In the following, shouldn't I be able to takeover Smuggling Lair with either Rebel Alliance or ICT as my second settle action (after settling Rebel Cantina)? It seems to work if I try the takeover first, but fails if I settle RC first.

Also, I'll be busy with family stuff for the next several days, so even when the neural nets finish training I may not be able to release until the end of July or so. Then everyone can find the dozens of new bugs I've sprinkled all over everything -- I fear this is too many changes at once.

August 1st and no update yet.

Both of the decisions as to which of four cards to discard (for AR) and which of four cards to store (for GS) occur at the same time, before action cards for the first round are chosen. In the RvI+ environment, players are entitled to see the other start worlds before making these decisions (just as a player in a TGS environment knows the opponents' start worlds before choosing which card to discard for AR).

Sorry it's a bit late (kept finding too many serious bugs), but I've released the latest version (0.7.0). I'll call it "beta" quality, since there are several known bugs:

Sorry it's a bit late (kept finding too many serious bugs), but I've released the latest version (0.7.0). I'll call it "beta" quality, since there are several known bugs:

* Alien Oort Cloud Refinery is broken in many ways (doesn't score correctly with several 6-devs or some goals, doesn't interact correctly with some Produce powers that draw cards, etc).
* Imperium Invasion Fleet may not work correctly during takeovers. Actually, everything about takeovers needs to be thoroughly tested.
* Some other rare cases (such as Terraforming Engineers' complex interactions with takeovers).
* Some of the AI neural nets for the Brink of War are only partially-trained; the AI performance in big games is way too slow and takes weeks to train. I'll need to fix that both so that players won't have to wait and to improve training speed.

As mentioned earlier, the other big feature in this release is online multiplayer. I've got a server running on my machine here -- there's an option to connect to it under the "Network" menu at the top. Hopefully it's pretty self-explanatory. I'll be sitting in the lobby chat to give out help if needed. I expect the server to crash often during the next few days while bugs get worked out -- I'll do my best to fix it and get it back up ASAP.

Sorry it's a bit late (kept finding too many serious bugs), but I've released the latest version (0.7.0). I'll call it "beta" quality, since there are several known bugs:

Something weird is happening with Galactic Scavengers. It works fine during develop, but during settle; it prompts you to wait for opponents and then dumps all the cards paid back into your hand. Seems to only happen during Settle, not develop.

With Pan-Galactic Hologrid, if explore comes up (at least when chosen by opponent) it says "Choose cards to discard for prestige". But the button is grayed out, so I can't choose none. However, if I select a card the button becomes active and I can de-select that card and then pick done.

So this is still the (or most) official place to post bugs? If so, concerning the super search function with the '?' button...
When you choose to search for a +1 or +2 military strength development, Contact Specialist is considered a match.

I've released the latest version (0.7.0).

I believe Galactic Power Brokers just forced me to consume my prestige for 3 cards, but the card says "may" which means it should be optional.

Thanks for the awesome program! Can't wait to try it online!

It is optional, but you have to select the "None" option in the drop-down.

Ok, thanks. I didn't see that. :modest: I was in too much of a hurry to play, and noticed after the fact that it ate my only prestige. :shake:

Thanks again!

I've got fixes for both of these, thanks. Galactic Scavengers is probably unusably broken as is, unfortunately. I'll release a fixed version pretty soon.

SUGGESTIONS
--When you hover the mouse cursor over the '?' should show the search category chart. However, confusions may abound , as the old way may better empphasize to newbies that it was either the super search or OPG prestige bonus that could be used.