Author Topic: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!  (Read 26400 times)

Offline Oralordos

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #105 on: November 04, 2012, 05:49:56 pm »
So increase the number of buttons to 17 and make a check on game start to make sure no-one has more than 8 HWs?

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #106 on: November 04, 2012, 06:00:56 pm »
So increase the number of buttons to 17 and make a check on game start to make sure no-one has more than 8 HWs?
The number of HWs isn't coming down at this stage.
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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #107 on: November 04, 2012, 06:12:33 pm »
What about an overflow tab that either appears only when you have too many bonus ships, or that straight up only appears if you have 8+ HWs at game start?

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #108 on: November 04, 2012, 06:42:21 pm »
What about an overflow tab that either appears only when you have too many bonus ships, or that straight up only appears if you have 8+ HWs at game start?
I figure keith was saying that wouldn't work when he said no to the dynamic extra tab idea on the last page.

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #109 on: November 04, 2012, 07:16:19 pm »
What about adding a second tab for overflow units? The max bonus ships you can get in a game without cheating is a finite number right? Max homeworlds+Max ARS. Can't you just put all bonus ships X to whatever the max is on a second page? Or does the Unity engine not allow that to be done trivially at all?

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #110 on: November 04, 2012, 07:18:51 pm »
If you go back and look at that SS I posted with all the player owned fleet ships and look at the listing there, you'll see I have 25 bonus ship types outside of fabricators. Just because you haven't figured out how the build list is filled, doesn't mean it cuts you off from the ships you are allowed to build. Think outside the box :)
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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #111 on: November 04, 2012, 07:19:50 pm »
It's nothing to do with Unity, but our engine has no support for buy items not knowing which buy category (tab) they're part of.
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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #112 on: November 04, 2012, 08:23:37 pm »
If you go back and look at that SS I posted with all the player owned fleet ships and look at the listing there, you'll see I have 25 bonus ship types outside of fabricators. Just because you haven't figured out how the build list is filled, doesn't mean it cuts you off from the ships you are allowed to build. Think outside the box :)

Do you mean how the ships aren't really lost, so if you queue them up before they drop off the end of the list, they'll still be built?

Or are you referring to something more clever?

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #113 on: November 04, 2012, 08:32:29 pm »
If you go back and look at that SS I posted with all the player owned fleet ships and look at the listing there, you'll see I have 25 bonus ship types outside of fabricators. Just because you haven't figured out how the build list is filled, doesn't mean it cuts you off from the ships you are allowed to build. Think outside the box :)

Do you mean how the ships aren't really lost, so if you queue them up before they drop off the end of the list, they'll still be built?

Or are you referring to something more clever?

That and a little something else :)
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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #114 on: November 04, 2012, 08:51:08 pm »
Cinth, you should just tell us =D

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #115 on: November 04, 2012, 08:52:44 pm »
Cinth, you should just tell us =D

But what fun would that be lol.
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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #116 on: November 04, 2012, 11:18:23 pm »
Oh it would be all kinds of fun for us.

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #117 on: November 04, 2012, 11:53:20 pm »
Wow, not telling is kinda fun. I should try this more often!
Yes I do know what Cinth is talking about.

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #118 on: November 05, 2012, 01:18:56 am »
Hm. I have an idea that I'll try next time I play (which probably won't be tonight - gotta get ready for class tomorrow and an exam on Wed).

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Re: AI War Beta 6.005 "Burning The Candle At Both Ends" Released!
« Reply #119 on: November 06, 2012, 04:28:49 pm »
Opinionated post is opinionated.
Quite so. BUT one should also be aware that Cinth breaks the game in many ways :P

FTFY.