FreeOrion

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The Silent One wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 09, 2020 7:20 pm

I think most of the currently active developers, including me, reside in Germany.

That's interesting, I hadn't realized it was so concentrated. How did that come about? Did some of you know the others and bring them into the project?

As you're supposed to edit your config.xml, I think the OP is asking where that file is to be found.

It will vary a bit. On my Win 10 machine, it's C:\Users\[MYUSERID]\AppData\Roaming\FreeOrion. [MYUSERID] is my specific one, yours will be different. If you're on Mac, someone else will need to help.

The outpost has to be on supply with the species you want to use to colonize (other than exobots). Plus the target species has to have a planet with population of sufficient size and happiness. If you have an example where you can't figure out the reason, post it and people can let you know the prob...

This is a duplicate of another thread

viewtopic.php?f=25&t=11662

Similar answer in that one. Probably should be merged or this one deleted.

Bombardment is, in my opinion, a tool that probably shouldn't be employed often, especially by new players. Very seldom would I suggest it against native species. Yes, you reduce the population and eventually defense forces, but I generally think you're better off trying to capture natives with full...

Back in the day, colonizing solely with ships was a major endeavor. When you found a likely planet, you had to see which planets that could build a colony ship AND had compatible population was reasonably near. Often there wasn't, and you'd need to either wait, or send a colony ship on a long journe...

I guess I'm just amazed that the AIs could come up with a totally new ship design. It seems like something a human player come up with.

It does look like repairs are going on. I had to go back and stop research into repair techs because that was confusing things.

I will check and report back.

I'm playing the latest stable release. I had system with two planets with orbital drydocks. One of the planets had the population cleared for repopulation. After that, no repairs would take place at the system, with the message: "On Path III: the Orbital Drydock is abandoned, there is no one left to...

One thing I'd like to have is an option for it to display "No New Reports" rather than the one from the previous turn.

If there is one and I missed it, sorry.

This is sort of a general problem with PHPBB. If you continue to have problems, create your message in a text editor and paste it in. Also, with many browsers you can just go back and find your editing window still populated.

As a more general point, when you build warships has a lot to do with the type of universe you set up. The greater the spacing, the less likely you will be to need warcraft early except for monsters or defended native planets. That should help guide your research path.

Hmm... OK, why is invasion handled differently from colony or outpost placement then? It's always been that way. It's important when there native planets at a system with defending monsters. For example, with a Maintenance Ship, you can send in troop ships alone if you want to take the planet becau...