Machinations is a real-time strategy game where you manage and direct swarms of ships to take over and destroy your enemies. Plan your attacks carefully to gain the the most tactically advantageous Nodes (space-stations which build and house your fleet). Upgrade your Nodes with defensive lasers or build shipyards to augment your fleet. Capture super-weapons to cut swathes through your enemies' fleet. Play against up to three AI players in frantic, randomised melees matches. Or complete the Campaign mode to help Admiral Sudo (your robotic commander) reclaim his lost empire.

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Quickplay station icons are misleading (Games : Machinations : Forum : Feedback on design : Quickplay station icons are misleading) Locked
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MilkFairy
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Nov 18 2012 Anchor

When configuring a Quickplay scenario, the stations are represented by simple geometric shapes as follows :

Station with 0 upgrade slots : circle
Station with 2 upgrade slots : rectangle
Station with 3 upgrade slots : slightly larger circle
Station with 4 upgrade slots : square

It's easy to confuse the symbol for a station with 3 upgrade slots with that of a station with 0 upgrade slots.

I'm pretty sure deller79 confirmed that this was done for convenience at this point in development (Android has built-in functions to draw rectangles and ovals, but other shapes require custom definitions to be written) , but the obvious resolution would be to change the symbol for a station with 3 upgrade slots to a triangle.

(NB: in the screenshot below, I've made annotations in red, outlining the number of upgrade slots for each station.)

Machinations Bug Images 0025

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