Greetings. So I am still slugging it out on my first game since Beta launched. Now on turn 477 and finally able to reach the Altarians. Game Settings:
- Largest Map
- Habitable Planets: Uncommon
- Stars: common
- Planets: common
- resources: common
- Black Holes: Uncommon
- Galaxy type: Tight Clusters
- All AI on 'Gifted'
- I played Terrans
What I got was a game where there were 30-50 stars per section with at least 10 to 15 hexes of void between next section (clusters.) Here are some observations after about 80% of the map has been explored.
- No Elerium at all. None. Found 10 black holes (way too many) and 12 antimatter, Plenty of Durantium.
- Number of habitable planets per section is about 4 to 6.
- Approval is difficult to keep up, unless I focus several tiles to marketplaces or banks.
- Again, augmented weapons seem completely worthless. I focused on Beams and yet NO Elerium anywhere on map!
- The AI is doing a so-so job but still parks HUGE fleets of constructors and colony ships in one hex. The AI will invade an undefended planet.
- Whoever said Tactical Combat would HELP or be fun you people are nuts. At this point in game I am happy to see explosions as I had several wars with 10 multi turn (and ship) combats going back and forth. It was Glorious!
- I had TWO crashes to desktop so far, game was at max settings and played fine otherwise.
- The buy bug is manifest and not deducting the money from my bank when I rush buy ships.
Lack of Elerium was odd. I dont know why there was none. I cant figure out what is better, build happiness improvements or Money making ones. Both 'seem' to fix the approval problem.
What is the difference between saving your ship design and saving as a templet?
I found the Logistics values in game but ships should have some tag somewhere that tells me what its Logistics is.
We NEED a battle report. I cannot stress again we need to know (where) and (who) and (what) was attacked. It is really difficult to figure out without this info what happened to what or where.
Military star bases are excellent places to put forward staging and launching pads from which to invade. a few stations and you can park a fleet there and be secure.
More information to come.