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Offline vonduus

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two suggestions and perhaps a bug
« on: January 01, 2010, 11:24:33 am »
1) The wormhole names (destinations) tend to get lost under all the turrets I place, so I have to scroll in if I want to find a certain wormhole. Is it possible that this text can be visible on top of the turrets?

2) There is only 8 player colors, is it possible to get perhaps 256 shades to choose from?? IMHO the existing eight colors are either too screaming or too dark.

Is this a bug?? I have just captured a planet with one adv. factory, one adv. science station and one  spaceship constructor (wow!!). Both the factory and the science station changed  to my color after capture, and they both work allright. But the spaceship constructor remains blue and inaccessible. I can just kill it, now I own the planet, and build my own, but it says on the tooltip, that if I want to take it over, I just have to conquer the planet, which I have done. But to no avail. Is there a cap on capturables per planet?

I have a savegame of the situation, which I intend to upload as soon as I find out how to upload. So another post is coming soon.

Great game, I am playing against ai level 5, and I might just win this one - perhaps!?!

edit: Savegame now included,  I believe.

edit2: Oh and happy new year everybody.

edit3: Okay, I just noted that I have hit my Starship Constructor cap. So no bug, just me not paying attention. But the two suggestions stand!
« Last Edit: January 01, 2010, 11:47:26 am by vonduus »
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Re: two suggestions and perhaps a bug
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2010, 02:56:06 pm »
1. just hold ctrl while looking at the wormhole, this mages all units on it ghost like.

2. The game version 2.001ZJ has more than 8 colors.

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Re: two suggestions and perhaps a bug
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2010, 04:20:23 pm »
I actually wouldn't mind having a customizable player-colour, like Homeworld 2 did (that was awesome).
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Re: two suggestions and perhaps a bug
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2010, 10:45:55 pm »
Ah, great catch on the third one.

For #1, there is an interface option that lets you always show that on top.  Or, if you just want to toggle it, just hit Ctrl.

For the player colors, 256 colors is definitely far more than I can add at the moment, but there are about 20-30 colors in the latest prereleases, something like that.

Happy new year as well, and glad you're enjoying the game!
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