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What about kicking out IIS and using nginx instead ? (but I'm pretty sure it would prevent you to use .NET stuff, though...)

Would it be possible to provide a calculation or an ETA as to when a unit reaches a city to sell? Ideally I'd like to have a constant steady stream of income versus the current intervals.

Perhaps we could get an indicator on how many turns it will take for a Lvl 1 Freighter to travel from Point A to B. So for example, Moscow to Mars_1. I recall in the Alpha I was constantly checking to see where my supply routes were at when traveling intersystem, and never really knew how long it'd take for the ship to arrive.

Side question, the speed of a group depends on the slowest unit in the group correct?

Was planning to create an excel sheet with everything tonight. Thanks for saving me the time!

Ok so now all of that is clear... I have more questions (hurray!)

Firstly - how do I calculate how long a ship will take to get somewhere? I assume that going to a nearby moon is faster than going to another planet in system which is probably faster than going to a different system - but does anyone have any idea how long such things will take? Just thinking about where best to expand right now.

Secondly - One thing I don't understand about the economy. Why not simply buy the materials needed to build e.g. laser and just sell stacks of lasers? It takes 10 materials to build a laser which I buy at double price so the cost is 20 materials... but then I make 50 lasers so my ROI is 30 units per turn which is far far better than actually extracting ANY of the resources I can see. So... why doesn't everyone just do this? Seems a bit skewed from the economic perspective.

Thanks!


Finally does anyone have an updated version of this chart - I took it from the guide but clearly the costs do not correspond to the costs in game, would also be great to see what the time for upgrading is.

• Level 1 - Output: 1x - Upgrade Cost: 100,000
• Level 2 - Output: 2x - Upgrade Cost: 200,000
• Level 3 - Output: 5x - Upgrade Cost: 300,000
• Level 4 - Output: 11x - Upgrade Cost: 500,000
• Level 5 - Output: 22x - Upgrade Cost: 550,000
• Level 6 - Output: 33x - Upgrade Cost: 600,000
• Level 7 - Output: 46x - Upgrade Cost: 650,000
• Level 8 - Output: 58x - Upgrade Cost: 750,000
• Level 9 - Output: 87x - Upgrade Cost: 1mil
• Level 10 - Output: 120x - Upgrade Cost: n/a

edited by Vulpex on 8/3/2016

No need to apologize it's a great answer

I might try the buy comps and produce end products idea - haven't implemented that it just looked so good it almost felt it couldn't be true

When it comes to movement though - based on what you say when I am viewing the map at the sector level that means each square is actually 25*25 -- 625 units of distance so that travelling from Sol to Gulyaev (3 squares on the vertical axis, 5 squares on the horizontal) would take for a basic ship moving 10 per turn... about 500 turns? (8*625 = 5000) correct? Seems quite the distance

I just fixed this. A bugged out structure got created in the database. I'm not sure what it was or how it got in there but It was on "Blackmesa"'s Corp HQ. I asked if he was hacking =)

Can't figure out where to get cotton.

Also, can I make a suggestion to highlight the required resources in red text when the city doesn't have it available? When you go into a factory interface it would be nice to get better notification when that factory isn't receiving some/all of the required components.

Last question. how many rounds are there in a game? What happens when the game finishes? Thank you.

Well, still, I was thinking something more general. Where you don't have to do this for all your buildings :P

Thinking about creating a couple of videos guiding people through the tutorial and some core concepts of the game (when i figure things out myself).
Maybe even do a playthrough for a couple of weeks.

Ideas? Permissions? It's just an idea atm.

I see. Will take my time and explore further then. Thanks for the reponse.

Here are some suggestions I have for game development. I will try to update this as I play and place my priorities in top down order.
-I'd suggest vetting players and limiting general access to the engine to people who can stay active and communicate reports. In game communication needs to be enhanced.
-Turn ticks which take longer (1hr) but crunch more data and allow for easier chaining between simple tasks such as loading cargo then rolling out within a single turn. A turn should be considered an earth day or some defined span of time which is the basis of movement and order process speeds. Squares should also have a defined length of space.
-I'd suggest a generally larger GUI (there are so many problems with the current UI I'm sure you are aware of). The game should be based for 16:9 PC browsers, but accessible with lower resolutions. This could provide larger planetary surfaces and starmaps. Things seem a little crushed to me here.
-Currently, there seems to be tunnel vision for resource and unit development while basic UI and time/distance scaling are not being improved. If anything resources and units should be halved in number in order to allow easier future tweaking of less types/classes. Simplicity in design allows for perfection while MMOs which make to many add-ons in one area too quickly bog themselves in faults due too conflicting modules. Each section (GUI, research, diplomacy, resources, buildings, units, etc.) should be upgraded in coordinance with all other branches of the engine to keep everything constantly in general development and equalised.


I think a proper release state for this engine would be one which allows new player creation on a protected and somewhat resourcefully infinite Earth. While user domains are contested within Sol. Solar travel could be left for future development. A basic research tree with effective traits is needed. Diplomatic communications are currently non-functional. Unit and building development should be based on resource costs and secondarly credits. Credits should be used for resource exchange mostly. Since you are interested in playtesting your own engine the Dev team and his lead testers/funders should be the planetary lords and stay within your domain policing the game state. A.I. (terran federation) could be left out entirely as long as moderators stayed active.

Anyhow that is my first draft of this post and I'll try to clean it up later as I learn more about the engine development and current designs.
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edited by George on 8/6/2016

So I decided to create some Basic Materials and my home planet doesn't have any wood.
What are the various options I have to have that brought or bringht it to my home planet?

Also, would I be able to create a base somewhere else and have resources farmed and brought
to my planet from there?

And finally, how do I know where to buy a resource from? The option is there for the ships but
is every city that's producing a product selling it too?

Many questions but the lack of wood had me wondering what my options are. Seems the guide isn't too clear
on what is happening once you have to leave your homeplanet.

Hmm... having built one and seen it in action against a couple of raids, I'm starting to wonder exactly how forts work.

Their description states:

Basic ground defenses designed to draw fire and protect other units.

Ok that's what I would expect from a fort... but how does it work? Do ground units in the same location as the fort get any kind of defensive bonuses? Are forts targetted before other units/structures? Is it better to have one high level fort or two mid level ones?

See my angst? Trying to design some kind of effective defense against raiders and ah, the various problems of life as a baron...