Could you recommend an entry level resource (book, by preference, but a website will do) for learning about Lua? The Lua flavor used by sis is 5.2, but the parser is pretty heavily modded. For learning basic Lua concepts and patterns, the standard reference book would be the third edition of Progra...
Any ideas? Maybe they colonized a derelict colony that had some big science boosts in it? It's possible to get high percentage completion of high tech stuff like Railguns or Dreadstars from a derelict colony. (Those boosts might not actually benefit the Teros AI much in practice, but, they might st...
The January 17, 2019 patch notes state, in part: "Galactic council votes can now influence reputation." What are the mechanics? It's not complex (as currently implemented). You should just get a +15 rep "We appreciate your support in the Galactic Council" issue if you vote for s...
You can even get in a funny situation. Something that happened to me. Turn X: I liberate a space harpy system Turn X+2: my colony ship arrives. The Ashdar Colonials protest. I comply and get the diplomatic bonus for letting them expand in my territory. Turn X+7: their colony ship arrives. I interce...
Turn order is by faction, not by role, defenders don't necessarily move first. No, the defender always moves first in tactical combat. My guess is that gaerzi may have read the Lua source files for defining fleet initiative values. What's unintuitive about the low-level rules there is that "fl...
r38659 introduces a new planet texture caching system. If everything is working properly, you probably won't notice anything after updating, apart from slightly faster game load times. However, if you do see any odd behaviors, especially latency when opening up planet screens, visibly distorted plan...
Research, even with only a couple of labs from a "derelict colony" event in my current Phidi game, feels quite fast compared to population growth and building and starship production. Though maybe for the Phidi that's intended and I should focus more on money and rush everything? Phidi ar...
Maybe something like a large/fleshed out diplomacy segment with a lot of flexible one-off menus? I think I took it for granted that the UI would be built on something relatively easy to overhaul repeatedly - something that could be implemented with something like a markup language ala CSS and thus ...
If this is such a widely used technique though, why dont we see it in more games? I think it's incredibly common, you just need to learn how to notice it :) Almost any energy weapon, fire, or smoke effect is probably using noise textures in some capacity. And the effect quickly became so common in ...
Figured the same method could be used as in case of Phidi ship water effects - whatever it is :) The Phidi ships use a fragment shader based on Perlin noise. The effect looks complicated, but, the math behind it is relatively straightforward . The problem with the hull sections is that to really ma...
How do I make this work? You're very close to having working code there. The first problem is that scrap_hover_id needs to be defined as something. It doesn't matter what it's defined as, it just needs to be some unique value that's not being used as a hover id anywhere else in the game. Um, a reas...
there are also currently some outstanding issues with range circle drawing during ai-turn zooming that would need to be fixed before I could take a version of this feature live. As of r38633, these range circles issues should be fixed, so as far as I know the zoom feature is working as intended now...
zolobolo wrote:Error: "attempt to index local fleet" uploaded save: game_8755
Looks like one of the optimizations I was trying to reduce latency actually leads to bugs. Thanks for reporting this one. It should be fixed as of r38632.
No, started a new game and is reduced to around 1s at Turn 150 with the same settings. Are you playing with autosave on? I found a glitch that was causing autosaving to add delays. This should be fixed in r38631. Disabling or enabling zoom option does not seem to be affecting wait times for now. It...