Uemon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 9:13 pm
Another solution would be to allow AI to build that asset that you can pop on top of mountains that creates water out of air.

Windtraps? They do build them. Previously, they built them even when they weren't really useful. They should extend the water mine (which I've seen them do previously).

I checked a save from late 2021 (Oceania came out March 2023, for reference) and the same behaviour was present there, so it's not a recent change. Just easy to miss with how many systems the game has! Not sure just going back to the save will do it, that should be a game engine thing. However, may...

Like I said, the accounting appears correct to me. However, I believe this behavior changed with the Oceana DLC or soon after. I don't recall the same drop in IP prior, hence my confusion of whether it represented a bug or not.

Here's an interesting bug/situation that I've noted has appeared recently. When you start a construction project in a zone, the IP costs of the project are solely removed from the SHQ stock, and the IP production of the zone does not get transferred to the SHQ that turn. In the first image, I starte...

Odd thing on diplomacy with other Majors. Open Contact has a higher difficulty with a better relationship, which seems counterintuitive.

I experimented with Plea for Friendship and every time I played it on a certain regime, the difficulty of open contact increased.

I can confirm that in 1.26g the AI will make effective use of ICBMs. They struck all my population centers, multiple times. There's nothing left - no industry, no people. My capital city has a rad level of over 3600.

I am just observing that the early game in certain situations has perhaps limited options for reaching an economic critical mass. I could imagine, linked perhaps to a planet-gen option, a tier-1 tech: "Knowledge Recovery - Technical", unlocking "the repair of a GR field module instal...

Thrake wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:00 pm
It takes a while to develop the first industry but once that is up everything will grow exponantially and allow you to overgrow players that invested in anything else.

Which is why I said in my initial post... "Early game success ...".

IP is the main bottleneck, as opposed to metal. I disagree. The only real bottleneck is metal. Sure, IP is crucial, but IP is produced almost exclusively by spending metal. There is also a small early game bottleneck in energy, however it is quickly solved by a level or two of power plant (which al...

IP generation in the early game (especially low tech, 1 zone starts) feels OK to me when you have or can quickly get multiple zones with light industry. Sometimes having the right FP cards makes a big difference here. However it tends to feel quite slow when you only have 1 zone. Resource and econo...

For me, this is one of the worst UI experiences of the game. Row upon row of faces, names, and positions, all ordered by position hired -- who remembers that? A filter or even a more reasonable sort would go a long way to help this screen. And there's an additional problem - if you have too many lea...

I love these brilliant attacks ;-) Looks like they are following the Art of War "Attack where your enemy is weak". Can't be weaker then having 0 forces! The ones that get me is the disastrously executed attacks, where somehow despite attacking an opponent with 0 ships, they still manage t...

Some planet types (colossus, large) seem to have some rather extreme wind speeds -- up to hundreds of meters per second. I think the last colossus I generated had something like 300m/s -- over 1000km/h. Yet flight was still possible on the planet, which seems improbable.

Late game AI, Extreme difficulty seems predisposed to create lots of Atomic Launchers of questionable utility. With range of only 2, it never uses them effectively.

I don't think the players should be able to see the exact value associated with their relationship with other majors (especially AI). They should have some indication on their general status, apart from COLD/HOSTILE/FRIENDLY, but having the exact numeric value leads to fairly boring games. It's too ...

If you expand the new zone to the next zone borders, effectively leaving the old zone cut-off, the game will automatically incorporate that territory into the the new zone. It took me a while to figure that one out, but it does work and is fairly intuitive.

I think its completely random? Ive seen light industry I being built first and ive seen private sector build 10 other things before it. But overall i think we really need early game rebalance. AI struggles. A lot. It might be biased by initial government choices? Maybe choosing commerce would cause...

Some notes from a recent play through and many failed starts: Autonomous cloning facility is game breakingly broken. Towards the end game it was producing up to 10000 new pop a turn, and my Capitol was well on its way to being level 7 (over 800k pops) - 4 times larger than any of my other cities. Ea...

In late stage large games, I find myself spending an inordinate amount of time moving between various different fronts and usually end up skipping one. Dwarf Fortress (steam version) has user assignable 'views', which link F-keys to specific views around the map, which I find to be a great help ther...

I was noodling around with the new Colossal planets and they are very cool. 5g. :) One issue I found on planets cold enough to have snow is that the weather patterning on the surface is clear rectangles or vertical lines. Biggest issue I've found so far with high-G planets (3g) is that the AI tends...