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[Firgof Umbra]

PBR Update is starting to rear its head on Experimental as you might've noticed if you picked the (new and expanded) Volkur shipset.

We got shiny bits.
... and we got painted bits.

[forsaken1111]

PBR Update is starting to rear its head on Experimental as you might've noticed if you picked the (new and expanded) Volkur shipset.

We got shiny bits.
... and we got painted bits.

Wow, that really does make a difference.

Is the stellar construction stuff in experimental as well? I might try to organize a game at some point.

[Firgof Umbra]

Yep, that's in too.

[Nirur Torir]

I had an AI propose peace. I accepted it and they retracted the offer Then I had four identical, single cheap negotiate cards in the stack. An AI ignored the cheap ones to buy the most expensive one.


The plant people are interesting. Their flagships have a fixed 10 control and a fixed (fairly high) regeneration rate, but they don't get as many hexes per ship. They can also use their special sinew hexes as a sort of light armor in front of turrets and engines.

Their default battleship and heavy carrier designs have frighteningly exposed power generators without backups.

I like their single giant spores instead of a stream of colony ships. I think their colonization time estimate is based off regular colony ships, though.

[Firgof Umbra]

Thanks for alerting us to those things.  Sent those off to Reaper and he agrees, those behaviors do need improvement.

[forsaken1111]

My biggest annoyance right now is that hitting space still doesn't pause the game unless I click the pause button once first.

[forsaken1111]

Oh... wow.

So you know "Unobtanium"? The resource that can morph into any other resource?

It can morph into the resource "Ringworld" and become a ringworld.

The planet vanishes to inside the sun when you do this and it does not look like a ringworld but it has the same massive space as a ringworld.

[Edmus]

That is such a bizarre sounding bug... hehehe

[forsaken1111]

That is such a bizarre sounding bug... hehehe

This is why we test!

[Nirur Torir]

Oh... wow.

So you know "Unobtanium"? The resource that can morph into any other resource?

It can morph into the resource "Ringworld" and become a ringworld.

The planet vanishes to inside the sun when you do this and it does not look like a ringworld but it has the same massive space as a ringworld.

Mine was shoved out of the star, and now rotates around nothing. It looks to be the same size as any other planet, but has all the massive build space.
Planetary thrusters built on Unobtanium ringworlds do not crash the game. I am going to build a bunch of weapons and send this thing at my foes.

I learned a few other things, too!
1) Warp-fling stations are awesome.
2) I need more FTL storage.

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One of my rivals is the space-faring race. I think they lost their mothership to remnants and then surrendered to me. I'm going to give them a planet with a construction resource and a construction ship, to see if they do anything interesting (Probably not, since I don't think they have the funds to start a scaffold).

[Sinistar]

Hehe yeah, fling beacon is pretty damn silly-awesome. As for Nylli/star children race - I think AI doesn't really know how to play them right now (even patch notes say AI has only basic understanding currently) as in all my games that they were in, they were really stagnating and eventually offered to be subjugated by one of the empires. In all honesty, I think star children trait is pretty hard-mode even for human player, especially if coupled with slip-stream FTL. That is not to say it is not fun to play (because playing a mothership-based race IS pretty damn fun). It's just you need to plan you actions more and further, need more micromanaging and can get shafted by planet-not-having-resources-you-need even easier than when playing other races... At least to my understanding. It could be me just not understanding them though.

[forsaken1111]

Hehe yeah, fling beacon is pretty damn silly-awesome. As for Nylli/star children race - I think AI doesn't really know how to play them right now (even patch notes say AI has only basic understanding currently) as in all my games that they were in, they were really stagnating and eventually offered to be subjugated by one of the empires. In all honesty, I think star children trait is pretty hard-mode even for human player, especially if coupled with slip-stream FTL. That is not to say it is not fun to play (because playing a mothership-based race IS pretty damn fun). It's just you need to plan you actions more and further, need more micromanaging and can get shafted by planet-not-having-resources-you-need even easier than when playing other races... At least to my understanding. It could be me just not understanding them though.

Isn't it easy for someone to come wipe out billions of people by popping the stations?

[Sinistar]

You mean habitats? Well, they do have 14k starting HP, ~1000 dmg and can be upgraded further so from my (limited) experience they can be a bit tougher nut to crack compared to normal planets, at least at the start. Also, once destroyed, you need to colonize the planet yourself again which takes time again... I think once star children hit the point where they can construct motherships at their leisure, they probably become a real beast.

[Firgof Umbra]

It has arrived!

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The Release Candidate is out now on the Stable branch for those who'd like to check it out.

Full patch notes are available here: http://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791435727010/announcements/detail/126438500983066427

We look forward to the launch on Friday and hope y'all enjoy what's on offer.  Also, I can confirm that at launch we'll be having a 4-pack bundle option and a SR1/SR2 bundle option.

[forsaken1111]

Been playing around with it recently, so good.

One question.

Is there actually a use for Morphic Materials?

As far as I can tell they don't help with exported pressure and since your homeworld never has native pressure it doesn't do anything there. Is it only for planets not exporting to your homeworld?

I mean I guess you don't have to export things to the starter world with food/water but I feel like that is pretty common.