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Unit designing where you have multiple viable options to choose from is fine, unit designing where it's just "number go up" or "what colour number do i want" is just crappy busywork.
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Stellaris for me had the same issue as Beyond Earth, where despite being technically competent, everything felt very 'designed and clinical'.
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Mokinokaro posted:This is a very nutty take irt 4x games. They're not easy on purpose, it's that they tend to be too complex for an AI script to really handle. Too many moving parts. Even the most grognard 4x games tend to have awful AI. Complexity is only part of it - although there's certain concepts/best-practices you can use when implementing AI, you'll always need a brand new bespoke AI implementation for your game, there isn't some form of middleware that will help to a level comparable to something like Unity/UE. Even on the level of a Civ 5 -> Civ 6 style sequel, a large number of mechanics changed enough that you'd probably throw away half of what you had previously. That and whoever's working on the AI for a game often has to play catch up with the gameplay designers, since mechanics are constantly being refined and can often change wildly over time. edit: And as a simpler reason, it's also not a feature that sells so it will always receive less resources. Would be nice if it wasn't the case but 
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The only game that really handled multiple FTL types well was Sword of the Stars anyway 
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SotS2 was the first true 5x because hooboy were you in for a wild eXperience Asteroids kidnapping Admirals is still the best bug I've seen to this day
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