Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Cauldyth
1) Can we see a screenshot of what's in Show Event History for a character?
2) Do you mind if I name my firstborn Kweeki Woppit?

Erik Rutins
CEO, Matrix Games LLC



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Freedom is not Free.

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

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ORIGINAL: LoBaron
Only thing I hope is that late game the Character part doesn´t end in a micro management clickfest and can be automated as well
as the rest of DW.

The AI and Automation does know how to handle all the new features including characters, so if you don't want to handle this it will manage them for you and assign them to logical positions, etc.

Regards,

- Erik

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ORIGINAL: feelotraveller
There are some nice looking new icons above the mini-map. Care to fill us in on their function?

Erik Rutins
CEO, Matrix Games LLC



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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

The lag issue is often caused by capturing video at the same time as playing the game, but I think the lag in the original videos will not show up in the new Legends video thanks to better hardware and better game performance.

Regards,

- Erik

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But can I ask, are we limited on the number of character images we can have in game, or is it as open as the characters themselves?

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It's simply the case that one my Core2Duo E8400 using carriers is not really feasible currently, because once they launch their 100+ fighters (which isn't so much for a proper carrier fleet) and they all start to shoot in a larger game, the game slows down to a crawl until it is nearly unplayable. I'd suspect that computing the position deltas could be perfectly parallelized (for example on a per-sector basis) without running too much into synchronity problems and I guess that this alone represents quite bit of processing load in this game. What do you think?

Erik Rutins
CEO, Matrix Games LLC



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Freedom is not Free.

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There is no limit on the number of predefined characters in the files in characters folder, and they can all have unique images. So no limit on custom character images.

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Show Fleet Postures, Show Travel Vectors, Show Potential Colonies, Show Scenic Locations, Show Research Locations, Show Long Range Scanners, Show Empire Influence.

Regards,

- Erik

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ORIGINAL: adamsolo

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ORIGINAL: lancer

G'day,

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@AdamSolo & Evil Steve - As a player I too would like a more challenging resource distribution. I think the problem comes from the ... computer... not having the capacity to deal with this. If it comes down to a slight challenge for me versus a massive handicap for the computer I'll want to stick with the way it is.

I'll also put my hand up for a more challenging resource distribution.

I really don't think it would be that hard to implement. Leave everything - resource wise - as is and provide a slider for the player to adjust at the start of the game.

Tweaking the slider simply provides a multiplier to all your resource costs. A higher setting would have everything cost twice or three times as much (eg. instead of needing 3 lead for a component you now need 6 or even 9). All of a sudden resources mean something and you'd probably find yourself hitting shortages.

Doesn't affect the AI at all. Same amount of resources are still on the map and their costs haven't changed, only the players.

Just a thought.

Cheers,
Lancer

Although your resource multiplier proposal (e.g. 6 carbon instead of 3) would turn resources less abundant alright, and it would probably be simple to implement, it would however only lead the player to feel the need to build more mining stations and invest more in faster mining techs. Although that would require the player to invest more on resources extraction that was not my point.

Resources should be spread unevenly across the galaxy and some of them should be made rarer to find. This would put more emphasis on eXploration and eXpansion phases and the player would be forced to make more challenging decisions (like building a colony very far away from the rest of the empire, or inside the heart of their not-so-friendly race borders). So, in order to use some advanced components, more advanced bases and ships you would be forced to expand more carefully, seek trade, and if you'd need a particular resource badly then your only choice would be war.

So, it's not a question of making it harder to extract resources in your empire only, it is about forcing the player to seek resources outside their borders. Maybe some resources could be obtained through trade with a particular race, but if the race is not willing to do trade with you maybe they would understand your reasons better through other means ... Now this would be my idea of fun.

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

The new Ship Vectors, when turned on, allow you to see the destination of all of your ships in transit. I find this increases your awareness of what's going on in your empire significantly and I now play with this overlay on all the time. Other new overlays include Fleet Postures, Potential Colonies, Scenic Locations, Research Locations, Long Range Scanners and Sphere of Influence. You can have all, some or none of these turned on. With these new overlays, we are making it possible to do more on the main game map without extra clicks or the need to drill down into some of the more detailed screens and options.

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ORIGINAL: adamsolo

This is awesome stuff. So, apparently it will be possible now to better track where fleets are (in all that swarm of ships). Ship vectors are nice, sometimes I feel the need to know where ships are going (moving to Y496, X597 it's not nice :) Potential colonies right there in the main map is key for late expansion. Good one.

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ORIGINAL: tjhkkr

Are you kidding me?

This company gets an A+ from me. When I worked in a 'business environment', I did not see anything like this... and they had thousands of dollars at stake...
AND what is more, I am convinced this is a little ma and pa company, which makes this even more amazing.

If we ever do have a DW get-together -- not likely since we are all over the globe -- I would happily by several rounds of drinks to Eric and Elliot and most of the people on this forum...

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Hi everyone,

A few answers from Elliot on the previous questions:

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But can I ask, are we limited on the number of character images we can have in game, or is it as open as the characters themselves?

There is no limit on the number of predefined characters in the files in characters folder, and they can all have unique images. So no limit on custom character images.

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It's simply the case that one my Core2Duo E8400 using carriers is not really feasible currently, because once they launch their 100+ fighters (which isn't so much for a proper carrier fleet) and they all start to shoot in a larger game, the game slows down to a crawl until it is nearly unplayable. I'd suspect that computing the position deltas could be perfectly parallelized (for example on a per-sector basis) without running too much into synchronity problems and I guess that this alone represents quite bit of processing load in this game. What do you think?

We've done a lot of work on performance in Legends. Performance on your system should be much better, especially in battles.

Regards,

- Erik

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ORIGINAL: Shark7

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Hi everyone,

A few answers from Elliot on the previous questions:

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But can I ask, are we limited on the number of character images we can have in game, or is it as open as the characters themselves?

There is no limit on the number of predefined characters in the files in characters folder, and they can all have unique images. So no limit on custom character images.

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It's simply the case that one my Core2Duo E8400 using carriers is not really feasible currently, because once they launch their 100+ fighters (which isn't so much for a proper carrier fleet) and they all start to shoot in a larger game, the game slows down to a crawl until it is nearly unplayable. I'd suspect that computing the position deltas could be perfectly parallelized (for example on a per-sector basis) without running too much into synchronity problems and I guess that this alone represents quite bit of processing load in this game. What do you think?

We've done a lot of work on performance in Legends. Performance on your system should be much better, especially in battles.

Regards,

- Erik

You have just made this modder very happy.

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Who knows, maybe the next time you'll play Igards ST mod your first spy will look like this:
+10% cargobay inflitration speed
+5% Ale consumption speed
Traits:
Beard: -100% detection chance

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ORIGINAL: Data

Character assasination....I don't find it funny, I find it -10 funny