Well, what I have gotten out of this is that you can build one hellofa production planet by specialization, but you still need improvements, (military, approval, culture), except for research and banks. If there are no research and banks there is no harm I can see in pushing the slider all the way to the left from the get-go. I guess it might slow down your research a bit in the early going. You can build fantastic
When ships are fleeted I would like to see the fleets in the ship list
I am impressed and I know that I will at least do some experimentation with the specialization strategy. I have not, to my recollection ever had a planet produce over 400 in mfg or research. I usually set the slider to the bottom of income and depend on anomaly bonuses until mid game. I don't really move it much until after T100. After I get Tourist income I am never in the red for credits and I seldom build econ improvements. My strategy is more immersive, I believe, but
I sort of do and don't specialize. I always specialize low quality planets in a multiple planet system, based on any bonuses available. I usually can't resist diversifying planets over PQ13 if there are multiple bonus tiles. Most of my diversified planets will produce close to 100 mgg. and 100 research, by T200, just to give you something to compare. I don't build any wealth improvements until late in the game and they are just to add insult to injury.
When released, we are told the game will include a manual of sorts and a tutorial. There will be a wiki. I am not sure if it is up and running at this point. I don't recall ever seeing a link. [quote]1) I need clarification on the actual effects of researching tech ACROSS THE BOARD. Example: Ship speed vs Ship moves? This is game terminology - it should be explained somewhere. Also the research item descr
LOL, I bought 5-6 ships from the Drengi back when they were cheaper and you could trade when at war. I bought the ships and immediately upgraded them (no cost to upgrade at the time),. I figured if he was dumb enough to sell me the ships he would be dumb enough to let me upgrade them in his ZOC. Well he was not that dumb and he blew them all up. I didn't really care since my purpose was more to get them out of his inventory and not get them into mine. ;) I get what you mea
One advantage of linking the comment is that we can see that the poster did give the game a thumbs up in spite of the snarky comment. As for acting like posting an internet username is like posting their email address, that's just silly. He posted it he owns it.
Just a couple of things I have noticed. You have been working on getting the AI to develop their planets for years and you have done a good job, they recognize hex bonuses, but they do not seem to recognize adjacency bonuses yet. They also seem to put too much priority on expansion vs colony development and the results are poorly developed planets in the late game. For once, I would like to see at least one race put more real priority on wealth. The Iridium would be a good cho
I guess I can live with the pirates being white but otherwise, I find a lot of white on the map off-putting. I have almost declared war on the freaking Iconians several times thinking they were pirates. Thankfully, there is a warning that stops the attack. They should be a darker gray but if they were they would probably be invisible Also, as they improve the game, all the colors should be made to stand out on the map better. Some of the custom races are very hard to see with the dark
I think you have to re-adjust your sliders after bankruptcy. Income is set to the top which stops research and production until it is adjusted. If you have already done this, it may be a bug.
In all of my B5.3 games, (just 3-4), the Altarians start off as usual researching big time and colonizing well. Then they seem to go into a funk and fall back in every category. Is this just a coincidence of a few games or has anyone else notice them playing soft?
I had to see it. :) The whale ships are very cool.
Sorting by ship type is a good idea. As for eliminating unwanted ships, right now, all you can do is obsolete them and hope they don't reappear. If there is a bug involved, hopefully they will catch it and get rid of it.
The arguments over ZOC are humorous and interesting. It reminds me of real life situations where a neighborhood is up in arms because some "unsavory" element has opened a business that you believe brings down real estate value. Another bad analogy (they're all bad) is the fishing infringements that got a lot of press in years past. Bottom line, it happens. The only one that really pisses me off is when, (even with open borders) the Drengin park a Ravager right by one of my planets. Even t
100% agree Lars. I think some people make comments like that because they think it makes them appear to be a game guru.
Wasn't a bug but they have reconsidered and brought back color in B6 (in the dev stream today)
[quote who="Spark026" reply="14" id="3540498"] The best solution to the problem that's currently available is to try to buy the starbase from them, unless you prefer to take it by force. [/quote] Buying is a good option but sometimes early on they want a lot for the trade. If it is too much I just buy all the output of that base (assuming it is a mining base, which nearly all of them are)
I really enjoyed that.
Bottom line for me is they can nerf sensors if they choose to do so and I will play on. As long as I can build them I will build them. I like em. :)
Please, recolor them. The white looks terrible. The B6 release notes say "they will continue to play with them".
It will be one of the first DLC
[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="3" id="3540273"] I started a new game with 5.3, using a custom race I had created in 5.2. I was elected UP Chairman with several major races voting for me. Haven't tried it with a race created in 5.3, if that's the difference. [/quote] Well there you go...I'm wrong as usual :)
I would of course welcome improvements like adding a scroll bar to the parts list on the bottom and making the controls work with keyboard, etc,etc. Beyond this I much prefer the GCII designer over the Stardrive method. GCII makes you feel like you have created something. The Stardrive system is just plugging in various modules on a bunch of squares that might wind up looking okay but there is no design to it . It is just telling the game what you want on the ship and the game designs
They have talked about this in the dev streams and it may be put in a dlc, but Paul seems to sort of dislike lists.
[quote who="xeryx" reply="85" id="3540222"] Well hot dog! I went and tried it today, and it works! I'll bet I was grabbing the transport module right below it without realizing it. Thanks ! [/quote] Now, if they would let you send custom constructors on request we would be all set, but I am not sure that will ever happen. After getting the pragmatic module bonus I have been building all new bases with the 6 module constructors and then I just let the 2 module const