Author Topic: Detected AI Progress Reducers galaxy map overlay question  (Read 796 times)

Offline mindloss

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Detected AI Progress Reducers galaxy map overlay question
« on: September 14, 2011, 12:17:53 am »
Man, too many words in the subject.

So when I put this on, I see "DC <#>" everywhere, usually DC 1, counting the number of "progress reducers," which can refer to data centers, superterminals, or co-processors...

What's the DC all about? I'm gonna go ahead and guess this might be a holdover from when Data Centers were the only progress reducer. If this is true, lemme know so I can put something in mantis about updating this to say ST for superterminal, CP for co-processor... or was the issue that displaying each of those individually takes too much text space, and leaving it as is was the quick fix?

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Re: Detected AI Progress Reducers galaxy map overlay question
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2011, 12:22:06 am »
This was added well after all of the above existed. But we needed a single count of the things as a group instead of by type (that's all the space there is for these counts), and I needed a brief prefix. I went with dc as the most generic.
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Re: Detected AI Progress Reducers galaxy map overlay question
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2011, 12:24:11 am »
Oh, okay. I just came back to add spire civ leaders to the list too; with them turned on, this overlay can become virtually useless, as the majority of scouted planets are reading DC 1 and I just have to mouseover them all individually anyway. Maybe move spire leaders to their own list as they're the biggest offender here?