Both the mac and windows clients have been tested. Ground combat is working, though you can't do much. The new server that supports it is live. Today I improved the camera control a bunch, and also made solar systems only display when the camera is close enough that the planets are visible. This should not effect the appearance at all, but it should help FPS wise, and allow many more solar systems. Currently there are only a few solar systems because ground combat testing is annoying if you can't find any colonized planets. It can easily handle 200 stars on my computer now, and 1000 almost works ok. With some optimizations I'm confident that it could handle a lot more.
Also, I only have two days of school left. Things are going to get really moving soon.
Expect a new client supporting minimal ground combat soon. Expect a client supporting much more interesting ground combat in a few weeks. Also quite soon we will be posting lots of documentation pages on this site. We currently have 12 such pages written and they will have their content checked be approved to public display soon.
If you want details, what I fixed in the client in the lat two days:
- Fixed random rolling of the camera when switching the focus
- Smoother focus changing
- Focus stays completely centered when orbiting
- Fixed a nil object exception in the ground combat GUI
- Fixed a networking bug
- Reorganized the client's code in an intelligent way
- Speed up solar system zooms
- Fixed the default view button (and zooming out)
- And some other stuff I can't remember at the moment.
Other stuff done recently:
- Experiments with OpenGL
- Documentation of lots of stuff (Economy, GUI etc.)
- Set up an IRC room (there is a link on the main page)