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| marioxcc | Hi. Where can I find a NON-video tutorial? Alternatively, would somebody be so kind as to explain the game mechanics to me?. | 00:08 |
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| tomreyn | you are a virus and spread through the star system | 00:33 |
| tomreyn | conquering planets and species as you go | 00:34 |
| tomreyn | ^ marioxcc | 00:34 |
| tomreyn | to be the one who conquers and doesn't get conquered you need a mixture of strategy and luck | 00:35 |
| tomreyn | it takes a while to understand how to play properly, and how things actually work or what they are good for. | 00:37 |
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| tomreyn | <tomreyn> you are a virus and spread through the star system | 00:38 |
| tomreyn | <tomreyn> conquering planets and species as you go | 00:38 |
| tomreyn | <tomreyn> ^ marioxcc | 00:38 |
| tomreyn | <tomreyn> to be the one who conquers and doesn't get conquered you need a mixture of strategy and luck | 00:38 |
| tomreyn | <tomreyn> it takes a while to understand how to play properly, and how things actually work or what they are good for. | 00:38 |
| tomreyn | i needed to come here asking questions to understand things properly (although it may also be documented somewhere online) | 00:39 |
| marioxcc | tomreyn: Ok, thanks. | 00:39 |
| marioxcc | tomreyn: Is it normal that freeorion uses a core at full? | 00:39 |
| tomreyn | a _cpu_ core? at full _screen_? | 00:40 |
| marioxcc | tomreyn: A CPU core, windowed. | 00:40 |
| tomreyn | i guess it can depends a bit on your video card | 00:41 |
| marioxcc | Ok. What does the thickness and color of spacelanes represent?. | 00:41 |
| tomreyn | but it can be slow, depeding on what you were looking at | 00:41 |
| tomreyn | that's supply | 00:41 |
| tomreyn | with good supply you can travel faster along those lanes | 00:42 |
| Sector | FreeOrion can use multiple cores, each AI has its own thread. | 00:42 |
| marioxcc | tomreyn: Ok. I see that some planets are already colonized by natives, how can I take them?. | 00:42 |
| tomreyn | also i think it can make things harder for enemies travelling along there later in the game | 00:42 |
| marioxcc | Sector: Is it normal that it uses a full core even when not doing anything? | 00:43 |
| Sector | Build transports. You may also need some warships to deal with planetary defences. | 00:43 |
| tomreyn | troop ships | 00:43 |
| Sector | It's not unusual | 00:43 |
| marioxcc | (I'm using Intel HD Graphics in GNU/Linux if it matters) | 00:43 |
| tomreyn | which one, there are many different ones | 00:43 |
| tomreyn | or whats your cpu | 00:43 |
| marioxcc | Do you mean the CPU usage? -> Sector: It's not unusual | 00:43 |
| Sector | Yup | 00:45 |
| marioxcc | Sector: Ok. Why does it needs so much computing power? | 00:45 |
| marioxcc | (Remember, I'm talking when the program is doing nothing useful, or at least not apparently) | 00:46 |
| Sector | I'm not familiar with the internals so couldn't say what all it is doing. | 00:47 |
| marioxcc | Ok. | 00:48 |
| marioxcc | How much does an usual game takes? | 00:48 |
| marioxcc | Is it like Freeciv where you can play for 8 hours easily with no end in sight? | 00:48 |
| tomreyn | part of it is likely what you get with intel cideo when the gpu is offloading calculations to the cpu, you often see this with older opengl versioned code | 00:48 |
| marioxcc | *in view | 00:48 |
| marioxcc | tomreyn: Ok. | 00:49 |
| tomreyn | i never played an 8 hour game, though i'm sure you could | 00:50 |
| marioxcc | Ok, so how much does an usual game takes? | 00:50 |
| tomreyn | actually i probably have, restoring savegames. i just didn't play that long on a single day | 00:51 |
| tomreyn | how long the game takes depends much on your setup and on how long it takes you to end your turn | 00:52 |
| tomreyn | it surely takes hours | 00:52 |
| marioxcc | tomreyn: Ok. | 00:52 |
| marioxcc | tomreyn: How did you learn to play the game? | 00:53 |
| tomreyn | but there could be very short games, too | 00:53 |
| tomreyn | dunno, i guess i just started, and ask occasional question in here | 00:53 |
| tomreyn | *asked | 00:53 |
| marioxcc | tomreyn: Ok. | 00:53 |
| tomreyn | make sure you get the latest build, it can be worth it | 00:54 |
| tomreyn | http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeorion/files/FreeOrion/Test/ | 00:55 |
| tpb | Title: FreeOrion - Browse /FreeOrion/Test at SourceForge.net (at sourceforge.net) | 00:55 |
| Sector | Self compiled in this case so actually newer. | 00:56 |
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| tomreyn | going for coverity scan would likely help this project | 01:00 |
| tomreyn | ping me the other day if interested | 01:00 |
| tomreyn | bye bye | 01:00 |
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