FreeOrion

I'd like to repeat my suggestion that, when zooming the main map, the stars and starlanes and fleet icons and such not scale with the zoom. This would make zooming much more useful for picking between closely placed fleets or systems, and would elininate and problems with scaling issues on animated ...

...it's legal (though somewhat unlikely) for an application to have 2 applications and 3 theories as prereqs. To make this work in a fully generalized way, all dependency lines will run left-to-right, meaning that all dependent techs will be to the right of their prereq(s), not underneath them, as ...

As was done with the other categories, here's my initial list of main trunk theories for Growth. The biggest potential issue now, I think, is the sparsity of farming techs. I wasn't sure what else could be done with farming beside doing it as industrial farming, doing it in space, and eliminating th...

New version... Now in "big enough to read easily" format!

New version... http://home.cogeco.ca/~toppingwebspace4/FO/FO%20Production%20Theory%20Trunk2.PNG Something about Organic Building growth might be added later, or could be applications under Transforming Structures. The latter might need a slight renaming actually... it's a combination of mechanical a...

New version...

pd wrote:i'll come back to all this in the new year, since i'm not at home until january.

That'll be a bit late...

Tyreth wrote:There's some good stuff in this thread, and I think it has gone on for long enough. You all have [until the 30th December] to wrap it up, then send the latest iteration of the UI to Miu.

I unzipped everything into \FreeOrion\default\data\sound , leaving the planet files in \planet , and am getting UI sounds, but not correctly. I get one sound, then most other UI sounds will just be that sound repeated... For a while I was hearing fleet_button_click.wav for almost everything (button ...

even [early game stuff] take a lot of space. imagine techs which need 35RPs/20 turns or something. you could display this in breadmans system by using a second symbol, which counts 10 boxes for example. but this way it won't be easy any longer to see quick what's going on. I mentioned those points ...

Or maybe come up with a system of symbols/colors for chunks that are worth more, like have a chunk that denotes 5 RP, one for 25 RP, 100 RP, etc. like coin values? I considered that, but if you're going to have a system of symbols that represent amounts, why not just use "25" or "100...

It's ugly If you say so... I imagine a more attractive style of box / icon could be found, though. takes up too much space Again, does this matter? What else are we using this space for? Do we really need to show 20 enqueued techs, rather than more easily interpreted information about the techs tha...

i thought of replacing the hard corners(right angels) with smoothed, curved 'corners'... will help to get away from the boxy look a bit, while still keeping the same structure. That sounds reasonable... would like to see a mockup though... can i assume that the tree will look similar to your last m...

i know, it's just a minor thing, but if you use a similar connector like i did in my prior mockups, instead of arrows along the lines the ambiguity is also gone - with minor effort. As I said in that post, that image very crude... So crude that making up little AND connection arrow icons was more e...

"Fee % = Galaxy Ownership %" would be reasonably "smooth", in that there wouldn't be any unpredicable huge spikes or dips or overly rapid changes. It is somewhat believable to have (part of) bureaucracy costs scale roughly linearly with empire size, but I have trouble accepting t...

A simple solution to this would be to have empires pay a a percentage of their income (in resources or money) equal to the percentage of the Galaxy they control as an expense for Empire Beauracracy. [...] This mechanism has the advantages of being transparent, easy to understand, and providing a si...