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Jarvisi posted:Jeez. Ackdarians start with a super stardock. Commerce station, research lab, hospital, recreation center and a ton of guns Are you sure you haven't accidentally taken one of the advanced start options? Because there are like 4 options, going from "single colony, nothing" up to a fully developed star empire. This sounds like you switched to option 2 or something before starting.
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Libluini posted:Are you sure you haven't accidentally taken one of the advanced start options? Because there are like 4 options, going from "single colony, nothing" up to a fully developed star empire. This sounds like you switched to option 2 or something before starting. I'm just going with the prewarp options. They start with a ruined Spacedock in orbit that you can recover. Edit: I restarted on the lowest start settings and it's still there
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Jarvisi posted:I'm just going with the prewarp options. They start with a ruined Spacedock in orbit that you can recover. Ah, that's interesting. I've started with Teekan, but hadn't much time to play beyond noticing there's a bunch of ancient technology to research on our homeworld. I guess every race has a different line of events back to space if you start pre-warp?
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Libluini posted:Ah, that's interesting. I've started with Teekan, but hadn't much time to play beyond noticing there's a bunch of ancient technology to research on our homeworld. I guess every race has a different line of events back to space if you start pre-warp? Yes, each race seems to start with something different. Space cats get pirates who try to scam them and various ancient stuff to find, and I assume every race gets their own poo poo to discover
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I assume those go away if you disable the race stories option, but I haven't tried a game with that, yet.
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Fun. My automated main feet decided to go for a refit at some random abandoned station I claimed half way across the galaxy and are now like a year away from my empire when I notice.
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chglcu posted:Fun. My automated main feet decided to go for a refit at some random abandoned station I claimed half way across the galaxy and are now like a year away from my empire when I notice. Seems rather realistic tbh
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BrotherJayne posted:Seems rather realistic tbh They were homebased to my best starbase and in that system already. Not sure what led them to decide somewhere else was better, but I really need to find a way to prevent it. Might just have to disable the refit automation.
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This game is made my space racists. Every non-mammal playable race are assholes.
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Does anyone happen to know what the icon with the orange banner with a water droplet and an arrow looping around it means? I've made sense of most other stuff, but that one 's eluding me. This guy: 
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chglcu posted:Does anyone happen to know what the icon with the orange banner with a water droplet and an arrow looping around it means? I've made sense of most other stuff, but that one 's eluding me. Somewhere ships can refuel
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Splicer posted:This game is made my space racists. Every non-mammal playable race are assholes. Naxillians seem pretty chill. They just want to play space football
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MinorRed posted:Somewhere ships can refuel Awesome, thank you.
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MinorRed posted:Somewhere ships can refuel
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Advisor: You should build a research station. Advisor: You should build some escorts. Advisor: You should genoc͠i̵d҉e̢͟ ̸̛t̶̵͝h̷͡͏e͏͟͡ ͘͜͢͝ì̴͘͟n̶̷͢͠͞ş̸̛̕͜e̷͞͏͞͡c̢̕͢͟͟͝t̛͏̶̧͜͝ ̷̷̷̡̨̡͟m̷̧̨̀͘͟͢e̵͟҉̷̴͜͝ń̴̢̨̛̀͘͝.̴̶̵̷̧͟͢͜ Advisor: You should build a mining station.
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Splicer posted:Advisor: You should build a research station. This is how you accidentally cause a planet to cease existing.
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Splicer posted:I've got one that's a blue water droplet with no orange. I think it's a caslon deposit that doesn't have a mining station. I've got one in my own game on a planet with a deposit that I can't get to because of a pirate base there.
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Game still doesn't take ship hyperdrive speed/range into account when deciding where to build ships I see. At least I'll have better hyperdrives available by the time that constructor makes it back to my home system from the joined pirate base it decided to build at. Looks like I'll still want to Micro build queues well into the midgame.
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Splicer posted:I've got one that's a blue water droplet with no orange. It's a planet with a refueling station that you can't use - enemy/neutral stations, basically. MinorRed, yours is because the pirate base is hovering over it where one COULD refuel, if the pirates weren't assholes. Why bother pointing them out on the galaxy map? War targets. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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Hmm, looks like I'm not gonna be able to rely on the automatic design upgrading. I've had multiple designs without enough reactor to run the hyperdrive at full speed. e: And apparently, can't trust the autosave frequency either. Just crashed and the last save was 30 minutes ago with the autosave set at 5. At least I had more money then, I guess. chglcu fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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I'm a bit confused about asteroid fields/belts. Individual asteroids almost always have miniscule resource amounts (often only a few percent), but on the mining screen, they show up as having huge amounts, sometimes more than 100%, and it'll even show them as having resources the individual asteroid actually doesn't have when you click on it. Is it because it's showing an aggregate of nearby asteroids that a mining station built around that specific asteroid could potentially harvest? I also wish there was a way to tell automated exploration ships not to bother with asteroid fields, since it takes a long time to survey them all (in the early game at least) and can easily tie up all your explorers if they decide to converge there for some reason. Yeah, I know you can just manually send them somewhere more useful and then switch them back to auto, but it's nice to keep the micro down as much as possible.
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Drunk in Space posted:I'm a bit confused about asteroid fields/belts. Individual asteroids almost always have miniscule resource amounts (often only a few percent), but on the mining screen, they show up as having huge amounts, sometimes more than 100%, and it'll even show them as having resources the individual asteroid actually doesn't have when you click on it. Is it because it's showing an aggregate of nearby asteroids that a mining station built around that specific asteroid could potentially harvest? Yep - mining modules have ranges, so they'll collect from any asteroid in that range.
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Splicer posted:This game is made my space racists. Every non-mammal playable race are assholes. Pretty much all the playables are the ones with serious negative feelings to each other. Look at, say the Securans or Ikkuro modifiers in the Galactopedia as compared to, say, even the Zenox. War is bound to happen. Also most of the races chosen have powerful troops, the Teekan and the Ackdarian are the exceptions.
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How’s the art and presentation of DW2 for those of you playing? Gooder than DW1?
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chaosapiant posted:How’s the art and presentation of DW2 for those of you playing? Gooder than DW1? Definitely prettier than DW1, though still obviously made by a small team. Some of the planets look a bit poo poo, but you don't really spend much time looking at them. It's using 3D assets now, though the gameplay is still on a 2D plane. The ship models are functional, but not amazing. The UI works reasonably well once you get used to it, and has built in scaling options now. The audio has been inoffensive. I'm a bit worried that performance is going to be bad late game, but I haven't gotten there yet. The limited number of empire colors makes seeing who's who on a populated map a bit of an effort. I just had a large amount of the galaxy revealed through treaties, and I'm thinking it may turn into a bit of a headache keeping track of what's going on.
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I really like the art direction on the ship models. Up close they’re quite crude but they pop really well from a distance IMO, and this adds to the sense of having a huge galaxy with tons of ships from all over, especially if you go to a planet that has a lot of interstellar trade.
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Does time acceleration really only go to 4x in DW2? This early game is taking loving ages
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Shadows of Forbidden Gods is in a pretty good state for Early Access. It's an anti-4X game where you play as a dark god and send out agents to ruin the AI's kingdoms. Pretty sure it's goon made as well.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Shadows of Forbidden Gods is in a pretty good state for Early Access. It's an anti-4X game where you play as a dark god and send out agents to ruin the AI's kingdoms. Pretty sure it's goon made as well. This looks like extremely my poo poo.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Shadows of Forbidden Gods is in a pretty good state for Early Access. It's an anti-4X game where you play as a dark god and send out agents to ruin the AI's kingdoms. Pretty sure it's goon made as well. The original was made by Bobbytwohands as a spite-game for a fake kickstarter game that had the same premise. This is the third game by them in that series.
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In my first game I spawned right in the core of the galaxy, and I'm guessing that's why I quickly had lots of metal and fuel. I invaded and colonised both my rivals at the same time, and then an event happened and a hive swarm carrier thing spawned, and then more spawned, they have like 35k Power each. What do I do? I found a World Destroyer around the remains of a dead world, but it seems like it will take decades to refurbish, so I don't think that will be helpful unless there's some way to fix it faster? Is the answer to just make a really big fleet? Since I'm not sure I'll win that race when I also have to fuel and defend my entire empire. Maybe I expanded too fast. Great game. This is what I imagined Stellaris would be like before I played it. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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Ardryn posted:The original was made by Bobbytwohands as a spite-game for a fake kickstarter game that had the same premise. This is the third game by them in that series. I remember the long, long post following that thing. Everyone was into it, then it....vanished. I forget the circumstances.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Shadows of Forbidden Gods is in a pretty good state for Early Access. It's an anti-4X game where you play as a dark god and send out agents to ruin the AI's kingdoms. Pretty sure it's goon made as well. There's a demo too. Rad.
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Shadows of Forbidden Gods is in a pretty good state for Early Access. It's an anti-4X game where you play as a dark god and send out agents to ruin the AI's kingdoms. Pretty sure it's goon made as well. It loving owns. I spent all of yesterday ignoring my responsibilities and playing Shadows instead. It's easy to fail due to the sheer variety of options available, but for the same reason it's super satisfying when you start accumulating enough knowledge to identify opportunities. Each of those options seems to have a genuine purpose; they can be a trap that gets you wrecked, but only because the situation isn't right based on world gen and NPC choices.
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Dunno if this is a bug but it seems if a fleet has 10x the power of your fleet, you can still kill it easily. Maybe it's not taking all the technologies into account.
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Just bought Distant Worlds 2 on a whim, let's see how this goes.
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First start right after buying none of my ships would work, they were constantly stuck in construction. Sometimes they'd finish for a sec then go right back in. Thought it was some weird construction bug but it turns out the game started my colony in the middle of a huge ion storm and it was completely unplayable. e: zero notification on the ships as to what was wrong, no damage or missing parts, full fuel and energy, just wouldn't accept commands even in manual. I only found out by turning on the nebula overlay, though the screen flashes and thunder sounds were some indicator. Just thought that was ambient effects though. RandomBlue fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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Squiggle posted:The primer from DasTactic if you've got time to watch it The full manual guide, otoh, is garbage. I got as far as the extremely lame joke about how it's ~realistic that all scientist characters are men in the game (...) before ditching it. What good tips are in there are hard to find because it's got no formatting or structure, and the science and ship design bits are too different from DW2's setup to be useful. The worst thing about it was how it put me in a min-max mindset of worrying about my performance and constantly pausing the game to fiddle with this or that rather than actually letting it run and watching my ship ants at work, aka a high crime since the fun of this game is doing just that Squiggle posted:My best advice for DW2 so far is to use the UI menus and their "build a thing here" or "send a fleet here" easy buttons while you're getting a grip on it all. Don't gotta send a construction ship somewhere yourself - just build a few, set 'em to Automated, and let the the "build poo poo" button and the AI handle the job from there.
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