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Sounds interesting, but I don't really understand the installation instructions. They look like stuff to copy into a terminal, but I can't tell for sure.
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Are there any restrictions on its use? It's been established that it'd become pretty degenerate if there aren't.
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It seems to me the biggest problem with fleeing would be pulling back your ship right after defeating the other ship, preventing the other player from ever being able to choose proper counter ships and therefore always keeping the upper hand. A good solution to this would be to force retreating players to immediately select their next ship, which would prevent such an abusive strategy from working (the danger in the time it takes to retreat would handle the rest), while at the same time disallowing players from fleeing during the victory ditty (to prevent the player from bypassing the nerf).
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We had our first test game. Apparently there is something in code in this fashion: "If the player retreats 3 times successfully, he then returns to the travel mode". xaionaro is currently reading the code and trying to find it.
Anyway, it proved out to be deeper and less broken that I thought. First we were abusing it quite a lot, but then we laid down the first rule: Ships are not allowed to retreat for 1 minute after warping in. This might need a timer or something in the code. We can also explain it with something like: "The warp engine is still cooling down."
Then Xaionaro pulled something that was playing a bit on the border of this rule and retreated immediately after defeating my ship. We decided that this should be allowed, even though technically you are retreating in before 1 min has passed after the enemy ship has warped in. But, using the above logic (systems cooling down) and the "keeping upper hand in the game of rock-paper-scissors" -gameplay mechanic we decided to allow this.
I guess that first game ended with the retreat of my fleet? 
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I'll put the Windows exe + all other files to my mirror once we get this rolling.
EDIT: http://gekko.frud.biz/uqmtutorial/mirror.html
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My only hope is that more people playing this will result in work to get this bug fixed in a stable version.
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Added a quote and italicized word.
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