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[Akura]

Gotten more and more Distracted from the game so hit self destruct.. heh. Browser games like this unfortunately don't last long for me. =/

Yeah, I might be heading down that road myself.

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[SP2]

Circumstances have arisen, so I have to unfortunately self destruct my empire. Good luck to those who still play.

[Rex_Nex]

Annnddd there goes half the alliance ;P

[SolarShado]

I'm still playing
Going a fair bit slower now that my essentia boosts have run out, but I've finally got a second colony, with a 3rd ship en-route.

Hope to have my build queue tracker finished later today.

[SolarShado]

Yes, double-post
deal with it

Build-queue tracker thing done... ish...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wj6rqn6sne4lbaq/LacunaExpanse_DevMinTracker.jar

It kinda sucks at the moment, primarily because it doesn't update the timers until you click refresh (which pulls info from the server again, which it shouldn't have to do just to redraw the timers).

Thinking about putting it up on Github, if nothing else it'll be easier to distribute from there.

EDIT: D'oh, forgot instructions:

• create "login.txt" in the same folder as the JAR (if you run the JAR it will create it for you)
• edit login.txt: empire name on the first line; password on the second
• run the JAR, it'll might take a couple seconds to load, especially on a slow computer/connection
• drop-down list has planet names and the levels of the Development Ministries on them
  select one to display the build queue for that planet
• main list shows building, level it's being upgraded to, and time remaining (as of last refresh)
• click the refresh button to reload all data from the server and update the timers, try not to do this too often
  (i'll fix the timers in the next update, hopefully soon)
• the program creates "sessionID.txt" in the same folder as itself to keep track of some data. it can be safely deleted, and should be if the program seems to crash

Pros: I've got a good framework underneath now, tracking more info should be fairly simple.

Cons: IU is ugly as hell, and only half works as intended

[Rex_Nex]

Ah, great, I'll be downloading this. Really hoping you get it to redraw the timers automatically, though. A simple refresh button is still a lot better then going on to lacuna itself, however.

[Fikes]

I self destructed also, not because I don't want to play any more, but because I need to do things differently in my empire. Plus I built probes instead of drones so that was a big waste.

[SolarShado]

Plus I built probes instead of drones so that was a big waste.

How do you mean? They serve rather different functions... AFAIK drones can't even be sent off-planet... if it's possible i haven't seen the option anywhere

[Fikes]

I built them to combat the random ships coming at me meaning to build drones instead so for that purpose they are useless. But that is just the last straw in my beguiled empire.

I think the biggest problem I have is how baddly I organized my planets. Building all over the place and hard as hell to keep track of. I also wasted a ton of free resources building 4 of each type of resource building. There are a lot of things I want to do differently so I have no tears over restarting.

[SolarShado]

I built them to combat the random ships coming at me meaning to build drones instead so for that purpose they are useless. But that is just the last straw in my beguiled empire.

I think the biggest problem I have is how baddly I organized my planets. Building all over the place and hard as hell to keep track of. I also wasted a ton of free resources building 4 of each type of resource building. There are a lot of things I want to do differently so I have no tears over restarting.

Ah, that makes sense. I'd definitely do things differently if I were to start over... but nothing's really messed up enough to warrant such drastic action.

Ah, great, I'll be downloading this. Really hoping you get it to redraw the timers automatically, though. A simple refresh button is still a lot better then going on to lacuna itself, however.

Thanks for the interest, I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to work on it more. Tracking the time isn't really a problem: it's updating the GUI...

Spoiler: Java programing stuff (click to show/hide)

I'm not familiar with Swing, but it looks like using it'd make things much easier, once I learn the different framework (ListModel and such).
I've never had trouble with the straight java.awt classes, though in my tinkering I've usually built custom "lightweight" components.
Swing looks very nice, a much more powerful toolset, but I haven't taken the time to learn how to use it yet >_>

[Immortal]

Sorry to drag this to the top. But I have no idea who is the leader in the game, if you can send an invite to catalystysm, thanks. See ya round.

[Bluerobin]

Invite sent. Dunno how active people are, though.

[SolarShado]

I'm on pretty regular, don't do much that's really interesting though tbh

[Nirur Torir]

I'm still playing. I recently upgraded a Planetary Command Center to level 15, allowing me to send out supply pod IIs to anyone who is no longer isolationist. I don't have much else to use my resources on, and they tend to get wasted; I'd be happy to launch some to anyone who wants them.