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Hot Sexy Jupiter posted:Eagerly awaiting a mod that replaces the Horatios with Arnold J. Rimmers. Great write up Chomp, but the inner sperg within me cannot help but notice that you block capitalized Hissho and that Horatio is in Comic Sans MS. I'm also really interested to see what the other factions will be as the designs on these are great.
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ZypherIM posted:Horatio can clone heros, so once you have a higher level hero you can make as many copies as you have slots, which is handy when you expand the cap of heros you can have. I have no clue what fatigue recovery is, but they get +50% to that! I'm pretty sure "fatigue recovery" means you don't have to wait as long to reassign heroes - so for instance, if you have just one ultra-battlemaster, you can jump him to lead a system defense fleet in a threatened sector, and then zip him on over to lead your spearhead assault fleets and then back again as needed. Or, alternatively, you can have your administrative heroes constantly hopping around your new colonies to bring them all up to speed. So between that and cloning, it looks like the main Horatio strength is heroes - the ability to get exactly the heroes you want at high levels where you want them when you need them. Also, the faction writeup is nice, but I think you're missing something - if you hover over the top attribute, "So-and-so Affinity", it'll show another set of traits. The most notable one I can think of is the United Earth affinity, which adds a production bonus the higher your taxes are, I think doubling it when you tax at 100%. Hypothetically, this ability would be most useful in wartime - go from a low-tax peacetime research footing to a high-tax productive machine to nigh-instantaneously spawn warfleets while fully modernizing your old fleet and buying out all the little things you've been content to keep on the backburner until now besides.
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gibbed posted:If your game options (resolution, etc) are not saving, it's probably because you have characters in your Steam profile name that are not valid for a directory names. Doesn't seem to be the case, though- it seems to be using my gmail, which kind of looks like 'fake.name' (without the quotes). Would that be why I can't turn off economic victory?
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May 8, 2012 10:58
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"Waltz"won't let me save option changes. Is resolution fixed for alpha?
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May 8, 2012 11:03
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I just bought this game because I like 4X (although I tend to suck at it) and  Are there any generic tips? For instance I'm not sure how to optimize research (I find the tech tree a bit confusing and doesn't really give a good overview or long term goal view), or what constitutes a "good planet." Also, do you add the Exploitation optimal for the type of planet you're on, or do you add whatever the planet (or system) lacks? For the resolution bug, you need to edit the "Registry.xml" file under your default Documents directory (should be C:\Users\<your login>\Documents\Endless Space\Users\<your steam nickname> in Windows 7) and change the value betweeen <Resolution>, ie: <Resolution>1680x1050</Resolution> Some people say you then have to set that file to read-only but I didn't have to. If you pick an unsupported or non-valid resolution the game will default back to 1024x768@59Hz.
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May 8, 2012 11:17
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When a luxury resource says +40 approval on planet, does that apply to just the planet it's on, or does it apply to every other planet that's not blockaded?
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May 8, 2012 11:27
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^^^ Pretty sure that only "Empire-wide bonuses" apply to other planets, the other bonuses are strictly local. Furism posted:I just bought this game because I like 4X (although I tend to suck at it) and Research doesn't need that much "optimizing" as such, I find - generally speaking it's best just to shoot at what you need in the next few turns, making sure to spend some time hoovering up neglected techs later. For instance, shooting at arid colonization if you've found a good system with them to settle, or aiming for production techs if you've been frustrated by the slow pace of production, etc. Other than that, I'd generally argue that you should send out colonizers in waves of 2 starter military ships to each colony ship, in order to protect the colony against pirates, and that you should initially focus on food production when settling new colonies, in order to fuel growth. As for exploitations, it depends on the situation - don't forget, however, that you can change exploitations at will, so you can for instance choose a farming exploitation on an arid planet to begin with, switching over to, say, a dust exploitation later when the system's filled up. In general, though, if you don't have any pressing needs at the moment it's probably best to exploit to type.
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May 8, 2012 11:29
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Am I losing out on anything by not building dreadnoughts? In the game I just finished they took 4 turns to build, compared to battleships that I could spit out one a turn, and 3 of my battleships would gently caress up enemy dreadnoughts.
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May 8, 2012 11:42
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I cant see the point of dreads either. I use cruisers or battlehips depending on what modules I want to use, but because dreads have no module bonus they will never do anything 2 cruisers or 2 battleships cant do better. I suppose they are slightly more resistant to being alpha striked by missiles but if thats a concern you're loosing badly anyway.
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May 8, 2012 11:56
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Chomp8645 posted:All done! Here is my initial offering of the factions breakdown. I'll write a little more in depth about them later, and add the remaining 3 factions when they are revealed. Stealing this for the OP.
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May 8, 2012 12:05
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Furism posted:I just bought this game because I like 4X (although I tend to suck at it) and I'd really recommend going for the basic food technologies and industrial technologies first thing. Hyper farms and sustainable farming lets you get a system up and running in no time, and the system bonus of +10 production that you get from uh, hyper-fusion reactors or something (it's like the second tech on the right hand tech tree) is really good for getting colonies going. Other than that you can't really go wrong with what you research provided you keep colonising planets. Good planets are probably terran, arid, desert and tundra early game, simply because they don't need much tech requirements and are all fairly forgiving about what you need to build on them. Late game everything is good, particularly lava planets and gas giants because they have such absurdly good bonuses on them. A system which has like 3 medium or large lava planets can probably out-produce any other planet comp I think, if you have a lot of production techs. edit: and jungle! jungle are really good, always get them. Drone_Fragger fucked around with this message at 14:41 on May 8, 2012 |
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May 8, 2012 12:30
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ArchangeI posted:Stealing this for the OP. You might want to add a a little FAQ to the OP also. Questions I've noticed being asked every few pages: - How to add the academy roster space to accommodate more heroes? - How to turn off economic victory (apparently doesn't really work)? - What's the deal with the orange (faction-specific) techs? - How to travel outside the space lines? (I guess this really isn't asked often, but it's good to know it's possible.)
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May 8, 2012 13:17
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I've been tooling around with the Cravers cause.. I dunno? I love their ship look though, and the idea of being Space Locusts is pretty rad. I just needed to pop in here and say that their cruiser that gets -20% defense module weight is the best thing ever. I just load it up with 5 of each + 5 more of whatever the enemy is using and they are unstoppable. Sure I'm a little undergunned with that much weight dedicated to defenses, but I can still pack on like 5 kinetics + 5 missiles. Too much fun rolling around with a fleet of 7 of those + 1 of my beefed up repair destroyers. I've yet to lose an engagement with them.
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May 8, 2012 13:21
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Flipswitch posted:Great write up Chomp, but the inner sperg within me cannot help but notice that you block capitalized Hissho and that Horatio is in Comic Sans MS. Ha, the I didn't realized I'd all-capped "HISSHO". The Horatio Comic Sans however, was entirely intentional.
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May 8, 2012 14:25
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TangentEnigma posted:What difficulty are you playing at where this works? Taking over a huge number of unhappy unimproved systems and having no way to upgrade them seems like it would lead to disaster toward the middle and late game. By turn 50 I had an 800 point fleet. By turn 60 I had two of them and was conquering the Hissho capital. Turn 70 there were four. Turn 85 I turned off production and switched to Ind->Dust to start saving to retrofit the now 7 fleet armada which was proving more than adequate. Turn 86 the Hissho were exterminated. No casualties. Turn 89 it bugged out and wouldn't let the game progress in any way even after reloads. I'd absolutely murdered the Hissho, encountered the United Empire and crushed their 4 ship fleet without a single casualty and I didn't even research the 1 turn 'gimmes' left at the start of the tech tree. Barring a significant hurdle like an isolated galaxy wing the war machine would just kept on tumbling leaving depleted worlds retooled to finance and research while my Labour/Cheerleader Hero followed the back lines to move into newly conquered worlds to soothe their worries while drilling into the heart of the planet for new ships of war. I haven't gotten to the "late game" because of end-turn bugs or crashes, but in the several games I've run this strategy I don't see it ever stopping. Yes, your worlds are worse - but their fleets are worse and when your fleets are just straight out better their worlds are yours - and the later in the game it is, the better the improvements they come with.
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May 8, 2012 14:28
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Has anyone tried this on an eyefinity setup? I'm curious to know if it plays well on three screens.
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May 8, 2012 14:48
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Ragingsheep posted:How do I exploit the Empire's production bonuses that you get from a high tax rate? What's the best way to keep happiness up so my research doesn't grind to a halt due to oppressive taxation? Happiness is mainly hurt by two things, taxes and unpleasant planets. If you click on a planet and then hover the mouse over the planet type on the left-hand menu (like "lava" for example), you will see that things like lava, desert, and barren planets give you negative happiness in that system. Certain planetary anomalies like acid rain hurt happiness too. Now if you look very early in the left-hand side of the tech tree, you'll see a tech named "Botanical Scanning", which lets you build the Infinite Supermarkets system improvement for +25 happiness. A bit later on down the tech tree you'll find the Colony Rights improvement, which adds +30 more happiness. A bit later on you'll find more such techs. The key to keeping happiness up is to research these techs right after you research the techs that let you colonize unpleasant worlds, so once you colonize them you can instantly wipe out the happiness penalties. The system improvements are much stronger than you need just to cancel out the unhappiness from bad planets, so as you build them your happiness will get net positives, so you can keep bumping the tax rates higher and higher. Eventually you'll be making so much money that you'll be able to just buy the happiness improvements on new systems, and colonize everything immediately. Edit: Another key tech is "Soil Revivification" from the bottom tree. It lets you terraform away those negative planet anomalies, most of which inflict happiness penalties. Mzbundifund fucked around with this message at 15:36 on May 8, 2012 |
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May 8, 2012 15:22
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The happiness improvements are a required tech for the Empire, because it lets them get their tax rate up to leverage their industry boost trait. It gets crazy in the mid to late game, you just poo poo out fleets at will.
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May 8, 2012 15:26
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Chomp8645 posted:Ha, the I didn't realized I'd all-capped "HISSHO". The Horatio Comic Sans however, was entirely intentional.  (The write up is great though mate, nicely done.)
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May 8, 2012 15:32
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wiegieman posted:The happiness improvements are a required tech for the Empire, because it lets them get their tax rate up to leverage their industry boost trait. It gets crazy in the mid to late game, you just poo poo out fleets at will. It's kinda funny how the best strategy the "evil, uncaring empire" has involves striking out as fast as it can towards colonial rights and the establishment of a society in which work is entirely optional.
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May 8, 2012 15:39
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USMC_Karl posted:I've been tooling around with the Cravers cause.. I dunno? I love their ship look though, and the idea of being Space Locusts is pretty rad. I just needed to pop in here and say that their cruiser that gets -20% defense module weight is the best thing ever. I just load it up with 5 of each + 5 more of whatever the enemy is using and they are unstoppable. Sure I'm a little undergunned with that much weight dedicated to defenses, but I can still pack on like 5 kinetics + 5 missiles. Too much fun rolling around with a fleet of 7 of those + 1 of my beefed up repair destroyers. I've yet to lose an engagement with them. They get a goddamn +2 Fleet size with an additional +2 per unlocked chassis research - just for that alone Cravers are worth playing.
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May 8, 2012 15:49
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Pudgygiant posted:Am I losing out on anything by not building dreadnoughts? In the game I just finished they took 4 turns to build, compared to battleships that I could spit out one a turn, and 3 of my battleships would gently caress up enemy dreadnoughts. Stacking support modules and defensive modules with a decent weapon grouping, I've found. Being able to throw on 3 shields/flak/armor, an engine, a regen module, invasion module, AND 5x/5x/5x batteries of your highest tier weapons makes it pretty unstoppable. Obviously if you can produce smaller ships more efficiently, you should, but a dreadnought is meant to be a flagship, clearly. That's also why a dreadnought's role is listed as "multiple". ex post facho fucked around with this message at 16:25 on May 8, 2012 |
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May 8, 2012 16:16
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a shameful boehner posted:Stacking support modules and defensive modules with a decent weapon grouping, I've found. Being able to throw on 3 shields/flak/armor, an engine, a regen module, invasion module, AND 5x/5x/5x batteries of your highest tier weapons makes it pretty unstoppable. Obviously if you can produce smaller ships more efficiently, you should, but a dreadnought is meant to be a flagship, clearly. That's also why a dreadnought's role is listed as "multiple". I've tended to specialize mine - I have assault dreads with support battleships. That way I can farm out the engine w/ fleet effects, a regen module, an invasion module, a scanner, and defenses to 1 support ship. The assault dread will just stack weapons & tank. I find that with the right cards, the amount of damage I take is laughable, especially when I have a hero in the fleet, and the amount of carnage is hilarious.
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May 8, 2012 16:42
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Dreadnoughts also benefit the most from the +% module space techs, as they have the highest base module space to multiply.
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May 8, 2012 16:46
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Is the soundtrack available anywhere? Each time I start up the game I feel so chilled out. 
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May 8, 2012 16:46
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Tomn posted:It's kinda funny how the best strategy the "evil, uncaring empire" has involves striking out as fast as it can towards colonial rights and the establishment of a society in which work is entirely optional. DatonKallandor posted:They get a goddamn +2 Fleet size with an additional +2 per unlocked chassis research - just for that alone Cravers are worth playing.
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May 8, 2012 16:47
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FrickenMoron posted:Is the soundtrack available anywhere? Each time I start up the game I feel so chilled out. I'm pretty sure that the pre-order includes a copy of the soundtrack on release. If you are looking to get the soundtrack right now, before release? Not that I've seen.
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I think cravers have +6 by the end, not sure. I thought they had a unique tech to give +4 and another unique to get the +2 once all chassis are unlocked. I maxed at 26 in any case, not sure what the other races' maxes are. My understanding of dreadnoughts is that they provide you more tonnage per command point to do whatever you want with. If I recall, mousing over the dreads (and battleships, I think?) reveals no special tonnage bonus for any module type, unlike cruisers and destroyers which lend themselves to a specific role based on their bonuses. I've personally not seen any purpose to mixing in smaller ships though. They seem to just die every time whereas by the end my dreadnought death fleets could pretty much emerge from combat with 0 losses and very little HP damage. Edit: what is the soundtrack, like 6 songs?
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May 8, 2012 17:00
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Dreadnoughts also have a higher base HP. With enough investment into the applied sciences tree, the base dreadnought I've been able to build had 400T of space to work with. Before adding any other expansion options. That's a lot of modules. It also comes down to design and race gameplay philosophy as well, I suppose - as Sophon building dreads made sense as I could cram megaships full of the best tech in my civilization, whereas a species like UE or Hissho might be better served creating ships that maximize their ability to bring firepower to bear on battleships and destroyers chassis. ex post facho fucked around with this message at 17:08 on May 8, 2012 |
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Putin It In Mah rear end posted:I think cravers have +6 by the end, not sure. I thought they had a unique tech to give +4 and another unique to get the +2 once all chassis are unlocked. I maxed at 26 in any case, not sure what the other races' maxes are. Depending on how powerful your fleets are relative to your enemies', chaff ships do a good job at absorbing hits; the AI seems to prioritize smaller ships to bigger ones. If you've got money to burn, plonk down a few ablative ships to take the hits for your Dread.
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I like dreads as the Sophons since I can use my tech advantage by having a "one size fits all" ship that has all classes of defenses and at least two classes of weapons, as opposed to my battleships where I need at least three classes each focused on a different arrangement to be ready to counter my enemy's designs. UE would definitely be better off with specialized battleships, though, since they can just retrofit as necessary.
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The other strategic upside of stacking your largest ship size is that it's harder to whittle down your fleets by attrition.
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I'm still trying to work out what the best setup for a combat ship is. Should I just stack all three defenses equally? If I do that, my enemy might only bring one weapon type and will overwhelm that defense easily. Do I concentrate my weapons or spread them out? At the minute it just seems like pot luck whether you run into enemies you're prepared to fight or ones you're not.
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I tend to have two different weapon types on my ships. Energy weapons by themselves often leave enemies with a sliver of health in my experience, so kinetic weapons' high ROF makes them a nice complement. At the same time, missiles are quite often overkill on anything but the largest ships, so having something that can finish off weaker ships during a round comes quite in handy here. As for defenses, I think it depends on your race, really. The Empire can refit their ships on the fly thanks to their cashflow, so you can just adjust their defenses based on what the enemy is fielding. Cravers on the other hand have enough space to equip lots of defenses anyway, so you can sort of brute force it. Not sure about the other races yet, as I haven't played them yet.
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May 8, 2012 18:06
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UI questions: *How do you upgrade/refit ships? *How do you clone leaders? Does anyone have any clue how the combat math works in this game? The mechanics of defenses is especially opaque.
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Gort posted:I'm still trying to work out what the best setup for a combat ship is. Should I just stack all three defenses equally? If I do that, my enemy might only bring one weapon type and will overwhelm that defense easily. Do I concentrate my weapons or spread them out? Send in some chaff ships, and mouse over enemy ships while the 'choose combat mode' window is open; you can usually see what armaments they have. Mind you, this might only be a good strategy for the Empire. Second method is to make specialized ships, and send mixtures into battle, maybe?
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May 8, 2012 18:14
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You can also ignore defenses and go with a health tank - get as much pure hitpoints and hitpoint regen as you can. Has the sideeffect of also making the nano-repair bots (or whatever the starting card is called) incredibly effective. Of course if the enemy figures that out they can just counter your card.
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Does anybody know if there's a subterfuge system in place? One of the system upgrades says it gives +1 to system spying and +10% to system scanners. I can guess that the system scanners upgrade just increases the visible radius around the colony. What the hell is system spying though?
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Couple of newbie questions: -I always had trouble to keep the military/expansion spending ratio in check in MoO2, how important is an early military really? -Is it just me or do heroes make expansion way too easy/quickly? -Is overexpansion a real problem or should I nab what I can? -I think I made all battles automatic, any way to turn that back?
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Petitioning the thread title be renamed, "Endless Space: My God, its full of Horatios!"
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