FreeOrion

The idea of having different types of science points is somewhat interesting, but I don't really see why it would be better than a more traditional all-generic points research system. Regarding the specific suggestions to use a) randomly generated points, and b) as few as 2-30 points / tech, IMO thi...

If I had to make the list tomorrow, I'd say Growth, Production, Learning, Construction, and Commerce (not sure about combining them - I think long-term I could see the economic picks put in the Statecraft category and just steer the fluff towards interstellar trade). What is in the Construction cat...

B: most people want limited capacities to shipyards, which implies a local queue. I still don't understand why limiting shipyard capacity is a problem in your mind... If every building has a pre-set location while it's building, then it would seem that by your logic every planet would have it's own...

And, actually, is there any reasons the game couldn't add or remove starlanes in normal play... perhaps with effects or something similar? No, there's no reason why we couldn't do that. In fact, one day... but not today, ok? Let's leave this until v0.4 or later. The effects code is already taking w...

...a Tec that will take 500 turns to complete is never very smart. Based on what Aq was saying, techs will have a fixed per-turn cost to progress in their research, and a fixed number of turns during which you must make progress to research them. It would not be possible to spend 500 turns on any t...

if I have 4 shipyards and they each have a capacity of 10 "points", can I build a ship that costs 40 points? Because if so, this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Is each shipyard building 1/4th of a ship? I think the idea is that shipyards would not have a capacity. Your empire wo...

I vaguely recall this being discussed, but I don't recall the answer... Is there any reason that the "debug mode" couldn't have the ability to add or remove starlanes / wormholes? And, actually, is there any reasons the game couldn't add or remove starlanes in normal play... perhaps with e...

Sound ok? Some parts of it sounds functionally almost the same as what I was suggesting earlier in the low-quality four-panel mockup, but which was decried as "too many clicks" and redundant with the already available drop down combobox. :? The vb-palette idea is good, as is replacing the...

It didn't occur to me that accessing numeric properties of targets would let effects like target.currentpopulation = target.currentpopulation * 0.5 be done, which is unfortunate as doing so compeltely destroys order-independence of the results for multiple different effects. I guess there's no good ...

Going to a planet and chosing what to build with the construction combo is about the same number of clicks as in my mockup, and I really don't see how it would be possible to reduce the number of clicks from three or four (which is how many would be involved in the first mockup) if starting from a ...

Geoff, what i can get from your last mockup (4pics) is not what i would imagine. That's way to much clicking. Remember, you will always be able to go a planet and choose what to build on that planet by selection it at the construction combo (the way you do it right now), even with a global build qu...

...a building that adds a bonus doesn't add as much to the game compared to a building that allows you to do something you weren't able to do before. Such as: Starports, stargartes, Scanners, Defences, Shipyards, Minefields, etc. This is a really good point... and reminds me of an observation regar...

how do applications behave? Do they have to be buildt/have location? or fire just once so that bonus starts to affect its targets? My understanding is that a given tech, even an application, could have more than one "unlock" effect associated with it. So the "Soy Milk Homoginization&...

You should be able to say the Effect will do something like: Target.CurrentPopulation = Target.CurrentPopulation * 0.5 to kill off half the population on a planet. Here, Target is a proxy for each item in the scope of the Effect. We decided to omit that sort of thing from the v0.3 design because it...

hrm, drag drop. Maybe we can use the actual galaxy map/sidebar. Drag the project on to the intended planet. Since we need to both select a system (which is relevant for distances to areas of effect and the like) as well as an individual planet on which to build a building, perhaps we should think i...