FreeOrion

Attempting a graphics patch of the above suggestion.

Above changes implemented in this patch.

(Graphics card on home machine died, new computer en route. Merry Christmas to me. Content development likely delayed ~1 week) My current implementation/thinking is this. If someone wants to toss these into the above patch and try that out in the short term and see how it plays/balances, that'd be ...

log2(N), while definitely scoring geek cred, trails off too fast for my taste. I dorked around with some numbers and settled on log 1.2 (N). That actually boosted earlier shield values, so I capped that at N-1, and then further capped that at 25 (to prevent invincibility). Here's what that looks lik...

Sorry about the obnoxiously wide post. Was trying to be too clever. As soon as any robotic species got this part it sounds like it would be pretty easy for them to build indestructible fleets. I realize that indestructible is something that must be avoided in game mechanics. I like the general logri...

Here is the first version of the "Robotic Interface" idea from above, albeit slightly modified. My original intent was to make an intra-ship, design/build time interaction between parts that gave a buff to robotic ships, a synergy with robotic species and flavor to both. (however, I couldn...

I'm also noticing more crashes on dragging ships into fleets than in the past. Once I got a Data Execution Prevention message. Other times FreeOrion.exe just crashed. Larger numbers of ships and larger numbers of fleets being selected to drag seem to increase the chance of crash. Unfortunately, not ...

If any of the artist out there want to give this a go, this is what I'd like to see for these two ship hulls. Quantum - Inspiration: Xerath (LoL) http://static4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130608150011/leagueoflegends/images/thumb/4/4c/Xerath_Champion_Spotlight/600px-Xerath_Champion_Spotlight.jpg A bar...

UI is kind of jerky in responsiveness after turn 150-ish * Dragging the map * Drawing of turn makes screen flash blank * Selecting a system Total turn processing speed is quite good (less than 5 sec), even above turn 300 with 150 systems/6 AIs. Saw a gas giant sized desert planet. HugeHugePlanet.jpg

To help find items in the research view, made more tech icons look like the hull or ship part it researches.

Intent was to reduce access, not buff species. Fixed in v1.1 (attached)

Cleaned up + added defenses/shields to Kobutura.

There is a Mark1.png graphic that looks very nice, but nothing is using it. The "Mark 1" ship design already has a "Basic Medium" hull graphic that is nice. Therefore, I suggest placing the existing content from the hull_designs\Mark1.png into hull_designs\robotic_hull.png. Then,...

Interesting....

Zip of icons attached.

My original intent was to solve the "Gas Giant vs Ocean" differentiation problem. I ended up redoing all of the planet icons, except for asteroids, with miniaturized screenshots of in-game planets.

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