Each DLC does include new features, but the diplomacy/AI update is something we're doing on its own. Kind of hard to tie AI improvements to a faction.

Keep in mind that most of these "events" are just triggers for the AI to do or say something; they are "cards" in the logical sense, but the whole point is to create immersion rather than break it. are you guys planning to do Diplomacy DLC ? it is a lot of work for simple patch,...

Are you planning to have actual cards appear during the event notification? I mean art depicting the race specific activity and fluff description beneath it... that would be so thematic and awesome :) Keep in mind that most of these "events" are just triggers for the AI to do or say somet...

DDPD wrote:When will this stuff start rolling out? I really want to dive in again, but not until the diplomacy changes are in...

Hard to say. We're working on it now, but it's a big piece, and it will require a lot of testing.

I'm not sure I understand. Why would one expect that? A weapon that has reduced chance to hit in close range seems plausible. Missiles lose accuracy over range as their velocity (and therefore inertia) increases and their fuel supply decreases. It doesn't make any sense that a missile would gain ac...

Techs and Codexes (which are tech unlocks rather than the tech itself) are distinctly labeled in the Herald trading menu.

Core Tap Mining is a recent addition and it has always been a Codex (an unlock, not the tech itself); as far as I'm aware, you never had the ability to buy the tech outright.

There's a temptation to try to squeeze too much into a small screen element that's supposed to a shortcut. I think there should probably eventually be a dedicated new full-screen spreadsheet colony report screen that would be much more flexible in terms of sorting and visualization than the small pl...

That would seem rather gamey, as it would be the complete opposite of what you would expect according to how anti-missiles work.

As far as I'm aware, Gremak base research has always been +0.

The Gremak have an ancient society that starts with a lot of ancient technology. Learning to research new things is something they are not used to and have to put some effort into.

Military transports also fill a space combat niche since they are pretty effective at boarding. Do you intend for them to keep that role once they become necessary for non-penalized planetary invasion? Boarding capabilities shouldn't be affected. So are you thinking on expanding the functionality o...

Loosing transports would be a logical outcome and would not require UI changes - only to display the lost transports in the battle report screen in the end I don't feel it is a logical outcome. In order to invade, you have to first destroy all defensive systems that could reasonably attack ships in...

I had an idea. What if delivering troops from a cargo hold incurred some chance of the transport itself being destroyed, when participating in a ground invasion? I'd prefer to implement the originally intended behavior (which will require some UI changes), but it's not a really high priority at the...

Dropping invading troops from a cargo hold instead of assault shuttles is supposed to incur a combat penalty, but this was never implemented.

I'm not sure that's so terribly unrealistic. If a modern country like Japan or Korea or China were to suddenly lose all trade with the United States, it would be an economic catastrophe. Despite the huge number of domestic consumers each one of those countries has.

The way foreign trade works (as far as I am aware) is that foreign routes are more profitable than domestic routes. When you sign a trade charter, any transports that are trading in domestic routes will switch to any available foreign routes. It's not a flat bonus; if you have no available transport...