YEah, autoresolve is smart enough most of the time, I've found. WHat's more key than combat tactics, often, is knowing what your enemy has tech-wise, and that's what spies can do. The "rep," command is super useful for figuring out how advanced people are without firing a shot.

Anyone know how to show your planets?
I keep forgetting the names and numbers of some of them, and they just sit there for like 100 years or so, just chugging along or what not.

Walker,

You can do something like "v py", which will show all your planets. I might suggest doing a little notetaking in a separate file, since it's a little harder to call up info than it is to just see it visually at a glance. I’m still trying to find an ideal format for doing this kind of thing myself, to both keep track of planets and their locations, and a little bit of information about important ones.

It's "g planetnum/name."

Walker,

You never use the quotes with the V command, just to be 100% clear. THe only time you quote anything is if you have a planet name like "Alpha Centauri," which has a space in it.

What the V command I gave you is doing is showing you (P)lanets that are (Y)ours. I put the letters in parentheses to make it read a bit better. You can also do things like ask for (u)nexplored planets, or (F)leets that belogn to your (o)pponnents.

I've been thinking about that as well. The actual code for those is pretty simple in the GUI version, as far as I can see. I'll have to look into implementing it.

So, when useing the "V" command, without the quotes, at the moment when ever I type anything other then V pi, or just V with distance and stuff, how do I get it to tell me stuff like enemy fleets and stuff.
Can't look at in the ? command because I can only get to around the design command, and it won't let me go any higher.

As a note, there is a command reference file, which has the contents of the ? command. It's worth keeping open just in case.

I haven't forgotten about this game, I've just been busy with work and other things. I intend to get back to it when I have the mental energy to look at lots of C code.

Keep getting stomped by the Sakkra, though I tend to just build up, and the AI tends to explore more...
Either way though, ugg... Still good game.

HAHA, hey Audacity! Great name!
Firstly, i absolutely agree with you. Moo1 is the best we had in this year. Maybe the best of last year too! Maybe my realy favorite release of all time here!
Yes, you count out the main problems we have here.
I will try to give you some ideas for one or two of your points.

1:
My planets all have numeric names. one two three and so on.
That helps a lot to keep them all in mind.
I try to set every new colony to governormode so i have to check them only in cases of a special need or special event.
Fleets are mostly not so very important. Yes, there is a point where you have to check if an enemy fleet is on its way to your planets, but in many cases you can check them with v and its filters.
But yes, you are wright, it is a lot of work and i would love to have an eventnotification if something like this happens.

2&3: Have you tryed to play around with the contextmenu of the console by pressing alt-space? You can set up the amount of lines and its length. I had some trouble with this cause it themes that changes are often not affecting anything.
Yeah, thats strange.
A log file would be a interesting and nice idea.

4: Not at the moment but Zkline allready has something in mind to make the output a little easier.

I am so glad someone here like the game the same i do!
So: May your empire grow!

HAHAHA, yes, the groundconquering breaks the system, hahahaha.
We allready talked about a renaming-feature and a command to switch between your own colonys.

I only played the humans and the silicoids so far. But i like both races and i think i will like the other races too for their individual style.
With humans you can mostly stay out of trouble. Thats realy nice to build good relationships to nearly all other players. And you will have no trouble to keep your self out of any fighting stuff.
And i love the silicoids for their ability to land on nearly every atmospher so you can spread out very fast in a short time.

Hi ALl,

Yeah, I'm so glad to see people still enjoying this game. I unfortunately have been busier with work than usual lately, and also the development was a bit political, which I thought it best to stay out of. I will try to get back to this, time permitting, but can't promise when.

I can try to help with at least some of the concerns you raise though.

1. I haven't really found a great solution other than notetaking.
2. THere is a scrollback feature in the WINdows console, but it's not as easy to access as it should be. I think a workaround is to increase the number of rows and columns the console displays, which you can do in the properties window. I play on LInux and MAc OS, neither of which have this particular issue in the same way.
3. THis is something the game doesn't currently support natively, but it might be possible to do it using console commands, since it's basically just text output. I'll have to experiment a bit. I know on MAc I can just save the terminal log with a single key, but that's harder for WIndows folks.
4. COmbat is the bugbear of things as they stand now, unfortunately. I will have to look into it when I have a spare moment.

Sorry this isn't as useful as I hoped, but I'm still following this topic and iwll keep people aprised of what's going on.