Standard races.

<t> There's just one way of getting Way of the Darkness normally, which is via the ruins.<br/> <br/> There's a second way of getting Way of the Ancients aside from ruins, though. You'll need to just finish the Old Alliance/Kaltor/Supervirus 'quest', where you search for the two deep space outposts, ...

AFAIK, all the functions for what buildings can do (eg. trigger event x/y/z, +% bonus to a/b/c, etc.) are hardcoded and just limited to whatever is available inside facilities.txt file. So unfortunately, pop quota is the only way to trigger manufactured resources atm.

<t> 'Tactical Combat' is a generally a complete sham in all space 4x games tbh.<br/> It's all done in a 2D arena and there's rarely benefit in actually microing battles over the effort it takes. The only aspect of positioning that only ever matters is the range of your weapons vs the range of your o...

The occasional size 50 gold asteroid also has a huge tourism bonus, fwiw.

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<r> Anywho, one left-over steam voucher and a few hours later, my In-Depth™ review tl;dr of the game is "alright, I suppose, if you really like 4x games and want something new to play".<br/> <br/> Research concept is interesting (in a good way), but the execution of it leaves something to be desired...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Kayoz<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Lucian<br/> Not really true. With starlanes you might have to travel through 3 or 4 star systems just to get to an immediately adjacent star, simply because there is no "space road" going straight to that star. This situati...

The pirate start preqreq is just any listed resource flagged for fuel, so not a bug, but can be very inconvenient in most circumstances.

<t> The 'Strategic HQ' wonder and the 'Utopia' homeworld rename are taken from the The Ancient Galaxy campaign. The latter happens after you build the Computer Core wonder. The HQ's original name is literally 'Intergalactic Gateway'.<br/> Both of the two are flagged to do those particular things and...

'Racial' ship icon/image sets.

<r> IIRC, once every single planet, moon and asteroid has been explored for resources by you, only then will automated explorers begin checking out any remaining unknown ruins (and only after they RTB to nearest port for refueling first and idles for some time). This means planets and moons below a ...

<t> A couple things, bugs/errors mostly, in the tech tree aside, I echo that UE is pretty balanced as far as research goes. Also does some nice things like separating out strike craft type from the hangar branch, as well as reducing power creep of the warp drives by lowering the relative speed per l...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Remigius<br/> <br/> Well, i was no where able to amass that many troops, it was early in a game, perhaps to early for a homeworld invasion. <br/> Some other things came up recently, if you dont mind.<br/> Do the non diplomatic skills from an ambassador benefit the ...

It's also that aspect of anticipation. You're limited with what you can do during this time as far as affecting the large-scale, so you innately become more focused and more involved on the things you can do.

<t> Personally, I don't mind pre-warp starts, although that's also partly because I don't like/trust the way the game spawns your initial assets nor the default templates they're based off, but altering them to my starting preferences would completely break the AI. I just keep research costs fairly ...

<t> Torpedos.<br/> <br/> Missile bombers do have about half the base dmg as the equivalent torp bomber, but retains the same -50% vs armour penalty as regular missiles do, use the same energy per shot and their 60-80% extra range is negligible against all those shortcomings.<br/> Plus, I almost alwa...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Hattori Hanzo<br/> <br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: HerpInYourDerp<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>It's similar for pirates and Matrix pricing : a lot of pirates do it because they just don't have the money to buy the game (or a credit card / bank account) regardless...

Yeah, just abuse strike craft. Standard templates barely have anything in the way of point-defence and even basic bombers have like 75% evasion.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>It's similar for pirates and Matrix pricing : a lot of pirates do it because they just don't have the money to buy the game (or a credit card / bank account) regardless of whether the game costs $60, $30, or even $5!<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> The thing about Matrix's pric...