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ORIGINAL: Anguille

May i add that the alien seen in this video is not the final artwork...

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

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ORIGINAL: Anguille

May i add that the alien seen in this video is not the final artwork...

But it looked too cute to conquer.

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ORIGINAL: Anguille

I am pretty sure they will remain very very cute...[;)]

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ORIGINAL: Son_of_Montfort
Great... after watching this I know that Elliot's voice sounds EXACTLY like Rhys Darby. I am a huge Flight of the Concords fan, so I'm going to have a hard time taking him seriously now... [:D]

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ORIGINAL: martok
1.) Can independent colonies be forcibly colonized and/or conquered? If the answer is yes, does your empire at least take a reputation hit for doing so?

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2.) Do monsters re-spawn after they're killed off? (That screenshot showing over a dozen space "scorpions" makes me want to grab a very large fly-swatter!)

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3.) I saw that if/when you discover abandoned ships, that you have the option of either keeping it or disassembling it for the technology. Is the value of the technology acquired from the ship usually fairly equitable to that one would get out of keeping it part of your navy, or does the amount of technology discovered vary (and therefore there is some risk that in taking apart the ship, as you won't necessarily get the same value as you would've keeping it intact)?

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ORIGINAL: Jamerson89
Is there some technology that can only be found such as on ships or planets or is all of it researchable?

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ORIGINAL: elliotg

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ORIGINAL: martok
1.) Can independent colonies be forcibly colonized and/or conquered? If the answer is yes, does your empire at least take a reputation hit for doing so?

Yes and yes

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ORIGINAL: elliotg

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2.) Do monsters re-spawn after they're killed off? (That screenshot showing over a dozen space "scorpions" makes me want to grab a very large fly-swatter!)

They don't respawn, but they do reproduce slowly. But, trust me, there's plenty of space monsters lurking away in the galaxy...

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ORIGINAL: elliotg

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3.) I saw that if/when you discover abandoned ships, that you have the option of either keeping it or disassembling it for the technology. Is the value of the technology acquired from the ship usually fairly equitable to that one would get out of keeping it part of your navy, or does the amount of technology discovered vary (and therefore there is some risk that in taking apart the ship, as you won't necessarily get the same value as you would've keeping it intact)?

Tech levels vary a bit. You can get a good idea by examining the ship design. To be clear, you can't disassemble it until you take ownership anyway. So you can make up your mind later about how to use it.

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ORIGINAL: martok
On a tangentially related note, what about enemy space stations (mining stations, research stations, etc.)? Can these be boarded and/or taken over as well, or can they only be destroyed?

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Sorry, I'm not sure I'm clear on this. Are you saying that -- once a player takes possession of an abandoned ship -- they can choose to incorporate it into their navy, plus then later on disassemble it for the technology as well? Or is it an either/or choice to be made immediately upon taking possession?

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Also, a somewhat random question: When you come across an abandoned ship/station, abandoned alien ruins, etc., is there ever a chance that there are negative consequences for exploring them? I just have this vision of scenes from Aliens or Event Horizon (or just about any other sci-fi/horror movie you'd care to mention) running through my head.... [:'(]

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ORIGINAL: Xmudder
Shorter than I thought it would be, but I like how automated it all is.  How long does it take to build a ship?  I'd hate to have my future colony colonized out from under me.

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Do you need a construction ship to build at your colony, or can a colony build it's own base?  can a single planet / moon have more than one base / station?

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Is there any point to colonzing lousy planets, given they will increase your corruption level?  seems like mining them would make more sense.

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Does your planets consumption of imported luxury resources effect your profits, or just those of the private sector?  IS it like Victoria Revolution, where your private sector needs a certain amount of wealth before it will build anything?

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  Why were there only 5 luxury resources on that screen?  is that all you have discovered so far?  I thought there were 20.  expansion planner at 2:30

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ORIGINAL: elliotg
Corruption is actually based on population, not the number of colonies. Because poor planets have lower populations anyway they don't effect your corruption so much.

Poor planet types often have valuable resources so that's one reason to colonize them. When you have a mining station at a planet, another empire can still colonize it, and when they do your mining station disappears.

Poor planets may have an existing independent alien race living on them. If you want to include this race in your empire to obtain their racial bonuses, then you'd need to colonize (or invade) the planet.

Also there's more poor planets than good ones, so you may find a poor planet is more strategically located for your goals.

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ORIGINAL: Xmudder

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ORIGINAL: elliotg
Corruption is actually based on population, not the number of colonies. Because poor planets have lower populations anyway they don't effect your corruption so much.

Poor planet types often have valuable resources so that's one reason to colonize them. When you have a mining station at a planet, another empire can still colonize it, and when they do your mining station disappears.

Poor planets may have an existing independent alien race living on them. If you want to include this race in your empire to obtain their racial bonuses, then you'd need to colonize (or invade) the planet.

Also there's more poor planets than good ones, so you may find a poor planet is more strategically located for your goals.

Ooh, I like this. This game seems well thought out. Basing it on total pop instead of number of colonies, for example.

I also saw a system with 2 habitable planets and a lot of resources on them. Nice.

Is there a REX stopper in the game anywhere? Or is Rapid Expansion the way to go.

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ORIGINAL: elliotg
The limits to expansion are really whether you can properly defend all of your new colonies. That means building ships, which costs money (both up-front and for maintenance), and because your small, newly-established colonies don't make much money to begin with, you can only expand so far before you need to consolidate. Your larger colonies effectively subsidize your new ones for a while.