As the next step in my Python studies, I have thrown together a small app which helps out with visualizing attack outcomes in Warhammer 40K tabletop. It takes some statistics in a form, and uses matplotlib to make a png histogram of the damage dealt against likelihood. I wanted to show the app here to get some feedback before distributing among Warhammer communities. Interested in anything that breaks it, of course, and any calculations strangeness that you guys can identify: http://b4cchus.pythonanywhere.com.

As an aside, programming has gotten really easy, we live in an amazing world. The modals that are used here for Specials pop-up are pure CSS, I am so stunned.

Are there other people interested in starting a new Civ6 pbem? I saw some people express interest in the general civ 6 thread. I've been having a blast ded-lurking Ichabod in pbem3 and following along in 4, it's only made me more eager to give MP a shot with Civ6.

Game Details

Quote:Player List:
Pindicator: America
Krill: Greece (Gorgo)
Alhambram: Arabia
Japper007: Rome
CFCJesterFool: China

So I will have 3 weeks straight of PTO from 11/16 to 12/6.  My thought was go to Europe and do stuff.  Some friends are telling me I'm crazy because the weather will suck.  I don't really mind cold, although cold+rain sucks.  What say ye that live in Europe, good idea or bad idea?

Darrell

Anyone want to play a game of codenames?


List:
1. Lewwyn
2. Dp101
3. Bob
4. rho21
5. Sunrise
6. DaveV
7. Pjabrony
8. Warriorknight
9. David Coperial
10. Azoth

That's ten

Hey everyone

I'm very sorry to report that the server hosting company that have provided our free hosting solution for a long time now has run into some economic difficulties and has had to downscale their server park. As a result I come with some bad news. I've received a notification today that either he needs to start charging some cash for the server hosting, or the server will be shut down on October 9th, 23:00 GMT+2.

I checked out some similar services, and found that OVH offers a server hosting solution (VM-based as well) where it would cost $26.99 per month for these specs: OpenStack KVM,SLA 99.99%,2 vCore(s),3.1 GHz,4 GB RAM,50 GB,High Availability (Ceph)

The offer we have been given is to retain the current server at a minimum of $20, a maximum of $25, per month (Which, given our available specs and resources, which is superiour to the OVH server, is a very generous offer).

Now, there may be someone in the community who is willing and have the opportunity to step up and take over the hosting - which is of course a great idea. But if there isn't, would the members of the community be willing to chip in a buck or two each month to pay for this? I can set up a specific Patreon or something for it, and I will of course make sure that the invoices and receits for payment are available for everyone to see for transparency. The server would be invoiced to me personally, so I would have to pay it personally, and report back to you guys.

If someone is willing to take over the hosting instead of a community payment service, the current server can be stopped, saved and downloaded as a VMWare disk image, and I can provide the image for anyone who wants it - just for the record.

Is anyone playing this game at the moment? With a Metacritic score of 94, reviewers are rating this game amazingly high.
Current opinion seems to be that this is one of the best RPGs of all time, so I would be interested to hear some input from forum members in case anyone is playing this right now.

IGN review 9.6:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/09/21/d...n-2-review

(September 21st, 2017, 09:12)Krill Wrote: Also aren't most of the posters on this site scientists by training? I think I am one of the few that works in a different field but I've still got that chemistry degree.

My current CS class is currently requiring students to do some research on our ideas for projects that we have come up with, and that includes talking to potential users of the projects we wish to make. Currently, I'm planning on adding an AI and procedural generation to a kinda-crappy civ clone I made last year, and I feel that RB would be a good place to get feedback on what kinds of ideas/design philosophies people want to see in 4x/civ style gameplay. Posting this here rather than in the gaming table because most of the questions are designed from a perspective of trying to make a game similar to civ, I hope that's ok. Survey is here. If you have any questions about any of the questions, let me know.

Race: Sakkra
Difficulty: Impossible
Game Version: 1.04m
Galaxy Size: Medium
Opponents: 5
Color: Green

The goal of this game is to take control of the galactic council.  As the Sakkra we are rated Excellent in Planetology meaning that we can get controlled environments sooner and grow into our colonies faster.  Our goal should be to reach a veto block of votes as soon as possible, and to use all of our political analysis skills to read galactic diplomacy and take whatever steps we can to swing the vote in our favor, or at least against our enemies.

Starting save attached.  Report for 2300-2320 to follow.

Attached Files

  OSG-31_2300.GAM (Size: 57.65 KB / Downloads: 5)

I searched for 'crash' in the forum to see if there was a thread or way to report crashes but didn't find anything.

I have a Hard game going well (for the first time) but I've run into a turn where it consistently crashes on an AI turn. First Lo Pan goes, then I see Jafar's units start moving and the game crashes. I've turned on all sounds just in case, and it still happens.

I'm running v4.01 and the year is 1419. I have attached it to this post. Please let me know if there's anything I can try or do to help. Thank you.