im finding with swarm tactics and many smaller ships with focused weapons I am spending a lot of time getting them to all face the same way. now with a band select fleet I can move them or get them all to point in the same direction, however it would be nice if I could point them all at one spot on...

Since it sounds like we're going to be getting more things for transports to haul around in the form of mined resources and food I suppose its possible we'll see commerce raiding in the game. I don't know if we would actually start seeing the transports moving around on the map as potential targets...

I'm also wishing I could set up fleet formations before combat for similar reasons you are, but I think I remember the devs saying somewhere that would be particularly difficult to implement. Well, a big part of the problem is that I'm not sure how to do it well. Giving the player explicit control ...

On a related note, when stargates get some coding attention again, could you make it so that ships will auto-route through them when traveling around the map for fastest-timed travel? I've been frustrated with myself on more than one occasion when I sent a fleet from a gate system towards an non-ga...

I've thought of a few ideas to help move the game away from that: one of them would be to break production down into 'resources' and 'manufacturing capacity', based off the system used in Supreme Commander (and adapted for a 4x). Players mine resources (via colonies and outposts - gives otherwise g...

Arioch wrote:We might be able to do something like a distinctive engine glow as the ship is preparing to jump.

Yeah, though right now, 2/3rds of the ships in the game are missing any engine glow effects -- I should probably fix that first

So does the lore work as if every system has an abandoned stargate in it so that once the Haduir colonize it they can make use of the gate once they've researched the tech? I kind of figured after I researched the tech I'd have to actually build stargates to use them. The behavior in game right now...

I also had the game devour all my memory. When it finally ran out after about 45min of play, it was using 1.7 gigs of memory according to the task manager. I'd happily upload crash.dmp, except that it too is about 1.7 gigs in size - I unfortunately lack the time as of this post to upload the monstr...

Is it an intended feature to have planet defenses rebuild that fast? No -- it's pure programmer laziness. Marauder's don't have normal economies -- the theory being that virtually all of their effective production comes from otherwise invisible black-market shenanigans. I wrote the rules for these ...

Right after that, I re-ran the game as admin, and it's working. Hrm. Well, I looked at the crash, at it does seem to be an access violation while trying to generate the fancy dynamic textures used in the planet renderings. It's plausible that running in admin mode is giving you a slightly different...

Right after that, I re-ran the game as admin, and it's working. Hrm. Well, I looked at the crash, at it does seem to be an access violation while trying to generate the fancy dynamic textures used in the planet renderings. It's plausible that running in admin mode is giving you a slightly different...

Upon first execution of the game .exe, I was awarded with a large crash.dmp file, found here . Appears to be the same issue Sven outlined in the video card bugs thread, as I have an Intel HD 4000 integrated card in my laptop. Many thanks for the upload. I'll take a look at that tomorrow morning. Wh...

The only thing I can think of that has changed since the last time I opened the game up is that I've upgraded to Windows 10. Not sure what to do at this point. Not much of a computer expert beyond playing games really. Will I need to redownload and install the game? Between Windows 7 and Windows 10...

Do you still plan to release this year? Yup, that's still the plan. When can we see the remaining mechanics implemented (diplomacy, etc.)? "Soon". A lot of the remaining TODO items, as discussed in the various FAQs , are slated to get done in the next two months -- so the pace of changes,...

It's not so much the in battle retreating as it is the galaxy map retreating. Instead of the battle screen option popping up fleets will redirect just before reaching the system. As in the turn they should arrive all enemy fleets will bail and go someware else. Ah, yes, that's a separate issue, but...