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Baronjutter posted:So I've been playing this for a while now but still can't figure out what the resource is that looks like a little crate or companion cube or what ever. What does it mean? That means the system has a trade center. The cluster of smaller boxes is a subsidiary.
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IAmTheRad posted:Hoping it's the vaulters. Curiously absent. They're not absent. Vaulters became the United Empire.
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Cease to Hope posted:That means the system has a trade center. The cluster of smaller boxes is a subsidiary. How would things be giving something like +2 centers of trade per pop? It reads more like a resource, like a luxury or something but I never see where else it shows up.
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May 19, 2017 01:17
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Baronjutter posted:How would things be giving something like +2 centers of trade per pop? It reads more like a resource, like a luxury or something but I never see where else it shows up. Post a screenshot then? Not sure what you're referring to.
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May 19, 2017 01:19
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Baronjutter posted:How would things be giving something like +2 centers of trade per pop? It reads more like a resource, like a luxury or something but I never see where else it shows up. It's a marker for saying "this counts as one of everything" or "this applies to all resources" such as +5% to the four major resources.
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May 19, 2017 01:22
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What is a good beginner faction to start with? Any quick advice?
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:What is a good beginner faction to start with? Any quick advice? United Empire. They get more of the hardest to earn resource (Influence, basically a byword for the ability to grease the gears of the political machine) and have a simple to understand core mechanic. (They can spend influence to rush things, and they get influence for building things.) and they're the most "vanilla" faction.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:What is a good beginner faction to start with? Any quick advice? Sophons are extremely vanilla and reward you for exploring the tech tree for the first time. Horatio are well-balanced and can settle anywhere. They're perfect for anyone who wants to expand everywhere as quickly as possible. Cravers are the aggro faction, if you want to kill everyone you meet the moment you meet them. Then again I always pick the weird fucker faction to start things out, so it might help to be more specific about what you want.
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i appear to have randomly become unable to move my fleets. any system just has a looking glass, and when i click on a system it zooms to an enemy system near my capital edit: restarting the game fixed it Davincie fucked around with this message at 02:58 on May 19, 2017 |
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May 19, 2017 02:48
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They really changed the tech tree around, I like that colonization techs are a bit more spread out rather than all grouped at the end.
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May 19, 2017 02:50
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Man, the art direction of this game is amazing. Any good starting tips for the Vodyani? I fooled around a bit with the Sophons, but made too many newbie mistakes to commit to the campaign, and I like the idea of the space vampires eating planets.
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May 19, 2017 03:30
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ZearothK posted:Man, the art direction of this game is amazing. Eat the first minor faction you come across. You need Essence that badly. Focus hard on colonization and military tech.
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ZearothK posted:Man, the art direction of this game is amazing. vodyani are secretly the aggro faction. cravers can play peacefully for a surprisingly long time, but vodyani profit from neverending cold war and are ruthless killers in a hot war. change the ark layout to be all vampire modules, no engines, right away. you'll want to refit for engines later (the option to get special engines from your story quest is great, take that), but early on you need ankh resource whose name I forget. you have a savage early game fleet advantage. you should aggressively muscle in on any minors or majors in your vicinity early on. you may even want to use an ark chiefly as a combat ship at this point. leech ruthlessly and be willing to throw away leech ships on your neighbors just to keep an idea of how tough their fleets are. later on, send ark ships along with your push to give you a base of operations or leech strategics that you're short on. there's a difference between "eating" and going to war with someone. eating someone means destroying their fleets and camping their system with vamp ships with a few protectors. when you actually declare war, destroy everything until you're forced to stop. since you can wreck their poo poo without worrying about instability from newly conquered systems, you can grab a shitload of space and make use of it much more quickly and efficiently than factions that have to sink a bunch of resources into fixing happiness from conquest and overextension. +X per planet buildings are excellent for vodyani, and food is relevant for them for a lot longer than most other factions. happiness is a lot less relevant: while +X per (pop) stats are about as relevant for them as anyone, their pops aren't multiplied for the purpose of happiness/overcrowding. plus, you don't need to colonize as much to hold certain space, and you can reposition to take advantage of new techs (like new planet types and new metal types). plus, their happiness buildings are a lot better, since they have a +happiness per level building instead of the +happiness per alien race building that kind of sucks. Cease to Hope fucked around with this message at 04:02 on May 19, 2017 |
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ZearothK posted:Man, the art direction of this game is amazing. Cease to Hope posted:vodyani are secretly the aggro faction. cravers can play peacefully for a surprisingly long time, but vodyani profit from neverending cold war and are ruthless killers in a hot war. To add to this, there are a few gimmicks players should take advantage of as Vodyani to give themselves a substantial advantage. Vodyani are the easiest faction to fall behind with, and falling behind with them means falling behind dramatically; they get out-colonised rapidly, their pops take a long while to grow, and they can't take advantage of being able to instantly exploit all the planets in the system until they get the relevant colonisation techs or political party. So to circumvent falling behind, what a player really wants to do is get the Ecologists in power. Ecologists are broken with Vodyani for obvious reasons, in that the party's enforced policy lets the Vodyani take advantage of 4- or 5-planet systems rather early on, which gives them a meaningful production advantage over their neighbours. You want to find a 4- or 5-planet system with many high-industry worlds, something that's not too uncommon depending on nearby star types, and colonise it as soon as your Ecologists take over, which means timing the arrival of an ark ship into the system in question (whether it's your starting one or the first one you produce is up to you, but doing the the former is generally very inefficient). It can be easy to get a new system that has somewhere between 200-300 industry just a few turns after colonisation with this method, which is important when your neighbours will generally have at best maybe half that on their home system. You take advantage of this system to spam out leechers and ark ships and any necessary military ships -- it's quite possible that your primary limiting factor, if all has gone well, will be dust at this point. From here, you should be the strongest faction in the game for a good while, and your only real weaknesses are potential dust shortage and the eventuality of the ecologists falling out of power. Try to colonise a few more supersystems before that happens. The biggest crux to this is getting the ecologists into power in the first place, which can be difficult and rather susceptible to the whims of the RNG. Focusing on ecologist techs, pursuing relations with only +ecologist minor factions, and spamming extra scout ships will all be to some extent necessary to get the ecologists strong enough to win your first election. You'll also need a bit of luck finding a suitable industry system, but chances are good you'll find something at least half-decent to your purposes.
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So I'm in the very late game and still no option to build trade HQ, don't see it in the tech list or maybe I'm missing it? Seems weird when so many empires have trade related bonuses that it only comes into play in the end? Also how do I genocide pops? I don't want these loving cravers ruining my planets.
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Baronjutter posted:So I'm in the very late game and still no option to build trade HQ, don't see it in the tech list or maybe I'm missing it? Seems weird when so many empires have trade related bonuses that it only comes into play in the end? Can you chain gang them away? Or raze the system that has them in?
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Maybe I've been playing too much stellaris but it seems like quite an obvious missing feature to have a bit more population controls in the population screen. My galaxy is in an existential war against the cravers and I want to eliminate them. Unlike other races their pops have the special depletion mechanic and I want them gone. I want to drag them into a spaceport set for "space"
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May 19, 2017 06:56
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Baronjutter posted:Maybe I've been playing too much stellaris but it seems like quite an obvious missing feature to have a bit more population controls in the population screen. My galaxy is in an existential war against the cravers and I want to eliminate them. Unlike other races their pops have the special depletion mechanic and I want them gone. I want to drag them into a spaceport set for "space" I think there was a workaround during the early access of sending them to a system with full population, maybe see if that still works?
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Baronjutter posted:So I'm in the very late game and still no option to build trade HQ, don't see it in the tech list or maybe I'm missing it? Seems weird when so many empires have trade related bonuses that it only comes into play in the end? You probably just missed it. It's a third tier tech in the economy section.
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May 19, 2017 07:08
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Demiurge4 posted:What do the Vodyani use food for? Minor faction growth, but also they can gain pop via food, it's just slow compared to other factions.
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The Unlife Aquatic posted:United Empire. They get more of the hardest to earn resource (Influence, basically a byword for the ability to grease the gears of the political machine) and have a simple to understand core mechanic. (They can spend influence to rush things, and they get influence for building things.) and they're the most "vanilla" faction. Thanks, yeah I did some test games with the UE and the Sophons, I think I will try to finish a campaign with the UE first. So it seems like a good strategy to settle as wide as possible quickly, right? There's no penalty besides the expansion disapproval cap? And it seems like once you have one colony in a system it's pretty cheap to open up other planets in the same system?
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Sophons are pretty bad unless you have a plan. It's pretty easy to get into a situation where you cherry-picked what you thought was good but end up with no infrastructure.
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Finally got a launch trailer on YouTube. They showed it on their Twitch Stan announcing the early launch, but they didn't get it up on YT right away. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBo-4f3b90o Makes me even sadder that I'm stuck here at work rather than losing horribly as I learn how to play ES2.
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^^^^^  I was literal seconds from posting it but decided to check back a couple of pages to make sure it hadn't shown up yet.Seriously though, thats a real good trailer. The music choice and the aesthetic are great.
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May 19, 2017 10:51
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Is there a way to change the resolution outside of the game? Mine has spazzed out and made it so big I can't even access the confirm button in the options menu to change it back. It's locked so I can't even move it about.
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Thanks for the Vodyani tips on this page. I started with them because I wanted to avoid going with the most vanilla-looking empire like I usually do in games like this. I'm having fun poking around and figuring out how they work, but I probably have fallen behind. Question: I got a quest early on to brainwash a minor faction, and I came across these bug-people who I moved in on. I never could figure out how to actually brainwash them, I just did a quest to help them like normal. Did I miss something, is there another way to pull this off?
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Conot posted:^^^^^  If there's one thing I don't think Amplitude has ever gotten wrong it's aesthetics, though I played very little of ES1, it was long after it had released and quite a while ago so I might be off there.
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Flipswitch posted:Is there a way to change the resolution outside of the game? Mine has spazzed out and made it so big I can't even access the confirm button in the options menu to change it back. It's locked so I can't even move it about. Not at my pc right now so I can't confirm this but have you checked the documents folder for Endless Space 2 to look for an ini or xml file? I think there was one for Legend called Registry.xml
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Ecologists are much less important in 1.0, even for Vodyani. Colonization techs come much faster now, and are bundled with other benefits.CharlieFoxtrot posted:So it seems like a good strategy to settle as wide as possible quickly, right? There's no penalty besides the expansion disapproval cap? And it seems like once you have one colony in a system it's pretty cheap to open up other planets in the same system? Yes and yes. There's no significant incentive to play any taller than your overcolonization cap, especially with vanilla factions like UE. UE in particular wants to colonize as close to enemies as they can get away with, then backfill the empty systems in between, because of their naturally large zones of control. Serf posted:Question: I got a quest early on to brainwash a minor faction, and I came across these bug-people who I moved in on. I never could figure out how to actually brainwash them, I just did a quest to help them like normal. Did I miss something, is there another way to pull this off? Get to 75% approval and do their quest, or 100% approval and pay the assimilation cost.
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Wait, colonization techs are worthwhile to take now, with other benefits? I would take them in the very first release solely to colonize planets, using up those precious research slots. One thing I like is that there is a technology helper that recommends what you should learn next. Sometimes I have no clue what will help my people out. I do plan a Horatio game to make the galaxy perfect. Even if it involves destroying Auriga.
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Onean posted:
I think ES1 was a bit confused and unsure about its aesthetic (not unreasonable, considering it was the first game from a then unknown developer). I mean, just look at ES1 Horatio vs now  vs  Endless Legend was when they really learned to embrace it more, and also be a bit more wild with the faction assymetry (which you could see creeping in towards the end of ES1, with the Harmony) This trailer just reeks of style though. The wispy Dust, the flat white fighters unimportant if not for their use of Dust. The heretic shrouded in white and encircled by Dust. The Academy badge. The red motif of the UE so vivid and clear on the Hero.  Amplitude have to be one my favourite developers of the 2010s
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Onean posted:Finally got a launch trailer on YouTube. They showed it on their Twitch Stan announcing the early launch, but they didn't get it up on YT right away. Wow, that is a good cinematic trailer. Nice stuff. Does the tech tree in this game change at all depending on your empire choice? Just curious from a story standpoint because some these techs seem odd flavor-wise.
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Serf posted:Wow, that is a good cinematic trailer. Nice stuff. Some techs are unique to your faction, though I haven't seen many besides the ones that unlock ship types. You can tell because they have the empire icon beneath them on the tech screen.
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May 19, 2017 12:45
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Serf posted:Wow, that is a good cinematic trailer. Nice stuff. The Horatio tech to genetically modify non-Horatio into Horatio is Horatio-only.
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There's virtually no difference here in aesthetic, or artist's technical skill? But yes ES1 was bland and EL had flavour. I'm in the 'don't be an early adopter' phase of 4X games now, after being burnt by like three major 1.0 releases, so I'll take your word that Horatio is more flavorful this time around.
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Horatio is way cooler now and the main story quest does a lot to do that. Horatio Prime is a title and all his dirty little clones are constantly fighting over who gets to be the original. The thing is, none of them are but they are every bit as selfish and egomaniacal as the original.
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Horatio is better when you realize they basically created a whole new type of 4X space strategy race based on an episode of Red Dwarf.
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