DMF

[quote who="Maiden666" reply="129" id="3682612"] The Arceans will do worse in the colonial rush. Their bonuses weigh more heavy in lategame. In other words, they'll be weaker in the eary/midgame. [/quote] Actually, they did pretty well in this test game. Didn't go far afield but snatched everything close, including an extreme deep in Yor territory (as they did in Korath last game). I'd say they're okay. Btw, I thought these test games were

[quote who="Maiden666" reply="152" id="3684302"] Quoting DMF, reply 148 Psionic Missile (damage 12, index 1.1) is bettered only when you reach Antimatter Torp? Yet it requires only Missile Weapon Theory? Hmm. I see the problem. Psionic Missile requires Photonic Torp II but only Drath has that. I'll change PM to require PT III. Good catch! I've corrected the problem. Quoting DMF, reply 148 Seeker4 and Seeker5 are reversed in GC2Types, meaning

[quote who="Maiden666" reply="150" id="3684300"] It's because fleets break down into sole ships on turning pirate. I've changed their logistical setting to 30, but they need to reform their fleets. [/quote] I was watching another stack of his - all singles. He didn't have a lot of Logistics points (26?) and would form one maybe two fleets from the stack each turn. I guess there were so many in the stack they just never got formed up, which I found surprising beca

New test game with 0.65. One consistent problem (esp. with Korx and Krynn) is that the AI will build a Power Plant on every planet that it can, but no Factory. Krynn, e.g. has about 3 Factories in its entire civilization. (Date is about 2229.06.)

A question. You make a great point in the descriptions that an antimatter annihilation is the most destructive force in the universe. Yet an Antimatter Bomb does a small fraction of damage to the planet that a Cobalt Bomb does. Explain? Yes I know about fallout, but what would fallout matter if there was no 'there' there to contaminate?

Psionic Missile (damage 12, index 1.1) is bettered only when you reach Antimatter Torp? Yet it requires only Missile Weapon Theory? Hmm. I see the problem. Psionic Missile requires Photonic Torp II but only Drath has that. I'll change PM to require PT III. Seeker4 and Seeker5 are reversed in GC2Types, meaning researching Seeker5 gives you a weapon that is less capable that you already have. I'm going to switch them (just swappi

In the 0.65 release, Terran, Korath, Thalan, Iconian, Torian can't build Doom Ray. Is this intentional? Okay, after analysis I see that Subspace Annihilator and Doom Ray have equivalent damage indices (2.2) (damage/volume). And it takes the other aliens longer to get there. Never mind!

I'm not thrilled with the FW rewrite of the Harpoon line. It needed one and I did one for the CU that I like a lot more than this. The main objection I have is that using the propellant exhaust for a defensive screen (I do like the countermeasure idea) must of physical necessity slow the missile down, aggravating the problem. Further, the power requirements for on-board force fields would make it larger, not smaller. I do like the idea of terminal maneuver. I

In the weapons lines, some weapons cannot be researched through Creativity, and some (usually the same ones) cannot be stolen. But I don't see a pattern. For instance, Disruptors I and III can use creativity and be stolen. But Disruptor II can't. Is that intentional, or an oversight?

One of the coolest things about FW is that he's made(?) tons of new icons. There's a few places where they could be improved - I don't like the one he uses for Discovery Sphere - so maybe you could suggest one of yours. There are some very interesting new weapons. Take some time and soak it in. I think you'll like it.

Ummm... why are the Beam and Missile branches missing from FW's techtree.xml? Are they filled in from the base file? Somehow I managed to delete some 1100 lines from techtree. Restored, but crap! that means I have 1100 more lines to do!

Yah. Diplo Vic, 48K. Techno Vic, 41K.

Why do Thalans have Trader techs? The description says "only those that have selected Trader SA". Does that need to change?

I really do react negatively to your new Loyalty tech group. Not so much because it addresses Loyalty directly, but it reads way too much like Nineteen Eighty Four . Perhaps it should be re-drawn for the 3 moralities before we get done with this. Later : Looking at where they're used, it's not such a bad thing. I'll look at it again later.

Yor Maintenance Grid has become a Super Project, yet it still has only planetary effect? BTW, even without spammable Research improvements, in the test game Yor built very few Firewall Racks. One maybe two, of some 30 planets. Otherwise, development seemed reasonable, with only one or two cases of overpopulation.

So how do you propose to eliminate the anonymity of the criminals?

When you have an option of winning a game by different means, is one method preferred for a higher score? E.g. I can ally with the last unallied race for a Diplomatic Victory. Or I can button up and hit the research for a Tech Vic. Or I can go out and kill somebody, which will likely end in a very long Conquest win, or more likely a DiploVic again. Or just build more SBs for a tidal wave of Culture. So is there a score advantage to one type over another?

So how do you propose to eliminate the anonymity of the criminals?

He may or may not be an "IT expert". But is this thread about people, or ideas? Doc, it's easy to point out the drawbacks (I won't say flaws) of the current architecture, But there seems to be a real dearth of proposals on what to do about it. And no, a set of requirements for what we want to accomplish does not constitute a proposal. Without real ideas, the rest is just wishful thinking ... or a jobs program. <

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="29" id="3683282"] To think the Israelis would make someone ignorant of IT a Major General in charge of it, and that a University like Tel Aviv U. would do the same is ridiculous. [/quote] Anyone recall Gen. Groves and a little thing called the Manhattan Project? He knew sod-all about physics, but somehow they muddled through...

Hey, I know Fido! Used to run one of his kennels.

There is one way and one way only to solve the attributability problem, and that is to make every person uniquely identifiable to any computer. Bio-tag, arm tattoo, universal surveillance - take your pick. Mark of the Beast, anyone?

Test game. No race can place a spy on any other race. Never seen anything like this before. Later, got the "Agents Everywhere" mega-event. No agents were placed anywhere. Captured a Korath world (Arceaen are beating the snot out of them). I didn't like the location of the Starport so I decommissioned it, intending to rebuild elsewhere. This had worked on every version I've played. But Starport disappears from t

It's obvious what you want to change. I want to know how you want to change it.

Okay, so what need to change, and what attributes of the net (other than anonymity) would be altered?