It sounds like a mix of a not very capable council leader and an enemy AI that does not want peace. Depending on the profiles of an AI they will be more or less willing to sue for peace. For an evil autocratic theocracy that willingness to surrender is very very low

I once played an e tire game from start to finish and the power plant tech never appeared as a research option.

Those exist already. You need to build the Staff Council and research the OOBs for them

While reference points are the gold standard I for one would greatly prefer the ability for mission creators to just draw on the map and mark it akin to a real tactical map

<t> SeaQueen, as the name would imply, hit the nail on the head. End of the day CMO is about tactics and strategy and focuses on surface and air combat. You also lack things such as convergence zones it's just beyond the design goal of the simulation. CMO is more akin to a very complicated dice base...

I think a simple warning in the message log that says something like "flight X on mission X unable to take off no runway"

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zgrssd<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: LORDPrometheus<br/> <br/> Kind of off topic but what if planets with a hostile biosphere and toxic fauna had the potential to have toxic water as well requiring specific filtration techs to be usable. This may require play...

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Such event for EMCON change is really good recommendation.

While Lua is extremely useful if you can do soemthing for a third the effort with events always use the event

<t> Sorry for the 4 day necro but this was too interesting to pass up. <br/> <br/> When it comes to an IADS the best way to make it more capable is to make it more diverse and complex. In general a region will be defended by three layers of SAMs. Short range SAMs surround assets such as ground forma...

Aww no Bazooka Charlie

<t> As much as I think cutting down turn times would be great as many others have stated the design of the game will never allow lightning fast AI turns. There is simply too much complexity for that. I would rather have gradual improvements in logic that lead to improvements in turn times along with...

Kind of off topic but what if planets with a hostile biosphere and toxic fauna had the potential to have toxic water as well requiring specific filtration techs to be usable. This may require players using subsurface deposits until they can use the surface water

Where is this roadmap people speak of anyway?

It also will inevitably depend on the size of the map. On a small map it's pretty likely that you will spawn close to the major simply because there isn't much space to maneuver

Not sure but my best guess is that it would take the form of an editor Akin to the old civilization editors or CIV-V SDK. Basically random gen options but also the ability to tweak every single tile as desired

Sounds like a higher level of Sam with Ballistic Missile Defense Capability is due

<t> Alien Fauna Is prolific across many of the world's played in Shadow Empire but other than adding flavor and new foes it often does not serve much purpose in game. As such I suggest an expansion to the utility and function of alien life. <br/> <br/> 1: active hunting: when you successfully kill a...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zgrssd<br/> <br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: YohanTM2<br/> <br/> Turns out the boys were having an extended fast due to a religious holiday...read as, I was out of food! <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> As I like to say:<br/> "Nobody has learned to play Shadow Empire wi...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: laagamer<br/> <br/> Such a cool story! <br/> <br/> As a new player, do you mind telling me how you rushed a specific tech? I thought they are assigned at random. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Since I was just rushing for a new model I set the model design council t...

I mean the realistic blast radius of a 1MT bomb is 19.8km before it won't even break windows and since hexes are 200km across this does not surprise me. As it stands I now have 2 units of 10x of these launchers so do I have 20 nukes or 2?