L3O Horizon Game

I like most of changes.
While high growth rate still owns everything, the game has become much more… well, not complex, but, well, whole.
Thank you very much.

I'll add a more thorough report as soon as I'll read everything I've missed on these forums.

50k means nothing at all, actually, as on ~7th turn your population exceeds 10 million.

Yes, you can kill a mothership with cruisers, but tactical combat is not rewarding, so better use the biggest guns on the biggest ships.

Nope, there isn't a way to boost colony population.

You can set high growth rate in the race editor.
I won't go into details, but the result is drastically different.

The only shortcuts I found and use are for fleet management.
You select a fleet and then press coresponding key, they are written in () in the list.
M[ove] and S[urvey system] are the most used ones, rarely O[rbit].

Regarding research details - right click on a tech in research menu.

> automode will just disable their defenses

That's exactly what it tries to do.
However, in somewhat like one time out of three, the population ends before defences' hp does.

It may make sense with fanatical/devoted, but usually civilians should be afraid of collateral damage.

It would be nice for engines to be different.

However, it's not a bug that they occupy the same space.
It's their cost in manufacturing points that is 1% or 10% or something in between from the hull size, but not their own size.

That's really interesting, trying to reproduce...

It just dropped down in one turn?

If not, hover your mouse pointer over the money counter, a more detailed list of profits and expenses will be shown.
Maybe ship maintenance.

That's exactly the point.
If it's not effective to have colonies "overseas" then AI just won't make them.
It's a simple cost-benefit analysis.

AI will travel and explore, you will travel and explore, you'll know about each other, but you won't bump noses.
Yet.

Well, my suggestion works the same way, actually. 2 turns * speed is the same as fuel cell radius. But it does not prevent exploration (smallest map here is like MOO2's large). And, as fringe colonies are mostly useless, does it matter, do you put a trail of supply outposts before colonizing or after?

Bottom line - never take low growth rate, strive to take high growth rate and relevant techs at start. So, how does the population grow? Time is candy, so I've put tl;dr at the bottom and made some graphs first: http://i.imgur.com/bLkSRrB.gif No techs bonuses in that gif, but here's a munchkin race...

What happens if you go to \Steam\SteamApps\common\Horizon and double-click on "Horizon"?

You can set up up to one hundred of ships of each type per colony in queue.

As far as I understand, you'd like to pay for your next ship only after the previous ship is built, right?

> To buy a single colonizer You pay the usual price for it when you order it to be built and then pay x3 of price*percent_left - essentially x4 to buy something in one turn. 5.26 isn't quite 5.25 = 1.75*3 because of rounding. Difficulty level does not change ratio in this. > pre-purchasing of infras...

Clarifying. > considering a re-usable single colony ship is useless? Option to destroy it is useless in current economy. > The only thing stopping the player is travel time Yep. > quick colonies are immediately profitable. Yep. > I'm not spending a single dime on a new colonizer Yep. > Gotta wait th...

Good farming gives you a jumpstart.

Let's take boring humans.

Average farming + average research equals to 7116 RPs at the first turn.
Average farming + good research equals to 8916 RPs.
Good farming + average research equals to 8903 RPs plus 2.6 better industry.

Could you, please, share your save?

I don't use that option.
It's generic and useless in current economy.

I've never noticed food trade doing something except for small revenue.
They'd better have a food fight with that surplus.

Ok, it's complicated, so the results here are preliminary. They are made: - using native planets (100% growth) - without any tech, affecting growth rate - with always enough food - with average growth rate in traits So. First the population jumpstarts, doubling each turn - 50k, 100k, ... , 12800k. A...