Space Food Empires!

[Captain Kwok]

Ok. I did complete the general components and general weapons list tonight, plus lists for racial technology of the Banana and Broccoli races. The other races should have their technology lists finished up tomorrow.

Overall, updating the site has been a good exercise to review the data files and catch all sorts of little bugs or other issues that would have certainly cropped up later.

I'll try and work the Space Yards information (sorry no pics yet) on Sunday. It will give me a good chance to audit the VehicleSize.txt file which I'm sure needs some serious cost adjustments.

[Atrocities]

You amaze me CK. You really do. I have seen a lot of the stuff that you originally did for the STM, and now for the SFE mod and it just blows me away as to the depth that you have gone to make the mod. I wish that I had 1/10th the dedication to attention to detail that you have. My God, how do you find the time to it all?

[Captain Kwok]

Well, I only started about 18 months ago or so. My biggest problem is nitpicking and changing things around constantly - like for example the most recent changes where I separated all the fighter and troop components or when I changed the definition of the resources and had to re-value almost all the components again.

On the bright side, almost every component listed on the site is now an actually data file entry.

[Atrocities]

If I did not know any better I would say that you are a profectionist. I mean that in a kind way as I wish I had a lot more of it in mean and a lot less of "oh well, its good enough for government work" mantality.

[Renegade 13]

We appreciate the updates

[Captain Kwok]

Another update:

I've finished off and debugged the Facility.txt file as well as set up some basic empire files for each race. Still need to make some combat images, update a few of the important AI files, and do some play-testing to fix any glaring problems so Saturday afternoon still looks good!

I'm not thrilled with the quality of the facilities thus far, but oh well, I can fix them up over time.

You can view the fully updated technology section that will represent the first release at the Space Food Empires website.

[Captain Kwok]

So I go set up a 10-player game with all the empires controlled by me and what's the first thing I notice? I completely forgot to assign 5 of the empire files a colony tech! After spending like 30 minutes on the first 5 empires' turns designing ships etc.

[Captain Kwok]

I've finished and uploaded the remainder of the technology pages, with the exception of the general facilities page. Perhaps some of you will be kind and explore the racial technologies and post some comments. Tomorrow, I'll go through and update the ship pages with the proper stats, and also add the general facilities.

Basically, items that have "data pending" are the unfinished or unentered components etc., that need to finished before I can post anything for download. Getting rid of those pendings is my primary task for the next week!

Enjoy.

[Captain Kwok]

The facilities technology page has been uploaded, so now that entire section is right up to date.

[Atrocities]

Man how do you find the time with school, work, wife, and kid?

Any idea of when you will have the mod ready for a beta? Oh ya, any new ship images?