Other Game Design • Re: Production uses besides military
Anti-micro management mechanics in the game are forcing production focus down a militant path. You can't tunnel your production into growth/research buildings.Good remark, but that's not...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Colonization, Invasion and Annexation mechanics are...
I found that some inconsistencies between colonization, Annexation and Invasion mechanics are confusing and lead to false assumption (which will lead the players to learn about them the hard way)A....
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Other Game Design • Re: Colonization, Invasion and Annexation mechanics are...
A. Troop ships can ignore all hostile ships on the system and land anyway (As long the planet's sheilds are down)This is the most counter-intuitive aspect, I find. It kind of doesn't contradict...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Up-to-date Test Snap
the weekly build by o01eg/CICode: latest/beta 2025-04-08.8f3c62c 482Statistics: Posted by Ophiuchus — Wed Apr 09, 2025 5:22 pm
View ArticleOther Game Design • Design blueprint for universe graphs
Following is documentation for how the way universe graphs should be used. (Or in other words how i intend to refactor the graphs)This came up when fixing exploration and path finding issues in...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Re: Design blueprint for universe graphs
> comment on the purpose of [9432077I don't remember exactly and can't investigate in detail now as I'm travelling, with limited / distracted time. It was probably mainly reorganizing how the data...
View ArticleProgramming • Re: Potential replacement of FOCS with Python
A rare update here. Now the all building types are parsed by the Python parser.Statistics: Posted by o01eg — Mon Apr 14, 2025 6:05 pm
View ArticleFreeOrion Project • Re: Old Releases on Sourceforge
They auto-requested more deletions again, but this time replied to my follow up with some specifics:Would you be open to removing the OldFiles directory from your project? That would free up over 10GB...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: Chess tips /chess youtube / chess everything
The topic of Lezy Rezmon, came up recently. I thought I'd post one of the oldest you tubers still posting content and a personal favourite.If someone is interested in more educational links (not to...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Remove winners and let the rest compete for the next place
Problem: A common scenario in FFA PvP games is that a single empire snowballs to an extreme level where it can out-research everyone to the Singularity of Transcendence or force everyone else to...
View ArticleOff-Topic • How to Get Started?
So, I've been tinkering with game development for a while now, mostly solo projects and small prototypes. Lately, I've been really drawn to the idea of contributing to open source game projects. I've...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: How to Get Started?
There are projects dedicated to that (onboarding for would-be FOSS contributors, I mean, not specifically games AFAIK).OpenHive or something like that ? If you're interested in FreeOrion specifically,...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Re: Remove winners and let the rest compete for the next...
There's a lot of problems that can arise from that (basically, the winner can act as kingmaker, deciding whose fleet he won't crush before leaving; or also it heavily penalizing anywho tries to...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Sentient Plants and Hyperspace.
Hello everyone,I've been grappling with a new worldbuilding concept for a sci-fi novel and I'd love to get your thoughts. The core idea revolves around a sentient plant species that evolved in a...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Recent Windows Builds
New test build (build 2025-05-12.36082da) available for Windows on sourceforge.Download link for full installer.Download link for zip archive with binaries only.Statistics: Posted by o01eg — Tue May...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Up-to-date FreeOrion Mac-SDK and build - Test please!
New test build (build 2025-05-12.36082da) available for macOS 10.15 and later on sourceforge.Download link.Statistics: Posted by o01eg — Tue May 13, 2025 6:40 pm
View ArticleFreeOrion Project • Feature Requests and Bugs pages on SourceForge
I was noted on Reddit that those pages gets impression that project isn't alive with ancient years of issues here. As that type of things was moved to Github and the forum maybe we should just remove...
View ArticleFreeOrion Project • Re: Old Releases on Sourceforge
I suppose it was already cleaned as there a lot of BinariesOnly files without other builds.Statistics: Posted by o01eg — Mon May 19, 2025 5:30 pm
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Multiplayer slow game server
Any idea when FO0030 might start? I recently got into Freeciv Longturn games and am now hoping to get similar enjoyment out of FreeOrion slow games!You will certainly be welcomed!Alas, hard to say,...
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Play-Testing Feedback • Banforo colony
First of all - thanks for (still!!) working on this game.It has been years since I last visited these forums - or, played this game Actually, according to my mail archives, it has been 16 years......
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