IMO spawning additional pop for free would be OP, period.

Maybe instead redirect population growth from full planets?

Habitat Modules can be used to take control of planets with Natives, even if you don't have the tech to settle the planet type.

I don't think the average player would have any idea, intuitively, of the difference between "upgrading" a ship and "refitting" one. One presumably doesn't refit a ship unless the refit is an upgrade. If that's the issue, call it "auto-refit" or something while the old...

Off the top of my head, you can use the developer options to cycle through the available colors for your own empire.

You can also change AI faction colors by switching to them (enable the AI Dev option, then Alt+Click on one of their planets).

"VISCID ADAPT VISCID IMPROVISE"

...and then a new cypher.

Hrm.

Better nix the androids... ships instead.
Enough ships for all non-rebellious population.

I noticed that S->H and H->S
And if I'm right that BLF=YOU, B->Y... so the second letter is the penultimate letter...

OK, I think it's backwards alphabet:


Uhh, I hope not for their taste?

Gonna bet in this thread it was "WHO LIKE VISCID" "WE ALL LIKE VISCID". Latest message is "I LIKE VISCID UHH FRIEND" But then both B and D map to W Also "TOO" would make more sense than "UHH": I LIKE VISCIDS TOO FRIEND So BLF is probably not WHO... ...

Argh. It figures they'd be in German. I'm your typical ignorant American who only reads English. I am not sure, but I doubt the "second empire" books were ever published in English. The highest number I ever read was something like #88 in the Ace editions. Let me check the list on perrype...

Just remembered another old game - Perry Rhodan: Operation Eastside. Gas Giants there could not be settled - but they had moons, and the moons were treated exactly like planets. No chit? Somebody made a Perry Rhodan game? Man I remember reading those books as a kid. Can I blink on "tell me mor...

We want to avoid the situation where you can always place colonies on all four orbital slots. This is partly for the flavor of the game -- good colony sites should be rare enough that factions may get into conflict over the best ones -- and partly for mechanical considerations, as increasing the nu...

Just remembered another old game - Perry Rhodan: Operation Eastside.
Gas Giants there could not be settled - but they had moons, and the moons were treated exactly like planets.

DanTheTerrible wrote:How does one open a .7z file? I don't seem to have an application to unpack it with, do I have to download something?

With 7-zip:
https://www.7-zip.org/

Basically you just unpack the mod into the "Mods" directory.

So using PopReport as an example, you would end up with
\steamapps\common\Stars in Shadow\Mods\PopReport\

And that contains the subfolders Drawers and GUI

Arioch wrote:But I'm also not sure how useful that information would be. The max pop calculation doesn't penalize you for having sub-optimal races in the mix.

One of my pops unexpectedly suffering from overcrowding seems like enough of a penalty to me.

Arioch wrote:Max population is subjective to population type, so any display of max population by definition has to take this into account.

But the maximum for one pop type can go down, even if the overall maximum goes up - having a more detailed preview than currently would be useful.