Quasar4x - An Aurora4x VB6 clone q4x

[TMaekler]

Sounds like an idea to create this as a mod. Do you know someone who would look into this?

[Tuli]

Same problem as Aurora.  Resize please.  Y have 1366x768 screen.  Sorry! Thanks!

[Kyle (OP)]

Same problem as Aurora.  Resize please.  Y have 1366x768 screen.  Sorry! Thanks!

In the main menu, you can use Quasar4x > Settings > Shrink to fit small displays

[Kyle (OP)]

Is there a way to slow down research? So used to 10-20% speed from C#-Aurora that it feels like a superrush in Quasar... .

Yes, I have a DB mod that did this. The update broke it but when I fix it I'll post it.
I wanted more expensive techs but not components. So if you just modified research labs that might work better.

Here's what I'm thinking of doing in the next release or two.  I want to have two modifiers you can change on the Game Details page, one for core tech and one for racial tech.  But I don't want to lose the "feel" of how much work is represented by, say, 1000 RP, and I especially wouldn't want 1000 RP to represent different amounts of work depending on whether the tech was racial.  So I would have modifiers that affect the development costs of technologies and research projects themselves.  Any time the game selected TechSystem.DevelopCost from the db, it would now multiply that by the modifier.  So, for example, if you changed the core technology modifier from 100% to 200%, Gravitational Survey Sensors would cost 4000 RP, rather than the standard 2000 RP they cost now.

This is now available in version 166

[Tuli]

Same problem as Aurora.   Resize please.   Y have 1366x768 screen.   Sorry! Thanks!

In the main menu, you can use Quasar4x > Settings > Shrink to fit small displays

Thanks Kyle! Now I can play but. . .  is to small i think haha.

[Doc]

Do you intend to add a game option to modify terraforming or survey time?

[TMaekler]

Three QoL suggestions:

a) I sometimes misclick between the two commands "refuel from colony" and "resupply from colony"... always getting ships stranded unintentionally. If we could colorize the available actions to easier detect them and not misclick so often, I would appreciate this. In general all tables could benefit from the option to be able to colorize the elements... .

b) The individual columns of tables like the "Ships in Task Group" - I happen to have long ship class names and have to drag the window very wide so I can see the full name of the class. If the width of the columns wouldn't be fixed but rather be changeable in their individual width, I would also appreciate this (and not waste space on overlong other columns so I can see one specific in full ;-)

c) We can move the galactic map around with middle mouse button and as long as we don't close the game that changed position is remembered. But gets lost when we have exit the game. Can that position be saved?

[TMaekler]

Could you add in the class design window the Hull Abbreviations in the "Class" dropdown? It would make finding ship classes easier. Basically that it looks like in the "Manage Shipyards" "Assigned Class"-Tab.

Also if a ship name has the added (P) for Prototype elements, when you want to change the name of that class, the "(p)" is included in the name field, and if you don't delete it, it becomes a permanent element of the ship class name.

[Kyle (OP)]

b) The individual columns of tables like the "Ships in Task Group" - I happen to have long ship class names and have to drag the window very wide so I can see the full name of the class. If the width of the columns wouldn't be fixed but rather be changeable in their individual width, I would also appreciate this (and not waste space on overlong other columns so I can see one specific in full ;-)

You can mouse over the class name to see the full class name.  The same is true for any other table layout in the UI as well.

[TMaekler]

b) The individual columns of tables like the "Ships in Task Group" - I happen to have long ship class names and have to drag the window very wide so I can see the full name of the class. If the width of the columns wouldn't be fixed but rather be changeable in their individual width, I would also appreciate this (and not waste space on overlong other columns so I can see one specific in full ;-)

You can mouse over the class name to see the full class name.  The same is true for any other table layout in the UI as well.

Ah... 

[TMaekler]

When creating a new game with a SpaceMaster Empire, I created a new system and wanted to modify the atmosphere. But the button in the system view does nothing and creating a colony with the SM Race doesn't make the colony visible in the economics window. How can I modify the atmosphere so I can create a new race specific to that planet and my idea for a fitting atmosphere?

[TMaekler]

I was quite happy with the civilian shipping. It really seems to work - so I began to use it more and more. Now it seems to got stuck. Are there any rules I have to be aware of so I don't mess up the civilian shipping?

[Kyle (OP)]

When creating a new game with a SpaceMaster Empire, I created a new system and wanted to modify the atmosphere. But the button in the system view does nothing and creating a colony with the SM Race doesn't make the colony visible in the economics window. How can I modify the atmosphere so I can create a new race specific to that planet and my idea for a fitting atmosphere?

I'm pretty sure I fixed this for somebody else in a previous version already.  Do you have SpaceMaster mode enabled?

I was quite happy with the civilian shipping. It really seems to work - so I began to use it more and more. Now it seems to got stuck. Are there any rules I have to be aware of so I don't mess up the civilian shipping?

The only 'gotcha' I can think of is if the amount of trade goods you need to transfer is too small, civilians wont bother picking them up.  They only do pickups that will completely fill their cargo/colonist space.  This includes trade-generated infrastructure and colonists as well. 

If you don't think that's the issue, post the save file in the bug thread and I'll take a look when I can.

[TMaekler]

When creating a new game with a SpaceMaster Empire, I created a new system and wanted to modify the atmosphere. But the button in the system view does nothing and creating a colony with the SM Race doesn't make the colony visible in the economics window. How can I modify the atmosphere so I can create a new race specific to that planet and my idea for a fitting atmosphere?

I'm pretty sure I fixed this for somebody else in a previous version already.  Do you have SpaceMaster mode enabled?

Yes, just checked it. V166 and SM is on. I could create a new Empire but I wanted to modify the atmosphere before I do that.

[TMaekler]

I was quite happy with the civilian shipping. It really seems to work - so I began to use it more and more. Now it seems to got stuck. Are there any rules I have to be aware of so I don't mess up the civilian shipping?

The only 'gotcha' I can think of is if the amount of trade goods you need to transfer is too small, civilians wont bother picking them up.  They only do pickups that will completely fill their cargo/colonist space.  This includes trade-generated infrastructure and colonists as well. 

If you don't think that's the issue, post the save file in the bug thread and I'll take a look when I can.

I have attached the DB. It contains the SP Game with the civilian transport issue - though it only contains one transfer job. I had deleted all the others to see if that one gets done - but it doesn't. The Source planet is Snowden, target planet is Krügener.

It also contains the MP Game which has the other issue of not being able to modify the atmosphere.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T38uRG6iwWrGgB98wdfSFMlGnIjt6Mfz/view?usp=sharing