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AI is indeed pretty far down the list. Whether this will work depends on how many people will start contributing - I have neither the time nor the in-depth knowledge of stars required to finish this project by myself.

Update: I've added a simple unittest at https://github.com/vanatteveldt/stars/blob/master/tests/test _fleetmove.py . These unit tests are incredibly important in making sure that the engine behaves the way we expect it to. For example. I've coded in some assertions about travel: travel should go at warp^2, traveling a distance less than warp^2+1 should get there in one turn, the travel order should be duplicated for the next turn if the fleet didn't get there. We should add test cases as we add more functionality (e.g. mine fields affect fleet bevaviour, fuel usage, etc) and as we find bugs (e.g. if we discover that flying west doesn't work because someone messed up a minus, we add a test case first to confirm the wrong behaviour then fix it. Every 'push' to github is tested automatically, as you can see in the little 'build: passing' flag on https://github.com/vanatteveldt/stars.

I am going to stop working on this now for a while, so for anyone interested to help out, please checkout the source and think of something simple to contribute. Examples might be adding mines, planetary build order, hab values, adjust pop growth for crowding, etc. I think the next 'bigger' project should be to add players and races, and after that to think of how ships and fleets should be represented. But I think it is important to add some 'smaller' stuff first so people have an idea of how this is working.


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