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Include chats for ships in the game charts
Very useful information to visualise for those "watching" the game, like the Scorpion game ;)
Use the line charts to show the ship totals or even freighters/warships.
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Hotkey Listeners
Please consider adding the 'q' hotkey listener to planes/starbase screen... in addition also the 'p' hokey (planet names), 's' hotkey (search) which is also missing from Ship screen... and the 'z' hokey listener to the Ship and Starbase screens.
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Armageddon
I just sent a "contact" message to the planets.nu guys... but since it's free... I'm also posting a suggestion here :D
Ages ago, I recall having used some plug-in named Armageddon to abruptly end our games in a spectacular way when all players agreed that the current game was lingering too much, and we wanted to start another one.
I believe that it was the plug-in described here: http://www.vgaplanets.com/software.htm
This is the description taken from that site:
"You are a VGA Planets host and want to end your game in a really brain-blasting way? You love fireworks and label yourself…
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Load own ships into VCR
Lord Helmet's useful Mod no longer works. Can it be added to the Planets.Nu interface? It imported map information into the VCR to simulate battles between your own ships and enemies. This was a GREAT time saver!
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I suggest that notes be shown when hovering over ship in the Starship/Planetary Interface Pane
Currently, if you mouseover a ship, then you'll see info about the ship, but Notes are not shown. It would be good if the mouseover also showed the Notes, since this allows you to review notes at-a-glance for the ship that you're currently interested in.
I know that you can click the Notes button, but this opens up a pane that needs to be closed after you've looked at the note (which is really just a fiddly bit of extra clicking). That's two clicks for each set of ship notes that you otherwise just want to glance at.
I know…
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Show # of player slots and # of planets in Game List
When I am browsing the game list, it would be very convenient if I could see the size of the game (how many planets, how many players). Right now if I want to see that information I have to click on each individual game, which is a bit of a pain. It would be nice if it would be listed in the game list under the planet icon.
It would probably be best if it listed players signed up/total player slots, e.g. 5/11 for 5 players in a game with 11 slots.
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Cloaking Fail
I'm playing a game as the Fascists. Several times in this game I have had cloaked ships fight a battle (and die). This time I went back and checked. It was cloaked and had no Primary Enemy set. Settings are CloakFail = 0.
Game ID is 161505
Help!?
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Add "Eligible" tab to Officer page
Put a new tab on each officer's page listing the games for which that officer is eligible. I would suggest sub tabs for "Interest", "New", and "Open". This way, when you're looking for a new game, the info is easy to find. The "Open" tab should also help encourage replacement players.
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Add a hotkey to open the Dashboard when the Starmap is displayed
Sometimes it is useful to process ships/planets/starbases in a different order than ID - particularly when the Dashboard's grid control allows you to sort them by different criteria, such as ship hull or ready status.
It would be faster to process large numbers of items, if a hotkey were available, to help navigate back to the Dashboard grid after each object has been changed.
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I want the people who are making Tim's game better make more money. #1 change the Borg CUBE please... Anyways, this is action packed idea
I want the people who are making Tim's game better make more money. #1 change the Borg CUBE please... Anyways, this is action packed idea.
1 I will pay 50 dollars for more ships
2 I will pay 10 dollars for better engines
3 I will pay 1 dollar for better beans
4 I will pay 1 dollar for better torps
5 I will pay 50 dollars for "advanced research" option
you want more ideas, reply to me.
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Host triggers game end for private games rather than deleting forever
I have run into this a few times hosting casual private games for friends where the game has a clear leading team or player who will take another 30 or more turns to secure the victory condition. In some of the games the victory is so certain that it becomes a slog to win which causes many of the players to lose interest also slowing the game down more. It would be useful in private games to be able to prematurely trigger the end game as though the game ended by a fixed turn. As private games have no impact…
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Reply to player messages by email
Currently if you receive an in game message from another player you also receive a notification by email. However it is currently not possible to reply to that email - instead you have to log into the game and use the in game message interface, which is frustrating.
There are several reasons why being able to reply by email is preferable:
1) You may be at work and your boss may not be happy with you playing games.
2) You may be out with your mobile phone, and loading the game takes 20MB of 3G/4G data, plus is slow to…24 votes -
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Implement Big Beefer's Die Hard ladder system for the whole Planets.nu site
Big Beefer created a full ladder system with built in achievements for Die Hard games. It is awesome - please see it here:
http://planets.nu/_library/diehard/diehard.htmlPlease implement this system for whole Planets.nu site and add achievement badges to the player profile page.
This does not have to replace existing system in-place, it could compliment it like it does for existing Die Hard games.
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prevent player drops/resign or soft up the consequences for the remaining players
If players leave game it has pre-deciding weight to the outcome of the game. Drop, resign or hit endturn till dead cripples the joy of the remaining players. What can be done?
There are 14 Suggestions out of the discussion on Nu.1.Improvement of AI and AI replacement. (Logical consequence of Gnerphks post)
2.Improve Reward System for replacement players. To get faster a replacement player (Madinsons suggestion)
3. Die Hard (drops prevented by social pressure.)
4. Change victory conditions. (More survivors)
5. Change way how planetary ownership is dealed. (to prevent resign)
6. Penaltyse drop/resign, prevent start/join other games. (force…5 votes -
Bug: Blitz games do not end due to a drop
Right now, when a player drops due to missing turns in a blitz game, the players get credited properly... but the game is still active.
This allows the surviving player to acquire a second win against a open slot, unbalancing the global statistics.
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Combat Reports for Lost Battles: display enemy gained Priority Points
Just a streamlining:
the combat reports for won battles display the amount of Priority Points you get. I suggest that combat reports for lost battles also display how many Priority Points the enemy gets.
It is just a tedious work to find them, but the program always knows it, so we can save much unnecessary work.4 votes -
I've been receiving this error a lot this week
An API error has occurred - error connecting: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool. This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached. at GeoTools.DataAccess.DataAccess.ExecuteSelect() in c:\Users\Joshua\Documents\Dev\GeoDataAccess\DataAccess.cs:line 250 at GeoTools.DataAccess.DataAccess.GetBy(String where) in c:\Users\Joshua\Documents\Dev\GeoDataAccess\DataAccess.cs:line 357 at MasterData.AccountData.GetAccount(Guid apikey) in c:\dev\MasterData\MasterData\Account.cs:line 272 at PlanetsAPI.API2.HandleCall(Type serviceType, HttpRequest request) in c:\dev\PlanetsAPI\v2\API2.cs:line 135 at PlanetsAPI.API2.HandleRequest(HttpContext context) in c:\dev\PlanetsAPI\v2\API2.cs:line 50
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In some games, have SubRace (A.I. takes over) in lieu of KillRace.
SubRace would take the place of KillRace in some games. In those games, after no replacement signs up for an open position for 3 turns, the A.I. takes over the position. All diplomatic states are returned to neutral.
35 votes
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