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New test build (build 2021-01-10.b86e635) available for Mac OSX 10.9 and later on sourceforge.

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New test build (build 2021-01-05.2df5f0b) available for Mac OSX 10.9 and later on sourceforge.

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New test build (build 2020-12-29.82513f5) available for Mac OSX 10.9 and later on sourceforge.

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Tomorrow (28th) is the last Monday of this month (and in this case, also of the year ;)), so it's time again for our online voice chat meeting. Usual time and "place": Monday December 28th 2020, 7pm UCT or 8pm Vienna/Berlin time Jitsi room: https://meet.jit.si/ThoroughNovembersConvertPossibly Agenda...

New test build (build 2020-12-22.6c5dac1) available for Windows on sourceforge.

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once fake PP upkeep (increasing PP cost of new ships based on current number of ships in the empire) is replaced by influence upkeep (IP per turn and ship). That would absolutely have to come first, before we can introduce such a mothball mechanic. With the current system, such a mechanic would eff...

The current code for selection of empire species allows for up to two instances of each species even when there are less empires than playable species. Removing that "* 2" I pointed out above would stop that but would not disallow for repeated species when there are more empires than playable speci...

The FO builds of current master are broken (app crashes immediately on launch). Until this can be fixed, there will be no new test builds for macOS.

New test build (build 2020-12-14.97721c8) available for Windows on sourceforge.

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The underlying issue here is that we allow for games with more players (AI or human) than we have species. And we allow more native planets on a map than we have native species. Consequently we have to allow for the same species to get selected by more than one player/spawn multiple times on the map...

A change I'd like to see in defense focus is defense/troop/shield meters growth. Currently they all grow at same rate regardless of focus, I'd make defense focus to double meter's growth rate (which couples well with doubling target meters). It'd still require planning ahead, but it would remove th...

Very interesting. Ships can yield PP, RP and IP. Can ships have population? (i.e. are they PopulationCenter?) As Ophiuchus said, the basics for that are already in the code. AFAIK the idea that ships can be PopulationCenters has been around for a very long time, I think already right from the begin...