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| Ghworg wrote: | | Airwolf wrote: | Is there a way to slow down the time needed to select tactics before the fight? By the time i read what card does what and what it counters, i'm already at close range combat.
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Select a fleet when out of combat and click the tab "battle actions" (on the right next to the fleet), there you can read all the possible cards you can use in battle. |
Thanks. It helped me a ton. I finally managed to win couple of battles.
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| Posted: Sun, 8th Jul 2012 21:19 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 00:36 Post subject: |
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Retrofitting ships is VERY cheap and instant, ships only lose remaining movement points. So, with money at reserv it's very easy to counter enemy ships.
After missile spam ships, I switch to equal beam, missile, shields and flak plus twice less kinetic and deflect e.g. M: 4 B: 4 K: 2 F: 4 S: 4 D: 2
Playing as Empire on normal, only bad cards and leveled up hero causes severe loses, with heroes such fleets become almost invincible 
Best starting strategy for me being land grab as much as possible, hold for as long as possible, build economy and field two Commander / Pilot heroes and one Administrator hero at capital.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 02:04 Post subject: c |
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Its possible to retrofit ships??? lol, I feel like an idiot now.
And yea, that almost the same ratio that I play with on regular ships. I'm even shorter kinetic. I had bad experience in my first game when I put all weapons research in kinetics and AI destroyed me with missile builds. Now rockets/beams and some low amount of kinetics are all that I use. Combat really is not a problem for me, I usually fail later when I start having problems with population happiness and AI outproducing me. I still haven't found the right planet development path.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 02:53 Post subject: |
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Just started with the game and always curious how many cheating benefits the AI gets with each difficulty grade.
I've downloaded XML archives from the official forum to check some data. It's only from the old 0.51.2 version but shouldn't differ too much from 1.05 maybe:
http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/showthread.php?6813-all-your-xml-are-belong-to-us
As you can read in GameDifficultyDescriptors.xml, the Easy2/Newbie diff is the only one where the AI hardly gets any benefits beside the little approval bonus.
I guess the combination of ShipCostBonus of 20% and BuyOutBonus of 30% on Normal diff already makes it easy for the AI to spam new ships quickly.
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locke89
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Location: Poland
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 12:53 Post subject: |
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Cheating AI is a staple for 4X games, I don't know what people expect, lol. We're not a stage yet where the AI can actually be Artificial INTELLIGENCE.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 13:17 Post subject: |
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| locke89 wrote: | | Cheating AI is a staple for 4X games, I don't know what people expect, lol. We're not a stage yet where the AI can actually be Artificial INTELLIGENCE. |
It's more about how far we perceive the AI is cheating. If it's too evident it' can be very frustrating.
I'm not speaking about this game, I haven't played it. I'm speaking in general terms.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 13:26 Post subject: |
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I have no problem with AI having like 25% production boonus... But if AI braking rules of game it's different story.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 13:33 Post subject: |
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well, the AI feels like it has pretty randomized behaviour with some necessary boni to make it challenging. same as all 4x games in the end.
what annoys me though, is that it seems to spit out 4000+ power rating fleets every turn when you corner it in a system.
it feels like playing risk (the board game) and trying to occupy australia.
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Jul 2012 19:18 Post subject: |
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I think I'm shelving it for the moment. Although I love game design (much more than Gal Civ), the AI is just over the top. Its dumb, it cheats and has insane advantages. It really isn't fun playing against it because all games go the same way. Quick rush on nearest AI so I can compete with their expansion advantages, try to stabilize for couple of turns, then turn on the next one. It quite impossible to outproduce and expand past AI using peaceful means, so one must constantly use war as means of acquiring planets.
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Jul 2012 14:28 Post subject: |
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Playing on Newbie diff is fine enough. Had about 6k score, while the seven other AIs started with 3k downwards. I quit the session because I’m going to start with a smaller large map and a Disc-4 galaxy this time instead of the boring huge Spiral-8.
A proper challenge should already be Easy diff. Just don’t get fooled by the difficulty names. They are just for mocking players.
What I noticed during my first match:
- Pirates are definitely too powerful and need tweaking. I recommend playing without them at first, because they can also cripple the AI players later. As example in my first session: formed an alliance with the Sophon AI and saw that each of its systems was occupied and currently invaded by one or two pirate fleets. Sick!
- Admin hero at beginning is a must because they are so hilariously powerful with their straight food, production and approval bonuses later
- Spiral-X galaxies isolate you too much from each other. This is not really much fun to expand and interact with other factions.
According to some test starts with Amoeba and their omniscient trait, the Disc-4 galaxy seems most interesting with more alternative lanes to each other. Should be much harder on Normal+ diff maybe, but let’s see how it goes on Easy diff at first.
By the way, the first hex-edited mod has already been released. In time, especially with upcoming mod tools, there will be soon balance and tweak mods that will hopefully fix all frustration.
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| Posted: Fri, 13th Jul 2012 11:13 Post subject: |
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Endless Space - Emperor Special Edition [v1.0.8 EN] Update [Web]
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wijse
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| Posted: Fri, 13th Jul 2012 11:43 Post subject: |
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Look out for Legends of Pegasus. Another 4x game coming out in August, without card battles.
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| Posted: Fri, 13th Jul 2012 19:34 Post subject: |
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| blackdochia wrote: | | Endless Space - Emperor Special Edition [v1.0.8 EN] Update [Web] |
Doesn't work for me, with skidrow release.
Does it work for someone, and with which release?
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| Posted: Fri, 13th Jul 2012 23:28 Post subject: |
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Nah, this russian update looks too strange to me. I better don't install it over my skidrow.
Maybe JBeckman can provide some updated files, please? I'm especially interested in the sharedassets17.assets file, because the most important game stats are stored there for modding. That could already work with the 1.0.5 exe.
According to the official forum, there is already a 1.0.9 version:
http://forums.amplitude-studios.com/showthread.php?446-Release-Notes&p=71908#post71908
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Jul 2012 15:55 Post subject: |
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At same place, there is now 1.09 update too. Still not working, of course.
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Jul 2012 19:53 Post subject: |
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| peter980 wrote: | | At same place, there is now 1.09 update too. Still not working, of course. |
Strange, my 1.09 install works like a charm!
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Jul 2012 19:54 Post subject: |
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briangw
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Location: Warren, MN
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| Posted: Sat, 14th Jul 2012 23:13 Post subject: |
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| wijse wrote: | | Look out for Legends of Pegasus. Another 4x game coming out in August, without card battles. |
I've been watching this one for a few months. It's a RTS/TBS mix.
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| Posted: Sun, 15th Jul 2012 07:22 Post subject: |
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| peter980 wrote: | | blackdochia wrote: | | Endless Space - Emperor Special Edition [v1.0.8 EN] Update [Web] |
Doesn't work for me, with skidrow release.
Does it work for someone, and with which release? |
Hi,
I was wrong. Russian patch does work without issue.
The reason it didn't worked for me first time, was because I applied patch to empty folder (was curious what was updated) and then copied its contents to game folder.
If installed this way, patch will not trigger its diff patching component that updates big files in the game (among others, it patches resources.assets that is 1.3GB is size).
So after applied properly, patch worked, as well as later 1.09 patch (that needs to be applied afterwards).
P.S.
Crack from patch is optional. Skidrow cracks works too.
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| Posted: Sun, 15th Jul 2012 12:16 Post subject: |
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Thanks for the kamikaze test!
I risked it too now and it seems to work with skidrow. Retreat takes one round longer and new Sheredyn portrait present.
I forgot to replace the modified sharedassets17.assets file with the vanilla one what caused a mismatch error during the 1.0.8 update but thankfully, the 1.0.9 later included that file again.
Updates endorsed. Long lives communism!
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| Posted: Tue, 17th Jul 2012 16:51 Post subject: |
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Endless.Space.v1.0.9.Update-SKIDROW
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:39 Post subject: |
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| danger1911 wrote: | | Endless.Space.v1.0.9.Update-SKIDROW |
Is there a changelog anywhere? I can't find it on their homepage or forums.
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| Posted: Thu, 19th Jul 2012 15:39 Post subject: |
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| Code: | CHANGES AND ADDITIONS
Added the G2G vote results concerning the "Anti-Expansionist" Horatio faction trait.
FIXES
Fixed an issue where the ship design information will only display the first module of each class.
Fixed an issue where the random event duration doesn't depend on the game speed. |
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| Posted: Wed, 25th Jul 2012 20:53 Post subject: |
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Is AI cheating reduced with the latest patches?
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