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Dampfnudel wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:33 am

Emperor0Akim wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 5:41 pm

Dampfnudel wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 12:57 pm Can we get "passive" technlogies?

Like a tech that simply boosts all counter measurement by 5% or all armor rating by 10% etc.

You mean like Countermessure Scanners or Fleet Counter Measures or Damage Reduction ?
Or Admirals

I dont mean a component. I mean a tech giving a passive buff. A tech that buffs values. Similar mechanic to admirals indeed.

Thineboot wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:55 pm Compare Designs

There are multiple ways to do this. One simple that springs to my mind is compiling a list of what has been changed and generate a pop up. Should be easy to do and saves us at least the basic, time consuming data gathering.

Thineboot wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 11:48 pm Upgrade alien designs

Using alien hulls should be part of the game. You'll acquire various of them during the course of your play and they all have their own story. Changing the painting is one thing but converting a hull is something completely different. That works with improved variants but changing an ancient, abandoned hull no one has seen for millennia is something completely different. Same goes for obvious reasons for hulls built by other empires and pirates.

Emperor0Akim wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 10:38 am

Dampfnudel wrote: Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:33 am

Emperor0Akim wrote: Fri Mar 25, 2022 5:41 pm


You mean like Countermessure Scanners or Fleet Counter Measures or Damage Reduction ?
Or Admirals

I dont mean a component. I mean a tech giving a passive buff. A tech that buffs values. Similar mechanic to admirals indeed.

So more like a tech that increases your Races Bonus or Government Bonus ?
Like the Diplomacy Research ?
Like if Space Construction Research would give a bonus to maximum Hullsize for Ships ?

Then yes. I take two of those to go.

• Cloud saves - I'd like to be able to play the same campaign whether I'm on my desktop or laptop.

• "Find" capability - Sometimes I know the name of a planet or system, but don't have an easy way to find it. Looking at hundreds of star systems hoping I find it is not great UX.

• Merge fleets - Need a button to allow me to take two existing fleets and combine them into one. In the mid-game I have a bunch of smaller fleets that I would like to just combine together into one big fleet, but short of disbanding and hoping the AI automation doesn't kick in and assign them to some other task before I can add them back to the desired fleet, I don't know how to do this.

• Spy mission refinement - Let me define spy mission parameters more granularly. For instance, let me tell a spy what foreign empires may or may not be targeted, what types of missions they should pursue, and the level of acceptable risk. For instance, I might want to ensure that my spy is only spying on certain Pirate Factions, and is only either trying to steal tech research or destroy the base, and only if the success chance is 85% or higher. If those conditions can't be met, then the spy will do counterespionage for one month and check again for missions that meet that profile.

timd43 wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:06 am

• "Find" capability - Sometimes I know the name of a planet or system, but don't have an easy way to find it. Looking at hundreds of star systems hoping I find it is not great UX.

• Merge fleets - Need a button to allow me to take two existing fleets and combine them into one. In the mid-game I have a bunch of smaller fleets that I would like to just combine together into one big fleet, but short of disbanding and hoping the AI automation doesn't kick in and assign them to some other task before I can add them back to the desired fleet, I don't know how to do this.

Dampfnudel wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:39 pm So far I have "cash researched" every single technology.

Make money more scarce or make cash research more expensive!

timd43 wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:06 am

• Spy mission refinement - Let me define spy mission parameters more granularly. For instance, let me tell a spy what foreign empires may or may not be targeted, what types of missions they should pursue, and the level of acceptable risk. For instance, I might want to ensure that my spy is only spying on certain Pirate Factions, and is only either trying to steal tech research or destroy the base, and only if the success chance is 85% or higher. If those conditions can't be met, then the spy will do counterespionage for one month and check again for missions that meet that profile.

Dampfnudel wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 7:39 pm So far I have "cash researched" every single technology.

Make money more scarce or make cash research more expensive!

timd43 wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 1:06 am "Find" capability - Sometimes I know the name of a planet or system, but don't have an easy way to find it.

I would also like to see 'take me to this' buttons in many many other places than already exist.

The biggest one is from the Ship Design screen where you are looking at the list of designs. I would like to be able to find that ship with the old design that, for whatever reason, hasn't upgraded.

Eldaner wrote: Mon Mar 28, 2022 10:21 pm Man, how? Explain please! My militaristic empire in dare need of money mostly