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On the other end of the scale, it also gets boring if the entire game-universe is at peace, ruled by a giant super-alliance of the most powerful empires.

The thing that so many people don't understand about these kind of games is that you NEED the assholes and the peaceful people.  If it's just assholes no ones really doing anything besides wrecking everything and with just peaceful people you get no conflict. 

All these hermits need to realize that you can JOIN the assholes "ruining" the game.  They'll ignore you AND you'll actually join the community.  You don't even need to do anything other than just be social.  Hell, you may even eventually join in doing something fun.

The homeworld base resource amount was increased in a recent patch.

You get one city with expandable city limits.  You can segregate your city with districts and give each district it's own specific polices (This place has farming and X level of taxes, this area is generic industry with Y level taxes).

There are multiple answers to the finite resource idea that don't involve deplete-able sources.
1) The easiest is player harvest only.  By hand or with some tool a player has to be there to gather the resource.  Possibility of some kind of automation but by and large best to go from node/source/cloud/harvester to gather the resource.  Could even have to kill something/someone to get the resource.
2) An accessibility system, similar to Aurora's but with values over 100%.  Could use elements of thought 1 (player to gather the highest value stuff) but rarer resources would on average be slow to gather and places where it's easiest to get could be locations of conflict.


I personally hate item/resource quality systems and prefer tiered resources.  By doing gradient values you just promote either grinding (Wurm) or endless hunts for a rare version of a rare resource (SoH).

The game needs work on what exists, not new features.  The majority of the last few years updates have just been useless at making the game better.  Making it look better as opposed to run better, changing city building to be freeform over rigid instead of I providing any kind of management.  All that hasn't truley made the game better.

I don't trust Haxus as a developer to actually improve anything, just continue to add new features and functions that don't help the gameplay.

Rough eta is 1 to 18 years.

They didn't leak on the first hit, they had at 3 layers.  Kind of remembering when I used wh 16 missiles along time ago they crippled in 3-5 hits.  Then again those missiles had 100% chance to hit.  I'm wondering if the swarm uses the exact same ships in each game or if they are designed per game.

Trying to remember the time I had a running engagement with 80 some swarmers and had to rely on my AMMs to stop them.  Was just able to stop them then

The plants are just plant faction buildings, similar to the other buildings are based on the faction that uses the same territory.

Crescent ships are the top right one.  Not a fan of their limited weapon choices.