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Carecat posted:Good news, you got covered by Scott Manley  Was in my wish list anyway, came in here after watching his video and learning it has goons in the development team sealed the deal for me.
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I really enjoy playing this but I've run into a problem, dunno if it's a bug or me doing something wrong. None of the tier 3 resources I have apply any pressure, but their secondary bonuses do work. I'm getting the capacity increase but no pressure, from any of the t3 resources I have. Tried other planets too, they just sit there at 0/16. I also don't understand why none of the civilian industry buildings are upgrading, they do on another labor world I have but not on this one.
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Apr 26, 2015 21:11
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Vodos posted:I really enjoy playing this but I've run into a problem, dunno if it's a bug or me doing something wrong. None of the tier 3 resources I have apply any pressure, but their secondary bonuses do work. Mono? Found the problem: you need more population (on the producing/exporting planet) in order to generate pressure. 8 population is the minimum required for a T3 resource but you need 16pop to get full pressure (and money/income)
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Apr 26, 2015 21:48
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Oh, facepalm, I've been keeping them at minimum population so I'd only have my important planets in the "enough pop to colonize" rider. Thanks!
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Apr 26, 2015 22:08
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I want to start a multigalaxy run but I have no idea of what a good ration of empires to stars would be. Any recommendations?
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Apr 27, 2015 21:52
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Sedisp posted:I want to start a multigalaxy run but I have no idea of what a good ration of empires to stars would be. Any recommendations? I haven't obtained this game yet, but it'd be pretty tempting to me to place an "ancient" civilization in a remote galaxy that has plenty of time to super-develop.
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Apr 27, 2015 22:21
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Sedisp posted:I want to start a multigalaxy run but I have no idea of what a good ration of empires to stars would be. Any recommendations? Our recommendation is 10-15 systems per empire. Edit: Work on the research grid continues to continue continue. 
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Apr 27, 2015 22:26
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I'm liking the way that's looking so far!
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Apr 28, 2015 17:36
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This game is too much fun. To solve the problem of the enemy retaking territory, I've been putting giant engines on captured enemy planets and driving them back through gates to my homeworld to join my collection. That's right, I am space carmen sandiago.
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Apr 29, 2015 00:51
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wayniechan posted:This game is too much fun. To solve the problem of the enemy retaking territory, I've been putting giant engines on captured enemy planets and driving them back through gates to my homeworld to join my collection. That's right, I am space carmen sandiago. Blow up the star afterwards for good measure.
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Have one star system with 100 planets and the rest of space is empty. Played a game recently, NPC (that had taken over a few other empires and had them as vassals) declared war on me, I had a loving huge military compared to them and asked them to surrender and they said no, had star destroying ships that popped a few stars and wouldn't you know it they surrendered pretty drat quickly! Any plans for Dyson spheres and planetary engines on those? ... can you move a ringworld with one? Hmm... I may need to try that.
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Apr 29, 2015 06:04
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Fire Storm posted:Have one star system with 100 planets and the rest of space is empty. I see you've seen my galaxy
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Apr 30, 2015 00:14
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So I lost my first game pretty quickly, mostly because I didn't really have much idea what to do, but I think I've got that under control. My question is, how important is the ship building? Can I play okay with the defaults, and if not, can I just download a bunch to get me mostly covered. I'm not really interested with fiddling around much designing things.
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May 2, 2015 21:25
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MooCowlian posted:So I lost my first game pretty quickly, mostly because I didn't really have much idea what to do, but I think I've got that under control. My question is, how important is the ship building? Can I play okay with the defaults, and if not, can I just download a bunch to get me mostly covered. I'm not really interested with fiddling around much designing things. You can usually hit random a few times and it comes up with workable ship designs which only need minor tweaking. Or just grab ships off the user created ships which you can do from ingame from the community tab, there are lots of good ones.
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May 2, 2015 21:29
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The community page is nice, but I wish there was a way to sort or search by cost/labor/size/role/tech requirements. Once you've found a layout that works though, I like that I can just increase ship size as my econ gets rolling.
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Takkaryx posted:The community page is nice, but I wish there was a way to sort or search by cost/labor/size/role/tech requirements. Once you've found a layout that works though, I like that I can just increase ship size as my econ gets rolling As the size of my empire grows, so to do the size of my ships. However every time I bump my capitals up a notch or two, I decrease the size of their weapons and add maybe one or two more. I like more dakka.
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May 3, 2015 05:06
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I usually come up with an internal story about my empire and why they do the things they do. It helps to have a bunch of portraits of varying styles to set the mood. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=430173181
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May 3, 2015 12:37
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Vodos posted:I really enjoy playing this but I've run into a problem, dunno if it's a bug or me doing something wrong. None of the tier 3 resources I have apply any pressure, but their secondary bonuses do work. What screen is this? I don't recall something like this in the first game.
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May 3, 2015 13:21
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By the by, I love the concept of The Expanse galaxy. With a little tweaking of the game options it can actually be pretty difficult too, the big one is Remnant Aggression. Being the only empire means the pirates always come after you too, so it's not without conflict, you're just not racing vs other empires. If competing with empires isn't your thing or you just aren't in the mood, I highly recommend trying that map. Space Skeleton fucked around with this message at 13:47 on May 3, 2015 |
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May 3, 2015 13:45
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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:By the by, I love the concept of The Expanse galaxy. With a little tweaking of the game options it can actually be pretty difficult too, the big one is Remnant Aggression. Being the only empire means the pirates always come after you too, so it's not without conflict, you're just not racing vs other empires. If you do feel like competing and set a universe with multiple copies of The Expanse, it should be noted that the AI really doesn't really know how to handle it. Also there seems to be a minor bug that makes the remnant-homeworld fleets from galaxies 2 through N all generate in the first(?) galaxy, so one empire will have extra difficulty taking that system.
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May 3, 2015 15:46
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Zombie #246 posted:What screen is this? I don't recall something like this in the first game. That's the planet management screen.
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Well I picked this up due to Scott's stream and have worked my way through the tutorial. Getting ready to jump into my first game so.... wish me luck! One quick question I have about ship construction, however. I love, love, love the idea of building a spinal mount ship. Is that a possibility in this game? By that I mean, can I build a ship around a single, giganto weapon? Does the amount of... er... area given over to a weapon scale up its effectiveness?
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USMC_Karl posted:Well I picked this up due to Scott's stream and have worked my way through the tutorial. Getting ready to jump into my first game so.... wish me luck! Yes, though there is no specific bonus for building the ship around it save for the extra tiles you allocate to it, it just means the ship will punch above its weight a bit.
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May 4, 2015 10:04
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USMC_Karl posted:Well I picked this up due to Scott's stream and have worked my way through the tutorial. Getting ready to jump into my first game so.... wish me luck! Yes, you can see the damage scale up as you add more area, range only really starts ramping up once you unlock the upgrade for it.
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I have made spinal mount ships before and they work pretty well. It's a good idea to cover them in bulkheads. Also other mods as you unlock them.
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Awesome, thanks for the feedback, folks. I just tootled around in game for an hour or so and got my rear end handed to me. Looks like I'm going to have to totally re-learn how to play these games. I know it's all been said before, but I gotta say that I'm having fun with the whole system. Resources, diplomacy, everything is pretty fun and streamlined. I'd say this is a nice middle ground between the no micro of SotS and the insane micro of more traditional 4xs like galciv. I am sure I'll have more questions as time goes by. I know it's being worked on but, man that research screen is hard to understand 
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May 4, 2015 12:03
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Gonna stream this in a bit, just after 3 eastern: http://www.twitch.tv/escapistmagazine 
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May 4, 2015 19:31
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Sweet. I'm there!
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JonBolds posted:Gonna stream this in a bit, just after 3 eastern: You managed to stream right when I wasn't able to watch. 
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May 4, 2015 20:17
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JonBolds posted:Gonna stream this in a bit, just after 3 eastern: Fun stream, I appreciate the depth you went into. Looking forward to seeing your review.
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May 4, 2015 23:32
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Wee Tinkle Wand posted:Fun stream, I appreciate the depth you went into. Looking forward to seeing your review. Thanks, cheers! The game is super fun. I am kind of bad at it, but getting better. There's a lot to manage at once, and that's where I get bogged down. I end up with lots of spare research, or with energy piling up, etc. Anyone have any tips for not doing that?
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JonBolds posted:Thanks, cheers! Plan a research goal, like ringworlds, and shotgun towards it. Spend every last dime of research you get.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Plan a research goal, like ringworlds, and shotgun towards it. Spend every last dime of research you get. This is very good advice! I decided last night that I'd make star forges, and by george, I did it. I've found a very important thign while learning this game is to make sure not to neglect your infrastructure. It's easy to forget not to build megacities, etc. on your planets because they don't show up on the map, but if you're going for a centralized economy of any kind it's very important. Your top-tier planets need a ton of population to really make use of all the pressure you're feeding thing. Also discovered you can funnel labor from a planet in one system to a shipyard in another. This changes everything for me. Have a shipyard with nearing 100 labor now. Instantly builds super-battleships. So fun.
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Lucas finally gave in to my demands and now there's a civilian trade activity slider!  I'm fresh off a game with 1000% civilian trade activity. "Bustling" describes how it felt pretty succinctly.  Also makes raiding enemy supply lines crazy-profitable. Looking forward to sharing this update with y'all. Apologies that it's coming so slowly.
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Awesome! Now a way to profit more from civilian trade traffic. We need space coast guard to find contraband!
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I'm interested, but I've been so burned by the years of garbage moo clones and devs who don't understand TBS flaws that I'm deeply gunshy. Gonna watch some vids and stuff 
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victrix posted:I'm interested, but I've been so burned by the years of garbage moo clones and devs who don't understand TBS flaws that I'm deeply gunshy. It's definitely not MoO, so don't expect that. More similar to sins of a solar empire. Doesn't stop it from being really good in its own right though.
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victrix posted:I'm interested, but I've been so burned by the years of garbage moo clones and devs who don't understand TBS flaws that I'm deeply gunshy. It's a unique game, and not really directly comparable to anything else, but it's definitely not flawed or broken the way that so many 4x releases are these days.
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Bremen posted:It's a unique game, and not really directly comparable to anything else, but it's definitely not flawed or broken the way that so many 4x releases are these days. AI War is about the only space 4x/rts/tbs/strategy/whatever game I've really appreciated in the last few years, so different is good.
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Let me try to think of some criticism. The weakest point is the research screen but that is getting overhauled soon. It's not broken or unusable, just confusing at first. The AI gets confused if you play with them on The Expanse map but that's kind of an alternate game mode and in my opinion is more fun to play it solo as a relaxing mode or multiplayer vs your friends than with AI so it's not a major bug in my opinion. Other than that... uhh... Star Children can't live on ringworlds! More of a minor gameplay niggle, that.
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