At the risk of being somewhat fatuous.... The game already models this particular transformation by allowing ocean to be changed to other types. (Not being entirely serious with this btw.) Not that it really matters as it's going to be changed anyway. The game also currently allows you to create ne...

And if they have a solid surface with water on top and then some atmosphere, then Ocean differs from Island only by a matter of degree. They both have the same stucture, just in different proportions. Sure, all planets are just balls of matter, differing mainly in proportions. The difference betwee...

I'd really like to have more asymmetrical race relations, as well as more positive and negative effects on morale. But to do that, I think we have to give the player more levers to push on to manage morale levels, which as I said is a pretty big job. We've got lots of ideas on what to do with the mo...

Does it make sense to have "Alien Rulers" penalty when other faction is annexed? From a tech side it makes sense as withouth the tech the base behaviour applies but if they join willingly it would be cool to see a special bonus offsetting it like: "We are stronger together" Well...

That almost sounds like we're missing a planet type between Island and Ocean. :| We're missing lots of planet types, but this isn't meant to be a simulation. The goal is to give the player more options to improve some of his worlds, and not necessarily a tool to transform any planet into any other ...

Since the loaded ground troops are part of the ship, I expect that it does get the shipyard discount.

This probably doesn't make sense, but it doesn't bother me sufficiently that I think it would need to be changed.

The idea is to keep transitions in stages, but to increase the number of stages for each transition so that a full transition between planet types takes multiple, longer projects, but that each stage has tangible benefits. We do track temperature, atmospheric pressure and surface water, but these ar...

I am going to piggyback on this thread and add a question about the UI that has long bugged me. When I set up queue of research projects, I often change my mind later and want to remove a project from the queue or insert a new one in the middle or otherwise change the order. The only way I seem to ...

Thanks for the feedback. The ship design UI is really neat, and the drag-and-drop of items onto a ship frame reminds me of Ascendancy. All the icons are neat and easily recognisable, and the interface itself is fairly easy to use. But.... Once the player has accumulated a lot of equippable items, th...

If you've got less than 2 units of any population that's not either Primitive or Sessile, you probably shouldn't be building a colony ship on that planet anyway. Why (besides the loading colonists problem)? Some "primitives" are quite capable workers. Also the Colony Ship build project re...

If you've got less than 2 units of any population that's not either Primitive or Sessile, you probably shouldn't be building a colony ship on that planet anyway. It doesn't take any more time to transport eligible colonists to that planet than it does to send an empty colony ship to a planet with el...

Hive worlds were originally low fertility, but we found this was too punishing for the Ashdar Imperials, who start on one. Hive worlds will be completely changed with the terraforming revamp, as will the fertility attribute. The chief change in the system is that terraforming transitions are staged ...

Right, they do become independent. Though if it's a former planet of mine with a population still mostly of my own race, that should make things easier to establish contact and then annex them peacefully, right? It depends on how the new morale/reputation works out... I think there's a random eleme...

Interesting. The AI does seem timid at times, choosing to retreat or not attack at all more often that I would. I wonder then if it would be possible for me to park a sizeable fleet in an enemy system, refrain from attacking (and assuming the AI doesn't have sufficient forces to want to attack me e...

Looks like part of the sentence got clipped off the end. Thanks for the report.