How many turns for a score victory?
Oh yeah, another question: Can I get rid of planets/star systems somehow?
Nope. No planet destroying super weapons for you.
They are voting in what mechanics or features to put in game (they all will, but vote for what you want them to work on first) and planet razing is one of them.
I guess destroying all improvements so that they dont cost money would work.
I guess destroying all improvements so that they dont cost money would work.
1.0.8
CHANGES AND ADDITIONS
The duration of random events is now displayed in the game event panel.
Removed the "% of colonized systems" constraint from the expansion victory requirements.
Each effect of "Retreat" and "Offensive retreat" battle actions now lasts +1 round.
Improved AI reaction with Difficulty.
The Endless Hero (Corporate/Adventurer)is now more balanced fleet/system-wise.
Memory optimization.
Added a new portrait for the Sheredyn (Emperor Edition).
FIXES
IMPORTANT FIXES
Fixed an issue where the cancel button in the Faction Editor saved the changes, allowing custom faction exploits.
Fixed an issue where the Endless Hero never appeared in the Academy (Emperor Edition). The Endless Hero cannot be hired by an AI.
Fixed an issue where two simultaneous attacks on a third player in the same system crashed the turn ending.
Fixed an issue where simultaneous game joining crashed the turn ending.
OTHER FIXES
Fixed an issue where the upkeep for Inorganic Cultivation (Sower) & Intensive Cultivation Logistics (Craver) was positive instead of negative.
Fixed an issue where the number of players in a session did not take into account locked slots.
Fixed an issue where all battle cards were played even if the battle ended before the final phase.
Fixed an issue where battle cards were not effective in a specific case.
Fixed an issue where a player could only request a value of dust, from another empire, equal or less than his current dust.
Fixed an issue where hovering over a reduced anomaly displayed the reduce anomaly effect tool tip.
Fixed an issue where a player could rejoin his own defeated session after receiving the defeat screen.
Fixed several text issues.
Fixed several localized text issues.
Fixed an issue where all battle cards were played even if the battle ended before the final phase.
Aw crap. No more free nano-repair after battles for me.
It was pretty broken anyway.
Finished my second game on Serious difficulty using Sowers. I played with 5 other AI opponents on a large map. Finished the game with the supremacy victory around turn 195 and the only other race left was an old ally of mine anyway for most of the game. I never loaded my game to undo something so I guess that says the game was still pretty easy.
Trading techs with AI seem to depend on some weighting that are a bit obtuse, but may make sense. Sometimes the number of techs you trade is far more important than the cost of the techs. Sometimes the AI also value some cheap techs very highly too. AI also doesn't seem to trade with one another much so there's no that need in Civ to broker your tech around in the same turn.
Also, the combat system has potential but is flawed at the moment. Kinetics is currently pretty useless due beam or missle stacking killing most fleets before you even reach to the stage where Kinetics is powerful. Also the AI fleets doesn't seem to defend that well against whatever you're using. They also tend to favor Kinetics so maybe that's dragging them down. You never see a coherent strategy with their fleets either. So war strategy tend to be very simple unlike in Civ games where you have terrain to think about. The cards in manual battles are nice, but they lack impact or variety I think. More than half of them doesn't seem to serve meaningful purpose, also probably due to the Kinetics problem. The kinetics problem also causes most of the weaponry tech tree to be useless and kinda a waste of time to research for.
Sowers itself is an interesting race. I probably didn't maximize their abilities to the fullest, but they appear to be a very strong mid-late game race once you research planet terraforming. Their focus on industry lets them specialize solar systems so that in overall terms, your empire is much more efficient than other races because you only need to do one thing and do it well. I could build improvements so much faster than I could research them leading me to have about half of my empire using industry to dust conversion.
However I'm still not sure about their ideal planet strategy. They start off on Tundra which seems to do well for them, but industry improvements are not focused and are kinda over the place with the planets that they provide the best bonus for. So you may have to plan a bit ahead, but their Industry focus lets them terraform planets very fast so it's not really an issue to get where you want. I guess it's also interesting that their systems could be less useful to other races if they are captured.
Anyway, here's the screen for my home system at the end of my game. You can see how much industry it can crank out especially with the Adaptive Industrial Systems improvements which halts population growth and instead converts surplus food into industry.
DAMN, you are doing much better than I am. I won my first game on Newbie, but it was close. Now I've played a total of three games so far, all on Newbie skill level, and the second game I lost, and I'm slowly losing my third game. I went all missiles in my second game and the Horatio declared war on me, and it seemed like they had impervious missile defenses. My fleet was virtually useless against them and they ran all over me.
I can't believe I'm having this hard a time on the damn Newbie skill level. I feel humbled. I must be missing some super critical concept or something, it just seems like the AI players always out expand and out tech me.
I'm with this guy.I guess im shelving the game for the foreseeable future, it´s still too unbalanced in single player, with the good awful AI.
the real time planet terraforming and ship customization look awesome, still... it´s from calypso, so it will probably launch in a completely fucked up state.
Hello Everyone,
As you know I was gone touring the world with slowhands and skamaks to present the game to the press, and I would like to take the time to update you a bit on the past couple few weeks.
The good thing about being an unknown dev, is that not a whole lot of journalists wants to see you... quite a relaxing change from previous press tours I have known, well maybe a bit too relaxing at times
We started in London, where we met journalists in some sort of abandoned basement, definitely "indie" looking, and a few courageous journalists dared to meet us there.
Everything got better from there, and the overall reception of the journalists was a great moral boost for us. Although it is not easy to present a game as huge a Endless space in roughly one hour.
So far as you can see most grades we got were really good, between 8 and 9. A great surprise was gamespot, with an 8, as we did not meet them to present the game, and I did not expect for ES to fit their taste. Well I couldn't be more wrong it seems.
And now a lot more journalists are interested in our game... skamaks is totally flooded by journalists requests and hopefully next time we won't have to meet them in a basement
Right after the press tour, we faced the launch of the game, 16 months after starting working on it, and I am going to say something awful... the release was, on our side, incredibly smooth. Well it is awful to say that, because I am sure that everyone has met something he considers as a problem, or something he would like to see improved. If I considered it to be a smooth release, it is probably that you guys have been playing the game for a few months before release, helping us solving the biggest issues.
The great news that came out with the release, is that we have met a much bigger success than expected: You were more than 100.000 to play Endless Space 1 week after release and around 7.000 people playing at the same time. In average your played it for 19h... a big big thank you guys. Thanks to your support and with a list of over 100 points to improve in the game, we'll have quite a few things to keep the team busy in the coming months. This also enables us to support Endless Space after release!
Regarding content, the G2G vote will finish tomorrow evening, so if you did not vote, go vote now!
If I doubt that the auto-explore will loose, it is amazing how close the votes are between invasion estimator and razing systems. Programmers here are intensely lobbying towards invasion estimator while the designers are voting towards the other... Pick your side!
Regarding the next vote we will probably offer again the one that did not get picked between razing systems and invasion information, as the votes were so close, plus better ending in case of victory and defeat, custom faction affinity separated from their visual and better trade routes management.
Of course feel free to discuss these points or any other that you think should be voted for. No need to vote on Modding, Mac port or AI fleet spam, as we are alredy on it
I know that some of you thought we were not present enough in the past 10 days, and you are right, we worked like maniacs for the last few months, so we just cought our breath, to gather some strengths for what is to come. yet we still did 3 patches during that time. You will find the release notes here if you missed them:
Now let me try to answer a few frequent questions since release:
What are the main issues you are working on at the moment?
We have been working on quite a lot of optimizations, AI tuning and gameplay tuning (things like Hero injury costs are being tweaked, traits costs balance to avoid OP builds and battle healing)
Do you think you will be able to improve the multiplayer by adding new features like a team victory, with options to communicate with your partner?
Globally I would love to add quite a few features to make the MP experience even smoother like MP default battle option selections, direct chat, better notification of players finishing their turn and other timer options.
The new project: can you give us any ideas? Will you still work on Endless Space? How often will you deliver patches?
Right now our focus is definitely Endless Space, and we'll look at Major content updates as well as continuous support. Patching wise, we consider our game a live game, and now as we can afford a full time dedicated team on the game, we could patch as soon as we have something that we believe could benefit the experience.
Multiplayer: LAN support?
It is not on our top priorities, but we'll do it eventually.
Will there be Steam achievements?
we were discussing it again today. we were so swamped with the release that we put it aside, to focus on core gameplay. But it is definitely something fun that we'll gladly try to put with our first major content update.
Will you implement the Steam Cloud so we can play a saved game on any computer?
our programmers are looking at several services offered by SteamWorks, like SteamCloud saves and the SteamWorkshop. no dates on that yet, but we want them in.
Will you implement the Steam Workshop to makes modding easier?
Probably quite a bit after the modding is added to the game. we don't want to delay the release of the modding to the community, even though installing and using mods at first will be "old school".
You are already working on the Mac version. Do you plan on porting to Linux along with Steam and their Linux project?
We have no plans for linux.
What about a solo campaign in Endless Space?
We are a sandbox game, so I doubt that we'll go for big campaigns. Yet I definitely would love to add more scenario support (which can be seen as some sort of campaigns...)
Do you think you will be implementing ground battles and planetary invasion in some kind of expansion/DLC?
We have plans for it, but I would love to work in top priority on the battles, diplomacy and espionage as big content updates. We'll pay a close attention to what you guys think of that ...
Will you add Carriers/Strikecraft to improve battles?
Definitely!
Again Thank you all for all your support and feedback, and as I already said, the release of the game is just the beginning for us. Consider it as a foundation for great things to come!
Quick look from giantbomb. Worth watching if you are on the fence (like me)
http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-endless-space/17-6364/
Still waiting to see how legends of pegasus turns out before jumping in.
having never played a 4x game before, i was about to buy civilization V on steam if it went on sale this week because i've been wanting to try out one of these types of games.
But that lead me to find these space 4x type games which interest me much much more than civilzations.
My question for you guys who have played these types of games a lot is, where should I start out at?
Galactic Civilization II ultimate
Sins of the Solar Empire: Rebellion
Endless Space
Legends of Pegasus
Looking at video reviews, and reading about them i feel like these couple games look like the best starting point into the 4x genre based. I'de prefer turn based only because I feel like I am super slow at playing strategy games like starcraft/warcraft and things like that but its not a big deal. But graphics of the planets/ships/galaxy mean a lot so I can't go too old school. Building ships sounds really cool.
Anyone have any recommendations, not sure where else to post this. Thanks!
If you want what it probably the absolute best space 4X game ever made, then go buy Gal Civ II Ultimate. In fact it may be my favorite 4X game ever made, even better than Civ IV.
Gal Civ II has a real good interface, awesome tech tree (that is different for every race), many varied races to choose from, superb ship building in game, and what may be the best AI in any 4X game ever made. I've played dozens of games of Gal Civ II and I consistently come back to it. It is a joy of a 4X game
Miscellaneous Penalties
If an outpost is located within 1 jump of an enemy colony (or outpost? [verify]) or is covered by the influence range of another empire, a 25% penalty to dust production will apply with the detail description of "With Distance to Empire." If both conditions are true, the penalty is 50%.
Maybe this is in effect:
I'm guessing I should wait and see if they improve the AI before I buy it?