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I always start by building troop ships, because I never ever have enough queued or ready when I find natives. Of course, if I do this, it guarantees that I don't find natives I guess you didn't check out galaxy settings for this last game: no natives :lol: Doh! Tbh I wasn't paying much attention at...

Interesting - thank you. I tend to place my scouts less to do with supply and more to do with being one turn from where they might go next. Gladiolus was two turns away, so a four turn round trip. I tend to get anxiety about ships being committed for that long. So yes I tend to fail to optimise in m...

Ophiuchus wrote: ↑Sun Oct 04, 2020 10:01 pm

Magnate wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:54 pm I'm pleased that arc disruptors got nerfed - they used to bypass shields.

? No they didn't.

Didn't they? Oh ok then, I could have sworn an early version did, but never mind.

Hi all, Has any thought been given to how to manage mods? The example I have in mind is this: I want to play two games, interchangeably, using one installation. One totally vanilla, default settings, one with non-default hull costs, tech costs, part costs, combat rounds, weapon damage scaling, struc...

Most welcome!

Issues Bombardment has a significant research cost with a different type of bombardment for each metabolism (this part is potentially OK) but then the specific equipment slot is a unique part for each (not OK). The problem here is that you either have to design and build specific bombardment ships ...

I'm going to sit this one out - I have my own 0.4.10 server running and I'm going to resurrect my own MP game with vastly more systems per player (60 or so) and the experimental anti-chaff measure of very expensive ship hulls (hull cost x3, part cost x0.5 as previously discussed - with colony/outpos...

On tech, yes I see the advantage of eschewing NAI and Roboprod - organic hulls take so long to get compared with robotics that it's a really counter-intuitive strategy to see them as blitzkrieg material - nicely done.

It was with a scout, wasn't it? I think I did the turn too quickly and assumed they were both scouts.

EDIT: I also made an incorrect assumption about which way it went when I escaped it the first time ..

What I can't remember is what sizes are medium and large for you. For me, around 15 systems per player is small, 25 is medium and 40 is large. For me 30-40 is small, 50-70 is medium and 80-100 is large. Under 30 is insane, like I meet people on turn six or seven (this game it was turn 9 or 10 I thi...

Sorry Magnate. At least as sorry as I can be under the circumstances. My internet is playing up, so I'll have to post the screenshot later, but I managed to sneak down the side just out of sight of your scout and plant an outpost for leap frogging. With an outpost at Gladiolus I could launch heavy ...

Lol - that's a bug in the new concede mechanic.

Well that was quick. Have I ever mentioned to any of you that I really dislike small galaxies? It's something I mention two or three times in every single MP thread. This is why. Wobbly has defeated me in 35 turns. Full kudos to wobbly - I do not wish to detract from the skill of his victory - but i...

You can set colonies to influence focus to produce more IP. Please can someone put this in the Pedia entry (Meters->Influence). I spent about four hours playing last night and couldn't work this out - it didn't occur to me that it's an available focus! I guess there will in future be techs that pro...

Just wanted to apologise to Oberlus here - I know it looks like I flounced off in a huff after your hulls proved immune to my mines, but that was a coincidence - I had an HR case blow up at work and had to suspend someone, and I've done nothing else for two days. I was honestly coming to crush them ...