FreeOrion

I think I have figured out non-busy pauses in Python, will try and report back

Cool, that sort of thing could do the job, as you say as long as the user can both add and clear these report icons as desired

On the contrary, I know it can be done, I'm not exactly sure whether it could be easily achieved with the SF repository http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9262959/include-svn-revision-number-in-source-code?lq=1 2nd answer refers on to http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-subwcrev....

I'd like to be able to flag a system as interesting, when I explore, so that I can easily come back to it later to colonise etc With the current UI, I find myself repeatedly browsing around the galaxy map, checking to make sure I haven't forgotten to colonise a useful planet. I'm thinking something ...

As ever, I don't know whether this has been tried in the past, apologies if so Might it be possible/sensible to use the subversion $Version: $ or similar keyword, to automatically include the current SVN repository version in the application window title? I know its a pain remembering to update the ...

I've seen mention on the forum, and experienced myself, the pause at the start of each turn later in a game, apparently caused by all the AI processing. Does anyone know whether it might be sensible for me to put some timers into the AI script, to cause them to pause for a few tens or hundreds of ms...

Is the food, mining and production code now settled, such that I can make some bolder changes to the AI?

I'll try this, and post back to let you know how I get on (just in case it is of interest to any others) I'm also getting to grips with how the current AI is put together, and once I get my new machine will give it a tidy up and a good test against the latest SVN code. It might be helpful for me to ...

I guess an alternative to turning off research, would be for me to put together an alternative, simpler tech tree, and use it as a mod

Apologies if this has been done to death before, but I wonder whether it might be worth making certain features of the game optional. For example, the tech tree is complex, and not entirely necessary. If I want to run a fairly quick game against a friend or the AI, I might disable tech, so that turn...

Incidentally, I'm looking at the AI to make it more active / less broken

Are you looking for a patch?

I'll try a clean checkout of the head when my new machine arrives.
All a bit painful just now on a tired Athlon X2, so brushing up on Python, and reading around the forums and wiki

I had this problem a few times on my old, slow Vista machine
Doesn't happen on my faster, newer Win7 laptop
I wonder whether one process times out waiting for another to start, or something?

As in the attached?
Tortoise SVN diff, saved to file