Most of the non-human species don't have different genders. For simplicity's sake.

That said, I'll also agree that peaceful AI/Marauder behaviors are not quite ideal. In particular, powerful AIs should probably gobble up Marauder bases when they get the opportunity, and as you say, *some* evidence of slave taking from neighboring AI empires would be a nice flavor thing. In terms ...

can anyone play the indev build? i have the steam version and i see no way to opt into the beta other than if i had a password. i suppose then that the testing branch is meant to be limited to people who will definitely give feedback on the changes and any bugs they encounter The code for the testi...

Glad you're enjoying the game. Thanks for the kind words.

We are debating whether or not to make the graphs a normal UI option during the course of the game. The concern is that it might be too much information while the game is still going on.

What do you think?

"Officer" characters is a feature I'd really like to add, though it would be a fairly big chunk, because I'd like to have them be more integrated into gameplay than just generic stat buffs. Hopefully we'll get a chance to do that at some point.

zolobolo wrote:Are you thinking race specific art a la Seven Kingdoms, statistics screen or something else?

The concept is to display a splash screen with a planet background and the existing emperor art, along with a graphs screen. Here is a mockup:

Thanks, Gaw. Actually, I wouldn't have guessed that you're not a native speaker. :D Sven and I are currently working on a big patch that includes AI & diplomacy changes, and includes a victory screen (yes, finally). After that, our plans are not settled. We have some ideas for more DLC that I ho...

Also can we talk about the surprising lack of a heavy weapon on any station? It's just a quirk of the state of the game when they were designed. At the time that the Ashdar stations were designed, the only heavy weapons had fixed arcs, so they weren't put on the stations, which needed 360 mounts si...

Because ships move in a particular direction and (many) have directional weapons, shield facing is tactically meaningful; you may have to choose between optimal weapons bearing and optimal protection. As it worked out in actual gameplay, this element of meaningful impact is smaller than perhaps it s...

That would effectively make the shields 3 or 4 times harder to penetrate, which seems unbalanced.

Perhaps it would be nice to have a "priority" setting, where lines from incoming hostiles would be shown?

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.