PC: Distant Worlds (Space 4X from Matrix)

[Cecil]

I´ll get this when I finish my game of the witcher which has been on hold for a couple of years. I´m in act IV so I´m nearly there.

One last question though. Is the game a pure sandbox or is there some sort of victory condition to go for? I think I´ll be a bit bored if it is at least in the long run.

[Syt]

What I like is that if you incorporate other races into your empire you get a bonus for that. E.g. I had a large amount of reptilians settling in my boundaries and got a troop maintenance bonus (I presume they form the backbone of my ground forces), while humans gave me a bonus to covert actions.

[Razgovory]

So how would you compare it to Galactic Civs 2?  I was kinda underwhelmed by that.

[Tamas]

I´ll get this when I finish my game of the witcher which has been on hold for a couple of years. I´m in act IV so I´m nearly there.

One last question though. Is the game a pure sandbox or is there some sort of victory condition to go for? I think I´ll be a bit bored if it is at least in the long run.

You can set victory conditions like percentage of galaxy controlled, percentage of galaxy's total population, percentage of galaxy's total private sector owned.

[Tamas]

What I like is that if you incorporate other races into your empire you get a bonus for that. E.g. I had a large amount of reptilians settling in my boundaries and got a troop maintenance bonus (I presume they form the backbone of my ground forces), while humans gave me a bonus to covert actions.

Indeed. Altough either you have to have a colony where the aliens are majority, or there needs to be a given number of them because when my humans had like 5 kinds of immigrants neither of them gave any bonuses, unlike for example the amphibians I found in the colony ship who has given me research bonuses.

Stuff like this are so nice for immersion The industrious but dumb rodent species find 15 million smart-ass walking dolphins frozen on a colony ship, and decides to have them settle a planet inside the empire's boundaries, and with their superior intelligence they quickly become the scientific elite of the empire.

[The Brain]

percentage of galaxy's total private sector owned.

Aren't you the government? How is it private if you own it?

[Tamas]

percentage of galaxy's total private sector owned.

Aren't you the government? How is it private if you own it?

your race

[The Brain]

your mom

[Zanza]

I have no idea how this game actually works. I expand and build stuff, but I don't understand the interdependencies between my decisions really. And I am constantly in the red despite a very positive cashflow.

[Tamas]

I have no idea how this game actually works. I expand and build stuff, but I don't understand the interdependencies between my decisions really. And I am constantly in the red despite a very positive cashflow.

Have you patched up to 1.0.2?

[Alcibiades]

your mom

[Zanza]

Have you patched up to 1.0.2?

Yes.

[Tamas]

Zanza, ok then, make sure you have everything on "check for confirmation" in options, plus, try and turn off the automation of the starting construction ships you have (you open the ships window, there is a blue circling arrow thingie to the right of every auto-controlled ship, click on it to turn it off. I also do that to destroyers to form my main fleet which just sits around unless trashing a pirate base, so they dont burn fuel chasing individual pirate ships which is something frigates and escorts do okay).

And yes I have found there is inter-empire migration, and you get racial bonus once a race has 10 million people in your empire.

[Alcibiades]

How's it looking tamas?

[Tamas]

How's it looking tamas?

I did not have much time to play. Started a human game to see if its that easy with income post-patch like with my industrial rodents. It wasn't, altough I was far from red, at least initially. Unlucky for me I got next to berzerk insects again and we were so close and they had a bigger fleet (I set AI starting size as random so who knows exactly how big they were) so they first started harassing my bases then I declared war and they pwnd me.