But I also agree with most of what we're hearing from Arioch and Gilleous -- and I think we can have techs that revolutionize space combat without resorting to hard counters.

Good way to put things. While I agree that hard counters can be going slightly too far, getting a competitive edge over ...

Any chance we'll be seeing mercenary troops we can hire from neutrals and such? I like the idea of being able to hire a few groups of mercenaries for either when I'm in need of some quick defensive troops or when I want to use them as shock troops. They could be high priced and carry a high ...

If point defense were effective enough that a fleet could defeat 100% of the missiles from an enemy force three times as large, then missiles would not be viable weapon and nobody would build them. Missiles in Stars in Shadow are not meant to model the mechanics of torpedoes in Outsider. In ...

This is something that we already discussed, and a change for it is somewhere in the hopper, along with some other minor changes to movement. I don't remember exactly what we agreed upon (hopefully Sven wrote it down), but I think it's essentially that if a fleet finds itself out of range (due to ...

On a somewhat related note, will we be seeing improvements to how we can interact with independent colonies of major races? In my most recent game I came across two independent colonies of my own race and I found it frustrating that I had to either bombard or invade them to allow for colonization ...

Thanks for opening up with your thoughts on this topic guys! It is nice to see where things may be heading. For me, the focus of a good space 4x game will always be on the space battles, but just having a little bit of nuance to ground combat can go a LONG way to adding to the enjoyment of a game ...

I like the fact that it takes a lot of investment in troop transports to conquer high population planets.Too many games allow for 2-3 troop transports to conquer a planet of billions of people when I believe a full planetary invasion and occupation should be a monumental undertaking. That being said ...

While a part of me thinks it would be cool to intercept enemy ships in deep space, in general I don't think it should be allowable.

Combat in the vacuum of space is only ever going to happen around points of interest like planets and such where two or more sides have an objective to attack/defend ...

And on that note I see your point, but at the same time the team is not that big. The guys main focus, as I see it, is fixing the bugs and develop the game.

And still you have the changelogs that sorto state how the current version is.

I like the idea of having focal point of how the game is ...

As I've been testing out the game and making my usual notes, I've found myself really wishing there was a developer road map thread I could reference which would tell me if the issues I am encountering are already being addressed. As I read the various threads in this forums I see bits and pieces of ...

I agree that researching missiles and then not having any missiles to equip is non-intuitive, but I'm not sure that showing the user a component that can't be equipped is the right way to fix the problem.

I also found it confusing at first when I researched missiles and then didn't see them ...

Oh, I like it. It's sexy. That's $50 of sexy for a 50¢ change.

The one (very minor) addition I would suggest is to randomize the starting positions of the planets. Because otherwise every system with the same number of orbits looks the same.

I hope the beta testers don't mind seeing the ...

My laptop runs the game just fine, but my ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series in my gaming desktop is displaying the following problems:

- white spaces instead of text on the game menu screen
- disco lights instead of planets orbiting the stars on the galaxy map

I definitely think this is an important discussion to be having. I am a big fan of combined arms tactics and it always saddens me when the best strategy in any game is to build a lot of the biggest unit to constantly throw at the enemy.

As of now I never bother building destroyers when I unlock ...

As I progress into the mid-game I find myself wishing there was an empire overview screen of some kind. Something I can glance at to see all my planets and what they are currently building. Every time a colony finishes a construction project I need to stop and think about what I need next. This can ...