After we get the diplomacy update done, we may be able to talk some about plans for a next expansion. At the moment though, there isn't anything that we can really say.

Have the types of ships and their numbes listed next to each uther on the fleets tab instead of the count of all ships and displaying the most powerfull one This would help identifying fleets capable of planetary invasions, siege or fending off various compositions of enemy fleets The Fleet Report ...

nweismuller wrote:Who do you think you are, GLaDoS?

I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now.

...and they all lived happily ever after. Except the ones who are dead.

Cool. What's your graphics adapter?

Free Traders and Trading Posts seem appropriate.

Processes that are being throttled or explicitly timed and wait for ticks of the clock (like animations) will go faster if you speed up the clock, but processes that are going as fast as they can (like AI processing) won't go faster unless you somehow speed up the CPU, memory, or disk access.

Arioch, when do you envision us (as players!) raiding worlds for slaves, rather than taking the planet? Frontier colonies with small populations and lacking defensive infrastructure are practical targets for slaver raids (and this is usually the situation in which you find such slave raiders in sci...

Also already mentioned before but really suggest ignoring ground troops during raid - it leads to awkward situations where two tanks and Assault Marine cannot caputre a single slave for 2 turns even though they have a 85% chance of conquering the planet itself. Why raid a colony if you have enough ...

Ion cannons were originally intended to be a different damage type (Charged), but this was never implemented. Charged weapons would do extra internal damage, but might be less effective against shields. Hopefully someday we'll be able to add this damage type. But no, I don't think Enveloping is an a...

If you as the player defy the outcome of the election, then everyone who is not your ally declares war on you. You are defying the will of the people, and so you are enemy number one, regardless of what the relations are with the faction that won. This is an alternative to the game simply ending if ...

Only the player can reject the result and choose to keep playing. The AI can't reject the result -- if you win, it's over. We need to add a "Win" UI element that gives the player the opportunity to stop playing after a win, to avoid the feeling that the game never ends. Hopefully that will...

The benefit here is that implementation effort is minimal and it would "slightly" decrease surplus of AI and player (the topic of this thread) withouth forcing the player into a fixed development path or the AI to go pankrupt (as the AI does not spam bases anymore). another benefit is imm...

The upkeep cost of starbases could surely be increased by now right? This wouldn't upset AI economy as it is not spamming these anymore, but make budgets a but tighter and it feels odd that massive stations cost almost nothing to maintain What would be the gameplay benefit of increasing the upkeep ...

I would have thought that this is precisely the constraint an AI must consider: Not to bankrupt itself while attempting to prioritize its spending. So does the AI need money at all? The AI mostly follows the same rules as the player regarding money; it receives income from the same sources and has ...