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by mara
Thu May 29, 2014 1:36 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: Steam Testing
Replies: 64
Views: 24844

Re: Steam Testing

Settings that always yield an extreme start: Huge world Quick Temperate Very Low Aggression Medium difficulty opponents Continents I've gone through the invasion four times now. As far as the invasion goes, having every one of my cities Ion stormed along with those motherships and troops, all with T...
by mara
Wed May 28, 2014 7:59 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: Steam Testing
Replies: 64
Views: 24844

Re: Steam Testing

Bug in 1.4.0: Resets advanced New Game settings every time you start a new game. (e.g. planet type/temperature, number of opponents, victories.) but some are retained (World size, opponent difficulty, alien aggression) Two things about world gen: it seems to force starts into either end of the heat ...
by mara
Wed May 28, 2014 6:10 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

It wasn't so much a lack of concern with credits and morale. I agree, credits are really undervalued. I just highlighted an issue (refitting) that, upon being informed of a potential bug, I did what I do as a QA tester and tried to replicate the issue. Morale in general needs to be looked at a littl...
by mara
Wed May 28, 2014 5:20 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: Steam Testing
Replies: 64
Views: 24844

Re: Steam Testing

So, after experiencing my first invasion, 1) Every one of my cities got ion stormed. This was crippling. Lasting 6 turns was brutal. I'm already losing a war with DA and Imperium, this sealed the deal. I couldn't build any more units without them being damaged to defend my cities. those that were ho...
by mara
Wed May 28, 2014 12:48 am
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: Steam Testing
Replies: 64
Views: 24844

Re: Steam Testing

Initial observations of the version so far: Balance: The new Invasion mechanic should be a checkbox. I can see a lot of people really disliking this major change. Gene therapy Got this second turn, I don't know if this is a detriment to build early or not at the moment. is morale still linked to gro...
by mara
Tue May 27, 2014 12:46 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

It sounds like the lesser evil. I'm inclined to remove the weapon swap inflation and increase the sell factor for replaced stuff to 50% from 25% atm (xour refit would go from 444 to 352), but will discuss it with the team first. See if there's a good way to fix the academy issues as well. Togra are...
by mara
Tue May 27, 2014 12:30 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

Mmm. I see the issue why it's 444 credits and not 400. To compensate for starting weapon costs being 0% and consequently refitting Automatic0 <-> Missile0 costing 0, we inflated weapon swap costs by 25%. Which screws it up comparatively to unit class costs and purchase costs. Not very good. Can't s...
by mara
Tue May 27, 2014 3:29 am
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

Anything with a max unit rank will still mean buying a new unit will net you free power over refitting a unit which already reached the max rank. I agree, but that just means refitting must be far more cost effective than buying a new unit. I don't see refitting every being a major feature but more...
by mara
Tue May 27, 2014 1:32 am
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

Possibly change the Academy buildings to give a certain number of unit ranks every turn to all units occupying that city up to a maximum total rank? Then make them stack the "per turn" bonus so each building would give 1 rank per turn up to a total of 3 ranks per turn with all 3 Academy b...
by mara
Tue May 27, 2014 12:58 am
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

SephiRok wrote:Academy buildings are refit party poopers.
*gentle pats*
by mara
Mon May 26, 2014 11:50 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

That looks like there's a bug in the implementation. The refit should cost 400 and not 444. Basically how it should work is that everything that changes is sold at 25% of its purchase cost: Production to credits factor = 8.0 Refit sell factor = 0.25 Tank0+Laser0 = 32 * 1.5 production = 384 credits ...
by mara
Mon May 26, 2014 10:12 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

Couldn't upload a second photo, here's an actual example of it being cheaper to buy new instead of Refit. For clarity I'm upgrading a T1 Tank, with Pulse Laser -> T2 Tank with Gauss Gatling Gun. For me to buy the T1 Tank with the Pulse laser it's 192 credits, with a 444 refit cost, i've sunk 636+ ma...
by mara
Mon May 26, 2014 3:19 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

<snip> - Change the refit cost formula. - Have morale no longer affect tax income. - Lower the spawn rate of aliens. It used to be too low and a cakewalk, now the aliens are a hellish nightmare even to experienced players and the new Steam players are going to get absolutely stomped. I'll look into...
by mara
Thu May 22, 2014 3:11 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

For 1.4.0 we plan to remove morale affecting growth. Mainly because morale becomes too strong, resulting in optimal play having the lowest taxes and consequentially decrease the amount of credits you can use, making purchase and refitting mechanics almost obsolete. This is in line with what we expe...
by mara
Wed May 21, 2014 8:48 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: Remove the ability to plant forest in desert
Replies: 4
Views: 3417

Re: Remove the ability to plant forest in desert

With water forming (hopefully) coming down the road, it'd be nice to also have aquatic cities, especially in the continent and archipelago type maps.
by mara
Wed May 21, 2014 4:45 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: City Growth
Replies: 3
Views: 3258

Re: City Growth

If they're AI players then I have a feeling it might have something to do with the new Morale -> Growth change. AI get a boost to morale. What difficulty were you playing on?
by mara
Wed May 21, 2014 4:29 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: Steam Testing
Replies: 64
Views: 24844

Re: Steam Testing

English, Mac OSX 10.9. I can also test on Win 7, and Win XP (I have VMs for both)
by mara
Wed May 21, 2014 4:21 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

The problem is, in my opinion a couple of different but major changes were made to morale at the same time (affecting growth, extending the unrest from takeover). While I agree that taking over cities was a huge boon and overly effective as a strategy, i think extending it to 20 turns is a bit punit...
by mara
Tue May 20, 2014 4:05 pm
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

I just played a game with Divine Ascension as my ally (I was my favourite hippies) and we noticed this, DA was unstoppable. they got a military victory with both me and an AI still up. It was a total landslide. The AI had a blackhole generator in every city, and still couldn't even dent DA.
by mara
Sun May 18, 2014 12:16 am
Forum: Pandora : Public Beta
Topic: 1.3.4 First thoughts
Replies: 38
Views: 14302

Re: 1.3.4 First thoughts

I have to agree with you on #1. Costal cities have been lackluster for a while now. Another problem I'm having is with the Advancements now having to be built, early game it just slows things down, especially (at least from my experience) when you only have one city, causes early game to drag its fe...

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