FreeOrion

I usually prefer to have at least one other planet of decent quality within 6 jumps from my homeworld. The one thing I have been running across A LOT lately is a huge empty zone of empty jump points. The worst start I had was a string of 7 empty systems. Took awhile before I could even explore beyon...

Overlord. Was on PC and one of the Nintendo systems.

Well, the game as released was horrible but from a developers standpoint.. after reading over everything released by te developer, playing the early alpha, and playing the game users the community patches/mods I prefer it over many other 4X games I have played. With the exception of Stars! THAT is s...

If you want more on diplomacy then read up on what was "planned" for Master of Orion 3. While buggy as hell and nearly unplayable out of the box it *DID* have a lot of untried ideas that might have made it one of the top 4X games. Don't know how much info is still out there but good luck.

Are those images just drawn up or from a FO fork? Would love to take that one for a spin

I am back and playing again (glad to see the memory leak fixed from 0.4.2/3?). I must say I don't remember there being so many monsters in the previous release I played. I normally play low monsters and medium natives/specials and it seems every system that contains either has a monster sometimes up...

I changed up the code to the following and so far (turn 5 in a new test game) everything is working correctly. EffectsGroup scope = And [ PopulationCenter Source Population high = RootCandidate.TargetPopulation - 1.2 ] activation = Planet effects = SetPopulation value = Value + .2 Turn 3 This Turn -...

Ok, so I watched one world between turns. The population jumped by 13 points! As found from the pop mouseover. This Turn 26.7 Predicted Next Turn 27.3 Change .61 Target 28.0 I ran the calculations you showed me and got .61 w/o my changes. With my changes (if I followed your second calculation correc...

The reported .20 increase was what the meter was showing as the change between the current and next turn growth rate. I will get some better numbers when I started playing again in a few. Have to get the kids off the bus shortly.

Goofed the first time by using EffectsGroup scope = And [ ProductionCenter OwnedBy empire = Source.Owner Population high = RootCandidate.TargetPopulation + 1.2 ] effects = SetPopulation value = Value + .2 instead of EffectsGroup scope = And [ ProductionCenter OwnedBy empire = Source.Owner Population...

perhaps add a check in the bombing effect for a pop growth trait and add an effect to cancel out the trait value? Is it even possible in the current scripting code?

So suggestions on how to work RootCandidate?

So I think I found the correct names for growth. Does this look about right on how to handle a high birthrate? EffectsGroup scope = And [ ProductionCenter OwnedBy empire = Source.Owner Population high = RootCandidate.TargetPopulation + 1.2 ] effects = SetPopulation value = Value + .2 Note: This shou...

Yes, that was what I was thinking. At a full value (1, 2, etc) as used by Force-Energy Structures it would be very unbalanced. My thoughts were at much much smaller values such as .1 to a maximum of .5 depending on the species. To keep the trait useful but fairly balanced I would think .1 - .3 might...

Much like the construction tech this could influence the growth rate of a colony and add an extra dimension to certain (current or future) species. For just research and industry is it possible to add this to a species to test it out? I looked over the tech entries but didn't really understand how i...