Hi!

Here comes my first impression about Supremacy:

Pros:
- The look and feel is great!
- I like the colony management very much.
- The Empire Info on the left in the galaxy-view is cool, but i don't think my number of research points is that important. (instead maybe number of ships of my empire or a notice about starving population on a planet or or or )

Cons:
- the updater gives no information about progress of checking for updates. Once I was in the middle of starting a game, when I was notified about an update.
- Ship building progress information is confusing: At first your ships build very fast, up to about 98% and then nothing happens, if you lack of officers to man your ship.
- New workforces gained by population growth should be automatically applied to a job (especially food production) (at least I'd prefer working on a farm rather than starving )
- I strongly miss an overview about my colonies. Particularly on the huge map it seems hard to keep track over every colony and I don't want to check each one every turn.

Now my questions about the source code of Supremacy. Some where here I found the following link to some source code which ist nearly up to date: http://supremacy.codeplex.com/SourceCon ... mmits.aspx

- Is there any more up to date source code?
- I downloaded the source and tried to build the game, but only got myself more than 40 error messages. Did I forget something or is the source code (intendently) not complete?

Welcome to the forums saibot. mstrobel is writing the code and I suggest you contact him directly by PM (above.) He can best answer your questions about the code. He also works for a living at a real job writing code so give him time to get back to you. You have good ideas and he will be interested in that as well.

Contacting Mike was the first thing I tried after having played supremacy for the first time. However I'm a can be very impatient so I started to read more through the forums. And finally posted here.
How long do you think I should wait for his answer before maybe bothering him again?

The resources to build ships are taken on a turn basis, instead of all when construction is started. It might be confusing when you ar building several ships at the same time.
(Stations, IIRC, take ~16% on the first turn, and then are spread evenly for the remaining turns)

It might be that he is on a business trip at this point. I know he will want to talk to you but we can not say when he will be online.

I've sent Mike a PM detailing some bugs and suggestions that people have posted on the forums today, saibot. I mentioned your updater, resource problem indicator, and structure prioritization suggestions, and I mentioned the problem with the source code in there as well.