Distant Worlds: Legends Characters

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This is sooooo much more than I've expected, can't wait to get my hands on it, that's one serious expansion.
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Would be really great to see different artwork for different characters, but I understand this could take a lot of time to do (remembering the problems during the initial release!).

A good start would be adding relevent backgrounds to the leader type.Like the Leader being in a throne room,admiral being in a starship,ect.
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1. Can I configure a collection of leaders with specific traits as well as individual portraits for each empire to have at the start of the game?
2. Can I introduce new pre-configured characters through scripted events?

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I have one question. If my empire is multiracial can I hire characters from other races?
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I got a gut feeling that apart from spies, leaders are not hired, they happen. I may be totally wrong, though.

I hope planetary governors occur at random interval. Admirals spawn at random times, but more often in combat. And the more big action combat, the more likely for an admiral.
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Wow! I am looking forward to this more than I did for MOO3! I do love a good space opera and this is shaping up to be one of the best!
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Evil you, and your NDA.

Native Woodman is good news, no mod merging. A confirmation about new, modifiable feature makes me optimistic that it will be easier to make suitably hard games. Influence circles are there, but with unknown effect.

I was not so hot on leaders, but it seems nicely implemented, which makes me hopeful that other features are well thought out too.
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Can you have different customised looks for Every person ?



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Totally awesome, Elliot and Erik!! Since I like to micromanage, I see I will need to pause the action a lot to position my characters where they will be the most useful. This is a whole subgame by itself. There definitely needs to be a major streamlining of the game's processing ability. With all these new objects to manage, the game would have bogged down more with the existing code.

I love Woodman's ship design mod. I am guessing that he was asked to incorporate it into the Legends expansion. Am I correct on this? If so, I will not need to add an additional mod. In fact, I will not install any mods until I have a chance to view Legends in its original state. Later I can make changes to my own tastes.

I will need to be left alone in my cave for many weeks after Legends release. DO NOT DISTURB, PLEASE!

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Thanks for the mention Erik, and the opportunity to work on one of the (or is it about to become the no1) greatest 4x games ever built, that's a great honour [:)]

For those asking if the mod has been implemented into Legends, it has been improved upon greatly and implemented.  I don't have beta access personally so I'm not entirely sure whats in, but I'm hoping its everything I threw in Eriks general direction [:D]

Thanks to everyone who has supported and downloaded the mod over the past year or so, the interest, kind comments, contructive criticism, ideas, suggestions and the general potty banter and great comradeship in the community is what inspired me to keep going.  There remains a small portion of work to be done, so I'll get back on it right away [:D]
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Congrats WoodMan!  You did an awesome job on that mod! [:)]
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So the last pick shows conflict between two different spheres of influence in the bottom right corner.
P.S. Igard, I guess Cpt or Admiral Picard might soon command our fleets :).

It also sounds like you could end up with Jar Jar Binks or General Custer commanding your units too. [:D][:'(][;)]
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Questions:

Can you have leaders of other races in your empire?
For example, If you have planet of immigrants or have captured planet of other race, are the leaders appearing there shown belonging to corresponding race.
Small thing, I know, but would add nice variety.

Also, can leaders switch sides due to various reasons?
For example, a fleet general defects because he/she/it/them/whatever is/are annoyed of their nations wars and reputation and want to switch to more peaceful empire. 

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For example, a fleet general defects because he/she/it/them/whatever is/are annoyed of their nations wars and reputation and want to switch to more peaceful empire.

It would be nice, that admiral switch to other empire with fleet which he lead [:D]
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All this on top of Shakturi?

- Leaders / Characters
- Influence spheres / borders
- New ships with better graphics
- Ability to track where your ships are heading (this need did cross my mind before)
- Expanded technology tree, including dedicated carriers, cutting lasers, rail guns, new planetary facilities and wonders
- Race-specific events and victory conditions
- Improved fleet management and automation, including fleet postures
- Improved modding support, including full race and character modding
- Improved AI and an updated Diplomacy system with refuelling and mining rights as well as immigration policies

Great job!

If you would add to this list:
- Better performance
- Different time-frame when in battles (when a battle starts everything else would stop or become substantially slowed. This would allow people to be able to concentrate during battles)
- Refuel and colony ships added to the empire navigation tool
- Font sizes and blurriness fixed
- Little tweaks and fixes to the refuel system

I would be a very happy man.

And if would even add on-top:

- Resources spread and availability customization
- Even more new ship models and better looking graphics overall
- Full races customization setup option

Then we would have here some serious business! DW would be running for the title of best 4X space strategy game of all time.
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Looking good! [:)]
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This is a great example of developers listening to their fans. Just what we wanted (if not more). Thank you guys.

Big congrats to WoodMan! What a great decision to put his work into the game. Well done to all involved. [&o]

Looking forward to it now more than ever! [:)]
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So if my empire is a democracy and I have a great leader, i can switch to monarchy and install him as a king. That way I can keep him around a lot longer. Is that possible?

I don't think so, but I haven't actually tried it - let me give it a try and get back to you!

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Thanks for the mention Erik, and the opportunity to work on one of the (or is it about to become the no1) greatest 4x games ever built, that's a great honour [:)]

For those asking if the mod has been implemented into Legends, it has been improved upon greatly and implemented.  I don't have beta access personally so I'm not entirely sure whats in, but I'm hoping its everything I threw in Eriks general direction [:D]
Great news that your work is in the main game. As soon as I read/saw that I guessed you had polished the ship sets, some more than others, and completed missing pieces. Your most surprising piece of news is that you are not in the beta, that seems odd.

Now, keep busy on those finishing touches [&o]
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