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Later on, new technologies open up travel between systems outside of the ‘beaten’ paths but for now you’re stuck on the grid. Most planets have two or three connections but sometimes only a single connection gives access to a system. Systems are connected by lines, indicating a path between them that can ships can use to travel between them. Once colonized, other planets within the same system can be colonized without the help of a ship. You can even zoom in to each planet and scroll between them using handy side-scrolling arrows on either side of the screen. You have a little time to look at the potential of each system for generating dust (cash), conducting research, build an industry and feed the population. A system can contain up to 6 planets of various types and it is entirely possible that many can’t be colonized straight from the get go. Initially, the galaxy is and vast unknown, and mapping out the systems close to you can point you towards the best place to colonize next. Your first order of business is to find more living space for your people. Armed with two ships, one for reconnaissance and one sporting an all-purpose colony pod, you set out to rule the galaxy.
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In Endless Space, the player takes control of one of eight unique civilizations taking their first steps into space. And that’s a good thing: Sins is a great game. It is a 4X strategy game but it also shares more similarities with Sins of a Solar Empire than anything else. After sinking 30 hours into the playable alpha, I’m inclined to say that Endless Space fits in with that crowd in terms of sheer quality but that it has a different parentage. When creative director Romain de Waubert says his new game can be best described as “a lovechild of Civilization, Master of Orion and Total War”, people pay attention. The fact that you say that this mechanic is "pretty obscure" makes me believe that you are trolling.Namedropping is a powerful thing. All you have to do is wait for a minor pop to grow naturally, and then click "Manage population" and the Splice button, which is located on the main screen and is therefore IMPOSSIBLE TO MISS. This will be fine at lower difficulties, which is how I assume the OP would play, since he's still new to the game. And the UC is my favorite faction but I don't know if I would recommend to a new player, since I've seen a vocal minority of players describe the hacking mechanic as confusing and annoying.Īs for Horatio, you will get enough minor pops in your empire without doing any assimilating or invasions. I would understand if you suggested the Umbral Choir, since they have less population management, a simple colonization mechanic (by hacking unoccupied planets), and can stealth their ships and systems for the majority of the game (making it easy to avoid wars and only participate in diplomacy when it's convenient). He said he wants less "resource management" and you suggest a faction that has an extra resource to manage compared to most other factions. So with you recommending Horatio, I don't think you get the right to call my advice terrible. Whether or not Vodyani are hard to play or not is objective and not a point of contention to begin with. That question I have answered with the most logically correct answer. The question wasn't about difficult or easy to play factions, it was about minimizing micro management.
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If you're playing more peacefully and diplomacy based, as the OP is, you won't get access to many factions to assimilate - putting you in a weak mid-late game position. And it's almost entirely useless to you unless you're specifically hunting down factions to assimilate. The splicing mechanic for Horatio is pretty obscure unless you know where to look. And the approval penalties for Vodyani are laughable when compared to some other factions.īesides, I would argue that Horatio especially, is a lot more micro intensive an difficult than Vodyani. There's also laws you can pass that give a constant flow of Essence. Essence is also not an issue, since you can just endlessly suck minor pops and use modules for production of it. Vodyani on a micro level autopilots itself on lower difficulties, no need to fiddle around all the time, just retrofit all arks occasionally, you're done. Once you get used to building ships and specifically Arks, you can get this done in mere seconds, a hugely smaller time investment over consulting terraforming paths, population distribution on planets, food production etc.
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Pump them all full of Essence generators if playing peacefully, otherwise whatever resource you need most. On easier difficulties, Arks don't need to be micro managed as much as you make it seem in your reply.