Play-Testing Feedback • Re: Ramscoop?
Edit: Maybe laenfa should be .5 and 1 instead of 1 and 2?Agreed.And it costs a small fortune. Also I've found that by the time you can get them all the scouting is done. These two are the main...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Abandoned Colony
As I alluded to above, an in-game explanation that might work is that the colony takes less time and RP to build, as they can use the existing structure. So maybe cut the build from outpost...
View ArticleOnline Voice Chat Meeting Topics • Topics for online voice chat meeting...
This is the topics thread for our next online voice chat meeting on Tuesday, September 24th 2024.Please post suggestions for topics and discuss them here.Statistics: Posted by Vezzra — Sun Sep 08,...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Re: Ships in production should cost upkeep
This means if you spent at least PP on your ship project (99 Luftballons uhm comsats) and pause the project you still have to pay upkeep for those 99 comsats.If you only plan to build, but did not...
View ArticleStory • Re: Species: Whumsoom
If we make them a playable Species, what about making them (and whatever other Species going for Asteroids, if there are to be some other) very, very slow to colonize, without colony ships but...
View ArticleStory • Re: Master List of New Native Species
Inferno:Nightsiders: Planetbound, Great Detection, Tidally Locked Special, OrganicBirexian: Planetbound, No Ships, Bad Detection, RoboticZenothoan: Telepathic, Good Industry, No Ships,...
View ArticleScripting & Balancing • Re: The race for transcendence with Trancedance...
* destroying a Trancedance building should give your empire a lasting penalty (everybody will hate the government for that)Now that we have Species' Opinion, that part could be easily implemented.And...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Re: Monster oriented trait
A stand-in for that could be a "Monsters Warfare Taming" military Policy that some particular Species would like.Unlocked by Domesticated Mega-Fauna, of course.I know that in the past I advocated...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Re: New species trait: Shields
After quite a few games (mostly single-player, we didn't have Aciremas in last MP games I played) I'll say that though the new mechanism isn't bad, I miss the old bonus for Aciremas : with the flat +1...
View ArticleScripting & Balancing • Re: Monsters
How come the Small Juggernauts have a Graviton Pulsar ?Which means a Core slot if I'm not mistaken ?Is that a new addition ?It makes them quite hard to kill with fighters...That's fine for Juggernauts...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Re: Turn Order Event Pedia Page
This list doesn't include monsters maturing...Is it part of "All effects applied" ?Or of "ship-parts upgrade" ?Or of "things made are added to the universe" ?Of of "scripted events processed"...
View ArticlePlay-Testing Feedback • Re: Fighter damage bonus from pilots trait
Good Pilots do not get any advantage for their Interceptors, if I'm not mistaken.Instead of having them getting one more Interceptor per Hangar, which is quite powerful, why not have them launch one...
View ArticleOther Game Design • New Species Trait : Asabiyyah
Now that we have Species Opinions and Annexation, it would be interesting to have Traits relative to that.'Asabiyyah (Arabic: عصبيّة) is the concept used by Ibn Khaldun to analyze cohesion of...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Re: New Species Trait : Asabiyyah
Values, taken from Species' Fluff (not caring about Balance yet, mostly about a reasonable amount of Species in each category) :Ultimate 'Asabiyyah :GeorgeTrith Beige Goo ? Great 'Asabiyyah...
View ArticleGeneral Discussion • Re: Twenty-eighth game on the multiplayer slow game server
I most probably won't be able to play until late evening.Statistics: Posted by LienRag — Sat Sep 21, 2024 6:30 am
View ArticleDev Blogs • Re: I'm busy!
I'm travelling with limited or inconsistent computer and internet access for roughly the next 1-2 weeks.Statistics: Posted by Geoff the Medio — Sat Sep 21, 2024 7:25 pm
View ArticleOnline Voice Chat Meeting Topics • Re: Topics for online voice chat meeting...
Due to being overhelmed with RL stuff (job related and otherwise), I again won't be able to attend - sorry.Statistics: Posted by Vezzra — Sun Sep 22, 2024 2:18 pm
View ArticleAnnouncements • Re: Monthly Online Voice Chat Meetings
The next online voice chat meeting will be on Tuesday, September 24th 2024, 6pm UTC or 8pm Vienna/Berlin time.Link to Jitsi room: https://meet.jit.si/ThoroughNovembersConvertPossiblyPlease post...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Research Race
In the current MP game we all took Physical Brain on turn 3, and started to build the Automated History Analyzer.Which is a logical consequence of the AHA being very good to get, and the sooner the...
View ArticleOther Game Design • Achievements
In Civilization 2 (not sure about the other versions), you had periodical "sitreps" with a ranking of the best-to-worse seven Civs on one criteria.By watching the Wonders, you also could have an...
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