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 Latest Update - Update 9: The Flowering Table of Contents Update 1: Brave New Galaxy Update 2: The Myth Discovered Update 3: The Quest for Eden Update 4: Tense Borders Update 5: The Wandering Warlords Update 6: Neighborhood Watch Update 7: Disharmony Update 8: The Seeding Update 9: The Flowering What is Endless Space? Endless Space is a science fiction turn-based 4X game developed by Amplitude Studios, who also made Dungeon of the Endless and Endless Legend. The three Endless games have an interconnected lore, and in this title, we take control of a faction and build up our empire in the usual strategy game fashion. Win conditions range from the traditional "kill them all" to building wonders showing how awesome our civilization is. The backstory of the game is that an ancient civilization called the Endless invented Dust, an infrastructure of nanobots and nano-computers that could self-replicate and self-assemble, and "talk" to the rest of the network. The Endless themselves relied on this so much it became symbiotic to their civilization, and Dust was able to keep one effectively immortal by uploading one's consciousness to a "cloud" of Dust that could replicate one's body. The Endless eventually fractured into the "Concretes" and the "Virtuals", two factions that saw immortality in a different light, and eventually brought about their own downfall through the Dust Wars. The Endless and their empire may be gone, but Dust remains, and the factions that have risen are ready to exploit it... What kind of 4X is this, then? The game mechanics are based off FIDS, or Food, Industry, Dust, Science. This combined number tells you how powerful an empire is by how much food, production, money (Dust is used as money), and research they produce each turn. There are many ways to improve your FIDS, like getting the right resources or building the proper improvements. We also hire Heroes to give our star systems bonuses through their administrative acumen, or lead our glorious fleets of spaceships into battles full of lasers. Combat in the game is mostly out of our hands, as we set strategies ahead of time by playing "battle cards" to take advantage of our fleet composition against the enemy's, and numbers are rolled behind the camera. We can research bigger and better weapons, design our ships to make them really good at certain points in a battle, and even train up our admiral Heroes to use some seriously powerful combat abilities. How are you LPing the game? I'll be playing on Normal difficulty and speed with all seven victory conditions enabled in a huge galaxy with eight factions. I'll allow as much audience participation as possible, and give people the choice to vote on what courses of action to take. What are the playable factions of this game? Click on the picture of a faction leader for a link to their faction introduction video.              The United Empire is the military-industral complex in space fascist form. Their sole concern is production and money, but they build their ships drat tough. They also obtain industry bonuses if their tax rate is higher, and rush-build a lot of stuff thanks to their massive Dust generation.  The Sophons are a technology-oriented civilization with plenty of science generation both naturally and if their tax rates are low. They are wimpy on defense when getting invaded, but when their science generation lets them get the big guns before anyone else, who's gonna have the last laugh?  The Hissho are space samurai birdmen who kick absolute rear end in a fight. The best part is that the more they fight and win, the stronger they get thanks to their special talent, Bushido. They take a hit to their science generation, but their Heroes and spaceships wipe the floor with anyone else. Oh, and if you take a star system from them, they get really, really pissed off and fight even harder.  The Amoeba are a peace-loving race of blob people with an affinity to explore and make friends. They start the game with the entire map revealed, and the more friends and allies they have, the better they get in trade and even combat. Ships without guns are also faster for the Amoeba to build.  The Automatons are a race of clockwork given sentience by Dust. They can cram a lot of themselves into each star system, benefit from making friends, have sturdy ships, and can hold their own when invaded. They also generate extra industry and produce "interest" on it, making them super awesome at building infrastructure.  The Sheredyn are a military breakaway caste within the United Empire whose HOO-AH SPACE MARINES prevent opponents from retreating in a fight. They get the same sturdy ships as the United Empire but can rush-build for cheaper. Because they see themselves as professionals, they hate breaking deals and get less happiness bonuses from luxuries, but aren't above "appropriating" Dust from enemy star systems their Hero-led fleets orbit.  The Cravers are the Zerg/Tyranid/Reaper/insert-bugmen-race-here of Endless Space. They consume planets and get an early FIDS bonus for settling a new place, but then get a FIDS penalty after munching their planets up. Thankfully their ships are easy to build and mass into fleets, and each time they kill an enemy ship they get a science bonus. There is a small downside, though: they are always at war with everyone else. Always. Feeling hungry?  The Horatio are a race of clones of a man called Horatio, who had a Narcissus complex so big that it'd make Narcissus himself blush. Horatio's mission is to fill the stars with beauty, i.e. himself. The Horatio can clone Heroes and stuff their star systems full of Horatios quickly, but their aesthetic sense means that their ships cost more to build.  The Sowers are on a mission to make planets livable and habitable for the return of the Endless, and these gardening robots don't care for the concept of "other life". They may not be the best researchers around but the Sowers can colonize any planet (with a FIDS penalty until the appropriate tech is researched) and build stuff quickly. Because of this, they can colonize the best planets and systems before anyone else.  The Pilgrims are another United Empire breakaway faction, but this time of "good" scientists and researchers who look to the Endless as a religion. Their ships have some wasted space issues, but they can get Amoeba-like bonuses from friends, can run a blockade to get trades going, and their special trait allows them to evacuate an entire system and relocate to a better one keeping every single improvement and almost its entire population.  The Harmony are a strange faction in that they actually play a wildly different game than the others. They don't use Dust and have no happiness modifiers, but having "impure" Dust-filled systems actually harms their FIDS (minus the D). These rockmen have to clean away the Dust. They can see special strategic resources without having to research the associated technologies and aren't easily invaded.  The Vaulters are Endless tech fetishists who came from Auriga, a planet that's the setting of the Endless Legend and Dungeon of the Endless games. They are actually a faction in the game Endless Legend, too, as the lore between the three Endless games is connected. In Endless Space, they can build warp drives to teleport fleets between systems and have some solid science production, though their food production is lower. Finally, their leader is the lady that talks about the factions in their introduction videos. Thread Fan Stuff Gridlocked posted:
Brunom1 pulls a 180 on his defense of peace with the Harmony. NullBlack posted:In ages long past, in some Endless lab somewhere... Kurieg makes a correction regarding Endless irresponsibility. Why make one sentient being when you can make dozens? Olive Branch fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Oct 22, 2015 |
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Hissho Bird swarm is go.
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Sep 15, 2015 10:07
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Horatio The best race. Make the galaxy beautiful.
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Sep 15, 2015 10:08
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Hissho The last (abandoned) LP used Horatio. We need something different.
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Sep 15, 2015 10:29
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While tempting, the true fate of the Universe is to become a testament to Horatio
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Sep 15, 2015 10:37
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Hissho, easily.
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Sep 15, 2015 10:38
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There really isn't any other choice. Horatio it is.
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Sep 15, 2015 11:14
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The universe needs to be more beautiful. Horatio.
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Sep 15, 2015 11:14
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Veloxyll posted:While tempting, the true fate of the Universe is to become a testament to Horatio Horatio here as well
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Sep 15, 2015 11:18
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My brother LOVES this game and Endless Legend. I enjoy Dungeons of the Endless. Please talk about how all 3 of these games tie into each other because its amazing the way they have a coherent story and shared universe between a space empire sim, a Civ style hex game with "fantasy" elements and a dungeon crawler/tower defense rogue like. Edit: As a result PLEASE do The Vaulters. Thought AFIK their appearance in this is what the furthest along in the time line Gridlocked fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Sep 15, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 12:43
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Nothing and no-one is more beautiful than the Horatio.
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Sep 15, 2015 12:56
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I like the Vaulters 
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Sep 15, 2015 13:11
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Let's make things amazingly obscure from the start, go with the Harmony. OK, as a matter of interest; was I the only person who when they first started playing this game found it amazingly unintuitive, especially when it came to understanding what each research tech actually did? I was stuck in my spiral arms for ages before I realised that the wiggly lines were wormholes, and from that was able to direct research accordingly.
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Sep 15, 2015 13:14
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Changing my vote to one for the vaulters! Eumenides fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Sep 16, 2015 |
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Sep 15, 2015 13:57
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Throwing in a vote for the Automatons.
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Sep 15, 2015 14:06
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I've heard about a faction that doesn't use food and instead consumes dust in its place. Is it in Endless Legend? Amoebas, let's make friends.
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Sep 15, 2015 14:40
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I played the Harmony once and never turned back.
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Sep 15, 2015 15:20
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A universe of Horatio is a universe of happiness.
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Sep 15, 2015 16:06
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Automatons for maximum efficiency.
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Sep 15, 2015 16:49
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Yeah, Horatio's been done. I wanna see the Cravers , since they're terrifying mid-to-late game.
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Sep 15, 2015 19:34
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Cravers. Devour everything.
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Sep 15, 2015 20:19
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Harmony because trying to play the game without dust sounds like an interesting challenge.
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Sep 15, 2015 20:39
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Go for the Vaulters!
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Sep 15, 2015 21:27
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Vaulters!
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Sep 15, 2015 21:42
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Horatio is the most beautiful. Shape the Galaxy in their name.
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Sep 15, 2015 21:58
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Prepare for the future with Vault-Tec!
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Sep 15, 2015 22:50
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Vaulters! Didn't know they were added to the game, do they share the ship designs of the United Empire?
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Sep 16, 2015 08:08
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Vaulters seem cool!
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Sep 16, 2015 08:14
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Vaulters!
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Sep 16, 2015 08:29
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The universe is incomplete until everyone is Horatio.
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Sep 16, 2015 09:49
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Alius posted:A universe of Horatio is a universe of happiness. An empty quote vote for Horatio is the most appropriate empty quote vote.
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Sep 16, 2015 09:53
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Vaulters
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Sep 16, 2015 11:16
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IAmTheRad posted:The last (abandoned) LP used Horatio. We need something different. all this means is that someone has to finish the great work of filling the universe with the beauty of Horatio
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Sep 16, 2015 13:58
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Ptolo posted:Didn't know they were added to the game, do they share the ship designs of the United Empire? As of this post, the vote count stands as such: Horatio: 11 Vaulters: 9 Hissho: 3 Harmony: 3 Automatons: 3 Cravers: 2 Amoeba: 1 It's basically neck-and-neck between Horatio and the Vaulters! I plan on starting the first update of the game on Thursday night or Friday morning, so there's still time for Horatio to dominate, the Vaulters to catch up, or some dark horse faction to curry favor. 
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Sep 16, 2015 15:54
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EDIT: poo poo, I already voted. Disregard this post.
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Sep 16, 2015 15:58
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Vaulters!
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Sep 16, 2015 16:19
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Vaulters My favorite Endless Legend faction, didn't realize they'd been added to Endless Space.
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Sep 16, 2015 16:19
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Vaulters because I too want to force you to play endless legend after this LP.
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Sep 16, 2015 16:28
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Harmony since I want to see if they ever got around to making them not-awful.
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Sep 16, 2015 16:34
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One more for the Vaulters, as I haven't played since they were added!
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