Unidentified Icons?

[Valthira Arkayne]

He's a VERY skilled player and he knows about the facility designations. He's probably played 50 or more games and has been a regular opponent of mine for a year. We're playing a more extended game than usual and I assumed it was some sort of hidden technology I have yet to experience.

However, it's possible he's marking worlds by renaming them for some other internal purpose I have yet to discover.

[Pax]

Does he have any allies? Might he be marking his own SY and RD worlds for his ally's benefit ... ?

[Valthira Arkayne]

He does have allies. They're in a partnership... as am I with my own two allies (it's a 3 on 3 game).

The odd thing is that when I noticed the icons, I opened some past turns and noticed they were being added to worlds slowly, and over the course of 50 turns have now appeared on almost every world he's colonized. But NOT on his allies' worlds.

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Pax:
Does he have any allies? Might he be marking his own SY and RD worlds for his ally's benefit ... ?

You can see the facility labels on planets of an empire you have a Partnership with. Not sure about Military Alliance though...

The "icons" are definitely characters he has added to the names of planets, as there are no such icons normally in the game (# or *).

[ July 30, 2003, 23:18: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Taera]

maybe it means MINED or SATTED or SHIELDED or DEFENDED WITH WP's? or something along these lines.
also are you sure you have scanners there with you?

[Pax]

The only other thought I have is, he's designating them for certain infrastructure purposes. You know, like shipbuilding-vs-minebuilding-vs-fighterbuilding, etc.

That way, the sort-by-name in the universal planet build queue window will put all his naval yards together in one block.

[Fyron]

Or, he is just randomly placing them to confuse you and make you worried. That is what I would have done, anyways.