Unknown Horizons
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Unknown Horizons
I recently found a really neat OSS RTS. It's still a work in progress. I don't play a lot of RTS's because I find them hard to keep up with, but this one reminds me a lot of Pharaoh. It takes place back in the time period when Europeans were rapidly settling the new world.
You start with a ship with limited supplies on it somewhere in the middle of an archipelago (or if the random-map-generator smiles on you: one large island). You have to land and build outward from the beach. Then your settlers advance more and more through different layers of technology. What really impressed me with this game so far is how central economic management is. You can easily see what you're making in taxes and trade revenues versus what you're spending on upkeep for different buildings. Turns out it is pretty hard to balance taxes and spending.
Check it out at http://www.unknown-horizons.org/
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You start with a ship with limited supplies on it somewhere in the middle of an archipelago (or if the random-map-generator smiles on you: one large island). You have to land and build outward from the beach. Then your settlers advance more and more through different layers of technology. What really impressed me with this game so far is how central economic management is. You can easily see what you're making in taxes and trade revenues versus what you're spending on upkeep for different buildings. Turns out it is pretty hard to balance taxes and spending.
Check it out at http://www.unknown-horizons.org/
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Re: Unknown Horizons
Looks interesting. I'll have a look..
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It is inspired by the famous German RTS contruction & management game ANNO 1602 and its successors. Too bad they didn't change it to turn based. Real time leads to me playing in permanent slow motion. Make AIs intelligent, not super-fast-and-lotsa-multi-tasking-capable.
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I found the game very nice The only things that got on my nerves were that some of the interfaces (taxes, for one) were rather hard to find, and there are only a few maps and there is no campaign. Hopefully this will be solved soon, as the game is in constant development.
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just downloaded it. read the description on their website and it actually sounds like Stronghold in a lot of ways. Also noticed 2 spelling errors while reading it
99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs
take one down, patch it around
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take one down, patch it around
-2,147,483,648 little bugs in the code
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^ Yeah, that got on my nerves too
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This is an extremely awesome game!
Take a look at this, guys!
Take a look at this, guys!
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There aren't many maps right now because they don't have a working editor. They're stuck creating them by hand entering SQL queries.
There is a random map feature in the bleeding-edge versions, and the upcoming 2011.01 release will have that.
There is a random map feature in the bleeding-edge versions, and the upcoming 2011.01 release will have that.
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good heavens.Gambit wrote:There aren't many maps right now because they don't have a working editor. They're stuck creating them by hand entering SQL queries.
Play Frogatto & Friends - a finished, open-source adventure game!
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this is probably going to sound really stupid, but I can't seem to actually build anything anywhere.
99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs
take one down, patch it around
-2,147,483,648 little bugs in the code
take one down, patch it around
-2,147,483,648 little bugs in the code
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Did you try the tutorial? You have to move your ship close to an island and build a branch office on it.
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I think I have to practice much. I'm not able to organize my economy properly - I don't get enough money in
Any tips?
Crend
Any tips?
Crend
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(All of the tips are based on the Anno series but I guess they apply here too I guess.)Crendgrim wrote:I think I have to practice much. I'm not able to organize my economy properly - I don't get enough money in
Any tips?
Crend
Build only a single one of each of the "settlement-centric" buildings, such as marketplace, church etc. Build all of them together in the centre of the settlement. Arrange houses around them so that the covered area is filled up in such a way that every house can at least ascend a single time. Don't build any of the farms, factories etc in that area. Build farms at the coast of the isle instead. Built factories who need the goods produced by them next to them so that the farms are covered by that factory's reach. Set factories and farms which are currently not needed "to sleep". Set the tax rate (this exists only in some versions of the anno series...) so that, unless your people shall ascend, are *almost* unhappy (so that they almost descend).
Guess that's most of the important stuff about income in the anno series.
They are looking for developers btw afaik. The whole things is written in python. So if someone wants to contribute to some OSS game and finds wesnoth too hard it's an alternative.
projects (BfW 1.12):
A Simple Campaign: campaign draft for wml starters • Plan Your Advancements: mp mod
The Earth's Gut: sp campaign • Settlers of Wesnoth: mp scenario • Wesnoth Lua Pack: lua tags and utils
updated to 1.8 and handed over: A Gryphon's Tale: sp campaign
A Simple Campaign: campaign draft for wml starters • Plan Your Advancements: mp mod
The Earth's Gut: sp campaign • Settlers of Wesnoth: mp scenario • Wesnoth Lua Pack: lua tags and utils
updated to 1.8 and handed over: A Gryphon's Tale: sp campaign
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Open thread => download game => get addicted
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Crendgrim wrote:I think I have to practice much. I'm not able to organize my economy properly - I don't get enough money in
Any tips?
Crend
Tips
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