FreeOrion

1. They won't be using Roman-style characters, so it's hard to justify a cryptic spelling on the basis of "that's how they spell it" . No, but it could be a transliteration into latin letters; just like it's done for Hebrew, Greek, Syric, Chinese, etc. How many people here refer to France as franca...

Looks okay for me. FO recent CVS, Linux:

Another idea that would also work for Multiplayer, although it would make the time-travel less innovative: It is based on the assumption that time-travel cannot change the past. So, the only useful application of time-travel would be a time-travel scout ship, as follows: You build a time-travel scou...

Build system will change to SCons for Linux too, so I won't update configure.ac

:idea: I finaly found the problem it was related to an old DevIL version installed at my system! Probably somebody should add a version test to the configure script or something like that! I will migrate to SCons soon, so if it now works for you, and there is no pressing reason to fix it, I won't u...

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And then we can release a version on the X-Box 360. (It could happen. Razz )

No, it won't happen. freeOrion is using OpenGL and the XBox is using DirectX.

Furthermore, developing games for the XBox without a license from MS is illegal (that same goes for PS, Nintendo, etc.)

Some day, and that day may never come, I'm gonna call upon you t... - no, wait!

Some day, I play to implement an alternative Effects-Model based on Python scripts, this will do what you want, without the crossplatform issues.

But no guarantees it will make it into the offical tree.

I desperately tried to add articles "donation" and "donate" into the freeorion wiki . I cant. Is that functionality deleted ? If you mean that you can't add a link in the Main Page, that is correct. The mainpage is locked so that vandals cannot spoil it. However, if you want to create a new Article...

Should be fixed now.

CVS will not compile with G++ 3.4 at the moment.
Either wait for the weekend, when I plan to fix this, or use 3.3

Can gettext do that? (AFAIK, no) The gettext-tools allow you to look at the context of the string to be translated, so, in a sense, it can. But as already stated, this is something for 0.9 or at least post 0.3 What I'm concerned about is all the in-game predefined strings... for things like SitReps...

I strongly suggest you not waste your time rewriting the effects and tech system. Though it may not be ideal, what we have now works, we don't *need* another one, mvor has started writing an editor for effects that will help with the (IMO very exaggerated and overstated) difficulty in writing effec...

Just for the record; as soon as I have time, Python support will be in and I will provide an alternative Effects/Tech system based on Python scripts. When these are in, we can compare which system is better suited.

Regarding the player interaction: I've always imagined that players would have 2 ways of communication: 1. Via chat; the most flexible way of diplomacy, you can make special plans or extra conditions for alliances, which would be officially announced using 2. A kind of diplomacy screen like that in ...

I'm having a hard time finding a simple and clear summary of how and what gettext does, but it looks like it just provides a way to replace marked strings in the sourcecode with new translated strings. Well, gettext is like the default l10n system for Linux; for example, if you set your locale to d...