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Rynoto posted:Buy slaves, genemod them to be delicious, turn around and sell their offspring to unscrupulous exotic food eaters. A corporation focused on being the galaxy's largest exotic restaurant chain with many unique varieties to choose from. Nessus posted:You say this and I immediately envision a theme pack designed around major food celebrities, Iron Chefs, etc. The Restaurant At The Center Of The Universe
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McSpanky posted:The Restaurant At The Center Of The Universe
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Nessus posted:The dark devouring heart of Flavortown.
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Dareon posted:Welp, that's my first megacorp sorted. Do it as a bunch of raiders: "Flavour Khans".
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Rynoto posted:Buy slaves, genemod them to be delicious, turn around and sell their offspring to unscrupulous exotic food eaters. A corporation focused on being the galaxy's largest exotic restaurant chain with many unique varieties to choose from. Rupture Farms lives again
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The Surviving Mars expansion just came out! I don't have nearly as much free time as I would need to play either it or Stellaris as much as I want as is. 
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So announcement on the 19th/20th, release on the week of the 3rd giving two weeks of bugfixing before Christmas breaks?  Groetgaffel posted:The Surviving Mars expansion just came out!
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PittTheElder posted:I don't understand why I'd ever want to sell a whole pop for only 500 energy credits. This was a while ago, but you're thinking in an old tiles way. Pop does not equal income in the new system. You will end up with unemployed pops - turning those into cash can be a great deal.
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Splicer posted:So announcement on the 19th/20th, release on the week of the 3rd giving two weeks of bugfixing before Christmas breaks? Announcement is on the 20th of November, so 20th December is my guess.
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So they are announcing when they will announce MegaCorp's release date?
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:So they are announcing when they will announce MegaCorp's release date? Xenonion News Network - Yesterday's News Tomorrow! Hopefully it's the actual release date being announced. Also, more changes to the planet screen: https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1063387093756448768 They really should do more like this, or have the picture change depending on that districts/buildings are present. Add some variety to the game.
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Splicer posted:How is it as a game? I ended up passing because I wasn't liking the faux-60s aesthetic. Very good with scaling difficulty, so if you want it to just be a chill city builder on Mars it can be, or you can crank the difficulty up to 500% and watch your little colony die as it runs out of every important resource at once. Anyway, here's the thread for it. Probably better to ask in there.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:Xenonion News Network - Yesterday's News Tomorrow! Hopefully it's the actual release date being announced.
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The Ground combat UI has also changed - there's less wasted space on things that don't have a gameplay effect (the space/air/ground layers) and instead it's 5 big areas for armies to hang out in that actually matter (2x disengaged, 2x reserves 1x frontline).
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Groetgaffel posted:The Surviving Mars expansion just came out! Allows the expansion to colonize other places, like Titan or Pluto? Until Surviving Mars gets that far, I'll pass. 
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They showed off some ground combat in yesterday's dev clash stream but I wasn't able to pay close attention to it while at work and didn't have a chance to rewatch it when I got home. The screen did look a little less cluttered but at the same time some weird bug hit and someone lost a planet while combat was still ongoing or something. Oddly, when I left twitch running by itself it looped over to the very first 2.2 dev stream where Wiz was talking about his ambitions for the patch. One of the changes he was talking about was that the combat window was to become more 'visual', where you see your dudes fly in and fight on the screen itself rather than just circles that count down. Wonder if they'll actually get around to that in time or not.
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https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1063500364245282816 I dunno how to embed tweets, but this is the new ground combat ui
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TheCog posted:I dunno how to embed tweets Also that looks way better, even though it's just the same info presented more intuitively. I wonder if there'll need to be a rebalancing of +resource traits since you'll have a lower proportion of pops gathering any one resource.
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TheCog posted:https://twitter.com/Martin_Anward/status/1063500364245282816 https://twitter.com/spacer176/status/1063513499744251904 
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Splicer posted:Good news! Note that the Awful App will not automatically embed a tweet, it will just display the link. Desktop browser should convert it to a tweet though.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:Note that the Awful App will not automatically embed a tweet, it will just display the link. My Awful app will embed tweets because I turned it on in the settings, but my desktop will not embed tweets because Firefox tracking protection blocks it. 
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DatonKallandor posted:This was a while ago, but you're thinking in an old tiles way. Pop does not equal income in the new system. You will end up with unemployed pops - turning those into cash can be a great deal. Aren't slave jobs uncapped? The idea of unemployed slaves is pretty bizarre.
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DatonKallandor posted:This was a while ago, but you're thinking in an old tiles way. Pop does not equal income in the new system. You will end up with unemployed pops - turning those into cash can be a great deal. looking forward to being a robust slave market participant to clean up this excess. Can you directly sell the unemployed or do you just have to sell slaves and let the unemployed take their place?
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Splicer posted:Good news! The only thing I don't like about that display is that there is enough room to pull all 8 armies in a single line, but they are instead double stacked.
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Nov 16, 2018 22:23
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Even though ground combat is still just a "dump troops and forget about it", that interface is way way better. I imagine it's step one in a potential re-fleshing out of ground combat.
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Psychotic Weasel posted:Xenonion News Network - Yesterday's News Tomorrow! Hopefully it's the actual release date being announced. Splicer posted:Yup. There's a bunch of ways you could do composite planet images that change based on what you built, and most of them are pretty straightforward to program, but anything good would be a metric fuckton of extra art and design. Sexy Planets DLC is coming
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binge crotching posted:The only thing I don't like about that display is that there is enough room to pull all 8 armies in a single line, but they are instead double stacked.
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I like it because it's compact but not jammed together with everything overlapping in a tiny bar the way it is now. Having it run down the entire page is ugly and unnecessary.
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Nessus posted:You say this and I immediately envision a theme pack designed around major food celebrities, Iron Chefs, etc. As long as this adds an 'outfit' option for each race that has a big chef hat I'm all in.
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Splicer posted:I was wondering if that was deliberate, to prevent an impression that each army was duking it out with its opposite like some kind of old timey musket formation. You mean you don’t march line abreast at your enemy until you’re in range and then start exchanging volleys of laser musketfire in a civilized manner? Do you just run around randomly killing each other like savages!?
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There being some sort of diplomatic "genteel war agreement" that provides other bonuses in exchange for ground combat penalties because your troops are forming lines of battle with laser muskets would be pretty great thematically. Some sort of unity/influence bonus as you're more 'civilized' than other empires, but you take larger troop losses against anyone not running 'genteel war' as well. Might be able to extend that to space combat as well.
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Galaga Galaxian posted:You mean you don’t march line abreast at your enemy until you’re in range and then start exchanging volleys of laser musketfire in a civilized manner?
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It would be pretty cool if invading xenomorph armies didn't show up on the screen at all, and the defending armies just mysteriously took damage every once in a while. If you do successfully defend the world the victory screen popup says 'we think we killed all the invaders... but there's only one way to be sure.'
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ZypherIM posted:There being some sort of diplomatic "genteel war agreement" that provides other bonuses in exchange for ground combat penalties because your troops are forming lines of battle with laser muskets would be pretty great thematically. Some sort of unity/influence bonus as you're more 'civilized' than other empires, but you take larger troop losses against anyone not running 'genteel war' as well. Might be able to extend that to space combat as well. The invader is already being really generous by not using their space superiority to wipe anybody hostile off the planet. The two armies playing lacrosse to the death instead of normal combat makes more sense than anything else. Especially since you only build ground troops and never like 'space tanks' or anything from the engineering science branch.
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Bedurndurn posted:The invader is already being really generous by not using their space superiority to wipe anybody hostile off the planet. The two armies playing lacrosse to the death instead of normal combat makes more sense than anything else. Especially since you only build ground troops and never like 'space tanks' or anything from the engineering science branch. One army unit is the size of one of those forces. Of course you're not building distinctive loving tanks at that level.
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Staltran posted:Aren't slave jobs uncapped? The idea of unemployed slaves is pretty bizarre. Only if you have domestic servants I think? I'm not sure if every slaver has those automatically. And even those aren't really good jobs, they're just...jobs for jobs sake mostly. But it's been a long time since we've seen them so the numbers for them may have drastically changed.
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Nessus posted:I assume poo poo like tanks and so on is wrapped up into your army units - like, you know how the WWII Earth has like 5 armies, "US Armed Forces," "Red Army," "Nazi KillGruppe," "UK Forces," and "IJN/IJA," right? You're missing the point. None of the actual weapons tech like better lasers or going from nuclear warheads to antimatter makes your armies more effective. Neither does better armor or better strike craft. What does make your armies better is physical strength, powered exoskeletons and a repeatable society tech. Clearly ground combat is a slam dunk competition. Xenomorph armies are just the Monstars from Space Jam. The five WWII armies are just their respective all-star basketball teams.
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Bedurndurn posted:You're missing the point. None of the actual weapons tech like better lasers or going from nuclear warheads to antimatter makes your armies more effective. Neither does better armor or better strike craft. What does make your armies better is physical strength, powered exoskeletons and a repeatable society tech.
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I would be extremely on board with a diplomacy expansion built around arranging for interstellar sporting competitions. Maybe with the ability to nominate other empires as the host of the spacelympics to crash their economies.
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