and the enemy, Why do they always run away? There was a fleet of at least 20 ships bearing down on one of my systems, and not a fleet in sight, they scattered when a escort carrier was built in that system on the turn they should of been in system. I've been trying to teach the AI to run from hopel...

bigfoot52 wrote:will "stars in shadow" be at pax prime Seattle

nope. though i envy those of you who will have a chance to attend

made this one on r1325 and now i get lua errors, but here you go: https://mega.nz/#!p9pSXBDJ!bq9U4hx3FqCL48vJVBIN7PAzh58oQc39XfYw05pFGQs its Gacrux II Thanks for the upload -- this bug should be fixed. (For reference, you should also be able to upload games by going to Options--> upload game logs, ...

I've just made a number of changes to the way Scout ships work for most of the factions: in earlier builds, most scouts were treated as independent hull types, though one with built-in scanners. As of r13486 many scouts are now being treated as a specialization of either the standard Light Cruiser o...

I like the new distinction in icons between completed production when there is something else is in the queue (two wrenches) and when there isn't anything else ordered (one wrench) However, I'm not sure I like that clicking the single wrench drops me directly into the production screen without a ch...

Had a video crash with a rendering error. Likely caused by having a bunch of video intensive chrome tabs open in the background. Sending crash dump for review. Thanks for that upload. My hunch is that this is another case of the Intel HD 4000/3000 memory leak. On a relatively new laptop like yours,...

Speaking of ships, I'm not a big fan of how their armor/shields etc. is displayed in the battle interface. First off all, it's not obvious which colour represents what - you can figure it out, but it should be more clear IMO. The bars are also not the best looking part of the interface - they almos...

Hi, there's a... weird graphical bug when i play the game, which i think is probably related to my laptop's graphics card - which is ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650. Basically the square around selected ship do not render properly - instead of green, the borders look like static. I'm also getting, prev...

It also creates some tactical diversity. If one fleet is fielding a dedicated anti-missile cruiser, the other fleet might try to knock that ship out with non-missile weapons so that they can use their missiles efficiently. One of the problems I think we have in the current mechanics is that point d...

As some of you may have noticed, I've been AFK since about Friday of last week. I've spent most of that time on the road -- traveling between BC and Ontario, visiting various friends and relations along the way. This hiatus is planned to continue until Monday of the coming week -- and while I'll be ...

I expect to see 3 types of combats being possible: 1) They attack me, my planetary defenses fight alongside my ships. 2) I attack them, their planetary defenses fight alongside their ships. 3) 'Neutral engagement' - our fleets fight each either without the planetary defenses of either being employe...

the entire point of introducing distinct ground units (instead of the current abstracted planetary assault force modules) is to require some logistical planning in planetary invasions. I agree with this line of thinking. Conquering an entire planet full of aliens should take some serious amounts of...

The graphics is stored in .png and .table where .table looks like to contain additional information to the png (in lua?) The .table files are also lua -- though, by convention, they just define a single table worth of data, usually data that's been generated procedurally. So, for example, when the ...

Another crash on my HD3000 after hour of gameplay, gl out of memory Hrm, yeah. Looks like the texture multithreading thing is a dead end. There's some gossip online that suggests that there's a memory leak in some intel drivers -- one which may be related to certain texture loading strategies -- bu...

well, on my intel hd 4600 laptop (i7-4702MQ) first time i started the game it had like 350MB and managed just by starting new games, returing to menu and some combat to get over 800MB ram usage BTW: GPU-Z claims ~4-5W (70% load) GPU power in star map, ~12-13W(95-100% GPU load) in combat and 13W (10...