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by Zeno
Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:48 am
Forum: Other Game Design
Topic: Starlanes, why?
Replies: 67
Views: 13158

[quote="Aquitaine"]I highly reccommend that you read the design document before passing judgement on anything. I hate to say 'I don't have time for you,' but put yourself in my place: if I stopped and re-argued every single thing we've argued already every time a new person showed up and q...
by Zeno
Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:21 am
Forum: Other Game Design
Topic: Thoughts on Diplomacy
Replies: 15
Views: 5446

:wink: How about adding "secure channel" communications? These would be uncrackable, except for races having much better tech or spies than you. Especially useful if a friendly race wants you to attack another race as a diversion for their own attack on that race, or vice versa. Also, anot...
by Zeno
Sat Apr 10, 2004 7:11 am
Forum: Other Game Design
Topic: Moons
Replies: 32
Views: 7024

MOO3 didn't use the moons to their full capacity. You did get a population bonus, but I believe that was all. Now I don't know if some kind of region setup is used in FO as in MOO3, but moons should have given more regions to build things in, in which case Roy would have handled building anything o...
by Zeno
Fri Apr 09, 2004 3:18 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: FreeOrion has gone commercial - Update: April Fools
Replies: 36
Views: 13466

FreeOrion also now has full Python support and the backport to C64s is doing nicely. However, as FreeOrion will be published by Microsoft, both Python and C64 will be taken out again and development will be solely for X-Box. :?: Will FreeOrion be a game one can download (for a price) and also play ...
by Zeno
Fri Mar 05, 2004 9:59 am
Forum: Other Game Design
Topic: Wish List
Replies: 2
Views: 1010

Wish List

:idea: On each planetary screen, have a slider with which one is able to adjust what percentage of the total grants to planets that planet receives. That way, one can send more AU's to strategically important planets, and not have them dumped all on a few less important planets, as Moo3 often does. ...