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no offense. im a coder, not a copy-writer. but i enjoy a little writing--and i dont like sloppy wording either. and a lot of those glitches or repetitions i know are the result of tweaking the copy, without giving it as full a read afterwards as i would like. im hesitant to take another pass at it t...

I've corrected a couple errors in buildings.xml. Also gone thru the strings and made the tone and tense of buildings and techs more consistent with the style geoff started. also spell-corrected the whole thing. these are available here: http://neocrat.com/freeorion/ should i be checking stuff in? id...

gameplay-wise, i think its a bad idea. but its just so wacky and lovable, i know players would love it. the trick would be to put in the game somewhere it doesnt unbalance things. as youve described it, youd be stupid not to build this. so theres not much strategic choice. what if it was based on a ...

ya, i was thwarted on my initial attempts and then got a copy of a recent build from tyreth and have been using that for testing the XML, intending to return to the compiling problems later. so in this build, i can see the apps in the tech tree and queue up the buildings, but nothing after that. i p...

(I'm not trying to make a big deal of this, lest you get that impression...) not at all. i really hadnt put much thought into the style yet. but youre right. neutral is best to start and then later, something to add context and life, be it just a graphic or a bit of text, can be added. The general ...

The descriptions are pretty good stylistically. In a few cases the technobabble was a bit questionable... but then again, I wrote the Gravitonics description, so I probably shouldn't complain too much... though I want to. That said, we could probably do without interjections like "A fantastic ...

based on the discussion with Geoff, ive re-thought the apps/buildings i was working on and tried to scale them up a bit. i know have 20 apps-building pairs of a more wonderific nature, scattered fairly evenly through-out the tech tree. also there are 10 basic direct-effect apps with no buildings. 2 ...

thanks. im quite familiar with the reqs doc and the plans for infrastructure. i was actually talking just about building slots which is still a TBD as of 0.3 Actually, this has been determined. Slots are out. However, buildings will almost certainly be getting build restrictions later, such as rest...

ya, i'd actually been discussing this topic quite a bit over here http://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1137 im not sure what the general consensus was when the buildings were discussed, but i had been under the impression there would be a variety of buildings with any of: empire-wide effec...

any game is badly designed if it becomes apparent that any one strat is in 'I WIN' button. there should be many viable strategies, including teching up only modestly but pursuing an aggressive stance while your opps are too focused on tech and not enough on defense in the early-mid game. personally,...

thanks. im quite familiar with the reqs doc and the plans for infrastructure. i was actually talking just about building slots which is still a TBD as of 0.3

I might be wrong, but my impression was that it'd be more common to have a planet on which nothing in the build queue is ever built, than it would be to have a planet with more than two "buildings"... so most buildings would be empire or galaxy wonders or semi-wonders. i see. i was thinki...

hmm. well what youre describing are what i think of as the 'empire wonders' and 'galactic wonders' in the reqs doc. but i imagined that these would comprise the minority of the total buildings. not as small a minority as civ since we have fewer buildings overall, but i guess something like 20%-50% r...

i know this is an old discussion but id really like to weigh in as a newcomer. as buildings are currently being worked on, i agree with the sentiment expressed towards the end of the thread that an understanding of how limits are placed is required to know what sort of buildings we design. first of ...