On the empty colony ship. It sounds like that would have to be a bug unless you un-anchored and moved the shipyard out of range to populate ships. At least one planet must be within the "green" range which I think is the same as star bases, 5 hexes. I could be wrong on the 5 hexes but there is a limit to how far the shipyard can be to populate the ship, even when there is no distance decay.
I have made several posts requesting a toggle button on the planet management screen that would take you to the shipyard servicing the planet. It is a minor thing so it may or may not be worth the effort, but I would use it if they put it in.
I thought the Tech victory was disabled for all factions. I know it is for the Terrans. The Cultural Affinity tech is blocked back at Cultural Focus. I am pretty sure Tech V is not in the game at present
The OP has spent a lot of time and done a good job describing the overall SB management problem, and adding some very good suggestions. Others have also posted good ideas around the forum. Brad has made it clear that star bases are going to be a huge part of the game, and I am 100% in favor of this. On the gripping hand :) the SB management system deserves major attention and deserves to be far more dynamic than the good, yet simple solution offered so far. Sometimes w
Yes, this definitely needs to be fixed
easy, don't trade and don't accept trade offers
[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="11" id="3535389"] About the lindenberg [/quote] I guess you mean Hindenburg. I was speaking of Charles Lindbergh who was the first to cross the Atlantic in an airplane.
[quote who="Mohobie" reply="2" id="3535377"] Currently you can make a copy of a race and edit the copy. Then delete the original. The new one would be displayed at the end of the list. Most bottom most right. I hope this helps until they add an edit button. [/quote] Thanks, that works and is about as good as an edit feature.
[quote who="androshalforc" reply="4" id="3535335"] i had a similar issue where i had the survey ship visit the anomaly and a colony ship visit a planet at the same time i said yes to the enter battle then the colonize planet prompt popped and i said no after this the battle did not commence and i could not order the survey ship to the anomaly [/quote] Same thing, but I went ahead and said yes and finished the colonization. My game was also locked
[quote who="SBFMadDjinn" reply="9" id="3535365"] Ofc, that sort of means that small ships shouldn't be able to go far distances, but with starbases of any kind increasing range of all ships, it sort of messes that up. [/quote] True but Lindbergh flew the Atlantic by stripping the ship. Small or tiny ship should not have long range because they should normally be well armed and not have the space for a lot of life support.
Has anyone heard the devs say there would be an edit function for the custom races. Invariable I make some error, like a dumb typo, or some trait I want to change. It is a major pain in the ass to delete the entire faction, then try to reproduce it, to fix a typo. The faction files in docs don't appear to be editable. There are 2 functions on the custom race, delete on the left and copy on the left. Has anyone used copy any what would it be used for?
I see it differently... Tiny Hull -> Speed Boat Small Hull -> Corvette or PT Boat Cargo -> Container Ship Medium -> Cruiser/Destroyer Huge -> Battleship/Carrier Of course, this is debatable but certainly the cargo hulls theoretically carry more mass than any other ship and are able to handle whatever engines you choose if you are willing to trade the space for power. As for the rest, I don't have a problem
I swear, I think map generation is a little bit messed up. I have had several instances of extreme planets being way more than rare when they are supposed to be rare. It seems like it may have something to do with when you mix the variables. When every thing is common, abundant, etc, it seems okay but when you are going for everything on a different setting the map seems to go a little crazy. The only way I have been able to get extremes to act like they should is to make them equal to habita
Your armed surveyor is not weak, it will usually beat the pirates easily. It is overall stronger with double the hit points.
1) The number of planets thing still seems wacky to me. I picked abundant habitable and rare extreme planets. The first 2 planets I found were class 15 extreme...go figure. 4) Yes they need to make the ideology choices clearer 6) This should be a penalty but only a tiny penalty fcs. 7) Hell yes 8) agree
that you could add a mining ring to economic SB and vice versa, Mining SB allow culture and military rings so omitting the econ ring is apparently just an arbitrary decision. Other opinions?
[quote]AI is less likely to trade ships or propose ships, starbases and planets in trades (we know you have been exploiting them!) [/quote] Well I certainly haven't been exploiting them (shifts eyes rapidly from right to left)
I would like to see Star Dock occasionally poll the forum on some of the more frequently mentioned features and suggestions. I know they are reading the forum but we don't get a lot of feed back on what ideas they have noticed and not, beyond a possible of-hand comment in a post or on the dev stream. It doesn't mean that the outcome would have any effect on plans for the game but it would give us and them some idea of the support that some of the ideas have among players.
I wouldn't mind a tech or something that allowed you to move a star base. One tile per turn is very slow and the only way I can imagine wanting to move it is if a 1-2 tile relocation would increase it's effectiveness. Re-positioning a star base is a realistic option and as such it is a reasonable consideration. Easy change as well.
I think the Beta 5 constructor system will be okay. Currently there is a bit of a problem with lag time from when the constructor is requested and when it is sent. If you have some constructor that were already being built and you send them to the star base it messes up the system to some extent. There should also be a way to cancel previous requests. I don't think anyone wants to build fewer constructors we just wqant better ways to manage them Now we need a similar syste
There are relic resources and mining resources that require star bases. The relic resources give bonuses to every planets and they are very powerful (if they are working). The economic (green), manufacturing (orange), research (dark blue) work for sure and can give you up to 60% boost withe each resource fully developed. Opinions vary on whether or not the others are working right, or at all. The others are influen
I vote not to change this. I am much more comfortable when I am the chairman :)
[quote]1st (and foremost) among them would be the ability to swap out components. It would be fantastic if I could click on the component that I want to upgrade and have the new one placed in the exact same spot with the exact same settings! [/quote] good idea [quote]2nd (and very much needed) would be + and - buttons above (or below) the Rotate Offset dials. There are so many times when I sit there going back and forth between 178 and 182 (and oth
If I were you I would talk to SD. They are very accommodating and it costs nothing to try. Everyone's story is unique and in the end it can only be a matter of pushing a few buttons.
I am with erischild. Give me some examples of better rendered games. I have played many 4X games and none jump out at me as being graphically superior to GCIII I am not saying they aren't out there, just show me. :)