline image.

[godel]

OK second try to get those pics here.

[godel]

OK this should do it:

Shows one list for building before reboot.

FreeOrion before may 15 no orbatal.png (934.72 KiB) Viewed 1053 times

[godel]

And this after reboot:
(note the change)

freeorion after may 15 has OI.png (982.46 KiB) Viewed 1053 times

[dbenage-cx]

In the 'before reboot' shots, you have the Buildings filter unselected (top left of the Producible Items window).

[godel]

Thanks, I will watch out for that.

[MatGB]

Yup.

Hint: by turn 114, your homeworld population can be substantially higher, it looks like you've only researched Planetary Ecology, which unlocks Subterranean Habitation and Symbiotic Biology, both cheap techs that increase your numbers (and thus everything else) significantly, and help you open up new environments to populate.

Most players have SubHab as one of their very first techs, I normally get it as my 3rd unlocked.

[defaultuser]

Most players have SubHab as one of their very first techs, I normally get it as my 3rd unlocked.

What do you put ahead of it?

[MatGB]

Normally Planetary Ecology (because, y'know, prerequisite and we deliberately made it better relatively recently) and Algorithmic Elegance, the order between them is determined by starting species and where the numbers are most beneficial. After SubHab it's normally Nascent AI but can sometimes be Mass Driver 1, and then normally a decent hull and active radar.

[defaultuser]

Sure, starting conditions matter. I usually hit Sub Hab, then Adaptive Automation, moving Nascent AI up one position after the prereqs are entered. The games I play aren't too crowded so I don't worry about weapons too early.