Does it need explanation? Is something broke?, let Jay know.
If you type a % (percentage sign) in a message as in āIāll pay 100% extra for thatā, the % disappears when the message is read and the recipient sees it as āIāll pay 100 extra for thatā. Not the same thing at all.
Can this be fixed?
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On G+ Jay has said itās on the todo list.
I fixed it today. _____
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In the 64 player game that just started, I joined as yellow cross. Saw some of my stars were interspersed with another empire, and fired off a message about how we could set a border. I built carriers to bring my ships to āmyā side, gave them orders, and abandoned the stars they were on. Which lead to me seeing:
ā My carriers orders were canceled, presumably because the target star was not in range of any of my stars, after abandoning the star that carrier was on. So the bug here is: I shouldnāt have been able to get into that situation. Either allow the carrier order to stick as if it was already in flight, or prevent me from abandoning the star.
Now, at that point I wasnāt sure whether the game would start and if Iād be able to give the movement orders right away, and noticed I still had the option to āleave gameā, so I took it. My assumption was that since I still had that option, my actions should be un-done for whoever joins as yellow cross. But, since I did several things, buy carriers, send messages, abandon stars ā it might be worth checking to see if the game rolled that all back.
Thanks Suffusion, everything should be good with the fleets, but you know what, Iām not sure I considered abandoning stars. I might have to have a look the code and see what can do there.
Thanks Jay!
In Turn-based games, if someone abandons a star, that is immediately visible ā¦ rather than at the next turn.
Recall that you recently āfixedā things so that fleet changes/warp gates were not visible. Abandoning start should also not be seeable (IMHO) since it encourages players to wait to the last minute to submit to see changes, etc.
Interesting enough, the leaderboard/player star count is NOT changed ā¦ which is the ācorrectā behavior too IMHO.
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Did you fix it for all of the characters that are currently stripped out of diplomatic messages? Quotation marks being stripped is particularly galling.
My guess is that you do this to sanitise the text before putting it in a database, to avoid SQL injections, which is understandable. But itās better to just replace them with HTML entities, like " and >. Or maybe thereās a more elegant solution? This forum software in particular handles it pretty well. (Personally, Iād like a solution that lets me use —, but thatās because Iām a crazy person.)
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In addition to abandoning stars being visible, technology levels are also visible. This not only encourages waiting to see trades, it also encourages waiting until everyone else has submitted to execute a trade you donāt want seen. (I suppose the same could be said of the abandon scenario).
Whatās interesting here is that one could then get a āthat player already has this techā error sending tech. That seems fine, and not a problem for leaking information ā it should be really rare that one is willing to send an enemy tech just to see if they have it already. Better yet ā all tech transfers actually occur once everyone has submitted their turn, if more than one player sends the same tech level to another player, one goes through, and the other one (picked at random, so timing doesnāt matter) has their credits refunded.
I think it should work the same way in realtime games too ā and it adds a whole new trust dimension ā it no longer matters who goes first when sending a tech, both players have to trust. (unless they just wait for a turn/tick).
Thereās a game-changing typo in the Create Game menu, in the help text for Random Gates. Instead of āofā it says āorā at some point.
Ok, it may not be that game-changing 
Or at all game-changing, even. Oh well 
Later edit - found a new one (I swear Iām not searching for these, just scouring the site in search of useful information :P) - on the News Update on the 17th of December, it should read āonā, not āoneā.
On the carrier action pulldown menu, there is a āCollect All/Drop Allā which are handy short cuts for āCollect/Dropā
In a similar fashion, I would suggest a āGarrison Oneā option (just below āDo Nothingā) which provides a handy/useful shortcut for that action ā¦ rather than moving to the bottom, selecting Garrison, and then changing the 0 to 1.
Duplicate system name:
In a game Iām currently playing (Neptune's Pride)
Thereās two systems called AlKap.
might be more duplicates, but I just assume itās not as intended.
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