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My "Personal Evaluation" thread has somewhat served that purpose, but i think it would be good to have something more objective , that more people can add to. If we want to have something more objective, is it a good idea to have "Eleazar's Rating" on the wikipage? This doesn`t ...

Have you thought about adding the environments in which each of the evaluated species lives to their data? This might give the reader some sort of an idea of how many species there are currently in each of the environments. Or do you think that environments aren`t very important currently, as they c...

FO is not supposed to be a story-telling experience, like Spore. Sure we could give them a text field for the description of custom species, but making all the "backstory" text fields editable in-game really misses the point of what FO is all about: it's a 4X game. And I am wondering, if ...

Most players like a good story, and a coherent universe that is part of that story. We shouldn't be ashamed of giving them one on the off-chance that they might want to imagine things differently. And I fully support the idea of an interesting backstory. However I would also like to hear what kind ...

In a 4x, especially if there are customizable races, then no backstory is needed beyond what the player's mind provides. let me rephrase In a 4x, especially if there are customizable races, then no backstory is wanted against what the player's mind provides. So the "skirmish" mode require...

The new Trith theme has been added. Let me know what you think. Since no one else has commented this so far, I will. The new Trith theme sounds quite epic and nice. I like it. :) However I must also mention that the repeating part after 0:37 sounds perhaps a bit strange or unexpected, but maybe it ...

I don't object to brainstorming about how the various species' "ascent to sentience" all came at the same time, but I'm still convinced that for the main game (not the campaign mode), "the Experimentors did it" is all we need to know. This immediately makes me want to ask at lea...

I just hope that with all of the different hulls currently planned, parts will also play a significant role in the ship design process, since parts are supposed to be "the means by which players customize ship designs and make them into functional ships". So in other words that designing s...

Interesting. It is partly modelled after jazz, but I was hoping the modulating square wave and the incessant bass/drums would add a feeling of disorientation and monotony that would take away the cartoony feeling of the jazz-style harmon mute trumpet and trumpet hits, and just let the alienness of ...

the screen is Full of ships which looksAWFUL So the star system can`t be made so that it can fit many ships? If you zoom near to a large fleet, would you expect to see something else than a screen full of ships? This whole "the screen is full of ships which looks awful" thing seems quite ...

Either way, I might go and split every species out of that thread into it's own. This would seem like a good idea. If every species is in its own thread it is easy to make suggestions/comments and when/if necessary modifications to the species in question. And having each species in its own thread,...

Have you read this? http://www.freeorion.org/index.php/0.4_Design_Pad And seen the models that pd has done? http://www.freeorion.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=2278 There are a lot of interesting points in the 0.4 Design Pad, and the models that pd has already done are quite rich in details.

Other projects might take everything they can find(in terms of art), put it in a mixer and be done with it. That's not going to happen here. That's not how the visual side of a game should be developed. And this makes a lot of sense. I can only imagine how bad the game would look like, if it just g...

Some sort of background stars in space battles would definitely be appreciated. Otherwise every battle will feel like fighting inside of a thick nebula or some sort of fluid. However other decorations can of course be used as well to make the battles visually more appealing. It will eventually be in...

Eaxaw draft has been updated - the electric bass was pitched too low before. I'll probably change the drumline - the bassline should provide sufficient monotony on its own... Feedback appreciated as always... Well this new draft sounds a bit more menacing than the old one, but since The Eaxaw are d...