FreeOrion

That'll sound like a dumb question but stay with me. When playing FreeOrion, the first thing I notice is that there aren't many buildings to build compared to other games in the 4X genre. Even when compared to MOO2. There's a ton of technologies unlocking bonuses. Take all the food/growth technologi...

Hi Vezzra,

Yes, 0.4.5 works fine on my system.

I'm willing to try a few test builds and see how it goes. I'll let you know in which one the issue appeared.

Update:

(build 2015-09-08.0868ed4) Works fine.
(build 2015-09-14.5507da9) Has the glitch.

also on Windows 7 and having the same issue. Same for me. Haven't played for ages, so I installed the latest stable. I can't see the mouse pointer. When starting a game, the pointer is invisible, and most icons in the top menus are flickering. I have Windows 7, and an Intel HD3000. Hope this helps.

Sounds good!

I usually play in English, but I'll switch to French and see what I can suggest or improve, if anything!

Thanks for the heads up!

Sound like some pretty sweet doomsday weapons!

I'm wondering if there's currently in FreeOrion, a star system that is similar to the Orion star system in MOO? A single planet system with a big bonus, guarded by an ancient guardian.

It might be something that makes the gameplay richer, without making things much more complicated.

Last time I started a new game, I noticed the following. I have trouble selecting the species I want because it's hard to analyse all their special abilities side by side. Each species has it's abilities in an overlay. I could be more intuitive. I want to suggest the following, so that the idea can ...

Haven't visited or played much of FreeOrion in the last year, and didn't try 0.4.5 before yesterday. You guys did some pretty good work. I played quite a few other 4X games in the mean time, so I'll try to contribute a bit more by suggesting stuff I think would be nice additions to the game's alread...

Hi,

I can't seem to be able to modify pages in the Wiki.

Do you need to create me an account manually to allow me to edit pages? Or would you prefer that I submit screenshots here ?

Thanks.

I think some sort of star base hull would be great to create an orbiting defense force in a system that can attack intruders (which means it has external slots for weapons), but can't move.

Regarding the lag, after how many turns do you start to experience it more seriously? I recently switched from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 14.04, the computer is the same. Boom. Up to now, the lag is a 100% gone. I'm not sure why, but I didn't get any lag yet during very long games (300-500+ turns) on the s...

Thank you for your good advice. I was able to win my first game tonight with the Chato on a young galaxy of 48 systems. I was a bit worried at the beginning because I was able to see an enemy fleet building up a few systems from my empire. But I was able to upgrade the defense attributes of my borde...

I suppose it could be split into an offensive category and a space travel category. I believe it could work that way. It's true that the ship category is huge.

I believe that infrastructure shouldn't matter much more than affecting the speed at which a planet's meters can change, adjust. More infra = faster meter adjustment. It would affect how quick the population grows, how quick prod/research meters increase/decrease between turns when needed. Same with...

I've been playing FreeOrion for quite a while without actually experiencing victory once. Not even once. I'm used to how things work game-play wise, but I can't get to stop the AI from invading my empire with gigantic and unstoppable fleets when things get more serious. I always get my ass kicked by...