I really don't think it's a case of nostalgia, because I go back to that game every now and then and it's great every time, which can't be said about the vast majority of games I feel nostalgic about.
No you're right, MoO2 is still the champ as far as space 4x's go. I never liked GalCiv 2, myself - it just feels so sterile and plain boring.
I started recording a series for my channel yesterday and the first episode is now online.
I tend to play games very slowly and explain things as fully as I can. I know this approach drives some people nuts but others find it helpful. I'm a new player myself and will most likely make a lot of mistakes. Please feel free to comment and add advice (preferably on the video so that other viewers can learn).
Guy makes very great Let's plays and his voice is very medicinal
I love Birth of the Federation. GOG should get the rights to it and release it.
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Good question. I'm not 100% sure, but I think you need the assault ship module as well as that will allow for the actual transportation of the troops (as well as being able to board/capture other ships). I haven't tried it w/o the Assault module yet but I do know I can take over planets with having both modules on my ship by dropping marines. (After I nuke the shit outta it hehe).
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If the illegals are drowning its their fault for attempting to cross the river in the first place. Especially the children. /s
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Who cares about gameplay. It's one of the few next-gen looking titles out there so BRING IT ON.
I am a little bit disappointed. The game would really benefit from some more tutorials, half the things aren't explained in the game. And there is not enough information about events in the game. Half the time I loose a colony to those damn dropships due to the fact that the game doesn't inform me that the enemy fleet is in my system or that enemy colony ship is enclosing on the system I just liberated.
The ship design UI could use a little bit more work as you can't change the exisiting designs in fast and easy way as well as no retrofitting.
Probably not bad for a kickstarter game, still better than SotS
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Ship customising could be better done, alerts and information tabs could be better... I am wondering though, who done the beta testing for this game and did the actual developers take note of what was wrong?
Seems that it could have gone through another round of testing for me, ah well.... MODS?
I'm enjoying it, although I'm not much of an expert in the 4x genre. Some things like UI and navigation could use some improvement. It makes the game a bit overwhelming at first, also because you're just dropped in the game with no real explanation on what to do. Reminds me a bit of CKII in that aspect
But the exploration and ship design is fun so far.
Any advice on starting a game? What to do first, which technologies to focus on and such?
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
Any advice on starting a game? What to do first, which technologies to focus on and such?
Before starting the game I like to configure the race I play pretty much as humans are more % industry, faster research, and the meticulous ? trait for more tax revenue. huge homeworld is nice too. Also I like to make use of the gravity well rule with 25% warp speed in gravity wells to avoid instant invasion from the AI if it tries.
I usually start a game with 4 techs lined up in any order. Aeroponics, Industrial foundations, scientific foundations and interstellar governance. Then after that I go for 1 or 2 new ship hull sizes and some basic weaponry like missiles and some basic armor.
Build a few extra scout ships to explore and a few ground troops to go after anomaly's on planets. They can have nice perks like 10% faster research or 10% stronger ground troops.
Build a small fleet to start with 15 or so default fighters to clean out a few systems with the remnant guys, they quite often orbit rich or fertile planets which are nice to colonize.
Yeah, I've been playing along those lines. I finally have a good game going with the humans (default traits).
My starting tactic was the following:
On the homeplanet, I immediately set food production to something like 0.2 (makes no point setting it higher with only one planet), and research to 0. This allowed me to quickly create scouts, some soldiers for those anomalies and another colony ship.
Once I built these, I set production to 0, and rush aeroponics and industrial foundations. By the time I had these techs, my scouts found some nice planets to settle. I take everything with fertility or production > 1, as long as the planets can have high population.
Planets with less than 1 fertility are not a big problem with aeroponics and food from the homeplanet. I set my homeplanet to export food and store production, so that transports only take the food.
Production on these planets is set to 100 to maximise money income.
During the first 100 turns I had to frequently switch research and production rates on my homeplanet, but once those industrial planets start getting high production yields, I could set my homeplanet to max research.
With this tactic, I had a steady income and research rate after just a little while (+4 each, at around 15% tax rate).
I just destroyed those space bears. They had claimed a good planet, which I took right before their colony ship arrived, so I kinda pissed them off.
So i played this a little yesterday, i like it, but the limited tutorials and lack of general information needs to be improved. I often have empty build queues, because i'm distracted by something else, and dont notice my ships/buildings has finished.
How do you manually build those constructor ships, that creates a form of highway (forgot the correct name) between your systems? The only way i can get them, is by settings the ai to automatically build and control them.
Regarding transport ships, you guys manually build those or just set the ai to control it? I tried with the ai, but it spammed a lot of transporters, personally i though half would have been enough.
I use the automated AI, haven't bothered yet with building those. I think the amount of transport ships depends on the amount of import/export your planets do. I try to limit it at the start, by only exporting food from the homeplanet. But after a little while, it doesn't really matter if you have tons of them. They don't cost a lot, the AI handles them, and with the mercantilism tech you get money for every unit of food/production you transport in your empire.
I think the constructor ships have to be built from the universe screen, there's some button next to the minimap that enables the building overlay or something.
I have pushed out two small patches yesterday / today. Combined patch notes to 1.10:
Fixed the bug where loading a mod would not load your modded ships
StarDrive will now remember what mod you have loaded between plays
Fixed a crash referencing the Agent Operations list
Added modding support for adding or overwriting default ship designs with a mod
Fixed an issue where the game would freeze sometimes when firing beam weapons
Hotfix for a Repair Drone related issue that could cripple your game to 1fps
Fixed race condition crash involving the drop-down notifications
Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to save if there is a corrupted saved game file
Small improvements to the combat collision code to speed things up. 5-10%
Fixed a race condition involving AI tasks
Fixed a crash in the planet list if you hide owned planets when all known planets are owned
Fixed a crash that could occur when loading a saved game
Fixed an issue where if you bomb the shit out of a planet and then colonize the leftover wasteland, then you can sometimes find an alien build queue still waiting there for you
Fixed issue where repair drones would not fire when out of combat
Resupply shuttles will now disappear when they complete their supply run. Should help clean things up
If you have an invalid ship design file (Like one made with an external tool; sometimes these are faulty) the game will no longer choke up trying to load it, and will instead skip loading that design
Fixed some odd behavior with scrollbars
Fixed another race condition crash that could occur if a building list for a planet was accessed by a different thread at exactly the right/wrong moment
Added potential fix for "Attempted to Read or Write Protected Memory" crash related to late game Beam Weapons
Fixed an issue where "BuildOnlyOnce" tags on buildings were not being respected
Fixed some issues where the Pacing setting was not correctly affecting the cost of Buildings
Has there been any info on when the Desura build will be updated?
From what I can see the author has switched to Steam and there's been no info on Desura since the 1.07b update.
(I checked the Desura forums and they are pretty dead but there's a number of people wondering the same.)
I could just download the latest rip though so it's not really a issue as such.
I am going to send Dave Traeger at desura the keys he needs to upgrade you guys
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I emailed the Steam keys to Desura today and also sent out the Kickstarter keys today. AFAIK everyone received the KS keys just fine. Steam keys for Desura users are now in Desura's hands.
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