PC: Distant Worlds (Space 4X from Matrix)

[Jaron]

No MP is a deal breaker

[Syt]

Started my first real game and trying to get my bearings.

Just looking at my starting position. My starting system has 11 planets, plus 16 or so moons. And that's just one star system out of 700 (standard sized galaxy). My home planet is a large moon around a gas giant. I start with some mining stations set up in the system. Another planet in the system has an indiginous population that's the same race as me, I can colonize them later. Otherwise I'm currently a bit lost looking at stats, numbers and trying to figure out what to do. There seems to be ruins of an ancient advanced civilization's library on my planet which will help with research.

I have some luxury resources in my system (Vodkol and some down) that I'll go and mine. Otherwise I guess it's time to go and explore for colonizable worlds.

Looking a bit further I have two mining stations in a neighbouring system (and a pirate outpost - I bought protection for now while I have no or no big military). There's also some gas clouds that can be mined for, well, gas, and a supernova that gives 400% research bonus, so I guess I'll build a research base there some time.

[Tamas]

At the moment it is a bit too easy to tank your economy as a noob, due to the private sector's priorities in trading luxury resources (they cause periods of serious luxury lack in your capital which in turn decreases your income significantly). There will be a patch tonight to fix this, altough testers swear if you know what you are doing this is not an issue.

But otherwise, FINALLY I have a 4X game where there is detail and a lively galaxy, without me having to personally move every single bit of it which is supposed to move. You are FINALLY a President not an accountant.

[Jaron]

Uh oh. A seal of approval from Tamas is akin to a kiss of death. .

[Tamas]

Uh oh. A seal of approval from Tamas is akin to a kiss of death. .

on the contrary


And indeed, the economy seems to work just fine on semi-auto pilot. Just make sure to set agent and troop recruitment on manual because these are pretty expensive and quite unneeded unless at war.

Do you know why on the diplo screen my human republic has these small portraits of other races as well? I saw it with other empires and thought they conquered/colonized members of these races but I am pretty sure that I did not (I had the opportunity to colonize friendly aliens but this asshole other Empire took them. They are also blocking my way into the galactic core so they will soon be kicked).
Is there like inter-empire migration or something?

[Richard Hakluyt]

interesting, so first impressions seem to be favourable.

[Zanza]

If I buy this with my German address I have to pay VAT, if I buy it with my Singaporean address I don't have to pay VAT. Hmm.

[frunk]

It looks similar to what Stars Supernova Genesis would have been.  *purchased*

[Zanza]

Meh. The download will take 3-7 hours at the current varying download speeds. I guess I'll have a look at this tomorrow after work.

[Tamas]

It looks similar to what Stars Supernova Genesis would have been.  *purchased*

I think it is what Lost Empire attempted to be

[Syt]

Is there like inter-empire migration or something?

Seems so. I have 2 million humans living among 5.5 billion Kiadians on my second colony.

Still trying to figure out how to best keep control of my empire and filter the info for me. Dozens of resources (and planets can run dry, so you need to watch that, too). Loads of ships that require constant refueling, and sometimes aren't smart enough to do it themselves, it seems (Hey, you're patrolling a REFUELLING STATION! Gas up, already!). And much more.

[Tamas]

Is there like inter-empire migration or something?

Seems so. I have 2 million humans living among 5.5 billion Kiadians on my second colony.

Still trying to figure out how to best keep control of my empire and filter the info for me. Dozens of resources (and planets can run dry, so you need to watch that, too). Loads of ships that require constant refueling, and sometimes aren't smart enough to do it themselves, it seems (Hey, you're patrolling a REFUELLING STATION! Gas up, already!). And much more.

It seems that my auto-controlled ships has no problem refueling.

As for empire management, the expansion planner is a must. What I do is check my demand and stock of resources, and where seems to be danger of shortage, I filter down on the resource in question, and send out the constructor ships to build mines. (btw I have this on manual control because I dont want to overspend). That has done the trick so far.

[Tamas]

I couldn't sleep so I applied the beta patch and started a new game as that rodent race which are like the equvivalents of Jawas.

With the transport priority thing fixed and the rodents being good at colony income and mining (not to mention having the merchant guild government type which is a special one for a few selected races), plus being in the center of the galaxy, my economy has been booming from the start.
Especially since despite setting them to rare, the tight star density in the neighborhood allowed me to find and colonize a lot of independent planets of my race.

I have also found a derelict colony ship around a gas giant, with millions of cyroed aliens (one of them amphibian tech types), decided to not dismantle the ship for tech, but rather used it to settle a planet, thus introducing a second race to my empire.

Big investment was made into building various research stations near a black hole, since my rodents are quite bad at research, they can certainly use the +600% bonus.

There is an insect empire not too far from me who hate my guts, I used a spy to get their map, and now I am planning to just supervise the general development of my empire (confirming colony and ship building recommendations of the AI) while I manually build a big station near the bugs and use it to extend my 1st Fleet.

It's been a while that I can't get away from a 4X game. Looks very nice so far.

[crazy canuck]

looks promising.

[Alcibiades]

I want it...