Remnants of the Precursors - Now in Pre-Release state

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#387

Thanks for the responses. I’ll keep the ship design elements you mention in mind for dealing with it.

I saw news that it has moved on to attack another race again, and that made me start to wonder about a new concern: does this thing just keep roaming the galaxy destroying planets until someone kills it?

I probably should have but in a spiral galaxy like this one the point I encountered them they were already ahead of me. So I took out the two races at the bottom of my starting spiral as they were targets of opportunity I felt like I had to move on before heading to the middle of the galaxy. Otherwise I invited a multiple front war and these ships don’t move across the galaxy terribly fast so I would have gotten myself stuck building ineffectually a fleet to fight on two fronts (and you know what they say about that).

#388

Silicoids are dicks. Xenophobic expansionists don’t typically make the best neighbors.

Unless that’s all just Polish propaganda.

#389

Is there a way to slow down the damage animation during combat so that it is easier to see the damage numbers? They fly by so quickly I cannot see them. That makes it hard to tell how effective the weapons are unless I check the number of units in the stack and/or hit points prior to each shot.

#390

I am planning to make a thorough pass over the ship combat animations and the ship combat AI once all of the text-related changes are done (deadline for that is 4/1) and once I get a Macbook Pro (they are having combat animation issues).

It’s not an excuse, but the game is still in beta. The ship combat is still in need of a serious passthrough.

#391

From the MOO manual I take it the answer to this question is yes:

Space Monster: An enormous space monster invades the galaxy and
threatens to destroy your colonies. Until defeated by your star fleet, the monster
will go from system to system, destroying all of the colonies within. The space
monsters are terrific adversaries and will take quite a number of ships to defeat.

So the follow up question is this: does every engagement with it leave it w/ lasting damage?

#392

No worries. Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing a setting somewhere.

#393

Only if it has multiple engagements on the same turn. The monster heals up before leaving for its next planet.

#394

With not one but two space monsters exclusively focused on destroying my planets every couple of turns I’ve come to the conclusion it was a mistake leaving this on. ;)

Perhaps when the game releases the manual can include a section that makes at least broad recommendations about effective strategies for dealing with each of them. That way you’ve got something to plan for and build towards in preparation.

These two destroyed one empire and are now destroying mine. As a result a campaign I had a fairly good handle on is now headed down the drain. So having a bit of a hard time seeing the fun in space monsters. And yes I realize you can set it to off, I guess what I’m trying to understand is why anyone would turn it on? I mean unless they know what to build in advance to deal with them.

edit: btw got an answer on strategy for handling space crystals on reddit I’ll give a go. Suspect my main solution is going to turn these off though.

#395

The monsters are beatable but they often arrive a time when you are not quite ready for them. As a pure game mechanic, they work to slow down the snowball effect. As a mid-game challenge, they can punish you in ways that the AI can’t.

Everyone hates them the first time they arrive unexpectedly and ransack their planets. But once you realize they are part of the landscape and often hurt the AI more than the player, they don’t feel so unfair.

And when you beat them, you get a nice diplomatic bonus with all of the other races.

#396

Yeah, I get the idea behind them, just frustrated by it at the moment because I’m losing a planet to each one every about 4 or 5 turns. Two of them at once are doing a pretty good job of dismantling my empire!

Just so I know, how many of these things are there?

#397

Two! :)

#398

Version 2.16 is now out. Details:

#399

Thanks, Ray!

#400

Almost all of the really cool stuff added in the past 6-8 weeks has come from player requested features. So I should be thanking you guys!

#401

Is there a way to see the turn number? I know we can see the year, but I like to keep track by turns.

#402

Click on the Year display and it toggles to Turns

#403

Awesome, thanks!

#404

Now what I also need is a clock down by the year/turn counter or better yet one of those timers like I seem to recall in Civ IV so I can keep track to remind myself to stop playing this.

edit: btw, just finished a campaign, the replay option at the end was a nice addition.

#405

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It arrived. They definitely dont make them like that any more. I forgot just how big it was.

#406

Yeah, its awesome. And a fun read.