You're supposed to have a total of 10 bonus points to distribute among the different categories. It's supposed to save how you allocated them the last time. Please send me your prefs.ini file from your Data folder so that I can see what it's saving.
That screen isn't totally finished. The System screen will look pretty much identical to the planet list once we have the graphics finalized. Alex is working on the graphics as we speak.
This bug has been reported several times before, but I think that it will be fixed in the next build. Some of the alpha testers have sent me their saved games that will crash on the next turn and they didn't crash with my build
Um...I think it's supposed to be that way...
That would be fun. :)
Maybe it's a stooge from one of our rivals. :)
You will notice that there are always at least 3 planets in the Sol System: Earth, Mars and I think Saturn. The addition of other planets is random and they aren't named. It would be possible to force them to always have 5 planets but since Brad was the one doing that code, it's fairly safe to say it's implemented the way he wants it.
Is the term "Alpha Quadrant" something that was made up by the people at Paramount or is it actually used by the scientific community? As for the Sol system always having 8 planets, I doubt that Brad will want to change that. The max planets for all stars in gal civ is 5. The Gal Civ universe isn't strictly identical to our universe. I have no idea how scientists number sectors or if they even have known space divided up into sectors. I just suggested the use of negative coo
Yes, I have gotten out of my depression phase. It was probably mostly because I was a teenager and teenagers are more susceptible to depression. I'm extremely happy working here at Stardock. Things have been somewhat stressful here lately, but I handle stress better than I used to. I don't think that I named any star system after myself, but I added some names to the solar system list awhile back, mostly out of literature I think.
Umm...it wouldn't really be hard, but it wasn't really a serious suggestion. Negative coordinates might confuse some people.
Not necessarily, but there will be a lot who watch Star Trek, or at least have a background in higher math. Frankly, I don't think that most people will care that it starts from zero even if they don't have a background in higher math. I probably overreacted a bit, and I'm not going to bother to try to justify it at this point. In my defense though, I kept my temper enough to delete several insulting remarks before I posted it. I suppose that you managed to hit a nerve. H
Fredrik, the guy who wrote our graphics library worked on the assumption that ASCII characters would be used and anything that isn't between 'A' and 'Z' or 'a' and 'z' or one of the numbers, is considered an invalid character. I don't even know what your message your keyboard would send for your special characters, so unless you can get me more information, I can't do anything about it.
No, I was serious. I like history. :) I like peace, too. I was absolutely horrified by the reality depicted in the movie We Were Soldiers. Somehow, every other movie with war that I'd seen (The Messenger, The Patriot, etc) didn't really hit home just how awful war is. I never really liked FPS in the first place, but now I'm well and truly disgusted with anything that would make war seem entertaining. Cari is what my friends and family call me (although my given name is Carolyn). E
Thanks, gherardo.
John Sherrill, did you check to see if your Prefs.ini file was read only?
I had to do it in code, so it's nothing that you could do on your end. But as I said, it should have worked for a clean load, if there weren't other factors interering... xsiv-iq, if you send me your save games I can see if they will run on my build. --Cari
I forwarded the info to Pat, who will hopefully be able to get some usefull information from the logical addrs. --Cari
Yep. Thanks.
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umm..Send me the saved game and I'll see if it runs on my build. I'm doing my best to keep the save games compatible with each build.
Well, yeah, taped and tapped wouldn't have been caught by a spell checker. Eventually, this is going to be tied into the newsgroups so you can post in outlook or netscape and it will show up both here and in outlook. At least, that's what I've heard.
OK, being called a nerd first thing in the morning might be a good substitute for caffeine, but it's not really good for my blood pressure and the rest of the people in the lab have to co-exist with me. If you're going to be insulting, don't do it for something stupid like counting from zero. First of all, as others have said, mathematicians and scientists commonly count from zero. Military time counts from zero. If it wasn't for "nerds" like mathematicians and scientists, we would
I'm not sure, but I'll bring it up at the meeting today.
Thanks for the info :)
As the code currently stands, ships that don't have an attack value can occupy the same tile as another ship. And your ships can occupy the same space.
::cringe:: Apparently someone needs to create the anomoly files in a program with a spell checker...