I'm always reluctant to add AI governor features... we have made an effort to try to limit the game mechanics that the player is required to manage to only those that involve important (and hopefully interesting) decisions. I'm aware that when the map sizes get really huge, some of the game mechanic...

I know this has been discussed before and I haven't read everything. I love the biomes and the race benefits related to them. I just spend too much time in the game micromanaging this, especially on large maps. I think migration should be automated. And there could be an option to prohibit migratio...

Thanks for the upload. On stardate 1288 the Teros discovered an ancient data cache when they colonized Toliman I, which was the site of a Derelict Colony special. This was in a system they already controlled. archive_deciphered.jpg If you have the ai_dev feature in Developer Options enabled, you can...

If you upload the game, we could take a look and see.

(With the game in question loaded, in Options menu, click "Upload Game Logs".)

DDPD wrote:Any idea when we might be able to start testing the new stuff?

Nope.

I think, your technicians shouldn't be able to repair those components on the captured ships that you lack technology for. Such approach was adopted, for example, by Space Empires V. I'm not sure this will make gameplay better, but it's certainly more logical. Should lower the (very high) attractiv...

I think we tried this at one point, and it really cluttered up the build menu.

Since there is no benefit to having "pure" populations (having 1 of the "wrong" population won't negatively impact your max pop), I'm not convinced that this is a problem that really needs a solution.

Curious. Could you upload that game so we can take a look at it?

(with the game in question loaded, in Options menu, click "Upload Game Logs")

Nice catch, thanks.

theoneo wrote:What about attaching a maneuvering engine to a fleet base and using it as a great boarding ship?

I don't think adding maneuvering engines will allow a station to move out of orbit, so it would only be usable in a defensive situation.

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

I think that's unlikely to happen unexpectedly. If you transform Desert into an Island world and the native Spicemongers don't like it, that probably shouldn't come as a surprise.

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. I'm not sure how that wou...

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

This is all very cool, and I appreciate the effort to model real physics and planetology, but it seems a wee bit obsessive for a game system that seems aimed more at late game vanity projects than actual core gameplay. Part of the goal of the terraforming revamp is to break up transformations into ...

I did post a little bit about the terraforming revamp plans:
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