FreeOrion

One thing I was thinking of adding was a way to specify the seed during galaxy creation. That way you can recreate a specific galaxy if you remember the seed used, or make a new one to mine for statistical data.

so is there any word on why AI HWs have such idiotically high stealth values?

IMO Asteroids and gas giants should be common. So which data tables are actually used right now? EDIT: AFAIK, the universe generation uses a deterministic algorithm that doesn't actually have random factors. It uses a sort of random number generation, but the universe configuration options are what ...

I looked to see what settings were most likely to spawn planets in "nostar" systems.... young with lots of planets. the result was around 4 gas giants in the entire galaxy. I also monkeyed with the settings for spawing "planetoids" at black holes. IIRC Planetoids are tiny planets, so I set thier ent...

Oh, well I have 3 now, and I'll double check but I think I have the tech already.

I think the current stealth works ok. The stealth special could use a better description though. Anyways... any idea why the AI planets have such ridiculous stealth meters? Oh, another thing I noticed is that in some cases star colors are more important when choosing planets than the sizes or types ...

I'd prefer to make asteroids into something different than yet another planet type. Something that really feels different, such as: 1) colonizing asteroid fields gives a production bonus to all planets in system 2) Option to build hidden bases in asteroid fields Currently, Asteroid Belts are the on...

Any idea why some planets have a base value of 0? I could understand that for Hostile planets but these aren't hostile. I've noted a few more odd things in this version. all my Planets seem to get a stealth bonus of +100 for EACH cultural archives I control. AI planets(not magnate civilizations) get...

And yet I still see planets with a value of 60+.. but those are only planets with Cultural Archives, I think... Another oddity is that some planetary specials that previously did not affect population now have max pop penalties that are pretty harsh. Let's see.... Apidiske: pop 67(Abaddonni), source...

In 4857? I finally got it installed.

anyways, wow is it different.... But something confuses me. I keep settling planets only to have them show me a max population of 5 or less. Why is that?

One idea I was pondering today was to merge the empire storage quantities for food and minerals into "credits". But as-is, mining exists only to give you materials that are consumed by production. That's kinda boring. Managing your supply of minerals to keep from running out is surprisingly hard whe...

I think what he was getting at was a special that would make gas Giants or Asteroids a "hostile" planet instead of "uninhabitable".

Can Asteroids have Natural tunnels? It fits thematically.

Well, I saw something rather astonishing yesterday while playing a second game. A big group of ships armed with Mk1 Mass Drivers managed to take down a Great Kraken!!!! Yeah, so the 10/50 stats for Great Krakens MUST be correct. In this new game I've had MUCH lower ship losses. Why? I stopped sendin...

well, does the code support having a component modify ship speed?

Do the newer versions have refinements for armor techs? I noticed the version I'm playing has refinements for weapons, but not armor or shields. Death Rays cstart at 60 and go to 100, but armor caps at 25(Neutronium) and shields cap at 3...