Version 0.9.2 Changes

[SephiRok]

• Added Headquarters building.
• Added empire frontier penalties (reduced credits and growth with increased distance from Headquarters).
• Doubled territory bonus resource features' + % gains from 25 % to 50 %.
• Increased sell/disband value from 20 % to 25 %.
• Increased trading goods from 1 credits to 2 credits per production.
• Pollution threshold is now influenced by global pollution.
• Changed tier 0 buildings to give +25 % instead of +4.
• Production is now separate for each item.
• Tweaked research tree.
• Tweaked unit terrain power modifiers.
• Halved technology research costs.
• Halved all unit powers except for Bug (power 1), Sciter (power 2) and Galeth (power 4); Colonial Trooper is power 1, Former and Colonizer are power 0.
• Doubled Bug production cost.
• Fixed alt-tab crash.
• Fixed issues when alt-tabbing as resources are being loaded.
• Fixed city screen not refreshing on tax changes.
• Removed intrinsic city resource gains.

It still needs some bug fixing and we might tweak a few more things, but that's what we've got so far. To release sometime today or tomorrow.

After this I'll be working towards the new research tree visualization and I think Lorenz will be getting the alien invasion forward.

[whaleberg]

Exciting!

I'm particularly interested in how the changes to city resources will work. It's definitely going to significantly slow down sprawl and make terrain more important. I think it's a change in the right direction, especially the change to tier 0 buildings. It's going to dramatically slow down game starts, which I think is probably good. That combined with the effective doubling of alien power levels is going to make things a lot more dangerous. I'll try and get some playtime in and let you know how the changes have gone.

I think frontier penalties are going to be a good addition, I think eventually you'll probably need to have ways of mitigating them, i.e. additional headquarters, reduction of frontier penalties with a road/ airport connection to headquarters, etc. Lets see how they play out first though.

[SephiRok]

I think starts won't be much slower -- the headquarters building gives you what a city gave you before (+2 food, +2 minerals, +2 production, +2 research); they'll actually go a lot faster on the tech tree. But I liked the production pacing and tech-wise it was too slow.

Cheers,
Rok

[whaleberg]

Ah, I didn't realize that headquarters gave a bonus. That's what I get for commenting before the updates actually released

[SephiRok]

That's fine, input is always welcome. :-)