FreeOrion

The Python Turn Events provide a non-hacky way to implement "random events" already. The creation of the various moving fields (Ion Storm, Molecular Cloud) are handled there.

How about giving each species type its own tech tree, which would allow for differentiation in the species. In FO, bascially species != empires. As research is handled on the empire level, this makes giving each species their own tech tree impossible. For that, you need to move research to the spec...

Why not follow this principle in the release progression of freeorion? Depends on what you're talking about - stable releases or just providing reasonably current pre-built packages? This allows for all those that don't have access to the source code to participate in development by helping out wit...

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Telos wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:20 am

Can scripts detect which empires are AI-controlled?

AFAIK, no. The player name of AI players could provide that information, but I don't think that's accessible in FOCS either - Geoff, Dilvish?

Oberlus wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:42 am

...once FO gets into beta phase (maybe before mankind runs out of fossil fuels)...

An optimistic estimate...

One of the dichotomies (strategic choices) in FreeOrion, maybe the most important, is Research vs Production. Well, in future there should be more variety than just Research vs Production. Influence should become an equally important resource, and focusing on an influence/diplomacy based strategy a...

Just to throw in one more idea - make leakage depend on time. How about let's say tech gets cheaper every turn some species has it already researched. So e.g. it takes 100 turns until the tech is actually free to research. So make it 1% cheaper every turn. Factoring in time certainly is an idea wor...

The first step to realistic tech dispersion is to do a doctoral thesis on the spread of technology. But since that's way too much work it makes the most sense to use a simple and easy to understand mechanic that works well for the game. Exactly. This does not only apply to a "tech leak" mechanic, b...

The main question is which information we need in FOCS. If there are effects that depend on the information that there are enemies which could block. E.g. if you tried to break a blockade, it would be good to target enemy ships which would be able to block. Sure. I just would keep those conditions ...

Why? Space is huge, really huge. While "primary" combat ships are doing their thing, the others can try to circumnavigate the system (or the part of it where combat is going on) keeping away from combat. If we operate on that assumption and design our combat mechanics accordingly, combat ships shou...

How about full ordering using priority Priority is used to determine the order in which effects get executed. Unless we assign the different turn phases (like combat resolution, production and growth etc.) fixed priority levels where they get executed, we need an extra parameter determining the pha...

New test build (build 2019-01-14.076fc4b) available for Mac OSX 10.9 and later on sourceforge.

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New test build (build 2019-01-14.076fc4b) available for Windows on sourceforge.

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One way to formulate "a small fleet cant blockade a big fleet" in freeorion terms could be: "a ship which gets shot at is blockaded". An interesting approach. Pro: It's actually a very simple, straightforward and intuitive condition (from a design/player POV, not considering implementation of cours...