So uh, picked this up recently, and I need to ask... Is there any way to see preview the range a new frontier outpost will grant? Or, more complexly, the state of my borders once one is removed? (I get that border ranges are more complex than overlapping circles, even apart from empires, but that almost makes it more important to see ahead of time)
Whenever I search, I just get demands for it from last year.
Also, this game is pretty fun. Still on my first game, Blorg, 2242 and I'm trying to get a federation rolling. Was going to be "Hugs for all!" but "Bright Compact" is good too.
I was influence-locked for a while due to overusing frontier outposts... I somehow got the impression I could only form colonies within my borders, like outposts
That and it's my first game, heh, I'm sure my giant sector is bad too. I can see why people worry about having too many colonies, it's really starting to hold back my research and unity gain.
I'm probably playing "militarist" wrong. My militarist faction sure thinks so. I'm strongly tempted to switch to pacifism, since it matches what I'm doing and might make my second biggest faction happy enough to start contributing influence. LOVE! AND! PEAAAAACE!
I really just wanted to expand fast enough to survive and be relevant, but the galaxy turned out pretty nice. That one race I did start near even volunteered a non-aggression pact... As I surrounded their borders, and also was repugnant. Didn't feel right to attack them after that, now we're federation buddies. (Besides... I needed to expand outward, not get bogged down in a pointless local war)
"Well I don't know how else it got there and is not being evaporated by the sun. Too bad my whole society is materialist so we're not really into the whole spiritualism thing"
"Tea exists to be consumed. And consumed it will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our beverage? None I say! Let us take what is ours, pour and drink our fill."
- Enlightened Oligarch Nwabudike Morgan
I don't mind some of the mechanics requiring some... learning, when the game somehow reminds me of Star Control 2, SM's Alpha Centauri, and even The Last Federation. Oh and as a friend pointed out, Spore.
WAY easier to learn than EUIV that's for sure