Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Mad Russian
Has anyone thought to just wait a few more days and see what you got?

BEFORE you start telling them what you wanted to have?

I've never seen anything like this before.

Good Hunting.

MR

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ORIGINAL: elliotg
Each race has a native planet type that they can colonize. In addition all races can colonize the most hospitable planet type (Continental planets). As your colonization technology progresses you can then colonize more inhospitable planet types: marshy swamp and desert planets. But some planet types can never be colonized unless A) it is your races native planet type or B) there is a pre-existing independent alien race at the planet. So ocean, ice and volcanic planets require these situations for you to colonize them.

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ORIGINAL: Wade1000
-an automatic pause option feature.
This would happen before any thing of cetain significance, which you can also choose in options, such as battles, meetings, discoveries, diplomatic messages, researched advances, etcetera.

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ORIGINAL:  LarryP
Yes, pause is a feature in the game. Also when you open a menu, the game automatically pauses until you close the menu.

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ORIGINAL:  LarryP
EDIT: I almost forgot... the game also has a speed setting that goes up two notches and down two notches from normal. -2 -1 0 +1 +2, 0 being normal speed. This also affects the graphics handling. So there are four items that affect graphics handling:

1) Nebulae density (slider adjustment)
2) FPS
3) Zoom
4) Speed of game (5 settings)

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ORIGINAL: Krec

NO REALTIME,   please,  make it TB ,  if i see one more realtime game i will scream.........STOP MAKING THEM ,  THEY LOOK GREAT and PLAY HORRIBLE.  nobody can move or click that fast and no i dont like a pause feature.  best game ever made....Chess and look how long its lasted.  i loved MOO2 and am really enjoying SEV with the BM 1.9g. at the moment  

my rant for today  

   

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

This is not the kind of RTS that is a click-fest. It's completely pausable, you can slow it down, issue orders, etc. and you can set it to pop-up messages and pause whenever things happen. Seriously, I don't think any turn-based gamers will find this to be more than they can handle.

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ORIGINAL: Gertjan

Wade, they should hire you as one of the employees of Matrix games :)

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ORIGINAL: Gertjan
Is there a pause hotkey? How many different types of game speeds are there?

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ORIGINAL:  Erik Rutins

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ORIGINAL:  Wade1000
How does this "exterminate" work? Are you just refering to conquering and invading planets?

There are two routes:
1. Conquer them all, don't accept peace.  They'll offer you various things to end the war, but you don't have to accept.  This is the "easier" route in terms of repercussions.  End result, you own all their worlds, they are no longer an independent faction.  Keep in mind though that the longer the war, the greater the war weariness of your own people.  Single wars are rarely decisive before peace (or a truce) starts looking like a good option, usually it takes several clashes to really cut an opponent down to size.

2. Bombard them back to the stone age - the more traditional "exterminate".  If you choose this option, you had better be fighting against the most evil and urgent threat the galaxy has ever faced, or everyone else in the galaxy is likely to start viewing _you_ as the most evil and urgent threat the galaxy has ever faced.  Typically, no other race in the galaxy likes to see planets being bombarded to rubble and will react accordingly lest the same fate befall their own worlds.  Now if you really happen to be fighting an alien race that really has behaved in a way that makes everyone else in the galaxy hate them and consider them evil, you've got a much freer hand in how you deal with the problem.
Regards,
- Erik

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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Wade,

Elliot used some of the extra time while waiting for art to add in bombardment.

Regards,

- Erik

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ORIGINAL:  ASHBERY76
Bombardment being added is fantastic news.I just love the epic scale of the game with the massive galaxy with loads of races.EU in space.
I also do not like the fact that the game design pushes a multi alien empire as being the strongest system with no negative points.With extermination added to the design I would like to see buffs for purer Alien empires stats to compete.

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ORIGINAL: Gargantou
Shouldn't more races also lead to more internal problems? Perhaps ethnic/race-riots etc, after all, this is something that has happened a lot throughout human history, imagine how much it'd start happening if we added in completely alien cultures and ethnicities into the mix.

So basically, a multi-race empire should suffer decreased stability and run a higher rist of splitting up etc, just look at stuff like the break-up of the Yugoslav Republic!

I hope that this is implemented in the game to make sure that a multi-race empire also has its negative perks, not just positive.

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ORIGINAL: Gargantou
Yes, but if only Race 1 is open to living with other aliens, but Race 2 and 3 are both quite xenophobic, it will mean that there will still be conflicts, especially between race 2 and 3.

I still think it's a sensible form of negating all the pros you get from a diverse population and quite realistic, let's face it even in highly democratic and civilized nations ethnic tensions are still high between some groups.

The best thing would be both your proposal and mine in my opinion

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ORIGINAL: Gargantou

Great to hear that Elliot used the time to add in bombardment, I just hope he doesn't let fans pressure him into adding in so many stuff that stuff starts getting implemented in a half-arsed way(I've seen this happen with good games and it is a shame!) but rather makes sure that every new feature he implements is implemented in a good manner that fits well into the game!

Some cases of the Paradox grand strategy games come to mind where they try to add in too much and it completely ruins the balance of the game and requires extensive patching to fix, I just hope Elliot will make sure that DW doesn't go down the same path, but I have great faith in Elliot and the rest of the people working on the game, they seem extremely dedicated to making it not just a game with a ton of features but also making sure it's well-polished!

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ORIGINAL: Wade1000
Distant Worlds:Updates,Expansions,and Sequels.Tell the company your wish list.

-A continually improving AI that is able to competently use all advances and features.

-High technology to include population centers beyond planetary(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture):ships,Ring Orbitals,Sphere Orbitals,Ringworlds,Sphereworlds;ability to create & destroy planets,population centers,stars.

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ORIGINAL: Wade1000


Excellent!
-Now I wish for some post conquest genocide options too.
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ORIGINAL: Wade1000

Well, we might want to sometimes avoid planetary bombardment to capture structures and technology. Then once we have the planet with some infrastructure we may not want to accept some particular alien races...so...post conquest genocide options.
That sounds bad when thinking of other Humans.
Yet, in game genocide, via planetary bombardment and post conquest options, is not so negative when applied to space alien races of very extreme differences; especially if they aqre extremily hostile, eat other races, etcetera.
http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2391696

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ORIGINAL: Gertjan

I hope by the time we travel through the universe we don't need to learn languages anymore and we can just turn on the translation device.