FreeOrion

I am at work now so doing it from memory /usr/local/include/boost_1.3.2/boost/graph don't quite remember the underscores and periods in boost_1.3.2, but you get the idea. Will update when I get home. This is strange because GiGi's configure finds it and FO's does not. :doh: do I need to use --with-b...

FO is not finding Boost. Mind you GiGi compiled fine (after 2 hours of arduous labor). I am running Mandrake 10. boost installed with bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" install it's 1.32 checking for the Boost C++ libraries, version 1.32.0 or newer... no checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E ...

* Democratic - Authoritarian * Political Left - Political Right * Open Society - Close Society * Free Market - Central Planning * Standing Army - Drafted Army * Hawk Lobby - Dove Lobby * Interventionism - Isolationism Modern terms are mish-mash of meanings so the real issues are obscured by rhetoric...

I think it would be very helpful if you could design fleets and garrisons/armies before corresponding units are even built. Example: let's say I have a frontier planet Xyz. On the planet screen I choose 'garrison' and then design what I think the composition should be (i.e. 3 marines, 2 armor, 1 com...

FO is not finding Boost. Mind you GiGi compiled fine (after 2 hours of arduous labor). I am running Mandrake 10. boost installed with bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" install it's 1.32 checking for the Boost C++ libraries, version 1.32.0 or newer... no checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E ...

why not use an automated Scanner-Parser generator based on grammar?

I am not all that versed in these technologies, but writing out grammar was a hell of a lot easier than coding scanner and parser from scratch.

I don't think it should be a matter of efficiency. oh? Surely a small tightly-contained entity is much more efficient than a hulking behemoth? Organizational principles can be applied to limit the increasing inefficiency, but the only real defense is partitionining the enterprise, be it an icecream...

I apreciated it, don't feel like you are wasting your keystrokes

I think this basicly boils down to empire production/resources (HOI) vs local (MOO2)

I totally agree on the new colony thing, it was so silly in MOO2 that I could land a ship, and start cranking out 3 food the same turn.

Reduced efficiency and/or higher production/research costs and/or higher upkeep costs.

If empires will expand in a liniar fashion, the inefficiency should increase in a liniar or maybe very slightly exponential fashion.

My expansion in MOO2 was never liniar, btw, but I would like it to be in FO.

I like 4 shield arcs that can be assigned different strengths at design time.

That alone will prompt for some interesting tactics and force-splitting

Heh, this is a very difficult question Is FO supposed to be a an empire-building strategy with space combat thrown in for good measure? If that is the case, then even auto-resolution is fine. In Paradox's games, you have almost no control over combat, yet their games are top notch. Don't get me wron...