Thanks Stardock downloading now! Yor time! What a walking, talking meatbag? KILL IT!

You know, my current game wasn't going too well anyways.

All hail the mighty Yor!

Question- the Harvester and Central Mine buildings, do they work with bonus tiles?

This could mean big changes for "all x" strategies!

Yep, I think that was the idea

I started my Yor game as all factory and quickly adjusted back to mixed when I saw how it wasn't working quite as well

Awesome, you fixed tourism! I'm glad you were keeping up on our concerns, even if you didn't have time to respond directly. Thanks for kicking ass as usual, guys!

Keen on trying out the Yor. They're one of my favorites in DA, curious how they'll pan out in TA.

Wow, the Yor are... very tough to build an economy with. Yikes. Getting a good colony rush going is pretty tough, especially with the lack of a cheap research building from the get go.

My current game is seeing my space flooded with the goddamned Drengin and their goddamned heavily armed heavy fighters. With heavy weapons. Heavy.

It doesn't help that the Korath are also pressing me at the same time, and they are using their spore ships quite nicely. I had to destroy a decent class 9 colony (in a small empire) since retaking it soon wasn't an option, especially not with the need to get extreme colonization techs.

I haven't found the strength of the Yor, though. Granted, I haven't had much of an opportunity to see the top end of the tech tree, thanks to the nearly crippling low growth/low population/no economic buildings combo that hit early game. Maybe I'm just missing something...

I've really got to wonder if the Drengin and Korath are too powerful, though. In every game I've played against them, they've been coming down on me with obscenely powerful ships in huge waves, thanks to their combination of weapon ability, quick weapon research, and effective colony rush. Whenever I've played as them, I just steamrolled the opposition. The Korath have it especially good, since their production is absolutely obscene, they get most of the same martial advantages as their Drengin cousins... and spore ships are, of course, the noxious planetkilling icing on the cake.

That said, I'm loving the AI in the latest betas, as it seems much more competitive... and they aren't even taking advantage of the new ship components yet! Once ships with hull augumentations, stellar defense modules, or warp bubbles show up, I'll be destroyed. In DA, I could play on Tough and consistently win, but in most TA games I've had my ass handed to me! Maybe it's new race imbalances (after all, I won when playing Drengin or Korath) or just unfamiliarity with the tech tree... but I think the AI is earning a lot of the kills they make. Their political sense is pretty astute now... they KNOW when they've got the advantage (though I'll be damned if I give up one of my planets just because some Terran wannabe galactic overlord thinks he can demand one while my fleet is still in R&D)

In short, awesome update guys.

Great stuff guys. Just downloaded the latest beta, can't wait to get home to try out my new robot killing machines. Galaxy beware, I'm coming.

Thanks for fixing the tourism effects, and also great idea about the jewels in the ship editor. Will make shipbuilding even more addictive. Any chance we still might get that external ship editor? Maybe in a third expansion pack?

Thats odd, I often have the Acreans taking 40% of the galaxy and killing everyone, and Korath usually die very quickly, Drengin go sometime after. In short, in games I play i have a large problem with the CPU fully utilizing Acrean tech with 10+ships in a fleet with a mass driver rating of 120+ when I am at logistics 15 and harpoon/photon torps with tri-stronium.

I never worry about Korath, however a recent game Drengin fast teched to disruptors and that caused a large problem, and created a 40/40/all split with Acrean/Drengin and the rest of us (terran/torian/yor).

Must be different playing styles. I play Medium/Large galaxies on tough/painful with Occasional or Common settings (except anomolies and asteroids on rare.

Also play with no techtrading.always.

Perhaps that is why its a bit different. Rather go up against Korath then the **** first strike ability of a fleet of 12 with 180attack.

Love the challenges this game provides... different to every player.

I read through, but didn't notice:

Was the spore ship bug solved?

What was the spore ship bug?

 

FYI

+ FIXED: Bug where if you go to planet screen from civ manager colonies list and change the build queue or planet focus, and then return to colonies list, the colonies list would not update

I have had this happen to me is DA as well.

Yep, I'm aware of it.  CodeCritter fixed this in TA but we haven't had time to fix it in DA yet.

 

The Korath didn't get the spore technology. Germ warfare was there but the next tech wasn't available.

And yeah, it's fixed. Korath just tore a bloody hole in the Torian empire with them in my game...

The technology that needs to be researched to build spore ships (Germ Warfare or something like that) is currently unavailable.