Sunday Night Debugging!

Fun with the XML files!!!

Published on October 28, 2007 By Draginol In GalCiv Journals

Me on a Sunday night.

And what am I doing? I'm going through and cleaning up my mistakes in the XML. And it's been frustrating. The technology tree setup is very complicated because you have base technologies and inherited technologies. That is, a given race can have their own spin on a particular technology. So for instance, Warp Drive might be cheaper for humans and have a different description. This is very cool from a game point of view but can be a bit of a headache from an XML point of view.

There is also a lot of grunt work putting in all those planetary improvements that are unique per race.

We're getting there!

Comments (Page 2)

Raknor

on Oct 29, 2007

Thou shalt not work on Sundays. At least not unless Stardock is just another word for a Drengin slave pit

_02

on Oct 29, 2007

It was very enjoyable, and he answered most of my questions, especially one about super abilities, the arnor and the story. It was pretty great.

Seilore

on Oct 29, 2007

he was answering 80 -90%of the questions toward the end especially at about 11:15 ET when he said he had to go because it was getting late ant then he stayed until 11:30ET and just answered questions by us for the remainder until he really had to go.

thehandofzarquon

on Oct 29, 2007

In the second pic I see a wall of asteroids, perhaps this is a step towards obstacles and choke points.

It looks like those asteroids are affecting borders too. See how the Arcean and Drengin border are curved with the wall? Wonder if that's just a coincidence or maybe their are going to be not only physical obstacles but border obstacles as well.

More likely that's just the Terran's influence pushing back their borders.

Noumenon72

on Oct 30, 2007

Can someone link to this chat transcript for those who missed it?

kryo

on Oct 30, 2007

Can someone link to this chat transcript for those who missed it?

If there was one, it wouldn't be much use since only the questions were in the chatroom. Frogboy was answering on the live video, which doesn't appear to have been recorded.

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