Dacarnix wrote:Interesting.

Having colonists in orbit of (for example) a Barren planet next to Taribor will allow you to colonize Taribor without Habitat Domes?

I never would have guessed that.

Or am I misreading you?

That's correct.

The open ocean on Earth is like a vast desert; the vast majority of sea life exists in shallow water near the coasts or on the sea floor. Those organisms that you do find in the open ocean are often only there because they're on their way to somewhere else. The open ocean at the surface receives ple...

The maximum population calculation is abstracted so that you are rewarded for adding population that is more suitable to underused biomes on a planet, but you are not penalized for having sub-optimal population (as we feel that would lead to very tedious micromanagement).

Arid worlds (including Steppes) have variable atmospheres. Those with a "normal" atmospheric density (listed in the planet info pane and indicated by greening on the surface) don't have the Hostile Environment penalty; those with a "thin" atmosphere do have the penalty. All of th...

zolobolo wrote:Charged damage I assume is the same concept you have implemented to Orthin Busbar systems?

No. Charged/electrical damage type does extra internal damage if it penetrates armor and shields.

Could this be used to generate unique planets by seeding different starting water elevation levels even within the same class of planet? Yes. Or to dynamically generate the devastation level? e.g.: There would be two sea levels and coloring, one representing overall sea level (blue) and the other t...

"Viable" is not the same as "optimal." I can and do win games using ion cannons, so it's not accurate to say that they are not viable. I think we need to add mods for non-lasers, and I think it would help to implement the "charged" damage type to distinguish ions from l...

Working on a planet asset that's designed from the ground up to be transformable from Arid all the way to Island, and to also have a Swamp world phase.

The colors represent separate elevation layers.

The starlane mechanic was really restrictive in Endless Space 1 (you were essentially blind to anything outside your territory), but it works a lot better in Endless Space 2.

zolobolo wrote:Well I think this is due to the lack of interation with the core elements of the game.

I think you just described MOO4 in a nutshell. It doesn't feel like the designer really understood what made the original fun.

Are you also working on DLCs 3 and 4 parallel to 2 so there might be a shorter time between 2 and 3 then 1 and 2? The Fiirkaz ship concept looks awesome was thining maybe you guys are toiling also over the later DLC in parallel :) No, not really. We talk about ideas for future features and where we...

Would I be right to guess, based on that terraforming chart, you can also try and move a glacier closer to an island with terraforming stations? Of interest to me, given how I mostly play Phidi, and increasing the population cap of Eluz a bit is fairly important to increasing its productivity. Also...

The earliest available terraforming techs will be Terraforming Stations (these are essentially atmosphere processors similar to those seen in Aliens ) which allow you to thicken or this the atmosphere, Solar Mirrors which allow you to raise the temperature, and Solar Shades which allow you to lower ...

Both Coral and Paradise transformations will be special cases, and not just regular destinations on the default tech tree. And the effects will not necessarily be the same as they are now. While it might not be a huge deal to do special versions of the homeworlds as they could probably be handled mo...

The original continent map of Verrold: