Mahanon

[quote who="CobraA1" reply="3" id="1853948"]My personal experience is that emulators and virtualizers have very poor support for 3D graphics. I think Wine has some support and VMWare has some experimental support. Virtual PC emulates an ancient S3 card that has no 3D acceleration at all. Supporting emulators could be pretty difficult.[/quote] Wine has decent support for 3D graphics, and they have a new release every 2 weeks so it's improving quickly. It's hit or miss whether a g

I think that you should be able to get a unique tech from another civilization, but there are limitations. When you trade or steal the tech, you can't use it immediately. It will appear in your tech tree and you have to research it before you can use it (what you are researching is how to adapt the technology to work with your own technology). Once you research it, you will have a weakened version of whatever the real tech is, because it's impossible to get it to work perfectly with your own

You could store the icons as SVG files, then when the game loads render them onto whatever size bitmap is best for the current resolution.

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet...I couldn't seem to figure out how to use the search function for this forum. The AI for ships using auto-explore has some problems. First of all, a ship on auto-explore will go back and forth across an explored area, exploring a small part on one side, then a small part on the other, and so on. Also, if two or more ships are on auto-explore, they will tend to all go to the same area, and so the galaxy isn't explored twice as quickly for tw