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There is a difference worth making clear, between the current focus of a planet, and the available foci of a planet. I suggest we use different wording to keep this clear: "This planet is set to [the] Research focus" implies information about its current state. (I'm with Geoff that the def...

Thanks Wobbly, i would indeed love to see low down at 0.05 or 0.02, especially for monsters. Are those low/medium/high numbers specific to specials, or are they also used for monsters and starlanes and other settings? IMO it would be better to have different values for different settings options. Al...

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...