Dave's Galaxy

[fodder]

could try that.. i killed trade incentive and sling shots in those planets as the pd one stopped working before..  guess i'll build it again...

[egamma]

I'm getting tired of playing Dave's Galaxy. 1661.9,1768.6 is my home planet.

Message me in-game (egamma) if you want to take over my planets and I'll drop defenses.

[Chenier]

Why can't I build new arcs?

[Adriddae]

You might be lacking resources to build them. They cost quite a lot of steel (9000), which is a resource that you can't seem to get enough of.

[Dav3xor]

I wonder why it isn't scripted to run at a set time every day :S

Hehe, it is scripted, but it failed this morning, 5 minutes before I had to get on a plane.  Transaction timeout.  The code for the turn is fine, it's the database letting me down.  Working on a fix.

More details on the mailing list, if you're interested.

[Nathan]

Transaction timeout.

What do you mean by that? I understand transaction times to be how long it takes to do something, so a timeout would be when the turn takes longer to run than you've set aside time for? As a temporary fix whilst you try to optimise the turn running code, could you not set the timeout time to be something ridiculously large? That way the turn might take a long time to run, but it wouldn't have to be done manually.

More details on the mailing list, if you're interested.

Yeah, I took a peek over there after posting :P

[Chenier]

You might be lacking resources to build them. They cost quite a lot of steel (9000), which is a resource that you can't seem to get enough of.

It wasn't on the list for a while.

And now suddenly, I can build 2 more. So 2 more I built!

What happens if I send an arc to "colonize" an owned planet?

[Nathan]

What happens if I send an arc to "colonize" an owned planet?

It adds to the population of the planet.

[Sacha]

And if you send one to a planet owned by someone else, it'll just sit there and do nothing.

[Gustav Kuriga]

And if you send it to a planet owned by someone else you are at war with and there is fleet on it, it will be destroyed.

[Chenier]

And if you send one to a planet owned by someone else, it'll just sit there and do nothing.

This is what I meant.

The rest is good to know too.

Thanks.

[Sacha]

Oh, forgot to mention, my buddy called off his fleets so you're relatively safe... for now :p

[Gustav Kuriga]

Hey Dave, what would you do if I declared war on you and began taking your home planets?

[Chenier]

Oh, forgot to mention, my buddy called off his fleets so you're relatively safe... for now :p

Can newbies be utterly crushed quickly even if they focus everything on building up defensive fleets?

[Gustav Kuriga]

Depends.