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[Frumple]

... even though I know my comp can't handle it, that rule tempts me.

Mostly because I spent most of my time playing so far tooling around with custom races. I'm pretty much equally unfamiliar with all the default ones

Other the other hand, it could potentially get y'stuck with the plant ship things, too, and it's friggin' miserable to design those things. Don't think there was anything else in the game that entirely drove me away from playing with that part, but those ones managed.

[forsaken1111]

I actually liked the plant ships, They were neat to build because they're very different in design from the standard races.

[Frumple]

Eh, they were neat, but the process of putting them together was a PitA. Game's ship design doesn't mesh that well with the adjacency thing, and accommodating that just... took far more effort than it was worth, for little gain (and often enough active detriment, iirc). Interesting but notably unfun, t'me.

[forsaken1111]

Fair enough. I disliked the plant guys because they couldn't make the more efficient city buildings which free up room on the planets. I found the ships enjoyable to make, as opposed to standard ships with are kind of boring. To each their own.

Honestly I have played whole games without ever designing new ships, just scaling up a standard design and upgrading the weapons/power gen.

[Orb]

So, a fair warning, when my friends and I played we found the game stalled to a halt whenever a fleet battle happened. We think it was a bandwidth limit. Why fleet battles are sending at least a megabyte of information we never found out, nor how to fix.

[Frumple]

All the little ships do spew out a lot of particles and whatnot. If you're looking to pin down cause, maybe have a zero-tinyship dustup to check if that has something to do with it?

[Shadowlord]

About the Oko, perhaps the most efficient and easiest thing you can do is to make the sinew in a spiral pattern.
Example:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In the future that image will likely stop working because Dropbox is disabling the public folder, so here's the original steam screenshot as well: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=876151673

I've done multiplayer once before and didn't experience any technical problems afair, but it was just two players.

Probably want the host to be whoever has the highest upload. Mine, from beta.speedtest.net:

[forsaken1111]

Well I will be around most of the day, if anyone wants to play PM me here or chat me up on Steam. My name is the same there as here

[TripJack]

this game is now open source
https://steamcommunity.com/app/282590/discussions/1/1710690176754840807/
https://github.com/BlindMindStudios/StarRuler2-Source

[Frumple]

Huh. Can't say I expected that. Also didn't realize it had been years since the last update, heh.

Kudos to the studio, though. Deffo one of the better things you can do with a defunct-ish game.

[lastverb]

Is first one open source too?

[Firgof Umbra]

Is first one open source too?

Not at this time. It has been considered -- but it's a bit of a mess in there. Last I heard Reaper wanted to build proper documentation and clean the code up before making it open source. That was some years ago though.

[Sinlessmoon]

...Last I heard Reaper wanted to build proper documentation and clean the code up before making it open source. That was some years ago though.

I'm pretty sure it would take at least several decades to clean up spaghetti code.

[Majestic7]

Making the source open is awesome. Internet points to the creators.

[Retropunch]

I always, always have the greatest respect for developers who make their game open source after it tails off popularity wise. Whilst I don't get too much into the 'games as a medium of art', I do imagine it's difficult to completely open something that you've poured your heart and soul into to complete strangers. I know in coding myself that there's a lot of 'me' in the code, and it'd be difficult for me to open it up to people.

More than all that though, if your game is a bit of a mess it can be saved by the community, and there's a ton of games I wish could have been continued if someone had the wish to.