Not a steampunk.
Luckily Mordachai made it available via github.

Based on your suggestion I went into my homemod *.xmls and flipped the switches - no hiccups so far.

Did you try?

At first glance it seems rather simple to do, but if you tried and encountered nastiness I'd rather know.

Just because it was mentioned a while back:

Can anybody point me to a case of slavery not being ultimately self-defeating in our planets history?

The specific reference in my mind is Xenophon (very biased I concede, because he was the (semi-)democratically elected leader of a mercenary army), who ...

I have similar specs as the OP and I was a little disappointed too for a short moment.

When I look at the actual numbers however, that stops very quickly. The last game I stopped, because it was getting pointless with me having conquered half the galaxy, 400+ colonies, 3000 fighting ships (500 of ...

So what happens if that particular piece of armour looses function?
I never tested, but I still like to have two or three pieces of ion armour on bigger ships, just to avoid this particular risk of a cascade failure.

Would it be feasible to change the way things work instead?
Make ion protection a bonus you get if you have researched it and you don't get if you haven't, while doing away with the dedicated component altogether?
Which way would be preferrable to you and why?

@Jorgen_CAB
Do you have a download you would be willing to share?
This sounds very much like the background of the first few novels of David Weber's honorverse, where ships of the wall would exchange missile fire until one or the other side was unwilling to continue the engagement for risk of actual ...

Yes, diplomacy.


For a slew of great stuff to have, you only need to open todays paper and read the international section:

We can support one side in a war (with money or material) without really becoming a party in that war (reputation hits still apply though).
We can become allies or opponents ...

As of 1.0.4.9 military academies still are one per planet with stacking benefits.

The AI will only build one of those, so every planet you have, will advance your targeting and countermeasures by 10% beyond the enemy. Each.

With 20 planets you dominate the AI by 200% targeting and countermeasures ...

It's like you read my mind.
An itsy bitsy button on the lower right would completely do it for me.
I'd click it once and - aaaah, heavenly peace.

I like regional governance buildings(Who doesn't?). They do funny things in great numbers.
Each of them adds a 10% leader quality bonus, which adds up, when you have 150 of them (1500% bonus).
This leads to new leaders with skills in the 40-50% range.
One of those skills is ship maintenance ...

In my most recent game I shot down the first two Carriers alright, but the third one does not take any hull damage.
Shields and armor behave as they are supposed to though, i.e. regenerate and are overwhelmed by the incoming firepower.

Yesss.
So much this!

<r> About Hyperdrives and Hydrogen:<br/>
<br/>
When you mentioned "Science" a few posts back I immediately thought:<br/>
Why is Hydrogen even an issue? It is THE most common element in our universe (Wikipedia says it constitutes 75% of the non-baryonic mass (whatever that means) of it). Maybe ...

<t> Hi Eliphas, <br/>
there are actually two movies out there (that I know of), both kind of low budget, but "Damnatus" (which is a german fan production - with english subs if desired) captures the spirit of of the setting pretty well I think. Be warned though - it has lengths<br/>
The other one ...

<t> Hello Eliphas,<br/>
nice to see there are more people who follow this mod.<br/>
I have to say though, that I don't think that more unit types for ground fighting are necessary (or even desirable).<br/>
We are dealing with a strategic level view, which is quite different from the skirmishing ...

<t> Some more random and unsorted thoughts.<br/>
<br/>
The universes of Warhammer are all very dystopian. Their overriding theme is civilisation (by our own standards already a travesty of what you could call that) holding on against the coming night and inevitably losing ground.<br/>
The dark ...

<t> Turns out that this was a dead end. <br/>
Twenty races had it, 24 did not, plus mechanoid and shakturi who have everything right out of the door.<br/>
My game setup was starting Tech 5 anyway, so everyone should have had it regardless of the scripted path.<br/>
But to be sure I added it on ...

<t> How would I go about doing that?<br/>
In particular I would like the computer to settle those low-quality worlds in the first place.<br/>
The Policy files already show <br/>
"ColonyAllowFacilityTerraformingFacility ;Y"<br/>
with a threshold of 500 for all the races I randomly checked<br ...

<t> I have been playing some BaconRetreat lately and it seems that the computer factions don't build terraforming facilities (from a Tech 5, old empires start, so they have the tech and they have the economy to do so - but they don't.<br/>
Is there something I can do about that?<br/>
Maybe a ...