Fwurg

[Mercury]

The latest System Builder Beta is up:

http://fwurg.xs4all.nl/SBmenu/menu.php

It currently has a VERY LONG loading time (over a minute), causing timeouts in scripts - this is me being at war with JQuery, which does complicated tree operations in the wrong order for some reason making certain one line queries last hundreds of miliseconds, yet I can't avoid them - its either a long load and then everything works fast (current situation) or constantly waiting every time you do something which imho is unacceptable - once the application is fully loaded its fast and pretty

Todo and known issues:

• Resolve loading time issue and at very least prevent timeout popups
• Make Gas Giants list their actual gas costs (based on orbit temperature)
• Make atmospheres, oceans, natural life list cost based on planet / moon size
• Either do not make lunar orbits without a moon clickable (and get rid of the remove / add moon buttons) or make them not clickable - current situation stems from avoiding confusion because moons float to the left (which may be confusing when deleting moons)
• Update the temperature specials to the actual rules
• Fix latge planet orbit usage (may be similarly solved to moons
• Add Trojans
• Generate wiki text button or add load-to-wiki option somehow
• Add save / load feature
• Add population option to planets
• Add zone construction
• Add two population specials: Augmented Species and Foreign Jedi
• Actually use the brilliant new resource icons by Brend
• Match background colour for selection divs (to mark which ones belong together better)
• Get a better Asteroid Belt image for the system overview
• Get a better Extended Heliosheath image for the system overview
• Get a better Rings image for the system overview
• Get better icons for the different sized planets (moons are fine, gas giants are okay)
• Add CSS to overview for: Ancient Ruins (?), Double Moon (duplicate moon?), Frozen oceans (different coloured ocean overlay?), Heavy gravity World (after fixing large planet orbit usage), Jackpot (glint on planet once every rotation?), Volcanic Greenhouse (black clouds overlay and atmosphere?)
• Add Frozen Ocean option instead of water ocean for planet with frozen ocean in ocean selection

If you find any bugs, let me know!

[Gerben]

Adding multiple Jackpots or the same specials to one planet/moon seems not possible.

[Brend]

I'm not sure I understand the reason for the current loading times. I do have them on my machine, but I'm not sure where they stem from.

Unless the PHP does something smart, could you send me the whole shebang in an archive? I could have a look at the loading times issue -- the current delay is rather ridiculous and should not, I think, be necessary for any reason.