OpenRA

Looks like Katzsmile is using an updated OpenRA engine to create a custom GDI/NOD mod http://www.moddb.com/mods/cc-renessans

It would be nice if the thief could be added again but not to only steel money, but also units and technology. Refinery/Silo : steel money, maybe few dollars over time to really bankrupt the enemy or steel the next ore truck that unloads here Barracks/Factory/Port/Construction Yard/Tech/Repair : ste...

There are in fact AI battles in Starcraft organised by universities using a self-made API for machine controlled matches. http://code.google.com/p/bwapi/wiki/Competitions

Maybe the network protocol is bandwidth hungry. I am not sure as I have a weak subnotebook and only 3k aDSL.

I also found Dune 2000 Formats Specs if someone wants to contribute code.

As Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 and their XNA Framework is based on .Net and C# I don't think it is too slow for games. I had some performance issues when playing with bots on an Island scenario and they could not reach me via the land way. The pathfinding algorithm made the game repeatedly pause f...

I talked to Chris. He might do the game mechanics coding if someone converts the Raw D2k graphics into compatible SHPs. If you look in the games source code history there were plans to support Dune2000s .r8 file format: https://github.com/pchote/OpenRA/blob/7b10221572bbde9ece0010cafb97209367b67bef/O...

There are some tests at https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/tree/master/mods

d2k is badly broken
palettetest replaces the RA MCV with the one from Dune 2000

Already created the windtrap (or at least tried to). It worked in the dev mod "palettetest" (from git) if you rename it as powr.shp and add it like the MCV you can replace the power plant in RA. However transparency at the borders did not work well. I did not use the RA.Utility.exe because I did not...