Legends: leave your impressions here, pls!

[Gelatinous Cube]

Anyone else notice the new Nazi government type? [:-]

[Erik Rutins]

Meaning Corporate Nationalism? This can really represent any government type where the State effectively controls the Private sector. It blurs one of the key lines in Distant Worlds and will no doubt be of interest to some but it does have some significant consequences as well.

Regards,

- Erik

[Nedrear]

Why call it Nazi goverment? It has absolutely nothing to do with it! The Nazi would fit the idea of military dictatorship while disowning everything NOT in hands of their own people. Not taking all revenue of the public in general.
That's plain "stalinism".

[Erik Rutins]

Yes, it could have a variety of historical or futuristic analogs, including the ruling "mega-corps" of the cyberpunk genre.

Regards,

- Erik

[Terl]

Loving every minute of it This game with the expansions has to be the best 4x space game I have purchased and I tried most all of them (except SoTS2; I saw reviews on that one before I opened a wallet). I just take a random race and go with it...fun stuff... Love the leaders and borders

[SpectralFremen]

Why do i have to be at work :'(

[feelotraveller]

Thanks Elliot and Erik. Downloading now... [8D]

Edit: Also thanks Woodman, and not just for the great ship sets. [:)]

[Gelatinous Cube]

ORIGINAL: Nedrear

Why call it Nazi goverment? It has absolutely nothing to do with it! The Nazi would fit the idea of military dictatorship while disowning everything NOT in hands of their own people. Not taking all revenue of the public in general.
That's plain "stalinism".

I was being facetious, although I think Hitler's National Socialism fits the description of that government type to a "T." From the massive initial productivity boost to the inevitable gotterdamerung it is sure to create! I look forward to finding a reason to use it in a good AAR.

[Baleur]

Loving it so much
I must agree with the previous request though, i'd love a way to tell the AI ship design automation to focus on a certain type of weapon, like "focus on railguns". I dislike manually designing everything, but i also want some wide-scope say in what technological direction my fleet takes.

[MartialDoctor]

Initial impressions:

Load times - superb!  Graphics are great!  New techs are looking interesting so far.  I've seen a lot of great UI changes that make things helpful and streamlined.  All in all, I'm impressed with these changes.

However, the AI seems to now have gone in the other direction.  While as before, the AI seemed to hate everyone and always go to war (unless you pay them off); now it's the opposite.  Everyone loves me.  No one wants to fight...  Initially, everyone has the, "we are very wary of you".  But that quickly goes away and then they all just like me.  They want to form trade agreements and give me money (even when only at +5).  Even the Sluken like me (I am the Shandar)!  This is going with Restless aggression level.  The AI still seems to lack the "lifelike" feel that makes it feel like each race is different.  These are just my initial impressions; maybe things will change over time.

Also, the AI, even on Very Hard, doesn't seem to expand much at all.  I'll try making them larger and see if that changes things much.

Anyways, overall, I like many of the changes.  Distant Worlds is definitely moving in the right direction.

[Bingeling]

I am seeing a lot of friendliness and bribes. But I have also seen two AI empires covet my colonies, and then declare war and take what it wants.

This is no normal aggression and hard difficulty.

[tgb]

The new expansion sounds great. Unfortunately we are spending the week with family, and I won't be able to get this until I get home.

Stupid Thanksgiving. Stupid sister.

[bigbaba]

great game so far.

i played 3-4 hours and could not find any real bug so far.

i espacialy like the fighter concept in the game. gave my destroyers 2 fighters and 2 bombers and built also fighter bases as defense bases and works great so far.

realy worth the money.[&o]

the only bad aspect of the game are this tiny fonts. realy hard to read on a big monitor. is there any way to get bigger fonts?

[Facedrop]

One item is yet to be mentioned. The new main menu music is very nice

[Erik Rutins]

ORIGINAL: Baleur
Loving it so much
I must agree with the previous request though, i'd love a way to tell the AI ship design automation to focus on a certain type of weapon, like "focus on railguns". I dislike manually designing everything, but i also want some wide-scope say in what technological direction my fleet takes.

Usually setting the tech preferences in your policies will do this, as that will focus weapon research and the ship design automation will tend to use the best available weapon.

Regards,

- Erik

[Erik Rutins]

Hi MartialDoctor,

ORIGINAL: MartialDoctor
However, the AI seems to now have gone in the other direction.  While as before, the AI seemed to hate everyone and always go to war (unless you pay them off); now it's the opposite.  Everyone loves me.  No one wants to fight...  Initially, everyone has the, "we are very wary of you".  But that quickly goes away and then they all just like me.  They want to form trade agreements and give me money (even when only at +5).  Even the Sluken like me (I am the Shandar)!  This is going with Restless aggression level.  The AI still seems to lack the "lifelike" feel that makes it feel like each race is different.  These are just my initial impressions; maybe things will change over time.

A lot also depends on galaxy settings for aggression and what point in the game you are at (later game, things get a bit more cozy and then the more aggressive races get a little more active. Government type can also increase or decrease an aggressive race's tendencies (for example a Sluken Democracy, if near your Democracy is much less likely to go to war with you than a Sluken Military Dictatorship near your Democracy).

Also, the AI, even on Very Hard, doesn't seem to expand much at all.  I'll try making them larger and see if that changes things much.

This is very unusual in my experience. How far into a game have you played? What were your galaxy settings?

If you are concerned, feel free to upload a save for us. There are so many possible galaxy setting combinations that it's very helpful to see a save anytime things behave differently from expectations.

Regards,

- Erik

[Erik Rutins]

ORIGINAL: bigbaba
the only bad aspect of the game are this tiny fonts. realy hard to read on a big monitor. is there any way to get bigger fonts?

The only thing you can really do to make the fonts larger is to try running your desktop and the game at a lower resolution than your monitor normally runs. That will make everything a bit larger, but depending on how your monitor and/or video card handle the scaling may not look as clear.

Regards,

- Erik

[Grisha]

Thumbs up here for Legends so far. Loading time is noticeably quicker, images look sharper too. Like the borders though I noticed a race I had a trade agreement with colonized within my borders. On the other hand, we were on very good terms.

Like the characters a lot. That they have all sorts of traits, both good and bad, is great for storyline and making the game more immersive. It will also be a great platform for AARs as well. As soon as we get that customization manual for Legends I'm putting in the tlhIngan wo' into Legend space. Eager to see what sorts of characters will arise from that.

Being able to see ship destination vectors is a great addition. That this can be done selectively or en masse via the mini map buttons just makes it so much easier to use.

Almost got a wonder with the shipyards, but another race just beat me to it. Looking forward to see how that works.

[jezwhywhy]

Im loving the game     more please[:)]

[Grisha]

Dunno if this is a Legends feature or from earlier, but how your race responds to other races within your empire is neat. I had my Mortalens go at an insectoid race and subjugated their world. Since I selected non-repitlian races to be enslaved, the world I conquered was immediately classified a penal colony. Woohoo!