Here we go again yes, but rightfully so. The game will continue to be broken until the silly stacking is fixed. I do not understand how people are against fixing such a gamey / cheesy / exploitive / blatantly overpowered mechanic which removes ALL of the whole exploration thing - you know, that whole first X in the genre's name.
[quote who="abiessener" reply="26" id="3556339"] The patch is now live as an opt-in. [/quote] Yaaay [e digicons]:D[/e] The timezones sadly do not work in my favour though.
I suspect you have downloaded someones faction which included custom ship blueprints and not moved them into the Design folder in the root directory. Ship designs can't be read from the mod's Design folder (yet).
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[quote who="Franco fx" reply="34" id="3552311"] Quoting Echillion, reply 32 A lot of people will be upset if the devs get rid of them. Way more than the relatively few ( zealots [e digicons]:)[/e] ) who campaign against them. [/quote] I doubt most people want the game to remain
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[quote who="Arumba" reply="8" id="3552227"] There was a really interesting reply to my video about a few 'exploits' in the game, here is what he said and suggested: (From 'Dare Daemon') The issue with the sensor range is easily fixed once you look at what's going on. All parts provide a linear upgrade that stacks, sensor range is no exception to it. The thing is that the stat the player cares abo
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[quote who="Dumhed" reply="9" id="3551356"] If somehow they they could animate it like the space battle viewer... now that would be something [/quote] I remember them saying in a dev stream during one of the earlier betas (when invasion was just a small popup window) that invasion was going to use the same battle viewer as the fleet combat.
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I would argue that the one unit per turn is a good argument for not specialising all of your planets so heavily. Without specialising them so much, you could have a lot more Spaceyards being sponsored by many planets different planets late game with moderate Manufacturing instead of only a few with crazy high Manufacturing - thus making better use of the total empire Manufacturing and wasting less.
[quote who="econundrum1" reply="5" id="3551551"] ^ means to the power of doesn't it so 2*pop*(0.7*pop) essentially. [/quote] Sorry, but I felt a need to point out that 2*pop^0.7 is not the same as what you have written.
[quote who="mattiscool555" reply="192" id="3550657"] Which is why MP should have never been added. That is really the only thing that is affected. [/quote] What rubbish. MP does not detract from the single player experience at all. And if you would pay more attention, the ridiculous stacking is an issue in single player as the AI doesn't know how to keep on stacking any one thing - so will never be able to make use of the gamey possiblities that the player
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Thanks. Just freed up about 3 GB.
You need to consider weapon range, accuracy, rate of fire, cost, and mass. Not just the damage.
Oh look, they agree on the idea of stacking sensor ships being a bad one. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] [quote who="RPS"] The effect stacks, weirdly, so a ship with more sensors can see farther into the unknown. With such a ship, you can pick out the best planets before anyone else is even close. Scouts become unnecessary and exploration is a case of dragging the camera around the revealed map rather than visiting distant stars</stron
MrStarTrek, you seem to be asking for a completely unbalanced game, while your answer to those wanting it balanced is for them to not play the game well. Do games not benefit from game play being balanced across the board?
[quote who="Maiden666" reply="53" id="3547623"] The first thing to keep in mind is that actually, the AI knows the whole map right from the start. [/quote] I'm pretty sure this isn't true. Or it is at least Brad's intention that it is not true at some point in the future. The AI have to scout out habitable planets, etc.
I always love tooltips breaking down the numbers Hidden maths is also a bit of a pet peeve of mine. It's good to now know how Production is calculated from Population.
The bonuses from approval are shown in the tooltips for Growth, Influence, and Resistance, but not for any of the three production categories.
Oh really? I had no idea. Sorry. [e digicons]:blush:[/e] Guess this whole thread can be deleted then. They should probably also mention that production gets a bonus in the Approval tooltip. It currently only mentions Influence, Growth, and Resistance.
Here we go. A real example showing what I think is an incorrect Raw Production: 2.5 Population, +5 Colony Capital, but 11 Production?
This screenshot shows the very beginning of a Drengin game. http://i.imgur.com/czW71UQ.jpg New game as Drengi, population 10, +5 manufacturing from Civ capital, yet 100% manufacturing results in 19.4 production. Are there bonuses to raw production that are not displayed anywhere, as my understanding was population = raw production, or is this a bug? Edit: Ah, Colony tile gives +5 too, but still seems t
Great work so far Stardock. Looking forward to what the future brings to Galciv. (But I am concerned that you are going to have a repeat of Elemental with a too early a release)
Is it not obvious why it is a poor decision to allow with no limit or diminishing returns? node10 put it very succinctly: [quote] it's trivialising a large chunk of the game [/quote] And on top of that, the AI doesn't make such ridiculously overpowered sensor ships - which means the human player will always have an advantage in the intel game. I remember the devs saying that they won't add anything to the game where the AI can't
[quote who="Maiden666" reply="32" id="3546102"] I don't have a problem with scaling engines. A 1 ton car needs a lot less horsepower than a semi. That said, perhaps stages of scaling would be best. [/quote] In the real world, engines would also have diminishing returns - although to a lesser degree than sensors - so I wouldn't be opposed to those also being reworked in game.
More details would be great. I love the new weapon tooltips showing range, accuracy and rate of fire. Detailed tooltips are fantastic - can never have too many of those.
Press G a few times. It cycles between the three different options.
Give it time. They'll add to the game over the course of the year and beyond.
