These are the original star concepts: Very nice :) So the Black Holes were planned from the start just didnt make it into the game yet? Well, when you're in the concept phase, you throw ideas around. We didn't have any gameplay use cases for black holes at the start, so we didn't put them in initia...

zolobolo wrote:

Arioch wrote:I'm hopeful that we'll be able to add black holes and associated technologies (warp interdictors and gravity well generators) in the next DLC

I would love to see your take on black hole visualisation

These are the original star concepts:

I thought we had changed the order of the resources in the Planetary Report to match the order in the planet info screen, but I guess it either got un-fixed or it just never happened in the first place. I agree that it makes sense to have the displays be more uniform. The Fleet Report UI doesn't rea...

Just a quick patch with a few bug fixes and resolution scaling changes. Patch Notes for 10 August 2020 (ver. r38774) Gameplay Additions and Changes ⋅ Improvements to AI judgments about which planets should be offered/demanded when suing for peace. ⋅ Added a "queue refit to r...

Maybe some kind of defensive shields could help here. It could take up a defense base slot and reduce the effectivenss of bombardments. Or just equipping shields in the defense blueprints? Those won't protect against bombardment, because they will have to have already been destroyed in order for th...

What's worth to model in an abstracted high-tech ground combat, is the close air support, interdiction, and airmobility. I believe, you said once that initial purpose for assault shuttles on Military Transports was to enhance ground combat in some way. Say, troops on those transports get 1.5-2x str...

modern and high-tech war doesn't mean no close-combat , wookie and klingons for example . at low tech the primitive and big species have an advantage , wich they loose when they face smaller but better equiped foes later in the game. drugs : immune to fear and pain , heavy use of steroids etc... Un...

In high-tech warfare, I don't think being more muscular makes your guns do any more damage.

Nor does being a primitive who doesn't know how to use high tech weapons, nor does being a drugged up slave.

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. Sounds neat wonder if it was intended like that though :) What happens if you deploy the outpost to a Marauder planet or one with refugees/mayor factions on it? Yes, that'...

Hopefully we'll get a chance to address some of the weapon balance questions in the next major release. The most glaring problem right now (in my opinion) is that weapon mods stop with lasers. The main thing I think we need to add is more mods throughout the tree. Ion cannons are charged particles, ...

zolobolo wrote:Yes it would be nice to see the enemy range circles as well somehow

You can... activate developer mode and switch to the enemy faction, and you can see everything the AI can see.

If you upload the game save, I'll tell you.

To upload a save, in the Options menu, click "Upload Game Logs".

The plan is to have the new human ships in the next DLC, along with a new NPC human faction.

Pretty much any plausible scenario that could be called a "victory" means either you are defeating or annexing non-allied factions, or getting them to elect you chancellor; and is therefore essentially a conquest or diplomacy victory. Regardless of whether you accomplish this through force...

I have a idea... How about a building, exclusive for the race? As advanced option for existing ones or fully completely unique... For example, for Tinkers (I dote on them 8)): the machine altar could be an absolutely unique ancient building that exists in a single copy! And in their colonies the ae...