Don't bother with IDLE. I haven't tried the Eclipse plug-in or Komodo, but the IDE I use (apart from Textpad or Vim) is SPE - http://pythonide.blogspot.com/ To write bindings for Python, have you tried looking at SWIG yet? I tried writing Python bindings for a library by hand once. These days I'd either use SWIG or just use ctypes.
After showing the Creating World screen for a while, I got a BSoD, probably related to the Nvidia driver. I'd managed to start games two times earlier in the evening successfully, but the first one died from a BSOD after odd graphical artifacts appeared. I didn't save the error dump from it, though. Debug.err DxDiag.txt <a href=
I just saw this issue as well. The camera started drifting slowly towards the upper-left, and I think it persisted even after I brought up the research screen. It ended after I click-dragged the map.
Another vote for Camp 1. The sophisticated resource management was one of the things that made Elemental interesting to me. A decent AI could probably reduce things to an approximation of Camp 2, but I like the idea of having more control over resource allocation. One additional feature that I'd like to see (and would fit somewhat with both) would be the ability to upgrade your supply lines. In additional to the (Space) Pony Express mentioned earlier, perhaps being able to install rai
Can I add another request to reconsider bots? Even if not in version 1.0, it would be nice if you exposed hooks so that modders could create their own bots to play against other people, even if you never write any of your own beyond trivial ones that demonstrate the AI API. This would probably require the creation of special bot accounts, so that people know what they're going up against, and weak players can't just boost their online ratings by having a bot play for them for a while.