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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 18, 2012 23:41:52 GMT -5
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Post by starfixer on Aug 19, 2012 2:11:57 GMT -5
The help section is a lot better. There are still a few things that needed to be added/changed, but its definetly A LOT better than before. Nice job cory
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Post by shallowthought on Aug 19, 2012 5:30:40 GMT -5
Installed an ssh server and bash on my phone, backup/restore went a lot quicker this time Cory, do you know what file I need to backup to keep the options from the options menu (mute music, toast lengths etc)? Looking forwards to finding the new ships!
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Post by starfixer on Aug 19, 2012 12:32:15 GMT -5
So far the dreadnought carrier is the only new ship that's big. The other ships have been relatively small in hull, armor, crew etc.
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 19, 2012 12:44:53 GMT -5
So far the dreadnought carrier is the only new ship that's big. The other ships have been relatively small in hull, armor, crew etc. Matches the game's established ship distribution rules. To keep all the numbers aligned we have to add a certain number of average and below average sized ships to support an additional large ship.
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 19, 2012 12:45:22 GMT -5
The help section is a lot better. There are still a few things that needed to be added/changed, but its definetly A LOT better than before. Nice job cory That was all ShallowThought, I have a to-do list still but I'm working on it.
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Post by starfixer on Aug 19, 2012 13:37:33 GMT -5
Wait how was he able to edit the help? I've been wanting to do that for a while
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Post by shallowthought on Aug 19, 2012 13:52:00 GMT -5
Pull the .apk file off the phone, it's on there in /system/app and opens like any archive file (zip, tar etc). The help files are in the folder "assets".
You'll may or may not need a rooted phone to access /system, and there are various ways of getting it off, such as the android development kit or via the phone's command line.
Edit: I did also manage to have a look in the saved game database, some interesting stuff in there.
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Post by starfixer on Aug 19, 2012 15:15:33 GMT -5
Could you maybe just send it as a microsoft word attachment for me please.
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 19, 2012 15:32:46 GMT -5
Could you maybe just send it as a microsoft word attachment for me please. We are working on it as an HTML file -- the old help file was MS Word and the incredible difficulty using, sharing, editing and publishing it to Android phones really crippled our ability to update the help file. I'll post the latest Zip file in a few hours once I get back to ST>
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Post by shallowthought on Aug 19, 2012 15:51:21 GMT -5
@cory - I have played about with the image files and got the img folder size down to 488k from over 2M - a significant reduction given the size of the application. There is a bit of colour loss in the flowcharts (encoded them as pngs with 8 bit colour pallete) but they are perfectly readable. I'll update the zip file when you post it. Give that several people want to work on the files, would it be worthwhile using a vcs to manage the files? (github for example, or beanstalkapp.com/ if svn is your thing, I haven't used either of these though)
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Post by grävling on Aug 19, 2012 16:01:58 GMT -5
Or if you are interested in Mercurial, bitbucket, bitbucket.org/ which is what I use all the time. If you aren't already using svn, I'd strongly recommend either git or mercurial instead. Merging is just so, so, so much easier than with svn, which is what I used before DVCS (Distributed Version Control Systems) were invented. I find mercurial a lot easier to use than git, but a lot of that is due to the fact that I am a lot more familiar with mercurial. I think the documentation of mercurial is better, too, but again this may just be because I am more familiar with it.
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 19, 2012 16:09:29 GMT -5
We use SVN because that is what I use at work.
Andrew uses Mercurial at the office, so it would either be SVN or Mercurial I think.
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Post by Cory Trese on Aug 19, 2012 16:57:24 GMT -5
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Post by starfixer on Aug 19, 2012 17:35:58 GMT -5
Thank you Cory and thank you shallowthought
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