Free Orion - Page 2

Atrocities · #11 February 26th, 2008, 09:50 PM

Thanks.

I just created a spiral galaxy with over a 1000 stars. The scope of this game is huge. It lacks a lot of the features that SE IV and V have though. All though I do like how many of its features are implemented over SE IV. (Better UI)

The game currently lacks all the management tools that SE IV and V have like planet sorting, fleet sorting, etc. Construction can only take place one item at a time. So that seriously limits the game. It was turn 300 before I had 10 planets colonized.

The Tech tree is extremely time expensive. I bet it would take over 10,000 turns to go through it.

All in all I think they have a good game here. I really wish Aaron would have used some of these concepts for SE V. Perhaps it would have turned out to be a far more addictive game had he done so.

narf poit chez BOOM · #12 February 26th, 2008, 09:59 PM

Oh, no, no, no. I've got no time for a quality new space strategy game.

Someone post the problems, 'k?

Romulus68 · #13 February 28th, 2008, 10:46 AM

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Atrocities said:
Thanks.

I just created a spiral galaxy with over a 1000 stars. The scope of this game is huge. It lacks a lot of the features that SE IV and V have though. All though I do like how many of its features are implemented over SE IV. (Better UI)

The game currently lacks all the management tools that SE IV and V have like planet sorting, fleet sorting, etc. Construction can only take place one item at a time. So that seriously limits the game. It was turn 300 before I had 10 planets colonized.

The Tech tree is extremely time expensive. I bet it would take over 10,000 turns to go through it.

All in all I think they have a good game here. I really wish Aaron would have used some of these concepts for SE V. Perhaps it would have turned out to be a far more addictive game had he done so.

Its Open Source, so reprogram it the way you like!!

Raapys · #14 February 28th, 2008, 12:20 PM

I tried this a few years ago, but it was rather incomplete. Have they gotten ship design in yet?

Atrocities · #15 February 28th, 2008, 04:37 PM

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Raapys said:
I tried this a few years ago, but it was rather incomplete. Have they gotten ship design in yet?

kinda sorta ... no, not quite.

I don't know the first thing about programing.

Makinus · #16 February 29th, 2008, 03:51 PM

Downloaded, installed, and it says (after installing) that the game files are corrupted... any ideas i already downloaded and installed 3 times..

btw: i�m using Windows XP

Atrocities · #17 February 29th, 2008, 08:55 PM

I downloaded version 0.3.8 from sourceforge.net I can send you the version I have? Also I think you need Netframe 2.0 or something from MS to run it. Not sure.

Atrocities · #18 February 29th, 2008, 08:56 PM

See this is the kind of game that Shrapnel needs to get developed by a private developer and then sell.

Since a great deal of the work has already been done it won't take much to "modify" the files to make a new game out it unique enough to not be the same game.