Phantom Core ships?

[RCIX]

I am working on attacking a planet, and it says it has several Core ships on it. However when i check i don't see any and i don't think there's any cloaked (haven't actually scouted with a tachyon wielding ship but...). In the first picture you can see an intel report saying there's 8 core ships, but looking on the planet doeskin seem to find any. The closest i can find are anti-starship arachnids, but i don't know if those count as Core ships. They're awfully easy to defeat...

On a side note, that's the Segoe UI fonts. Looks good huh?

[x4000]

Yep, Anti-Starship Arachnids are Mark V ships.

That font does indeed look good, I looked into the licensing of it but it's one of those "write us and ask us for pricing" things, which are never cheap, sadly...

[RCIX]

Ow... I'll see if i can hunt down a nice royalty free font.

On that note, you might be interested in
http://www.1001freefonts.com/4114BlasterLaser.php
http://www.1001freefonts.com/AlienLeague.php
http://www.1001freefonts.com/Crackdown.php
Just a first brush, i'm sure theres many other interesting fonts there.

Might have to contact the site, i don't see anything about commercial use.

[x4000]

Ow... I'll see if i can hunt down a nice royalty free font.

That would certainly be nice -- assuming that it is just as legible, and also has all the various other characters that Arial does.  That's the challenge, at the moment, is finding something the meets all of the above.

[RCIX]

I actually think Lifeline looks cool ingame but i'm not usre about the licensing...

[x4000]

Yeah, I can't tell about their licensing there, either, which makes me nervous.  It also doesn't have any information on whether it supports more than just the English roman character set.  I'm guessing not, given the filesize...

[RCIX]

Yeah i suppose, plus it's kinda hard to read...

[RCIX]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but cant you have your game:
 * use Segoe UI from the users fonts directory
 * if it doesnt find that use Arial from the users fonts directory (optional)
 * if it doesnt find that, fall back to your copy of arial

[x4000]

You can replace with fonts in the game with whatever you want, as you've seen.  I'm not interested in having cascading fonts outside the game itself, however.  I need to have a good looking font that can be used with whatever languages, etc, and that's not giving font missing errors or what have you.  I'm not sure what the legalities are of using a specific system font that Arcen has not licensed, even if we're not installing it directly -- I suspect that's not okay.

[RCIX]

*scratches head* i thought it was, that's why i suggested it.

[x4000]

I'm not sure -- certainly, programs like word processors, photoshop, etc, can use any old fonts assigned on the local machine.  But for a custom application, I think the rules may be different -- I'm no expert there.