Definitely tempting, but unfortunately instead of the workload getting at least a bit less, I'm getting more swamped (at work). I barely have the time to provide the weekly test builds, manage the upcoming 0.4.10 release, keep up with recent development and at least maintain some minimal presence here on the forum.
I might be able to do 2 or 3 turns per week during early game, and maybe 1/week in mid and late game, but I don't think you guys would want to play that slowly... and can't promise even that...
Vezzra wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 7:40 pm
Definitely tempting, but unfortunately instead of the workload getting at least a bit less, I'm getting more swamped (at work). I barely have the time to provide the weekly test builds, manage the upcoming 0.4.10 release, keep up with recent development and at least maintain some minimal presence here on the forum.
I might be able to do 2 or 3 turns per week during early game, and maybe 1/week in mid and late game, but I don't think you guys would want to play that slowly... and can't promise even that...
I'm sorry to hear that. At least it's only workload, not illness.
For you, I would be glad to play a 1 turn per week game. But you have not seen what names we call each other on the XMPP chat room for not playing our turns on time. It gets bloody sometimes
So we need another VERY-SLOW-MULTIPLAYER-SERVER...
Oberlus wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 8:04 pmI must admit I have an excessive double standard when it comes to judge or lose patience with FO devs. I feel in debt.
You should be careful disclosing such information. I might be tempted to take advantage of that...
Oh yes that reminds me, I need some help on setting the rules properly. My current server has RULE_DIPLOMACY_FORBIDDEN_FOR_ALL which we definitely don't want, but I don't know the syntax to enable it. I've asked this before, but is there a wiki page somewhere on all the things you can put into persistent_config.xml? What is the syntax for this new seed-hiding rule?
The other one I worry about is SHOW_DETAILED_EMPIRES_DATA because of the bug where you can't see enemy upgrades until you research the tech. Is this fixed? And does this rule turn the graphs off or is that a different switch?
Also I don't know how the ALLOW_CONCEDE and CONCEDE_COLONIES_THRESHOLD work. What settings do we want?
Ditto THRESHOLD_HUMAN_PLAYER_WIN and ONLY_ALLIANCE_WIN ... anyone?
I've only ever run FFA games without diplomacy so now idea how to set these rules. We want diplomacy, and either single human player win or single alliance win.
Incidentally I've gone for random everything, not medium everything. Except for no monsters. Just sayin'.
Magnate wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:06 pm
Oh yes that reminds me, I need some help on setting the rules properly. My current server has RULE_DIPLOMACY_FORBIDDEN_FOR_ALL which we definitely don't want, but I don't know the syntax to enable it. I've asked this before, but is there a wiki page somewhere on all the things you can put into persistent_config.xml?
Magnate wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:06 pm
What is the syntax for this new seed-hiding rule?
It's an option, not rule: network.server.publish-seed.
Magnate wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:06 pm
The other one I worry about is SHOW_DETAILED_EMPIRES_DATA because of the bug where you can't see enemy upgrades until you research the tech. Is this fixed? And does this rule turn the graphs off or is that a different switch?
I suppose it wasn't fixed so don't disable it. Graphs are managed with option network.server.publish-statistics.
Magnate wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 10:06 pm
Also I don't know how the ALLOW_CONCEDE and CONCEDE_COLONIES_THRESHOLD work. What settings do we want?
ALLOW_CONCEDE is just boolean rule to allow or disallow concede at all. If it's allowed so player need to have less then CONCEDE_COLONIES_THRESHOLD colonies to concede.
THRESHOLD_HUMAN_PLAYER_WIN maximum of alive human players when victory could be declared. ONLY_ALLIANCE_WIN if set requires all those player be ally each with other.
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One more think about sensible enemy information being disclosed within the Pedia:
You can go to [Game - Homeworlds] and check out the number of Homeworlds for every species in game (natives and empires).
Thus, as the game progresses and you see the native planets around you or your allies, and the species of your allies and neighbours, it becomes easier and easier to deduce who has a (e.g.) a Mu Ursh planet, or who hasn't.
By consulting this in the Ninth Game I've been able to deduce that WE ARE DOOMED!
The Federation (the enemy team) must have 2 or 3 Mu Ursh HWs (can't connect to server right now to check the number), and 2 Ugmors HWs, and several other interesting native species, while my team has one Ugmors on sight in the borders with one of the enemy empires.
It is rather discouraging.
Also, unrelated to game options, from my statistics on star types, planet environments and planet sizes depending on galaxy settings, I know that the enemies have a high chance to have around 2 BH stars with planets, because my team has not seen any BH. Seriously, WE ARE DOOMED!
We stalled at about six players- me, Oberlus, Hyperant, swaq and a couple of my friends. That's ok, I could go with that.
Then Oberlus and I got into a debate about chaff and he gave me the idea of changing SHIP_HULL_COST_FACTOR to make chaff much less economic. I'm thinking it should be 5 or 6 to make a real difference, but that would mean we'd need to double or triple research costs or everyone will be running round with death rays in basic hulls. So my proposal is
SHIP_HULL_COST_FACTOR 4
TECH_COST_FACTOR 3
to slow things down a bit but not too much. Note that TECH_COST_FACTOR is 2 by default, so 3 is a 50% slowdown, not 200%!
Anyone have such a problem with that that they'd like to withdraw?
Btw I hear the angst about information leakage, but after turning graphs off I'm not sure what I can do about it until a proper fog of war branch is testable. In the ninth game, Thinksome somehow knows exactly which turn each enemy researched each tech - I have no idea how! But clearly, as Oberlus says above for natives, there is a lot of leakage going on.
Magnate wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:37 pmwe'd need to double or triple research costs or everyone will be running round with death rays in basic hulls.
Nopes. Hulls keep balanced among them, ratio slots/cost. In fact, maybe the more slots the better when you up hull cost.
So don't up research cost for this. Maybe up it because we'll be playing huge galaxy.
Magnate wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:37 pm
Then Oberlus and I got into a debate about chaff and he gave me the idea of changing SHIP_HULL_COST_FACTOR to make chaff much less economic. I'm thinking it should be 5 or 6 to make a real difference, but that would mean we'd need to double or triple research costs or everyone will be running round with death rays in basic hulls. So my proposal is
SHIP_HULL_COST_FACTOR 4
TECH_COST_FACTOR 3
What if we reduced the cost of parts to keep total ship cost similar? For example, if we made parts 0.33 and hull cost 2 that would achieve the 6x ratio difference while keeping the cost of building the ships similar to current so tech cost wouldn't need to be increased.
Magnate wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:39 pm
Btw I hear the angst about information leakage, but after turning graphs off I'm not sure what I can do about it until a proper fog of war branch is testable. In the ninth game, Thinksome somehow knows exactly which turn each enemy researched each tech - I have no idea how! But clearly, as Oberlus says above for natives, there is a lot of leakage going on.
Right click on empire -> Pedia Lookup -> scroll down to Researched Techs
With the current state of the game this information leakage is necessary for enemy weapon damage to appear correctly.
swaq wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:59 pm
With the current state of the game this information leakage is necessary for enemy weapon damage to appear correctly.
Maybe there is a easy way to completely disable those Galaxy pedia pages?
swaq wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:59 pm
With the current state of the game this information leakage is necessary for enemy weapon damage to appear correctly.
Maybe there is a easy way to completely disable those Galaxy pedia pages?
It has nothing with Galaxy pages. It's about Empires' pages.
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swaq wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 10:59 pmWhat if we reduced the cost of parts to keep total ship cost similar? For example, if we made parts 0.33 and hull cost 2 that would achieve the 6x ratio difference while keeping the cost of building the ships similar to current so tech cost wouldn't need to be increased.
Ah now that's a fine idea, thank you. All I need now is Oberlus's cheaper shields pullreq merged and we're good to go!