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In previous galcivs this was done by the 'goodguys' allying together, and helping each other, but without ideology being a driving factor, I agree that some further bonuses to being a less warlike species is probably warranted at the late game meta level, not huge changes just small tweaks. Some ideas are: Diplomatic Diplomatic Goodwill built up over time,

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Expanding the pirate system: Giving their leaders a face is my preference too. With limited diplomacy options. Perhaps you can pay them off for a limited time or pay them to attack someone, but you can't ally with them. Extreme trait for this is: Megacruel, they are always trying to extort you for protection money and ships + no permanent alliances Fighter escorts for colony ships would be cool, giving them a minor carrier role. Pirates go in

Any chance of finally getting steam to allow shipsets with races, so we can download complete races? Who do we have to call kill ? I thought this was going to be a temporary thing, but as it stands the workshop is a bit chaotic for downloading custom races with shipsets.

Purchased :) surprised but happy to see this as the first race but VERY happy to see a new faction ability in there, that's what will make or break these race mods to come, different ways of playing the game and different styles of opponent to play against. As a bonus of course modders get another ability to distinguish their races too. So two thumbs up! I also like that they have significant penalties to these ships, as they are likely to have more, clever balancin

When adding additional shipsets, in the dropdown box to select them when customizing a race, eventually it goes off the screen. It needs a scroll bar. You only need one mod to demonstrate this bug: Race Mod This adds the max amount the UI can support, if you add one more from any race it goes off the screen in the dropdown box and isn't selectable. I am using a high res monitor so its not the re

[quote who="naselus" reply="13" id="3580969"] Not until we can be sure that the AI notices (it won't) and so doesn't go off causing massive constant wars with each other, and also that the scouting command doesn't go off and begin stupid numbers of wars whenever you let it auto-scout. [/quote] Not for general play no I agree but for a xenophobic, invading or expansionist race who either don't want people entering their borders, or want

Not poked around in the files since beta but is it not possible to just make the penalty much higher to relations across the board, so all races suffer high penalties with ships in each others territories, of course that'd mean more war but :) Further for general use, a racial trait would be nice in that regard, so races that we wanted it on could have further customization from the norm.

This is great I had imagined myself making something like this as a mod when I first heard about the game. However can you please add some negative traits as well, I know you've said not having a bonus is a negative, but for those races we'd like to make skewed to one extreme or the other it'd really help, thanks for all the work.

Here are some other ideas of popular ones people might well make: Aliens Dr Who Dune Farscape Wingcommander Firefly I am guessing some of the factions in these could be minors if you wanted the full package of major/minors, to help really flesh out the mod :) Browncoats minors for example would be awesome from firefly.

What you are both saying is you've found one strategy the AI needs to counter? (Starbases aside) I am not sure how you'd address it but logistics, capacity and miniaturization vs the AI is very effective then? Perhaps the AI can try to move around your fleet more and strike in multiple places if you build one super fleet? I haven't tried this strategy but I expect others will or have to come up with some counter ideas.

If you play as a trading civilization or one that specializes in diplomacy it should be perfectly possible to trade plenty of techs. If you play as an ally or friend why would a race not give you their techs? Not saying your idea is bad or good, just commenting on your overall assessment.

Pirate bases! Great stuff :) Thanks for all the effort on the AI and the fixes. Never really liked the surrender mechanics myself always seemed too absolute and almost cheating I felt. I like the idea that races would fight to the last man, at least some of them, others would of course surrender. Others still would negotiate a protectorate race treaty, or become a vassal civilization, with the potential then to break away at a certain date. If we are mirroring real world examples anyw

I personally have no problem with an AI cheating. All I want is a fun game. Sure try to make it smart and play to its advantages, rather than just throwing bonuses at it but at the end of the day, whatever makes it a fun game. Thanks for getting stuck in to it!

I think some period of transition would be preferred, as them going from instantly rebellious to instantly happy, shouldn't be the case either. Maybe a potential happiness number and an actual happiness number that drifts towards it slowly? It wouldn't add much, unless it was a slow drift as then you'd notice it.

There is always a huge back and forth about this :) I am in the camp that like upgrading their starbases into bigger and bigger constructions personally, I like the AOE effect and I like the idea of having a military starbase worth something for example that's tough to fight one on one. That said I am fine with increasing cost and making them worth more proportionally. Also diminishing returns makes a lot of sense if they are all clustered together.

Everyone has an opinion and no opinion is wrong, it's preference. Sadly you've not really said anything in the first post apart from I don't like it, please look at other games. What other games? What don't you like? How would you improve it? Don't be afraid of getting your preferences out there, that way they can be actually debated and looked at.

All in all I love a lot of what they have done, fantastic work on custom races, and I put this in another thread but just to make sure it's seen. A color palette would be ideal for all of these, as would a button to import pictures, and a tooltip to tell you their format and size requirements. The map theme colors custom races use are an actual problem too, as there isn't enough to pick from. Territory could blur together very easily with several custom rac

I think it's more that the military build up modifier is broken, that's obviously part of it.

It's the custom race's map colors that bother me a fair bit, as there simply isn't enough of them in the drop down menu to distinguish races. That's the biggest thing that jumped out at me at a quick glance. A custom palette for all options would be great. I do like that themes have been made, that was nice work, but selecting our own should be possible as well.

Did the war mechanics change in a patch? I am waiting for beta 5 to restart a game and haven't played for a bit. If not what's stopping you declaring war? Just go into diplomacy with that race, then declare war. If it's a UP resolution which I haven't seen yet, can you leave the UP if you want total control yet (also not something i've done yet). It's a beta however, so the game certainly has issues, and will continue to have

[quote who="Hulsten" reply="5" id="3531537"] Well, shields should only offer some protection against projectiles, not as effectively as armor. The problem with the rock, paper, scissors is, if you play against the ai, you might as well build only rock. Because even if you have some losses, eventually the ai's rockdefences are depleted and you can entirely ignore the paper and scissors defences. Now set rock as lasers, and throw a few ECM supports in there. The missiles won't hit

I just noticed in one of the screen shots, parasitic is one of the abilities :) Fun I can finally make my intelligent virus/parasite race a reality. Thank you!

Did some googling to see if it had any bad connotations. Kun, Japanese term of honor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_honorifics#Kun Two universities, an Airport and virus. http://www.acronymfinder.com/KUN.html An Old Communist leader http://www.merriam-webster.

[quote who="Ashbery76" reply="8" id="3531520"] I think the game needs to model population types.Them having minor race traits is pointless if you cannot use them when they become generic populations after invasion.. [/quote] Rather than micro pop types. How about an empire wide bonus for being allied, conquering or trading with them?