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by wminsing
Tue Mar 31, 2015 1:18 am
Forum: Testing
Topic: Distrubuted Production?
Replies: 17
Views: 32011

Re: Distrubuted Production?

Another way to do it is to have additional resource types, such as food and metals, and associated infrastructure (farms and mines), so that you can have specialized agricultural or mining colonies. You can also have special resources, similar to those in Civ III-V, that could make otherwise margin...
by wminsing
Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:32 pm
Forum: Testing
Topic: First Impression
Replies: 42
Views: 63373

Re: First Impression

Yes, whenever a colony ship is in a system (with valid colonization targets, I think) you get the 'Settlers at X' message. It's confusing since you already have a colony at Rastaban, but the Colony ship could in theory be used to colonize another one of the planets in your starting system immediatel...
by wminsing
Sat Mar 21, 2015 3:40 pm
Forum: Testing
Topic: Distrubuted Production?
Replies: 17
Views: 32011

Re: Distrubuted Production?

Coming at this from the other direction, based on the 'homogeneous empire' comments. One thing that MOOII (and nearly every other space 4x I've played) doesn't really cover is colonies set up purely as resource extraction operations. The default model is you settle a world, and then want to build it...
by wminsing
Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:13 am
Forum: Testing
Topic: Amusing bug
Replies: 6
Views: 11712

Amusing bug

So I ran into a funny but still serious bug today. Defending planet against a Yoral assault, all of the Yoral ships were missile armed, while my planet also had missiles (new feature of planetary defense system?). Eventually the last surviving Yoral ship and my planet had run out of missiles. So, th...
by wminsing
Fri Mar 06, 2015 1:06 am
Forum: Testing
Topic: Short term TODOs
Replies: 4
Views: 9734

Re: Short term TODOs

Yep, very exciting! Keep plugging away!

-Will
by wminsing
Sat Feb 07, 2015 4:23 pm
Forum: Testing
Topic: Torpedoes - how do they work
Replies: 2
Views: 7703

Re: Torpedoes - how do they work

Good, I wasn't going crazy! Looks like I'll have to give the Yoral a rest though until I can use their full Torpedo slinging glory.

-Will
by wminsing
Sat Feb 07, 2015 4:21 pm
Forum: Testing
Topic: Small ships in the late game
Replies: 8
Views: 16204

Re: Small ships in the late game

So, coming at this from a historical perspective (degree in military history). First, 100% agree we want to keep smaller units viable as late as possible in the game to promote tactical diversity if nothing else. One thing that MOOII failed in was that I tended to build only Battleships (and later m...
by wminsing
Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:41 am
Forum: Testing
Topic: Torpedoes - how do they work
Replies: 2
Views: 7703

Torpedoes - how do they work

So I'm playing the Yoral, have some ships that carry a couple of Torpedoes. I can't figure out how to fire them though. When I select 'attack' by default nothing fires. When I click on the Torpedo line it toggles between x 2 and x 1/2 (I have two) but no setting allows me to fire. I can select the o...
by wminsing
Fri Feb 06, 2015 12:59 am
Forum: Testing
Topic: Leaving system causes auto-resolve?
Replies: 2
Views: 7990

Re: Leaving system causes auto-resolve?

Aha, now I get it. Yes, something good to resolve when the 'important information' system gets revised.

-Will
by wminsing
Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:45 am
Forum: Testing
Topic: Leaving system causes auto-resolve?
Replies: 2
Views: 7990

Leaving system causes auto-resolve?

So one thing I just noticed at the start of my last play through is that when I leave a system where combat is taking place is appears to force some sort of auto-resolve mechanism. Is this actually the case?

-Will
by wminsing
Thu Feb 05, 2015 12:29 am
Forum: Testing
Topic: First 'complete' playthrough
Replies: 1
Views: 6619

First 'complete' playthrough

Based on a complete initial playthrough as the Ashdar Colonials, here’s a quick list of my initial thoughts and feedback on Stars in Shadow. I understand that it’s an early Beta and a lot of my concerns are probably on the ToDo list, but I figure I should lay everything out there. General Control Sc...
by wminsing
Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:11 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Introduce yourself :)
Replies: 110
Views: 381743

Re: Introduce yourself :)

Hey folks, as most of you another long-term 4X player here. My gateway game was CivII, played it so much I developed an eye tic that required I take a computer hiatus for some number of months. :) Since then I've played a wide variety of 4x games, all the Civs, Colonization, MOO series, MOM, Space E...

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