Chaos Cats in space. First impressions.
RE: Chaos Cats in space. First impressions.
Cool race modifications! I like your AAR style, many screenshots. Please continue and consider to upload this mod to the forum or somewhere where we can download it. That would be very cool!
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Sarissofoi
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RE: Chaos Cats in space. First impressions.
Greetings again.
Lucky for us patch 1.03 worked. Not perfectly because I still have some issiues with loading saves but it working sometimes. Also reworked designing ship is much more better. Should be that on start but better later than never. Still separate civilian and military designs will be nice.
Our explorers and spies reveal many new area.
Look by yourself.
And my current diplomancy situation if anybody wonder what all these color means.
As you see centrum of galaxy is taken by two Colonials Empires. One we meet before. This is second.
These colonials too has monarchy. Their favorite system should be Rebublic or Confederation (but beacuse I cant affect these in any way and I cant add new goverment and modify old I must stick with I have got) but they choose Monarchy. Still their monarchy is uniqe. It is more like Federation with Great Lord as a first citizen and first servant of the state than your typical monarchy with knigs and knights. Colonies have autonomy in most things also they have they own army and navy. As you can see they are strong that mean their system work for them.
On north are two Imperials Kingdoms. One is know from some time , here is second.
Imperials with their strict hierarchy are on opposite side of monarchies than colonials. There monarch have absolute power and there is no place for discusion.
On the East you can see Rippers Enclave.
Rippers arent nice poeple. They are barbarians and warriors. Their society is based on clans and tribes and constant warfare. Feudalism should work for them but their favorite goverment is a Tribal Confederation. They lust for personal glory and fame. wealth are secondary, power taking first place.
In north east corner my scouts see something strange. Four empires of Citizens. Citizens are descendants of Old Federation. They favorite goverment is democracy altgough sometimes democracy change to miitary dictatorship(when politicans become corrupted and army try to save nation).
As you see something must happen. 4 close empieres with many difrent goverments? Civil war happen? Meyby. I must investigate this.
Two Aristoi republic are also discover.
This is strange because they should have monarchy or despotic goverment. But meyby this is some sort of Noble Rebublic? Meyby. I dont have enough infromation but soon I will know.
There is another empire lurking in shadows.
Brunos. They are enigmas although raports says that they are agressive nation with supreriority complex. Dangerous and not trusthworthy.
On the other hand. I get new colonization tech and my colonies spawn one by one. My sphere of influence doubles.
Thing about ships. Somebody on forum propose hull size addition. I thing that it is great idea. I mean there should be hulls - base cost for any ship based on size plus cost of components. Role shoul be secondary and should define how AI will use ships. That mean Escorts - to escort etc. There be posiible to only refit ships onbly to the same hull size. Now I can refit small escort into big escort which I find silly. Addition of hulls add cost to ships and bases, increse need of basic resources but I dont think that cost of the huls should be added to maintance. Only components should be maintained(excluding armors).
The Brittons stay sore in my eye.
I ordered my three fleets to attack enemy colonies. My basic fleet included one cruiser(witrh long scan), five destroyers, and 2 frigates with hyper deny. Some screens from actions.
There wasnt much resistance from their fleets. They dont raid my instalations. War was one sided. I took 3 colonies and one join my empire by themselfes. My spies cause riots and revolts in Brittons Empire with easy. My troops land and deafeat enemy ground forces. They gain experience and that was good.
But that lack of resistance was disspointing. OF course they were weaker but still. I offered them peace and they agreed.
I design new capital ship but now it see that it dont see battles now.
Lucky for us patch 1.03 worked. Not perfectly because I still have some issiues with loading saves but it working sometimes. Also reworked designing ship is much more better. Should be that on start but better later than never. Still separate civilian and military designs will be nice.
Our explorers and spies reveal many new area.
Look by yourself.
And my current diplomancy situation if anybody wonder what all these color means.
As you see centrum of galaxy is taken by two Colonials Empires. One we meet before. This is second.
These colonials too has monarchy. Their favorite system should be Rebublic or Confederation (but beacuse I cant affect these in any way and I cant add new goverment and modify old I must stick with I have got) but they choose Monarchy. Still their monarchy is uniqe. It is more like Federation with Great Lord as a first citizen and first servant of the state than your typical monarchy with knigs and knights. Colonies have autonomy in most things also they have they own army and navy. As you can see they are strong that mean their system work for them.
On north are two Imperials Kingdoms. One is know from some time , here is second.
Imperials with their strict hierarchy are on opposite side of monarchies than colonials. There monarch have absolute power and there is no place for discusion.
On the East you can see Rippers Enclave.
Rippers arent nice poeple. They are barbarians and warriors. Their society is based on clans and tribes and constant warfare. Feudalism should work for them but their favorite goverment is a Tribal Confederation. They lust for personal glory and fame. wealth are secondary, power taking first place.
In north east corner my scouts see something strange. Four empires of Citizens. Citizens are descendants of Old Federation. They favorite goverment is democracy altgough sometimes democracy change to miitary dictatorship(when politicans become corrupted and army try to save nation).
As you see something must happen. 4 close empieres with many difrent goverments? Civil war happen? Meyby. I must investigate this.
Two Aristoi republic are also discover.
This is strange because they should have monarchy or despotic goverment. But meyby this is some sort of Noble Rebublic? Meyby. I dont have enough infromation but soon I will know.
There is another empire lurking in shadows.
Brunos. They are enigmas although raports says that they are agressive nation with supreriority complex. Dangerous and not trusthworthy.
On the other hand. I get new colonization tech and my colonies spawn one by one. My sphere of influence doubles.
Thing about ships. Somebody on forum propose hull size addition. I thing that it is great idea. I mean there should be hulls - base cost for any ship based on size plus cost of components. Role shoul be secondary and should define how AI will use ships. That mean Escorts - to escort etc. There be posiible to only refit ships onbly to the same hull size. Now I can refit small escort into big escort which I find silly. Addition of hulls add cost to ships and bases, increse need of basic resources but I dont think that cost of the huls should be added to maintance. Only components should be maintained(excluding armors).
The Brittons stay sore in my eye.
I ordered my three fleets to attack enemy colonies. My basic fleet included one cruiser(witrh long scan), five destroyers, and 2 frigates with hyper deny. Some screens from actions.
There wasnt much resistance from their fleets. They dont raid my instalations. War was one sided. I took 3 colonies and one join my empire by themselfes. My spies cause riots and revolts in Brittons Empire with easy. My troops land and deafeat enemy ground forces. They gain experience and that was good.
But that lack of resistance was disspointing. OF course they were weaker but still. I offered them peace and they agreed.
I design new capital ship but now it see that it dont see battles now.
RE: Chaos Cats in space. First impressions.
Again very interesting. Why so much armour in this capital ship design?
Where do the cartoon screenshots come from? Is this a specific space cartoon. Looks fun!
Where do the cartoon screenshots come from? Is this a specific space cartoon. Looks fun!
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Sarissofoi
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RE: Chaos Cats in space. First impressions.
Greetings Gertjan. Thx for comments.
I will update this thread sometimes. I wish I have Okim writing talent. But for som e reason I got only my mad bitching skillz.
These screenshots and pictures for Aristoi and Citizens come from Legend of Galatic Heroes OVA. Name sounds silly but there is nothing silly in this show. This is epic story about conflict. Very serius and more hard sf than you can expect from anime. This show was based on books then you can be supraised how great story is. Shame that it never come with english dub or sub. Only funsub are avialable. Seek by yourself or contact me I can give you some advise where you can find it.
Another thing is about diplomacy. Now there isnt way to try be a peacekeeper and force somebody to come to peace with somebody. Especially irritating when you deal with Protectoraded or Subjugated epires. Also more diplomacy options will be great.
Like:
Refueling Pact(to be able refuel military ships)
Non agression Pact
Vasals(mix subjugated and protectorate with Free trade).
Why armor? Because it is good. My shield are strong(great regen) but monsters bypass shields. And actually I wonder what a Reactive Rating mean and how it work.
About shields. I think shields should work more like deflectors and damange negators(like 20% to deflect incoming shot - with chance waring from ow incoming sot is, and -2 to recived damange ) when armor should be your standard hp for ship. Actually I think that all weapons/defense/damage system NEED remodeling. Problem is if this will is possible to do and how much work this will take. If anyone is interesting I can write some piece of my metathinks.
After succesfull war against Brittons something strange happen. One of my Troop Transport made invasion on Brittons planet after truce. And they taki it. Brittons dont even send a protest note.
I try to make them stop fight with my friends and allies but I dont see how it is possible. These sneaky Brittons I shoukd conquer them all.
On the other hand something funny happen. Our scouts make contacts with barbarian Empire.
I forget make them other family group. Propably or made some other mistake. They should belong to Barbarian faction along with Clanner, Raiders and Rippers. Now they are Terran. "For the power of Gekigengar" or something like that. Actually they have pretty strong military as you see.
My diplomats were able to bribe.. ekh I mean to persuade Taros Empire to take our protections. They are on verge of destruction I hope that I can help them.
When my empire enyoyed peace my Navy start destroying pirates and hunt some space monsters.
There is one thing I want to say here. There is a need to some sort of filtering on global map. Civilian ships, civilian bases, monsters, fleets, military ships etc. This is needed. Any strategy game need clear and easy to read map.
When my mighty fleet destroy another of numerous pirate faction we get some info(or meyby that was my spy network work?).
Anyway that was nice.
My colonies grown. Even Brittons enjoy my enlighten rule. They even were allowed to form they own autonomus units. Very danguerous thing to do if you cant be sure of their loyalty.
When I plan to go to a holiday something happen.
Tallan Kingdom attack our protectorate!
Yeah admiral you are right! Prepere to engage!
I commisioned new Task Force(5capital ships and 1 cruiser) and send 3 my Fleets and One Task Force(this TF was to late for war against Brittons but in right time to now make diffrence).
Look how strong this Colonial Kingdom is.
Holy crap! Look at the number of colonies!
Also first guest arrive.
I will update this thread sometimes. I wish I have Okim writing talent. But for som e reason I got only my mad bitching skillz.
These screenshots and pictures for Aristoi and Citizens come from Legend of Galatic Heroes OVA. Name sounds silly but there is nothing silly in this show. This is epic story about conflict. Very serius and more hard sf than you can expect from anime. This show was based on books then you can be supraised how great story is. Shame that it never come with english dub or sub. Only funsub are avialable. Seek by yourself or contact me I can give you some advise where you can find it.
Another thing is about diplomacy. Now there isnt way to try be a peacekeeper and force somebody to come to peace with somebody. Especially irritating when you deal with Protectoraded or Subjugated epires. Also more diplomacy options will be great.
Like:
Refueling Pact(to be able refuel military ships)
Non agression Pact
Vasals(mix subjugated and protectorate with Free trade).
Why armor? Because it is good. My shield are strong(great regen) but monsters bypass shields. And actually I wonder what a Reactive Rating mean and how it work.
About shields. I think shields should work more like deflectors and damange negators(like 20% to deflect incoming shot - with chance waring from ow incoming sot is, and -2 to recived damange ) when armor should be your standard hp for ship. Actually I think that all weapons/defense/damage system NEED remodeling. Problem is if this will is possible to do and how much work this will take. If anyone is interesting I can write some piece of my metathinks.
After succesfull war against Brittons something strange happen. One of my Troop Transport made invasion on Brittons planet after truce. And they taki it. Brittons dont even send a protest note.
I try to make them stop fight with my friends and allies but I dont see how it is possible. These sneaky Brittons I shoukd conquer them all.
On the other hand something funny happen. Our scouts make contacts with barbarian Empire.
I forget make them other family group. Propably or made some other mistake. They should belong to Barbarian faction along with Clanner, Raiders and Rippers. Now they are Terran. "For the power of Gekigengar" or something like that. Actually they have pretty strong military as you see.
My diplomats were able to bribe.. ekh I mean to persuade Taros Empire to take our protections. They are on verge of destruction I hope that I can help them.
When my empire enyoyed peace my Navy start destroying pirates and hunt some space monsters.
There is one thing I want to say here. There is a need to some sort of filtering on global map. Civilian ships, civilian bases, monsters, fleets, military ships etc. This is needed. Any strategy game need clear and easy to read map.
When my mighty fleet destroy another of numerous pirate faction we get some info(or meyby that was my spy network work?).
Anyway that was nice.
My colonies grown. Even Brittons enjoy my enlighten rule. They even were allowed to form they own autonomus units. Very danguerous thing to do if you cant be sure of their loyalty.
When I plan to go to a holiday something happen.
Tallan Kingdom attack our protectorate!
Yeah admiral you are right! Prepere to engage!
I commisioned new Task Force(5capital ships and 1 cruiser) and send 3 my Fleets and One Task Force(this TF was to late for war against Brittons but in right time to now make diffrence).
Look how strong this Colonial Kingdom is.
Holy crap! Look at the number of colonies!
Also first guest arrive.
RE: Chaos Cats in space. First impressions.
THanks, very cool again. Indeed an impressive empire. Until now (but I restart very often) my maximum planets was about 30-35 I believe. I also prefer more in depth diplomacy. I only hope the AI able to deal with it and I think that current diplomacy still needs some tweaking.
I googled the series and they seem very interesting. Is there a place to watch them including fan subtitles, youtube perhaps? Are you Japanese btw?
For those that are interested, hereby the interesting plot of the series (from wikipedia):
The story is staged in the distant future within our own Milky Way Galaxy, approximately in the 35th century. Unlike many science fiction stories, there are no alien civilizations. A portion of the galaxy is filled with terraformed worlds inhabited by interstellar traveling human beings. For 150 years two mighty space powers have intermittently warred with each other: the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance.
Within the Galactic Empire, based on 19th century Prussia, an ambitious military genius, Reinhard von Müsel, is rising to power. He is driven by the desire to free his sister Annerose, who was taken by the Kaiser as a concubine. Later, he wants not only to end the corrupt Goldenbaum dynasty but also to defeat the Free Planets Alliance and to unify the whole galaxy under his rule.
In the Free Planets Alliance Star Fleet is another genius, Yang Wen-li. He originally aspired to become a historian, and joined the military only because he needed money for tuition. He was rapidly promoted to an admiral because of his demonstrated excellence in military strategy. He becomes the archrival of Reinhard, though they highly respect one another.
As a historian, Yang often narrates the rich history of his world and comments on it. One of his famous quotes is: "There are few wars between good and evil; most are between one good and another good."
Besides the two main heroes, the story is full of vivid characters and intricate politics. All types of characters, from high nobility, admirals and politicians, to common soldiers and farmers, are interwoven into the story. The story frequently switches away from the main heroes to the Unknown Soldier fighting for his life on the battlefield.
There is a third neutral power nominally attached to the Galactic Empire called the Phezzan Dominion, a planet-state (city-state on a galactic scale) which trades with both warring powers. There is also a Terraism cult, which claims that humans should go back to Earth, gaining popularity throughout the galaxy.
I googled the series and they seem very interesting. Is there a place to watch them including fan subtitles, youtube perhaps? Are you Japanese btw?
For those that are interested, hereby the interesting plot of the series (from wikipedia):
The story is staged in the distant future within our own Milky Way Galaxy, approximately in the 35th century. Unlike many science fiction stories, there are no alien civilizations. A portion of the galaxy is filled with terraformed worlds inhabited by interstellar traveling human beings. For 150 years two mighty space powers have intermittently warred with each other: the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance.
Within the Galactic Empire, based on 19th century Prussia, an ambitious military genius, Reinhard von Müsel, is rising to power. He is driven by the desire to free his sister Annerose, who was taken by the Kaiser as a concubine. Later, he wants not only to end the corrupt Goldenbaum dynasty but also to defeat the Free Planets Alliance and to unify the whole galaxy under his rule.
In the Free Planets Alliance Star Fleet is another genius, Yang Wen-li. He originally aspired to become a historian, and joined the military only because he needed money for tuition. He was rapidly promoted to an admiral because of his demonstrated excellence in military strategy. He becomes the archrival of Reinhard, though they highly respect one another.
As a historian, Yang often narrates the rich history of his world and comments on it. One of his famous quotes is: "There are few wars between good and evil; most are between one good and another good."
Besides the two main heroes, the story is full of vivid characters and intricate politics. All types of characters, from high nobility, admirals and politicians, to common soldiers and farmers, are interwoven into the story. The story frequently switches away from the main heroes to the Unknown Soldier fighting for his life on the battlefield.
There is a third neutral power nominally attached to the Galactic Empire called the Phezzan Dominion, a planet-state (city-state on a galactic scale) which trades with both warring powers. There is also a Terraism cult, which claims that humans should go back to Earth, gaining popularity throughout the galaxy.