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by ogre
Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:55 pm
Forum: Play-Testing Feedback
Topic: fleet bug in [svn 5771]
Replies: 2
Views: 546

fleet bug in [svn 5771]

both of these fleets are over two different systems, haven't reloaded the game yet this is turn 4 31 system irregular? galaxy I believe not sure how reproducible this is or will be or even if it's present in the current SVN but... http://i49.tinypic.com/34i3387.png http://i47.tinypic.com/28iq0xv.png
by ogre
Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:42 pm
Forum: Other Game Design
Topic: Species Research
Replies: 10
Views: 945

Species Research

something I neglected to include in the repost of my timed-out thread and it's just a different angle on the species themselves... bonuses themselves could all be moved into research bonuses egassem getting 400% industry research gysache 200% growth research trith 200% stealth research ---> etc it w...
by ogre
Wed Mar 13, 2013 6:31 pm
Forum: Play-Testing Feedback
Topic: ground troops
Replies: 17
Views: 2289

Re: ground troops

i discovered organic hulls for myself yesterday prior to seeing this thread today for the low cost of 8+12 rp they're impossible to beat vs the mark v's the immediate gain is incredible I seem to recall seeing a thread about ship rebalancing earlier this month if anyone is interested keep your eyes ...
by ogre
Tue Mar 12, 2013 5:02 am
Forum: Play-Testing Feedback
Topic: ground troops
Replies: 17
Views: 2289

Re: ground troops

oh, with troop ships the way they are currently... races with the %troop modifier are nothing more than a mere annoyance considering the low cost and standard effect of said ships. this would be a good reason for either the cost or damage modifier to be present here. but the egassem military industr...
by ogre
Sat Mar 09, 2013 4:07 pm
Forum: Other Game Design
Topic: ai modification
Replies: 6
Views: 1382

Re: ai modification

ogre wrote:spinlocks, mutexes, semaphores and privatesections...
privatesections should've read CriticalSection
the ECC was firing off in my brain when i posted that but eh :)
by ogre
Sat Mar 09, 2013 2:25 am
Forum: Other Game Design
Topic: ai modification
Replies: 6
Views: 1382

Re: ai modification

**edit** ok well since I couldn't get markpi to rename this thread, and got no responses on the main topic of alliances, I'm moving my post to it's own thread , to see if we can get more discussion. --> "The requested topic does not exist." 1. there is an ai ( + player ) ranking in aoe it...
by ogre
Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:50 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: NICE profile icon
Replies: 6
Views: 9342

Re: NICE profile icon

my girlfriend just told me "you just go on and on and on..." but i refuse to curb my enthusiasm, great game guys... much promise. an interesting way to re-examine the racial bonuses could be to... and don't lop my head of please it's just a different spin or color on your highly charged ph...
by ogre
Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:35 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: NICE profile icon
Replies: 6
Views: 9342

Re: NICE profile icon

CERTAINLY having a couple game changing extreme technologies in the 10000-25000rp range would allow the low research species to pick them up from ancient ruins all things being equal [on the tree ofc] it's a 1/100[?] chance for the entire galactic policy to realign in lieu of a terrifying discovery....
by ogre
Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:29 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: NICE profile icon
Replies: 6
Views: 9342

Re: NICE profile icon

SPEAKING of clan omnimechs, that madcat has 2 20round LRMs on his shoulders... in the FO world, we possess energy weapons only where are our missles? we have biological weapons future subversion through projected desolation via the bioterrorism projection base... nova bombs i was wondering the other...
by ogre
Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:10 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: NICE profile icon
Replies: 6
Views: 9342

Re: AI Alliances

he has a clan omnimech, saw it with my own eyes... if i was an artificial intelligence i would ally with him out of ph34r.
how is that for topic? :)
he's still a space squid. [for now]
by ogre
Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:46 pm
Forum: Play-Testing Feedback
Topic: ground troops
Replies: 17
Views: 2289

Re: ground troops

you got a great package of games back then. Unlike MoO1, FreeOrion doesn't have any concept of "stacks" you're telling me; it's IMPOSSIBLE for find on ebay. best 20 bucks i ever spent... unfortunately THAT statement hints at a lack of perception of the true value of time. another tech tre...
by ogre
Fri Mar 08, 2013 8:20 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: NICE profile icon
Replies: 6
Views: 9342

NICE profile icon

Nighthawk wrote:I'd love to get diplomacy working now! You need to start making a bank of things the AI can say to you, too.
NICE profile icon space squid.
FASA FOR LIFE.
by ogre
Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:48 pm
Forum: Play-Testing Feedback
Topic: ground troops
Replies: 17
Views: 2289

Re: ground troops

how many shots does a single ship get? 2 per weapon? and does damage carry over from ship to ship in a stack or no? The meaning of these questions is unclear. just newb stuff, sorry for pestering so much but back in like 2001 i bought the "microprose games pack" from babages because it ha...
by ogre
Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:08 am
Forum: Play-Testing Feedback
Topic: ground troops
Replies: 17
Views: 2289

Re: ground troops

i just thought it was funny the % didnt carry over, it startled me at first. im okay with not suffering the 50% from the gysache :) unfortunately for anyone near an egassem 400% industry and 400% troops might enable super duper troop spam <---- afterall, how many shots does a single ship get? 2 per ...
by ogre
Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:54 pm
Forum: Programming
Topic: Patch: Remove unused code.
Replies: 12
Views: 1194

Re: Patch: Remove unused code.

i'm not a dev, and i'm not looking at the functions you're removing/streamlining... but the way i understand it this is a beta/alpha game removing uncalled/unreferenced functions from the source code may remove ideas that were left there for a reason. sure it may increase compile times and decrease ...