more things to do with independents.
Thus far it s to friend them for colony ship or go with troops, what about turn tem into protectorates or offer them protection?

It's a consequence of moving to 3D graphics. You can't really have the old design system and still have space battles look good with the increased graphical fidelity. The weapon effects have to originate somewhere on the model, so the game has to know where it is mounted. That leads, fairly ...

<t> Very interesting.<br/>
I do have some questions how it will go operatively, I mean say an explorer with survey module and sensor jumps to system 4831<br/>
it does a cursory survey over the whole system and then goes to do detailed surveys of each planet? or goes to each planet and starts doing ...

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Personally, I don't like any limitations in a game like this. Should the terrain be present in DW? We play the game in <B><s>[b]</s>space<e>[/b]</e></B> you know. The biggest issue with ...

<t> on the one hand I like the idea of adding some geography, so nebulas having an effect is interesting....<br/>
What about black holes also having an area of effect around them? or pulsars? <br/>
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On the other hand, space is mostly empty, nebulas, and what other phenomena one can think of ...

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You know, it is a shame this is happening in game, because having a separate simulated battle could be useful, as a test for the design.<br/>
If you can create a virtual scenario to have that happen "elsewhere" it would be kinda awesome.<br/>
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Think the old Space Empires series ...

<t> This sounds kinda awesome, on the technical level<br/>
on the player level, I am ambivalent, eye candy is always nice but my experience with DW I rarely tended to be zoomed into things.<br/>
Frankly, I'd rather have quick and easy visibility that gives me substantial info, so a type of planet ...

<t> Stellaris implementation is particularly bad and micro heavy and has issues stacked on issues<br/>
Which was why originally sectors were AI controlled things to keep the kludge of a planetary system from overwhelming even the most die hard player<br/>
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I think a more in depth system can ...

<t> I mean, as an optional feature "use on your own risk" or maybe in limted size playmaps? could be neat to have. Just planets, though, not moons or asteroids (and maybe only inner planets, nothing with orbital speeds measured in decades/centuries per rotation) if we start adding which ones orbit ...

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Agreed and, if you are going to add extra level of detail to the invasion interface, pausable real time isn't the best method, but some form of turn based.<br/>
I think that having some more detail would be fine, as having some extra options, but it still needs to be mostly hands off for ...

That sounds like a modern Emperor of the fading suns, which would be all kinds of awesome, but don't think if it fits with Distant Worlds


Though, again, a modern Emperor of the Fading Suns would be an awesome game to be had, hint-hint at matrix

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I think War Weariness is a bad mechanic.<br/>
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What problem is it trying to solve?<br/>
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If the aim is to make the player spend more time at Peace, then make peacetime more rewarding and engaging.<br/>
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As it is, in ...

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IT is at the core of the issues of Stellaris, yes. I mean it is the whole reason the first version of the game had the AI sectors, so that the pop management could be limited. But given how much 4x players like to micro, and how oft we don't trust AI to do a half competent job ad ...

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The game seems to look interesting but .... at first I thought that this is another DL&#1057; for Stellaris, why would it be?
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To be honest I don't even see ...

<t> That much I agree, hence why I wasn't very enthusiastic about the hulls having a type names. <br/>
I mean, it shows how awesome an influence Master of Orion had on the genre, but it is a bit static and... dated.<br/>
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Still I am more interested in seeing how the fleet template is going ...

<t> I am not sure if I understand your point, Patrick<br/>
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I mean I'd argue that the US navy has no real cruiser class ship, they do have enlarged destroyers that got the label due to politics, hell the difference between Frigate and destroyer is a bit iffy, the former is supposedly a ...

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That sounds great and does put to rest my whole issue with the hulls.<br/>
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Though I still would like more detail about the fleet template, mostly because from what I've seen in the videos it is escort or frigate and so on and so forth, and it could be tricky if you have, say ...

<t> Iirc, seems here research can start urevealed so the tree starts appearing as you research tech or thru some sort of event, <br/>
I remember somebody mentionging something of the like (and it is mentioned being configurable, so we can have that and even techs not appearing in all playthrus, ala ...

<t> That's cool<br/>
Specially being able to obsolete/retire hulls, unlike components I wasn't sure we'd get the option and with the number seen in the video, I feared we'd end up with a rather large list (which is nice, because options, but can add to clutter at times)<br/>
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Mind my ...

Also being able to hide hulls, call it "retiring them" after all if we will have N hulls of each type, being able to not seeing them in the build screen would be a godsend