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I don't really like your modifications, but it may be NIH syndrome, as objectivity compels me to admit that they're quite clever... OK, I think that I was able to pinpoint what I don't like in your modifications : 1 - Spawns on Celestephyte colony : having it spawn on all Celestyphytes cheapens the...

Mechanically you have a blockade if you are the only 1 with armed ships from a previous turn. That's a very clear explanation, thanks. This exact phrasing should be included in the Pedia, at the start of the article about blockade (and let the rest of the articles detail the explanation, and explai...

Construction realm is often passed over for production/growth/research realms. Putting a social slot on Architectural Psychology helped shift the balance but more could be done. Right. Maybe a straight -10% building cost for architectural monofilaments Wrong. Imho, at least. The problem I see with ...

wobbly wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 6:52 am Perhaps the shield penalty on charge could also increase with speed, but max. out at 1/2 shield?

Possibly reasonable.
Is there a way to make it increase less linearly than damage ?

Maybe the way to allow lighthouses to work at distance is to give only 1/2 effect if not in-system? Yeah, that could be an idea... I feel a bit like the way to balance this might be to oscillate? If I add something for the detecting side, next tweak goes to the stealth side? And I insist that the w...

Why not a Military Regime indeed ? No social slot at first, and an Economic slot that opens a Social slot could also be interesting. But Confederation should maybe be unlocked earlier¹, but I doubt that it's good to unlock it directly at start, and more importantly by its fluff it's clearly a Social...

wobbly wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:23 am I left a ship behind to prevent him gaining the blockade.

Oh, I wasn't aware that it was possible.
I guess I'll have to check the Pedia then.
Where exactly is the explanation ?

Nice change of background image !

Some call it in freeorion also the "boring gameplay" principle. I'm not saying that the current situation is good. Actually, I believe that I talked about how it made strategy quite one-dimensional a while ago. But when a core staple of strategy (which consequently is intuitive for most p...

Oh, and it would be nice to understand what happened on turn 191 (? I think) when Drkosy ships where on Izsm whatever and Wobbly ships were still able to pass through the system without getting blocked.

I would imagine saves should be enough If some core dev can confirm that saves should be enough, I'm fine with stopping the game, since we finished the monster test (and we also tested that a blockaded monster disturbs Collective Thought Networks, which may not be optimal). Else it's probably worth...

I don't know if Oberlus would be interested, but we may decide a gentleman's agreement to let you and him fight one-on-one ? And maybe even let o01eg pass through our space to join the fight, as long as he stays in passive mode (and doesn't bring you scouts) while in our territory ? The rule would ...

It would be fairly easy to add a rule or set of rules for how to handle this... IIRC the consensus was either to hand the Empire to an AI (that won't change its diplomatic settings) or to have all the planets become Independents and the ships staying where they are (and finish travel if they're on ...

AFAIK, yes. It's a serious attack, where someone infiltrated the team (which consisted mainly of the main maintainer) for long enough to gain trust and get accepted as a second maintainer. The original maintainer (so, not JiaT75) has done no wrong except trusting a very patient attacker that took th...

Apparently Monsters don't benefit nor suffer from Stealth situational modifiers ? Or is it just not labeled so ? We have a Dimensional Drifter on an empty system, it gets 75 Stealth and no "-10 conspicuous on empty space". Is that on purpose ? Also I got the mail "Turn 200 has started...