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You better give it a try. One of the best 4X ever. In a lot of cases much better then Stellaris. Especially then it comes to tech tree and combats.
Given that cooking creates a number of items equal to the combined sizes of the ingredient stacks, I believe that there’s no reason not to just set your cook to making lavish meals from the get-go.
Also, (while I’m just starting out) I like to set the order conditions so that I have twice as many meals as citizens (it used to be 3 before I found out that visitors don’t eat). This leaves me with a one season buffer (which I probably should expand it…).
Similarly, I set conditions to ensure that the number of drinks that I have on hand is equal to five times the number of citizens.
Something to add to this if you haven't seen it, is that you shouldn't need to micromanage labor as much anymore since the game now tries to pick the dwarf with the highest available skill for open jobs, so it naturally favors using and training the most skilled dwarves for any particular role. A few jobs may still make sense to restrict in this manner though, like weapon or armor smiths.
so that helps a little at least, as is my query about the icons not being changable, that is a shame
History and Tradition positive traits are Cybernetic, the big expensive trait that eliminates your dependence on food. Negative traits are Small and Polluted Homeworld, since you don't care about the fertility penalty and you're going to be a rapidly expansionistic empire. With the bonus point you have left you can get a nice prototype flagship to explore the galaxy with when you start.
Plus Terraria had to build hype and community from scratch. Starbound gets to build on what Terraria already did there.
Terraria built off Minecraft hype.
Minecraft built off Infiniminer hype.
Infiniminer is standing on some sort of Cosmic Turtle, I believe.
I'm off to make a game set on a Cosmic Turtle, then. I'll reference Starbound as one of my main sources of inspiration, then go back in time and release it before Infiniminer was made to make a loop.
I think it's a little odd people are calling it a Game Dev Story clone. There was Game Biz before this, and I mean, it's not exactly a saturated market anyway.
I just downloaded GDS. This GDT is the same exact thing, but simplified.
I'm removing the necessity for a pit and just adding a bit of extra time to the palisade wall construction time. No sense making the players do the extra three or four clicks required to dig a pit when the game could just abstract it.
Any way to learn new style with NPC off? Or any way to turn them on mid-game?
Do z-levels exist, yet? x3
And then when you next play the game against that race, you get to see all of your ship designs used against you. The AIs will happily use the same designs that you created for yourself.
How's the difficulty? Is it challenging? Most 4x games tend to see you snowball into an unstoppable victory as you amass a bigger unit blob than the enemy with little to no challenge past early game skirmishes.
