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I propose that part of the population (between 80-90%) doesn't survive the conquest for balance purposes. That's harsh, and only something I'd be fine with as a stop-gap solution. While that might help to alleviate the snowball effect of early native planet conquest, the effects on later game warfa...

Bestary wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:18 pm

Of corse, no problem. Daria Sharonova.

Thanks. I've added your real name to the credits: 34d31bcb

It does not alleviate the situation where you build them to defend your older systems (instead of just recently conquered/colonised). And that is the most comon situation. That is only possible because basic shipyards are way too cheap currently, and can be spammed everywhere. Which is an issue tha...

Although the generic priorities perhaps can't handle that quite as clearly as the explicit "post" milestone did, I think they could still accommodate that general handling just fine-- as we approach making a new release branch, at some point prior to actually making the branch we'd announce a hiatu...

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Yep, that definitely sounds reasonable.

I agree, that page most likely needs updating (as do others too, unfortunately quite some of our wiki pages are outdated I guess). As with many other things, this just needs someone willing to take over the task...

Then people would use a small hull or similar instead for the same purpose which costs trivially more. But can't be produced without a shipyard (IIRC), which significantly impedes the ability to just spam them quickly practically everywhere where you might need them. That alone would go a long way ...

Let me confirm some points of my understanding-- - the main motivation for a change is that the new-release-number-mass-milestone-reassignment is both a headache (at least as currently done manually) and obliterates last-update timestamp info which is otherwise very useful for sorting (and like LGM...

Bump? Geoff, Dilvish? Are the changes to milestone handling I proposed ok with you, or do you have any objections, other ideas...?

I feel the urge to toss a potentially bizarre idea into the mix: what about just discarding the base hull entirely? Personally I never liked it anyway, do we really need it? In what way would gameplay really suffer if we don't have that hull? Sure, you'd have to change a couple of strategies, or bet...

New test build (build 2018-09-10.133a744) available for Mac OSX 10.9 and later on sourceforge.

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New test build (build 2018-09-10.133a744) available for Windows on sourceforge.

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Wed Sep 05, 2018 1:01 am

I can try to create those three icons if others have nothing against this. ;3

Sure, go ahead. If what you come up with is better than what we currently have (which, considering what we have now, seems likely), it will most likely be accepted.