L3O Horizon Game

An excellent and insightful reply. It just feels weird that you can't afford to conquer a star system that early in the game.

Probably realistic. I'll give the nod to L3O on this one.

Lithari wrote:

CrispyMouse wrote:No modding. I haven't even looked at the game's directory yet.

Then you are one lucky S.O.B.

No kidding! If you find that in your first explored star system, don't you just say "aw, sweet, I win!" and restart?

Lithari wrote:Yeh, I noticed that after I posted, but I personally don't do anything warlike until my economy sorted, to the point of handling 1-2 problems, if they occur.

Well, if this situation is working as intended, then your approach appears to be the only feasible one.

Here's the offending planet in question: http://pinback.moltobenny.com/food-is-expensive.jpg It is the food situation. 7 billion population, and I have to buy food for all of them. Note that food works out to be about 10bc per MU, which seems prohibitively expensive, at least for this early in a ga...

Here's the offending planet in question: http://pinback.moltobenny.com/food-is-expensive.jpg It is the food situation. 7 billion population, and I have to buy food for all of them. Note that food works out to be about 10bc per MU, which seems prohibitively expensive, at least for this early in a gam...

I'll try to resurrect the saved game, but it was very early in the proceedings, and I doubt there were any magical buildings that could have possibly cost as much as everything else in my empire times ten. If you think a bug may be afoot, let me know and I'll send you the save game. I cancelled/dest...

My money was in excellent shape. Because I'm a terrible person, I decided to invade a neighboring star system. Once I conquered it, the newly conquered planet showed a deficit of like 34bc PER TURN. Needless to say, within five turns, I lost due to bankruptcy. Why was the colony losing so much?? Wha...

It just seems a departure from every other space 4x I can recall. Isn't the first thing you do in any of these games to build a few scouts and fire 'em at nearby stars? I know you can do the same thing in Horizon, but not without it telling you your scouts are out of supply every other turn. Dunno. ...

Once you are out of supply range, re-supply time takes longer than supplies needed for your fleet to function efficiently. If you are 1 turn away in distance, for 1 turn you are lacking in supplies. If you are 5 turns away then when your supplies run out you have to wait 5 turns for new supplies. B...

What is the effect of being out of supply?

you arent supposed to go further than your supply will allow. supply = fuel iirc however i you can go further out of your supply range. its just slower I understand this part. However, it looks like scouts always have zero supply, so the game flip-flops between telling you they're in supply or out,...

I build a couple of scout ships. After one turn or so, I get the notice that they're out of supply. Hovering over them shows "Supply: 0/0 turns". The next turn, I get a notice that they've been resupplied. They still show "Supply: 0/0 turns". The next turn, I get the out-of-suppl...