When filtering by Light, some color schemes come through that are Dark. Is this a bug or do those color schemes have both light and dark versions? I looked at one of the dark "light" schemes and it didn't seem to have a light version on the github page.
I agree many of the default Vim syntax highlighting files leave a lot to be desired. You can improve it though and Vim highlighting is actually very powerful. I use a C syntax highlighting improvement plugin to add (among other things) highlighting to operators and function names in calls[1].
You can also quite easily customise syntax highlighting by placing your own additional syntax file in .vim/after/syntax for a language. I use this to add some more custom keywords. You could quite easily add highlight support for ".Else" in an after/syntax file.
Not enough viable endgame strategies, not enough units/factions/styles. Not enough mods, not smooth enough control/UI/UX.
Other than that, then engine is amazing, the concept is solid, the potential is there, the possibilities are endless! ChronoShift or what's that nifty feature is amazing for keeping long games in-sync with each other, and so on.
Currently Zero-K delivers the most fun in terms of time and money investment needed.
It was a disappointment for myself. The 3d planets was interesting, but not in a big way during actual gameplay. It actually made the UI a little more annoying and just didn't reach the level of the professional UI of Supreme Commander.
Supreme Commander is still the best I've played and it is still going strong under the Forged Alliance Forever community.
http://www.faforever.com/
FYI: Chris Taylor now works for Wargaming. There has been no word yet on what project he may be doing there.
> FYI: Chris Taylor now works for Wargaming. There has been no word yet on what project he may be doing there.
Wargaming bought Gas Powered Games in 2013, thus Chris Taylor works for them. Within months, Wargaming additionally bought the Total Annihilation rights from the THQ bankruptcy auction. Taylor is likely working on a TA sequel.
Disappointing for me as well. It don't regret backing it in the slightest since it was the best chance by far to get another SupCom-like but it is flawed at best.
The units are mostly uninteresting. I don't know why they have separated the land factory into vehicle & bots factory, they seem mostly interchangeable to me. The stratospheric & inter planetary game-play is very limited (you have only one type of attack satellite that you mass produce).
The UI has some catastrophic oversights. Even if you have visible coverage on a whole planet, you don't get any alert if an enemy sneaks in (only when he/she attacks). So you have to constantly monitor all your planet(s).
Procedural generation + round planets creates maps that IMO are not very interesting.
Doesn't YC give 120K for 7%? An incubator/accelerator that isn't as good as YC (and therefore has less to offer) should have a better deal than that to make up for the difference. Given YC as a baseline, an investment of 10K GBP == 15488 USD should be taking less than 0.9% of the company.
>An incubator/accelerator that isn't as good as YC should have a better deal than that to make up for the difference
Only from the perspective of someone being recruited by both YC and the alternative. If YC isn't an option (as it isn't for most people), then it doesn't much matter whether or not YC is offering a better deal to someone else.
And at some point your only option is Vinny, who hangs out all day at the bar over on 4th. His deals can be...problematic, but he'll give them to anyone.
"The ideal company would have two or three founders. We’ll consider those with four or five. We’re reluctant to accept one-person companies, though we have funded a few."
There exists a large group of technical people who are currently only capturing a small fraction of the value they are creating for whom getting into a position where they would fit the YC ideal company is untenable. For this group EF is a valuable option and I'm quite surprised this model isn't more widespread.
Everybody in the EF cohort are quite smart so if they were in a position to take the YC deal i'm sure most would :-)
Founder Institute charges GBP 1k, takes 3.5% equity, redistributes monies from any liquidity event to the alumni of founders institute and takes a 15% cut of that.
Seedcamp is "€25k for 5% w/ optional further €50k for no more than 2% (totalling €75k for 7%)" [0], which at current exchange rates is around £18K for 5%.
Just as afraid to invest as any other VC/acc/angels in London. This is why it's not a Silicon Valley. I mean how are you even supposed to rent a fancy office in the center of London?
