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[Quarry]

Why does it make me think of WC3...

[makerimages]

I really, really like it!!!!!

[Eigen]

Yes, Josh did an excellent work with a task that turned out to be way more complicated than I expected. I touched up some of the tile pieces and changed pathfinder slightly to handle the ramps properly.


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I had a nightmare tonight. I dreamt of losing a lot of progress on the game and were thrown back to where I was about half a year ago. Checking the topic around page 12-13 has me shivering. No way could I re-resume from that point. Luckily in the real world I have the Git repository, backups and backups of backups. Unless a huge magnetic storm hits all should be well. This morning I thought how funny it would be to print out a whole class. Something like 7000 lines of code preferably on a single continuous piece of paper. That would be awesome. I wonder is there even a way to print such a thing?

Why does it make me think of WC3...

I don't know? Why?

I really, really like it!!!!!

Appreciated.

[tchassin]

Latest screens looks awesome, you've really come a long way since you started this thread. Keep it up! 

[Quarry]

Oh, right, ramps and elevated terrain

[jO]

Amazing progress!
The obvious question that immediately comes to my mind - will I be able to climb up/down at edges (with some effort)? Are there different types of cliffs? (like ones that are climbable, ones that are not)

[eigenbom]

This game is turning into the definitive pioneer sim, to which all other pioneer sims will be judged. When's the release?

[Quarry]

Before HL3!

[JobLeonard]

That could still be after the heat death of the universe...

[koiwai]

It is not proved yet that the laws of thermodinamics are applicable at the scale of the whole universe.

[Ashkin]

It is not proved yet that the laws of thermodinamics are applicable at the scale of the whole universe.

It's logical that they would be though...

[Eigen]

Thanks, guys. You're awesome! All of you. No exceptions.

This game is turning into the definitive pioneer sim, to which all other pioneer sims will be judged. When's the release?

That statement is making my legs wobble with fear.
*wobble-wobble*
I'm hoping to release August-September this year.

Amazing progress!
The obvious question that immediately comes to my mind - will I be able to climb up/down at edges (with some effort)? Are there different types of cliffs? (like ones that are climbable, ones that are not)

Yes, I have planned Scouts to have a skill to climb up mountains with their bare hands no less. That would use up most of the movement points of that turn. They could then throw down a rope for others to climb up. You could also build a ladder of sorts. No differentiation in cliffs right now. While easy to code it'd be quite difficult to represent graphically to make it easy to understand.

It is not proved yet that the laws of thermodinamics are applicable at the scale of the whole universe.

You might get some floating point rounding errors near the outskirts of the universe. True story. Unless the universe is always centered around you, the viewer.



Working on a secret feature for the new build. Can't show it. Can't talk about it. Hah! But I think you'll like it.

[makerimages]

Those last lines got me exited... what on earth could it be.. Multiplayer??? Nah, problably not.. staying tuned for more.

[Eigen]

Some update of the quicker kind. Among other things I implemented a little feature to allow pinning UI elements to a position on the map so when you move around the element moves along which allows me to do this:



This is the new context menu. Not exactly a neccesary improvement but an improvement nonetheless because I quite often click something but then look elsewhere for a second and forget what I just clicked. Now the panel points to the tile/object in question. Plus, it looks better than the previous black menu.




Instead of an previous ugly window popping up with a bland list of resources available for that object I now use the same pinned widget sytle. The pickup button is grayed out because I haven't cut down the forest nor am I actually close enough. All in all I think this sort of popup style is more immediate than a static window that shows up and blocks everything.


I have a big chunk of functionality I hope to complete this week before going back to work. Let's see if everything goes according to plan.

[eigenbom]

cool, i think it looks very clear

[Quarry]

Pretty good, the 60.0 units reminds me of Miniconomy lots

[Eigen]

Thanks, eigenbom and Quarry.

I think I've mentioned it here somewhere but units is a concius decision since all the numbers are totally arbitrary and adding real units to that would feel out of place. Forest contains 60 of what? Cubic meters of wood? Kilos of wood? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Units for everything!

[koiwai]

looks neat. nice update )

[eigenbom]

Hmm as you mention it Unit feels way out of place to me. It's a very modern term. But this is a game set many centuries in the past, right? Why not use terms like: "60 logs", "40 barrels", "20 quaffs", "30 hands of corn", etc?

[rivon]

Why not do it like Age of Empires and other games? (no units, just an icon and a unitless number)