FreeOrion

Thank you both.
If I end up confused (not as low a probability as I'd like) I'll post some questions

Over the course of this thread you've discussed many options both in design and implementation. Your implementation is complete and you've enjoyed feedback and time to refine it. Is there place I can read how fighters and carriers work"?
Thanks

When compared to ships, buildings, lifeforms, and pretty much anything else even tiny planets are large. Plus once you have the ability to build things and support populations in orbit planet size really doesn't mean much. I have only been playing a very few months but, as I understand it, a planet ...

Such "outside" or "far-away" planets can just be utilized much better by a player than the AI. If it's not generating enough own supply to be connected with your homezone, you can still get it to work by using Elevator/Log setting, but the AI won't do this, and end up with a pla...

Sorry to be late to this discussion. I think you might consider that repair time should always be no greater than some fraction of construction time. Say perhaps 50%. It makes no sense to pull a ship from the front lines, repair it, and return it, if I can build and deploy a replacement in the same ...

You and I play very different styles of game. You like to pick specific points in one of many development curves for your argument/example. That's fine, but it doesn't reflect the many different options on production/research/growth/expansion trade offs. You are free to argue for your view of the ga...

I'm curious why did you decide to move away from Fractals to Quantums?

I wonder about the impact of the combat system. It is not just if ships survive the turn to be repaired, but also (I think) when they are destroyed. Ships killed in the first or second round are no longer around to draw fire nor to do damage. If each of your ships fires once and each of my ships fir...

It's not about sea battles vs space battles. It's about the ability of some number of small 1-3 man vessels to destroy a capital ship. But beyond that it's about a complete change in thinking about offense and defense in ship to ship combat. Up until now combat in freeorion has been much much closer...

I'd like to offer you all a more abstract set of observations about this entire notion. Up until now your handling of combat reflects pre-naval aviation thinking in the real world. Big ships with big guns over power small ships with small guns. There's a bit of a hiccup in the analogy because you do...

Thanks for the answers. It could have been 3 turns, which would fit the scenario described. Should the opportunity present itself I'll be more observant of the timing.

Basic questions: The AI got by me and dropped into a system where I had a planet well settled. (Orbital Shipyard +) and colonized a planet there. I was onto of that system within two turns. There were around a dozen "decoy" ship, plus mines. I've been looking for information about decoy sh...

Quick update. In reading through the support forum I found the hint to set effects process threads to 1. This seems to have bypassed the crash problem as I have a game well beyond 200 turns without another crash.
Regards

In addition to playing I've also read most of the topics on the first three pages of this forum. In an early post someone commented that the aggression and monster level selected in quick start was to high. A developer commented that it had been beginner but he found it more convenient that having t...