L3O Horizon Game

The enemy has two planets...after many turns of combat I invade and begin assimilation of one planet. Many turns in which I ignored the second planet which would fling missiles at my ships that were way out of range. Then I gather more ships and send them towards the second planet, which is launchin...

Just as soon as AOL mail actually gets around to sending it, you should have a 3mb zip file.

thanks

"Failure sending mail. Unable to write data to the transport connection: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host" (My firewall was opened up to allow outbound connections) On current build, Horizon crashed to desktop while I believe the game was processing a turn. I c...

Due to the trickle of cash coming in at the beginning, thus far my first few games in the new patch... ...have had an initial player decision tree in the new economy as: a) expand first? or blow 10M on starbase so I can refit to latest tech then start on everything else (expansion has always been th...

Yeah I take your point(s), I guess I just want more "situational awareness"...but AI coding for that sort of thing must be quite involved. Even big budget games like Civ5 have horrible/inefficient behavior...much less grouped-unit-coordination like what (I think) you and I are wanting. Who...

off topic: I cannot get that byline: "Tarry here, my merry men, whilst I seek what adventure await in yonder greenwood; but look thou listen for my call, for I will blow my horn if I become hard-pressed." ...out of my head. I'm going to try it at the next happy hour. There's got to be some...

For planet infrastructure, my current plan is: I only pre-purchase the lvl1 of all types, then prepurchase the lvl 2 for factory and start building other lvl2 infrastructure normally if the size allows. Then once lvl2 factory build is done: if I have the cash and think that planet is important: star...

hlemmur said: "In that vein, you should only be able to manually control fleets that are in Communication range. After all, if they are out of comms range you would have to rely on the Admiral on the spot ... just like in pre-c19th warfare." a nice enhancement idea to consider. Of course I...

Ah yes Stars! The idea of "scripting individual tactical ship behavior" reminds me of Distant Worlds...where the AI is basically just calling various scripts for each individual ship. Why I don't play Distant Worlds any longer: Problem is that in Distant Worlds this AI script behavior coul...

Appreciate the explanation. Re: colonizer monetary hit I should have put more details: To buy a single colonizer (normal build costs are 1.75bc and 10 turns) immediately for cash would be 5.26bc (in my current very hard diff game for a custom race). That price, combined with whatever pre-purchasing ...

Thanks...I guess I'm dodging the bullet by having average farming in my race builds...and that's all I need worry about.

The thread is about nerfing the planet-rush tactic (and I've seen in other posts the planet-rush-plus-pre-build-economic-infrastructure-only) Can you clarify the reasons for considering a re-usable single colony ship at the beginning (once the 1st starbase at homeworld is built) is useless? (If what...

I currently don't see a way to change ships to the latest design. But technically speaking: obsolete systems on ships are updated if they orbit a planet with a starbase. AFAIK, starbases and planets get updates for free when that system's tech has advanced. I would consider "update ship design&...

Would luv to hear other player feedback on the "Destroy colonizer after first use" game option... My take after a few games ... this option has put a bit of a damper field on the early colony rush...at least at the *very* beginning. At the point where the human player can have two or more ...

I think I see part of your point...retreat cheese..."oh I know I can retreat...a battle can actually cost me nothing". 1. Perhaps have retreat as an automatic function? that is very risky with 15-25% chance to lose any ship in the fleet. Anyone remember Imperium Galactica 2? I do with some...

Seconded for all of bansheedragon items

My armchair warrior suggestions: 1. For the AI: Retreat to the nearest friendly starbase or missile base. The military SF mind would say: the enemy has local superiority, so retreating to the nearest undefined colony makes no sense since, they may pursue and once again, attempt bring our (inferior) ...

Strange, because the last time I visited Santa Fe NM, I was eating the hell out of everything in sight. Perhaps this is just the effect of locally grown peppers in the salsa.

and don't tourists have to EAT ?

will give the fleet list a spin and comment thx edit: Fleet list is nice but: 1. obstructs the galactic map view 2. Has to be resorted every time when we want to look for idle ships 3. Is a static list...that is, "idle ships I already know about" are mixed in with newly idle ships. Which m...