Birth of the Federation

Sorry about the loud explosions at end of turn, didn't listen with sound until now. I attached the explosion sound to torpedoes to play when they are destroyed, but it is also played when every phaser beam stops firing.

Besides working on the combat engine, have also been working on porting the rest of the game to the Unity platform. Focus has mostly been just duplicating the existing game, but there have been some changes along the way. It's still a ways out from being completed, but there is a lot working already...

Re: Multi-player in combat engine, not yet. Still have some work to do on base mechanics first. It will be coming though.

Re: Lag, there might be something being done on the UI thread somewhere that shouldn't be. May not be avoidable to some degree on very large maps though.

Was just an example to show how the current mechanics work, not actual values. Could make it truly turn based I guess, with turn outcome calculated immediately after the turn button is clicked. Seems a bit boring that way though. Actual ship movement and torpedo/weapon hits during the turn would ju...

Yes that sounds like it would make sense. The weapons count isn't taken into account at all in the preview version, so getting that functional will definitely be an improvement.

I wasn't really speaking in terms of performance, rather do we really want a single ship firing 10 phaser beams at once? Performace may be an issue on lower end machines, but it's really not at a point where that is a consideration right now. Nothing has been evaluated or optimized in that regard.

Was just an example to show how the current mechanics work, not actual values. Could make it truly turn based I guess, with turn outcome calculated immediately after the turn button is clicked. Seems a bit boring that way though. Actual ship movement and torpedo/weapon hits during the turn would jus...

Right now phasers are continuous, unless there is a friendly target in the way, then they cease firing. Damage calculation isn't turn based (ie: roll, if hit then damage = some value, else: no damage), but it is tick based for the duration of the turn. So say the phaser weapon damage is .5. At say 1...

Any opinions on how to deal with ship weapon count? For example, Fed tactical cruiser has 10 phaser banks. A fleet of 10, all firing 10 phasers would make the scene very busy. Probably less of a concern for torpedoes or pulse weapons. Phasers could be setup as a cool down based weapon (refire stat a...

I'm not very familiar with how the multi-player side of the game works, and will be tough to find the issue without any error logs. Iceman is probably more familiar with that (he's been around a lot longer than I). Think he said he would be away for a few days. Re: shipyard queue, that's crossed my ...

You could try running it in compatibility mode, not sure it will help though. I tried running in compatibility mode and it still is given me the exception error. The only time it happens is when I go to build a ship after a couple turns. If I load up the save game and click the shipyard to build I ...

I'll try putting together a new complete build. Patching individual files like I did may be to blame.

Do you know if this battle was a ship vs a station? The logs show only one ship (Romulan) and nothing else. A battle between a single station and other ships will cause an error since stations don't exist in the combat engine yet. Will a single Echo Papa cause this issue too, since there's also no ...

You could try running it in compatibility mode, not sure it will help though.

I was able to get the CE to launch and it did launch in a small screen. I was unable to click on anything when it launched. It was like it froze and I had to Alt+Tab to close the game down. There were no ship models displayed when it launched for me to select. I have a 4K display on my laptop. I wa...