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What bothers me, is that this is not what it says on the tin. The subject phrasing at this point indicates that this is the authoritative correct 'how to:'. That is not true at this time. This post could confuse somebody who is looking for the correct 'how to'. I've been reading the thread Mi git us...

Unless, potentially, an empire has lots of influence, and thus doesn't mind spending some to do some focus switching micromanagement... That's a problem we can't avoid regardless what kind of penalty/cost we decide to apply to focus switching. If an empire can, for whatever reason, easily afford th...

What I don't understand is, why isn't it simpler? Toss the immediate cost for switching. Increase the drop rate. That is if you want to avoid focus dance, make the per turn cost greater then the per turn benefit. Which currently is not true. so focus dance is viable. current +1, -1, force energy: +3...

Yes. I envision you would need at least two turns to wipe out a system: one to get all pops to 0 and revert them to outposts, one to bombard(remove) the outposts. One thing to consider is that bombing an outpost to un-owned status is not something that absolutely needs to be a deterministic one-tur...

Is this planet filled with 'speedy builders' who build stuff fast? This does not depend on the population value, so I consider this off-topic. Affect ship build speed - check; population of species dependent- check; depend on value of population( described in body) - not check. 2/2 of the subject 2...

So would it be a good idea to base ship building speed also on the population of the ship-building species ? p.s. in detail i would base the build time on the current build time and on the PP cost of the ship vs the sum of the building species' population in the local supply network What are you su...

It would make more sense to me to add a capability for bombardment to remove outposts This. Definitely this. I also agree with this. But just to be clear: Is it possible for players to bombard a planet's pop to zero? (I have seen monsters do this.) Then zero pop world reverts to outpost? Which mean...

auto selection of pilots This primarily seems like it should be a different thread to me, but since it also seems to underpin your response to the basic idea floated above, I'll give a little bit of a response. Not it was not my primary point. I am sorry. It was a flippant, yet plausible counter to...

Strengthen environmental restrictions: Yes please. Split demographic growth from carrying capacity. -- if you want population to be primary resource this needs to be done. Decrease demographic growth based on environment quality. Currently hostile with carry capacity 20 grows just as fast as gaia wi...

I found it kinda subtle/not clear that your topic is about player controlled monster nests. Anyhow. From personal experience I usually don't get to nests that I find until they have already started spawning. Rather then nerfing them (they are so-so mid game and require support in the late game). I w...

If you are looking to model it after an existing in game targeting method: Look at the 'planetary starlane drive'. I would prefer that level of cost implied by just copy and replace of that behaviour then OP suggestion. For sake of consistency it should have similar costs to starlane creation. Which...

?? is there any way to have a rough report (txt or other) stating wich ship design fire against what with brut damage and shield effectieveness i know it could be rather long and should be optional if in the gui player interface but it could be of gui in some battle log that you could exam "by...

I have experienced similar issues, AI in late game often becomes unaggressive. Currently playing: 2018-04-30.2146fa3 + some custom changes(essentially higher production ATM) Multiplayer games with 3 AI, 1 moderator, 100 or so systems Trigger seems to be something like two AI's have doom stacks with ...

The rate of growth is the problem. Because, really, for good game scaling, in the end you do want production points to go from 10/turn to beyond 10e20/turn. This doesn't make much sense. In addition to the impracticality in the UI and for balancing such a huge range of resource output values, havin...

The issue was the huge growth in the values between the start and end of the game. The rate of growth is the problem. Because, really, for good game scaling, in the end you do want production points to go from 10/turn to beyond 10e20/turn. Thus huge growth of values is not the root cause of the con...