zolobolo wrote:What if Humans dont get tanks at all?

Then Humans wouldn't get Hovertanks or Battle Mechs either.

You're probably not going to have dozens and dozens of ships loaded with Assault Marines. It may be inconvenient to manually load them, but it doesn't seem like that much of an inconvenience.

Unfortunately not.

The difficulty with adding a lot of new bonus techs, and especially with having each faction start with four of them, is that if they are significant enough to actually alter gameplay, then they will really mess with systems balance. As we are finding with the current economic changes, any significa...

Terraforming in the sense of altering the planet type focuses mainly on temperature, atmospheric pressure, and abundance of surface water. "Fertility" right now has more to do with environmental factors than it does specifically with soil quality, but it's worth reevaluating how fertility ...

The proposed new terraforming system simplifies the transition diagram (and hopefully makes it more intuitive), and makes it the same for all factions. Whether habitation domes tech is required for colonization, and habitability according to biome type, will still depend on race. http://stars-in-sha...

There is also a useful terraforming guide here:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/ ... =872111746

However, the whole system is going to change substantially in the next expansion.

Pardon my ignorance on the original topic, but I thought discontent races didn't work? Or was Nweismuller referring to a "socially disconnected" race, and not "unhappy and nearly revolting"? Gaiads do not produce any economy or industry on their own. I'm not sure if this acts as...

gaerzi wrote:After uninstalling the game, erasing the files, quitting the Steam client and restarting it, then downloading again, it finally worked.

Glad to hear it.

I haven't heard of this specific problem before, but I have encountered some very strange and frustrating issues with Steam from time to time. Clearly something is wrong with the installer here, but I'm not sure what that might be. Perhaps the file manifest is somehow corrupted. The first thing I wo...

Another option that may help is contracted view where stacks of identical ships are represented by single icon with count and [+] on it. I suggested this a while ago in the suggestions thread. Presenting multiple ships as a single icon removes the ability to select individual ships, or to display i...

It's mainly an issue with the fleet sizes; the display doesn't scroll, so it has to size the icons to fit all of the ships into the space available. The UI really isn't designed to handle 100+ ship fleets. I'm not sure double-click would work very well due to the fast-clicking that is normally done ...

zolobolo wrote:Suggest to not start any faction from a system on theedge of a Spiral map (cant say to the other maps types but probably makes sense for box as well)

I don't think we have a Spiral map.

zolobolo wrote:Like the details on the War Cruiser - lots of windows everywhere on the ships maybe even too many

Oscillating lights rather than windows. The only "windows" are the plexiglass spheres on the colony and transport... similar in concept to those on the Phidi and Orthin ships.

evil713 wrote:Looking at the image, are we seeing damage over time weapons?

Just ideas at the moment, but that's a possibility...

Updated ship designs.