L3O Horizon Game

I've sunk a few hours into Horizon now and am enjoying myself. However, I find that I have some questions around how the colony/economy mechanics all hang together. In summary I think my question is: what are the numbers in the colony screen based on? Here's what I think I know: • Population is the ...

Title: Zero Point Energy Fluctuations Description: Alarming fluctuations with the amount of zero point energy being generated between star systems has made interstellar travel extremely hazardous. Effect: Any ship in a sector not containing a star system has looses 5% of its health each turn it rem...

Title: Vampire Nebula Description: A strange new class of nebula has been discovered that is mobile and appears to drain energy from anything it encounters. Effect: A mother-ship sized nebula cloud spawns randomly in the galaxy and proceeds to the closest populated system, where it will drain the l...

Tomorrow is almost over here in nz

Hi all, I'm Julian, from New Zealand, and rapidly approaching 40. It cracks me up reading this thread as most of the posts pretty much sum up my experiences as well. I've always been a TBS fan - I have fond memories of Civ II, MOO2, and XCOM Enemy Unknown. I've been searching for the perfect space b...

Sorry, I see this is a bit of an old post, but just an observation - isn't one of the functions of a fleet to provide mutual support to the other ships in the fleet? In a RL wet navy fleet I would guess that some ships would be faster than others (frigates vs aircraft carrier for example), but due t...