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11/25/2017
Topic:
Artillery's effectiveness vs Ships

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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For one, that graph is all messed up, the sort by is wrong

For the money, and relative to other ground units, Artillery hits ships quite hard. Ground units in general don't hit ships hard but you can mass them much easier. To say they are effective vs ships might be overstated,
11/25/2017
Topic:
Comms bug when game turn ends

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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Genecho wrote:
Looking closer the original message was never sent, just half of it posted publicly....not the first part of it. yes it was sent via private message, whats happening?



There's a character cap of 1000 on the comms. But it doesn't have a counter as you type, very annoying I know. Its been months I should REALLY put one =)
11/25/2017
Topic:
Artifacts removal suggestion

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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I can make it remove and bring back the artifact to location. Its just a little time-consuming to put it because nothing is so simple. Removing the artifacts didn't seem very popular and applied to a handful of players.
11/25/2017
Topic:
Corp Jingle

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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jimbobdaz wrote:
I had this problem back in beta, i try to add a corp jingle and i get this error... Character name is already used by another player



duhhhhhh, was this on the Corp HQ edit screen? It sounds familiar but should have been corrected long time ago.
12/3/2017
Topic:
Ships/fleets in ramdom locations!

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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Genecho wrote:
Ok so this has happened a few times now, I set coords using copy paste, or set location via viewscreen, the next day i look and have ships/fleets going to locations in random places, sometimes NE of sol, its was off any routes had has taken a week (at worse) to get the unit back again...it warped out and had to come back slowly. Why is this happening? im setting coords right but they are changing? its costing me a lot of money when i find freighters a day away from anything a supply routes get disrupted. please look into this and fix please



This is a strange bug, I've heard of it before, it doesn't happen very often and I'm not sure what is triggering it. If you can make it happen reliably I want to know. I can imagine copy pasting coordinates messing up somehow but I would be surprised that the viewscreen is messing it up.
12/3/2017
Topic:
Artifacts for Defensive Structures

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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Maharava wrote:
Oooh what about a planet that spawns that HAS an ancient orbital megastructure? If destroyed it slowly regenerates. Provides some bonus/can only be used by the current planet emperor or something...could make some star systems very interesting



Now that's a good idea =)
Planets were supposed to have special traits on them but it never made it to launch. Having planets spawn with soemthing special, like an existing artifact temple which has some ability that can be activated would be great. Too many things to work on man =)
12/3/2017
Topic:
Hostile Event Changes and City Expansion

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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I was kind of on vacation for a week or 2 but I'm not working on development again.


The hostile events have been updated to act smarter and be a little more dangerous, these would be the Mothership, Raiders, Pirates, DarkStar events. The DarkStar Event is now active by the way. It is like a System Wide pirate event. So now these events don't attack suicide positions, they don't leave the base if it is severely damaged, Sometimes they don't raid, just attack, so your research and distribution centers may be hit occasionally, I launched a level 1 version of all 4 in Sol somewhere I ALMOST got a Doomstar Event in place, using the Kaiju event as a template, but that will have to wait till next week.. In the meantime, there may be a Doomstar heading towards Sol right now....

The City Expansion was changed which will abandon cities at low population, under 100k, regardless of industry or Corp HQs at the location. Previously if there was enough industry or a Corp HQ was there, the city would not collapse, this is no longer the case. Also, it takes 1000 industry at a location to spawn a new city and the minimum population on the planet required is 10mil per existing city. I want to make System expansion require a star lord and a vote int he future, we may see that come soon.

There are city based Megastructures in the works. There are actually a lot of megastructures in the works, but I hope to get city based ones out soon. There will be one for Population, Production and Military(defense). Hopefully Ill have details on what those end up being next week.
12/7/2017
Topic:
Where did you hear about Barons of the Galaxy?

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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damien wrote:
I stumbled across BotG via google while looking for an alternative to the text based game "Trade Wars"



Trade Wars from back in the day? Used to play that on Bulletin Board Systems before the internet. Do you know I owned "tradewarsonline.com" for the longest time? =)
12/7/2017
Topic:
#! Priority: FIX THE LAAAAAAG!

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
Administrator
I hear you, there seems to be certain times of the day where the site slows down significantly. I'm not sure where it comes from.or when it really happens. I don't see it on the server. Normally it runs very quickly everywhere but sometimes its grinds for hours.

Also, if you are making changes during the turn flip, its going to do what you described, the turn flips in 10-15 seconds, sometimes up to a full minute at every 100nth turn. the site doesn't always respond with the "Game Turn Running" page and either case it will reset the page you are on between turn flips.

I suggest opening multiple tabs in the browser for things, Like leave your assets on one tab and right click a unit and open it in a new tab to work with it. Most of the site is designed for that. Its much faster to do this then to click around on one page constantly loading everything.

Not saying its an excuse, The site is overbuilt and needs an overhaul, but in the meantime things like this will help.
12/7/2017
Topic:
Contruction Factory

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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nynobernie wrote:
Dont know if this is intentional... The construction factory is producing components, but has the same icon as endproduct factories in the assets screen. It upgrades just as fast as endproduct factories (which is slower than all the components factories). It is also sorted like a endproduct factory in assets screen.

To wrap it up: The contruction factory behaves like endproduct factories in many ways. If it is intentional, ignore this. But it has been a nuisance to me on serveral occasions.



Ya know, I was working on making subtle changes to the icons to represent the different tiers, structure and product alike. There is already some of that happening,like services and Distribution centers look different, but I never finished that. It's something I'll try to play with this week.
12/7/2017
Topic:
BANG

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Doctor Dread
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Lucifer wrote:
i want a Genesis Device so i can bang out my own planet or perhaps completely terraform an existing one.

would also make a great terrorist weapon if you want to kill your nemesis and his son on a rocky planet somewhere...



.... You can't blow up a planet but there are artifacts like GeoScorcher Solar Reducer that nuke populations in entire planets or systems. Theres also things like AI Supervirus that steal profits from an entire planet. There is usually a lot of retribution by other players when you use them though, but hey, its terrorism =)

Check out the Hompage >> Guide >> Artifacts The effects are listed.

Unfortunately there is no way to steal artifacts... yet, they are produced at research facilities and at artifact resources. Maybe buy some from another player?
12/7/2017
Topic:
AI Supervirus Takes A LOT more than 10% of profits

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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Have to think about this one, the wording of "profits" maybe wrong and should be changed to "revenue". Its supposed to take 10% of anything you MAKE, otherwise it wouldn't take anything from people losing money and somehow putting yourself in the red would be a defense against the virus which is kinda silly.

I see what you're saying though, if you're spending and making BILLIONS but barely reaping a few million in actual profits, then to take a 10% hit on your revenue actually costs you 100x of what you normally make.

I think this is by design.
12/7/2017
Topic:
Hostile Event Changes and City Expansion

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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nynobernie wrote:
Doctor Dread wrote:
In the meantime, there may be a Doomstar heading towards Sol right now....


Is there a reward for taking it out?



I will give a MAK Battleship to whoever takes it out. The biggest contributor. I don't have an event that is tracking it so if its not obvious whos the biggest contributor is, we can take a vote. MAK Battleships might never be an attainable unit
12/8/2017
Topic:
Contruction Factory

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
Administrator
Construction factory has been set wrong all this time =) It should look correct now. thanks for the catch
12/11/2017
Topic:
Raid successful even though attacker destroyed

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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This does look like a bug, I think its ignoring the Terran Federation Military Power. Normally you need more power than the target to steal anything but I have a feeling because the TF are on guard its not counting them. That merc vs your transports makes sense if you remove the Terran Fed units.
12/11/2017
Topic:
#! Priority: FIX THE LAAAAAAG!

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
Administrator
EventHorizon wrote:
Thx Dr. Dread. I have been multi-tabbing, but yesterday it just got to the point where it was taking me ten minutes to get a response so I kept having to restart what I was doing. The order tab for assets and the Viewscreen seem to be the most sensitive to this. Anyway, it seems to be much better today. I guess upgrading the server, unlike new features, is a pretty big financial cost. I didn't mean to sound ungrateful. I was actually drawn to this game when I saw something you posted saying you wanted to do Astroempires only better with more depth. I think this mostly looks really good. I played AE for many years and like most players was most frustrated by the fact that the developers did very little to update the game after the first couple years, although they kept promising to. How many hours did people waste posting in their feature request forum only to see nothing ever implemented?!



No problem my friend. I know theres a lag issue somewhere, Like I said, normally it runs instantly. Something on the network or machine is bringing it down at certain parts of the day, not sure what. I feel your frustration !
12/11/2017
Topic:
Failed raid but mats where still taken

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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Genecho wrote:
BattleID:13015

Above is a good example the unit raided and was destroyed but still managed to take materials, the raider did not get the good but the attacked unit still lost them. In a failed raid nothing should be taken, the soap was taken from transport not destroyed, the raider was destroyed along with the soap. can you check this please. I doesn´t look right



Im going to look into it. I think its a problem with Guarding units power not being calculated against the raid, you need more power than the target to get anything out of the raid (or at least half I don't recall). That's obviously not happening. Although if a unit is destroyed after taking something, all is lost but that usually doesn't happen if its a larger force.
12/11/2017
Topic:
Error when loading demand screen

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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If its taking that long, just kill it, you're probably causing the problem =)

I suspect the database is doing something screwy or needs the indexes rebuilt, something I do weekly already. On big cities, the list of players sells is a little difficult of a query but normally it comes back in a second or two at most
12/11/2017
Topic:
Contruction Factory

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
Administrator
The construction factory had the stats of an end product structure since like, the beginning, Cons time, cost, icons etc. I did straighten them out in the database but I may have missed one that is affecting the display order. Im looking at the game error tonight ill take alook again
12/11/2017
Topic:
SSL Please

Doctor Dread
Doctor Dread
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Mkoopajr wrote:
So I've been playing the game for a little bit now and would love to support it. Can we get some SSL encryption on this site though? It's free with Lets Encrypt, just google it. Setup and everything is super simple.


SSL is something I've looked into already just haven't bothered implementing it yet. Is it just the Login you're afraid of? The payment system is done through PayPal not me, I never get anything about your payment information if thats what scaring you.




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