Miscellaneous Bugs And Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Thread

So... We don't seem to have a thread for general forum bugs, so I thought I'd create one. In case anyone hasn't realised, this thread is for forum bugs or questions that don't really need a whole thread, but could use fixing.

Now, this will be quite contradictory, but the reason I made this thread was because I noticed a forum bug that didn't need a thread making over it...

The locked topic image appears to be broken.

See? Didn't really deserve its own thread. That's precisely why I had to make this thread.


ADMIN, my humblest apologies for making such a big deal over one minor bug, but I can now guarantee it won't happen again. Also, please fix please.

Locked works fine for me. Also, since people seem to make threads with questions a lot that get a bit irritating, simply because they create threads that are immediately resolved, I will sticky this and merge those questions with this thread.

Thanks for the sticky.

Just tried finding a locked topic on my other computer, the locked image is broken on that, too. (All I see is a long transparent box with a little square blue question mark icon in it)

I'm pretty sure it's not because I'm using a Mac, and it isn't because of an extension either, I tried disabling it.
(I only have one, and it turns out it's the reason I don't see the ads at the top. It's a cookie blocker, not an ad blocker, but it blocked the ad anyway. Odd.)

Is anyone else having this problem?

Hang on, are you talking about the same image I am? I am referring to the image that appears at the top & bottom of the thread when reading the thread. I still see the one that looks like a Thrive logo with a lock in it in the 'thread selection'.

Tiny one up top where the word REPLY is on this thread? Yeah, I'm getting a little x in a box icon there, the usual 'image not available one'

The Uteen wrote:

Thanks for the sticky.

Just tried finding a locked topic on my other computer, the locked image is broken on that, too. (All I see is a long transparent box with a little square blue question mark icon in it)

I'm pretty sure it's not because I'm using a Mac, and it isn't because of an extension either, I tried disabling it.
(I only have one, and it turns out it's the reason I don't see the ads at the top. It's a cookie blocker, not an ad blocker, but it blocked the ad anyway. Odd.)

Is anyone else having this problem?

Hang on, are you talking about the same image I am? I am referring to the image that appears at the top & bottom of the thread when reading the thread. I still see the one that looks like a Thrive logo with a lock in it in the 'thread selection'.

Understood now. i'll try to fix it.

Thanks.

I got two questions

1. I am kinda confussed with the organism stage how many animal species will be in the organism stage because only 3 diffrent animals will get boring and how many will you see in the space stage like if you fly arround the planet will you see all the animals

2. I know there is a post for planet size but how big will it be in organism stage will it be like a 10 minute walk or will it take a long long long time before you go arround the planet and you can actually make a very large planet without slowing your game down in space stage what i mean by that is you can actually do sort of a loading screen between entering a new system or even a new planet.

Army-Lion wrote:

I got two questions

1. I am kinda confussed with the organism stage how many animal species will be in the organism stage because only 3 diffrent animals will get boring and how many will you see in the space stage like if you fly arround the planet will you see all the animals

2. I know there is a post for planet size but how big will it be in organism stage will it be like a 10 minute walk or will it take a long long long time before you go arround the planet and you can actually make a very large planet without slowing your game down in space stage what i mean by that is you can actually do sort of a loading screen between entering a new system or even a new planet.

Thank you for posting here.

In organism stage, the number of animals in your biome depends on what kind of biome it is, and ultimately, how many animals we can simulate. We don't have numbers for this, since it will vary. Expect 20+ other species in very diverse biomes.

We're figuring out how big planets can be right now. It depends mostly on how detailed we let the terrain be.

~sciocont wrote:

Army-Lion wrote:

I got two questions

1. I am kinda confussed with the organism stage how many animal species will be in the organism stage because only 3 diffrent animals will get boring and how many will you see in the space stage like if you fly arround the planet will you see all the animals

2. I know there is a post for planet size but how big will it be in organism stage will it be like a 10 minute walk or will it take a long long long time before you go arround the planet and you can actually make a very large planet without slowing your game down in space stage what i mean by that is you can actually do sort of a loading screen between entering a new system or even a new planet.

Thank you for posting here.

In organism stage, the number of animals in your biome depends on what kind of biome it is, and ultimately, how many animals we can simulate. We don't have numbers for this, since it will vary. Expect 20+ other species in very diverse biomes.

We're figuring out how big planets can be right now. It depends mostly on how detailed we let the terrain be.

Then why not make it 50 or even 100 and when you reach space stage there will only be 10 or 20 left because only 20 seems a bit small for a big planet.

Army-Lion wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

Army-Lion wrote:

I got two questions

1. I am kinda confussed with the organism stage how many animal species will be in the organism stage because only 3 diffrent animals will get boring and how many will you see in the space stage like if you fly arround the planet will you see all the animals

2. I know there is a post for planet size but how big will it be in organism stage will it be like a 10 minute walk or will it take a long long long time before you go arround the planet and you can actually make a very large planet without slowing your game down in space stage what i mean by that is you can actually do sort of a loading screen between entering a new system or even a new planet.

Thank you for posting here.

In organism stage, the number of animals in your biome depends on what kind of biome it is, and ultimately, how many animals we can simulate. We don't have numbers for this, since it will vary. Expect 20+ other species in very diverse biomes.

We're figuring out how big planets can be right now. It depends mostly on how detailed we let the terrain be.

Then why not make it 50 or even 100 and when you reach space stage there will only be 10 or 20 left because only 20 seems a bit small for a big planet.

In total, there will many more than 20 species. There will be many biomes per planet. A biome is an environment within a planet. And the planets won't change in any way with space travel, you'll just be able to get to others. The population of the planet stays the same.

In regards to planet size, one of the things we want to be able to do is smoothly transition from planet to space, which may or may not need to be sacrificed.

Ultimately I see us having to make anything the player sees on a planet totally separate from what happens in space. Which means as you descend on to a planet, there may a second of lag before you see the surface in detail. So that means each planet would have to have 2 meshes, one for things that happen on planet, and one for viewing the planet in space. The space mesh would be textured and low poly, the 2nd one would be textured but high poly. But depending on how we do it, you wont have to view the 2nd high poly mesh all at once so it won't hurt your computer too much.

I know little about programming so if that isn't possible or makes any sense sorry for the confusion.

Dr_Chillgood wrote:

Ultimately I see us having to make anything the player sees on a planet totally separate from what happens in space. Which means as you descend on to a planet, there may a second of lag before you see the surface in detail. So that means each planet would have to have 2 meshes, one for things that happen on planet, and one for viewing the planet in space. The space mesh would be textured and low poly, the 2nd one would be textured but high poly. But depending on how we do it, you wont have to view the 2nd high poly mesh all at once so it won't hurt your computer too much.

I know little about programming so if that isn't possible or makes any sense sorry for the confusion.

Already covered LOD, since the planet's poly count will depend on the distance from camera to surface (we're using a quadtree subdivision)

willl you be able to build by your own buildings like a regular rts and
how this will ballance with the automatic building spawn(make city ugly )
{ i ask because i am going to make a building suggestion thread.also will buildings have sub upgrades(that will cost money ,resources and some time to build/enact) .for example
palace= walls........ will making harder for your enemies to storm your pallace, monarchs statues = will give happiness,extra guards barracks =obvious

bill2505 wrote:

willl you be able to build by your own buildings like a regular rts and
how this will ballance with the automatic building spawn(make city ugly )
{ i ask because i am going to make a building suggestion thread.also will buildings have sub upgrades(that will cost money ,resources and some time to build/enact) .for example
palace= walls........ will making harder for your enemies to storm your pallace, monarchs statues = will give happiness,extra guards barracks =obvious

I think & hope you can build your own buildings.

Upgrades... Well... You can update the design with new FPs and materials, and any you build from then on will be like that. Ones already made, I believe we have the option to renovate them, which should be able to update it to the new design, but in some cases this may cost more than just knocking it down and building from scratch. Walls would have to be included in the design, or the palace could be renovated with the new design. Guards for barracks will just be assigning units to guard the place.

That's in RTS mode, post-sentience.

In organism mode, you might be able to get a job building buildings. We really haven't got much decided for post-sentience organism mode.

Happy 27th of November.

with an upgrade system i dont mean only building a building with modern materials or something like this but upgrades like in tropico 4 game

bill2505 wrote:

willl you be able to build by your own buildings like a regular rts and
how this will ballance with the automatic building spawn(make city ugly )
{ i ask because i am going to make a building suggestion thread.also will buildings have sub upgrades(that will cost money ,resources and some time to build/enact) .for example
palace= walls........ will making harder for your enemies to storm your pallace, monarchs statues = will give happiness,extra guards barracks =obvious

To "upgrade" a technology, you would have to go into the TE and change its FPs or Materials in order to create a better tech.

~sciocont wrote:

bill2505 wrote:

willl you be able to build by your own buildings like a regular rts and
how this will ballance with the automatic building spawn(make city ugly )
{ i ask because i am going to make a building suggestion thread.also will buildings have sub upgrades(that will cost money ,resources and some time to build/enact) .for example
palace= walls........ will making harder for your enemies to storm your pallace, monarchs statues = will give happiness,extra guards barracks =obvious

To "upgrade" a technology, you would have to go into the TE and change its FPs or Materials in order to create a better tech.

to be honest untill i see this ingame i cant understand too much but what i suggest is not only change material and stuff like that but also upgrades that will add things( like walls for palace) or wont add anything like in tropico games and add some bonus

bill2505 wrote:

~sciocont wrote:

bill2505 wrote:

willl you be able to build by your own buildings like a regular rts and
how this will ballance with the automatic building spawn(make city ugly )
{ i ask because i am going to make a building suggestion thread.also will buildings have sub upgrades(that will cost money ,resources and some time to build/enact) .for example
palace= walls........ will making harder for your enemies to storm your pallace, monarchs statues = will give happiness,extra guards barracks =obvious

To "upgrade" a technology, you would have to go into the TE and change its FPs or Materials in order to create a better tech.

to be honest untill i see this ingame i cant understand too much but what i suggest is not only change material and stuff like that but also upgrades that will add things( like walls for palace) or wont add anything like in tropico games and add some bonus

Basically, you can make different versions of something in the Tech Editor. If you make a new version of it, maybe with, for example, some extra cannons and turret, you can upgrade the old version to the new one. That way, there won't be predetermined upgrades, or a limit to the number, because you can make them yourself.

Of course, this does mean we can't make costs for upgrades, because we don't know what they will be, but this is okay. Any extra materials used will be taken into account and will become the cost of the upgrade. Additionally, anything you make that has extra stuff will require more resources to upkeep/maintain.


Hmm, this is my first post today where I haven't mentioned that it's the day of my random day of celebration, the 27th of November. Oh, wait... I have.

Can we have glyphs in the game? Like these can be randomly scattered around our planet on some sort of a wall as a wonder?
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D4RK_VOID wrote:

Can we have glyphs in the game? Like these can be randomly scattered around our planet on some sort of a wall as a wonder?

They look like crop circles. They’d also be good.

Hm… I suppose when we get round to doing easter eggs* these would be something to consider. I would suggest you put it in the easter egg thread, but I absolutely cannot find it. I’m pretty sure it was on these forums. Ironic, that easter egg thread. Ironic…


*for those not in the know on the media lingo, Easter Egg = Hidden/for-fun thingy.

I do like this idea, let's just try not to use ones straight from halo. K? :3

Why?

I don't mean to be rude, but I want to know your reasoning.

It was partially a joke, but ya using straight up halo glyphs is a bit, strange and sort of unoriginal wouldn't you say? I guess it would be okay as long as we use other glyphs and credit it, but this isn't important right now so don't try to get stuck on it.

Tenebrarum wrote:

Why?

I don't mean to be rude, but I want to know your reasoning.

QFT