Things are moving in a positive direction. The current version of the game is way better than the original beta version. It needs major improvements to move from "worse than alpha centauri," to "worse at somethings with interesting changes worth looking at." It's difficult because AC is one of the g...

Well, a little blunt, but pretty much spot on.

It will be randomized.

Now that changes things. How random are we talking here? Randomizing the connections between techs? Or randomizing which techs exist at all?

The tech tree is left not fully explored because we want to keep the feeling of exploration constant throughout the game, seeing too far ahead we think will remove some of that pioneering experience, as well as the fact that it is more realistic that way, you never know where technology will lead y...

We could add an event for it on the right.

Yes please!

All of these sound like improvements. Addressing city borders growth and tile ownership is a nice surprise. I was worried that was getting overlooked.

1) connect a city to your headquarters with a road 2) build a Harbour building in a coastal city. I would probably add the Forbidden Palace to that list. It's a large project which lets you build an additional headquarters somewhere else. I would really like to see roads and shipping trade networks...

I definitely think changing from pollution working off of production to being based on population assignment will be an improvement. It will make it much easier to predict and reason about. I also like making negative moral more of a penalty than positive moral is a bonus. Changing tile improvements...

Heh, you should see how it was a few weeks ago. Every city gave you free resources as well, and the early production boosting buildings were +4 flat bonuses, and there was no monetary decay with distance from the capital. So they're making major strides to reign it in. A cost per city would help, bu...

Yeah, I know it's a human drug I figure that buildings would be affected to, the headquarters isn't actually doing the production itself, it's the human staff working there. Really though, it's just my sense that a +50% modifier means exactly what it says, unless it is qualified in some way.

Ok. The way I expect modifiers to work is more like: If the help text was modified to say "50% bonus to worker production than it would be more clear.

For some reason, the +50% bonus from xenite flowers doesn't modify production from the headquarters building. I don't know if this is deliberate to prevent running out of minerals, but it's a weird inconsistency.

If certain techs were limited to certain factions that could pretty strongly differentiate them, but will make balance a lot more difficult probably. Although as it is the factions are pretty unbalanced right now anyways.

Is it pollution from the added production causing a moral penalty that reduced growth?

It's not obvious, but it's clean and convenient once you know how to do it. Maybe just pointing out that you can rename things by clicking on their title in a tutorial popup would do the trick.

Avoid looking like EA at all cost?

To be honest, I probably won't do to much with it right now. I was messing around with the xml files and wanted to see how much I could do. Figured it would be fun to try and cook up some of my own terrain features. I'm a pretty lousy modeler though, so it would probably end up being a kind of dead ...

That would explain it. I tried treating it like an Ogre XML file but it didn't work... I assume you do your modelling in a commercial editor though? Which means you must have a conversion tool to get it into your custom format. Any chance of releasing it? Good modding access would definitely be a bi...

What 3d editor reads your mesh format? It looks like it's pretty simple, but blender can't open it by default.

It doesn't make any sense to me that you can't build flame tanks, so I changed it so that you could.
I like that a lot of the game is exposed in the xml files and modifiable.