New Stars Status

Trying to work up to a battle in the two player game. I am trying to actually walk the players through their turns as they would be doing them (i.e. spending a lot of time micro-managing).

Part of that is implementing the "accelerated BBS" option (so I don't have to generate 30 turns before reaching colonization pop).

Then, I added the research tax option (visible in the dialog below). This uncovered several bugs in communicating this information from the player file to the server.



I also fixed the scanner pane so that it resizes itself to fill up the window. There is a somewhat annoying flicker as you click from explored to unexplored planets (due to different widths on the left)...

I also found/fixed a bug for JOAT w/o IFE getting Quick Jump 5 instead of Long Hump 6 (IFE properly gives the Fuel Mizer).

As well as a bug in the growth formula when planets exceed 25% capacity (aided by AccBBS).

Interesting note, on Linux, the two players are right next to each other. That means I can use it for some quick battles (and I need to fix the homeworld placement logic...)

Stuff I've read lately

"Dark Light" (Ken Macleod) - Sequel to "Cosmonaut Keep". Very short, but pretty good. Follows the adventures of the previous characters on a planet some light years from the last (they got their light drive working). The libraries here don't have the third book...

"In My Place Condemned He Stood" (J. I. Packer and Mark Dever) - Reviewed on my faith blog.

New Stars Status

Started in on more bugs:




Here we can see the new universe caused by fixing the randomization of the hab distributions. I also added the player relation dialog, and changed the underlying implementation. With those changes done, I can revamp the battle engine - in preparation for the battle VCR.

I also fixed some of the automation, to improve fuel consumption during scouting missions.

I looked into the fails during generation huge universe (dense and packed). They are running out of planet names. We will need to generate another 1k names...