FreeOrion

AFAIR, you can access the files in Snap, and I guess you can edit them. Look for how to locate files installed with Snap, then look for the freeorion ones. Problems with Snap that I remember: automatic update (and so automatic rewriting of config files), and the Snap itself as a whole, I dread it, b...

Bad ideas are bad ideas, and I think it's better to just ignore them rather than argue with the creator, at least when the creator is not Geoff.

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I agree. Also, once a ship is within the planet's atmosphere, it doesn't matter if it is hiding under the oceans or under some trees, it's already hidden.

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Atreides wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:14 pm I'll hand edit the file if needs be, I really dread redoing all the custom stuff since I don't remember what it all was.

Try that, yes. Open both files and copy over/edit the parts that you have in the older and are missing/different in the new one.

I'll keep playing (not doing much) until you're done with this game.

Why is a fleet of 2X dmg and 2X HP four times better than a fleet of X dmg and X HP? roughly because it does double the damage per bout and lasts about twice as long bouts (and hits-before-killed is much better than structure). I meant that it's not true, as shown by the examples. if we do think th...

their maintainer, who isn't to blame. You sure? The malicious changes were submitted by JiaT75, one of the two main xz Utils developers with years of contributions to the project. “Given the activity over several weeks, the committer is either directly involved or there was some quite severe compro...

There are no thresholds in my suggestion at all. So flexible ones, stemming from whatever formula you use to discard ships from combat or scale down their HP or damage based on the number of ships or the total sum of their statistics or whatever. And if going for full linear, deathstacks would stil...

I'm not convinced upkeep would even fix the core problem. High upkeep means using a smaller death stack, but its no less "stacky". I suppose what Oberlus proposed, some exponential growth in cost the more ships are stacks, acts more like it? Yes, the fluff would be something about it bein...

Basically, I agree with most of Oberlus' post there - which shows how serious the situation is ! xDDDD (the part I don't agree with is this one : several max-size stacks, and I don't see that as fixing anything. That would mean having less viable tactics. Actually it's what would bring a more tacti...

I think what you are referring to are consequences of how stealth works, not so much about deathstacks. Yes and no. I put in the list "conquer your capital", and that only happened with stealth ships. But all the rest in the list I've seen it done without any stealth, just corvettes in ea...

This whole thread gives me the chills. Introducing non-linear effects to make the combat look like linear will make things more confusing. We already needed a combat simulator to get an idea of probable combat outcomes and this would not make it easier. Also, this would be another annoying patch to ...

Mass drivers do damage because of the speed they have. Plasma, laser and death rays do not cause more damage for going faster, or just can't go faster regardless of the speed of the firing ship because of relativistic stuff, so they can benefit from better accuracy but not from greater damage. All t...