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xmtg27
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# Posted: 3 Mar 2006 19:57
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First of all I'd like to thank all the admin working on the problems that keep coming up. Its looking like a great round (although i'm not in my rightful place, 1st  ) even with the small code errors.
Okay, so, now onto the topic. I was thinking about some things that could simplify some of my woes. There just ideas and since the only code i know is html i don't really know how hard they'd be.
1. Map - Flags for the map, just a way to mark dangerous sectors or future intrest sectors... Better than paper or pencil or digging through your notes.
2. Planet Menu - When looking at planets it would be great if you could look at a certain amount or sectors. have an option so you can see if that sector is producing what you need. I.E. - You have some fighters in a sector and arn't sure if your planets are making enough energy, so you check off the sector's planets and thats all you see, with the totals at the bottum and everything.
3. Trade Control - For any of the planet routes i suggest automatic edit. Have a drop down box for the planet sectors so you don't have to constantly edit to trade to 20 different planets. (For those who use 1 route for all planets).
I don't want to get you guys flooded with ideas so i hope this doesn't become that kind of topic. I just wanted to add these little suggestions that shouldn't change gameplay, just simplify some work. I love the setup now and the game itself (hence the horrible addiction), just throwing out some things that i think would help the other horribly addicted players.
Exo III
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david1
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2006 03:41
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They are good ideas to be honest, though they would be tough to code in, and i think kyp is set on sorting out the militery side of things, i.e. putting in some form of DESTRUCTIVE WEAPON ... equiv to a nuke ...  ...
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david1
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2006 03:56
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<b>more detail...</b><br><br><!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->1. Map - Flags for the map, just a way to mark dangerous sectors or future intrest sectors... Better than paper or pencil or digging through your notes.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>That would mean customizable maps??? that would be hard to design, but maybe adding an option so if you ENTER a sector with SD's, instead of it showing a trade port and such, it would show an Sector Defence image... ... ... ill have a peek, and see if thats possible, now i thought it through, should be that hard ... but then again, otf bnt code is a lot messier then the standard code.... will see what its like in standard code lmao<br><br><!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->2. Planet Menu - When looking at planets it would be great if you could look at a certain amount or sectors. have an option so you can see if that sector is producing what you need. I.E. - You have some fighters in a sector and arn't sure if your planets are making enough energy, so you check off the sector's planets and thats all you see, with the totals at the bottum and everything. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>This would require massive amounts of coding, and would rarely be used by players. If you want to see if your planets are producing enough energy you go into that sector and check yourself, or you check it on the planet menu. <br><br>I know a filter would make it easier to show certain planets, but i cant see how much usefull adding such a thing would be, as sector defences become obselete themselfs in long rounds, then what else would you use this feature for? ... would it be worth someone stressing for weeks to get it working to be only used once a week by a player...? ... <i>Just my own opinion</i><br><br><!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->3. Trade Control - For any of the planet routes i suggest automatic edit. Have a drop down box for the planet sectors so you don't have to constantly edit to trade to 20 different planets. (For those who use 1 route for all planets).<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br><br>Took me 5 minutes thinking to understand what you meant, *l* you want a dropdown menu to appear with "planet" links only, so it shows all the planets within the target sector? i.e. a special port to a planet in sector 5000, and then have a drop down menu to appear next to it so you can pick which planet to do the trade to..? .... COMPLICATED ... lol ... i dunno about this one, good intentions but *blerb*<br><br><b>lol</b><br><br><s>Anyway im nothing to do with bnt coding and such ... i just do this to <i>annoy</i> Kyp <!--emo&:k--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':k'><!--endemo--> </s><br><br>I know plenty of coding and such though... <br><br><b>XZ</b>
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david1
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2006 04:46
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My idea's are ideas i would rarther deal with myself lmao... like theres one idea im gunan be working on soon enough, and thats to open up the BNN New's Studio, and get it some new staff... lmao ... i mean Add in new bits, so it reports say when a play hits 10 billion colonists and such, and like 100 planets and such, and also... this might be hard, but i havent looked at the news script yet, but woul also like to see if i could code in a new report for someone taking "Majour" Banks, i.e. banks with credits over 50 billion, 500 billion, and 5 trillian. lmao ... but gotta look at the script before could see how to code that in. Really i cant see much else that needs to be done to the game as such...
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crazedbama
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2006 14:35
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actually xz, your ideas are my ideas... that i suggested months ago. lol the news reports, they obviously fall short of their full potential, becoming almost useless after the first three weeks, this would be a very easy mod to make the news worthy later into the round. i also suggested color coding the news items which wouldnt be hard. i would search through the forum db to find the post where i suggested that but i dont waste my time with such things, thats more your style 
lol
but yea, i have suggested many many ideas, some okay, some really good, some easy, some very complex... it doesnt matter, none of them got integrated. and i doubt any will, so do yourselves a favor and dont waste your energy suggesting changes, they wont add anything, and when they do, it just causes more problems. sorry but its true
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methos
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2006 15:16
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Ist idea about "flags"...this would and wouldn't be feasible for a couple of reasons. First not feasible because there is no way for us to check all sectors at a glance. It would require going through all the sector's as admin or webmaster. And this would only be reliable for a short time as players are always building and protection new sectors. It is feasible to add in AAT code that would show a sector you have already been to that is enemy territory to show with a red squared outline. That I could add in. But again that will always be changing as players are building new planets and sectors. The other two ideas....might as well rewrite the entire BNT code to implement them at first thought but I can look for a workaround and see if we can add something similar in.
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die
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2006 20:22
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Personally i think that ideas 1 and 2 would be cool to have but would be useless(or haev limited use), however i strongly support idea 3. I am always getting annoyed sitting in 0 for awhile changing that and then moving back to 0 and repeating that pattern all over again (i know it doesnt happen all the time but when you make 5-7 planets at a time it gets annoying)--I also think the news idea is great just too see what people are doing(*kingpin*)....but ya dont now how hard idea 3 would be to implement
DIE
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david1
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# Posted: 5 Mar 2006 00:51
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<!--QuoteBegin--crazedbama+Mar. 04 2006,14:35--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (crazedbama @ Mar. 04 2006,14:35)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->but yea, i have suggested many many ideas, some okay, some really good, some easy, some very complex... it doesnt matter, none of them got integrated. and i doubt any will, so do yourselves a favor and dont waste your energy suggesting changes, they wont add anything, and when they do, it just causes more problems. sorry but its true <!--emo&:k--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':k'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--><br>LOL<br><br>hence why ive been looking at the code, rarther then suggesting, to see if i coudl do it myself <!--emo&:P--><img src="http://www.outpost10f.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/ton.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':P'><!--endemo--> ... If you saw the scripts and such, im sure you would understand WHY a lot of things dont get added in, thousands of lines and such, plus the BNT team have priorities, bugs first, then additions. and bugs can take time to fix.<br><br><b>XZ</b>
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crazedbama
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# Posted: 5 Mar 2006 12:33
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xz you will definately get the broken record award for this round.
the BNT team has priorities, the bug fixes come first? oh my god, i never understood this until now. the first 50 times the mods said it, i didnt understand, the 10 times this round you've said it in your wanna-be-mod tone, i didn't get it, but this last time, i finally understand!!!
i HAVE seen the bnt scripts, so i do know WHY things dont get added in. the point of my post was to say that things just wont end up getting added in so its best he not get his hopes up. but you saw this as a chance to change into your superhero ModMan costume and play pretend. lol
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david1
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# Posted: 5 Mar 2006 16:22
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 - i killed hell-boy again
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