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I agree. Everything that I've seen, I have really enjoyed. I can't wait to see the final product!

-Bren

I like the idea of the CSCR, but I rarely use it. When I first started out it was just easier to run it in a tactical system. The CSCR takes a lot of work in terms of prep and resolution that I've never truly gotten use to. I think the perfect CSCR is the one that is computer controlled. If I could ...

Had 8 cruisers at the start of turn 1? Well, you can't build more until you lose some of those. Forget the fact that you are in the middle of a war, your bureaucrats aren't willing to budge on the size of your navy. At least your empire won't go into debt like some nations seem to do during wars......

This has been a very fun read. Keep us updated on your adventures!

-Bren

With everything that I've heard about this system, I'm impressed! The Threat Level is a great idea (ahh Imperium) and the thoughts about mission objectives coming and going is a great thought about keeping the game fresh (more then a I-bash-you, you-bash-me thing).

-Bren

The more I think about this, I more I think that census should be added to the largest population centers first (when there is a tie, to the planet with the lowest CV, then random). My reason is two fold. First as Chyll stated that we are dealing with population growth and not population migration. ...

I can see that cumulative bonuses probably aren't the way to go with these things. In conjunction with moving supply depots from being standard units to Supply Depot as a unit ability, you could just have the best Supply Depot in a system provide a bonus, up to some stated maximum. What should that...

and wind sprints around an active volcano...

-Bren

In a recent starmada/VBAM crossover, I made a shipyard into a ship size dock spaces. So, one of my empires had a dock space 5,5,10 capacity shipyard meaning it could build at most 3 ships, two of which had to be size 5 or smaller and the third size 10 or smaller. I like the idea of making shipyards ...

I agree with Jimmy in that's it's better to give bonuses for units assigned to anti-piracy than to penalize those not assigned. I imagine there would be standing orders for any naval unit to respond to any pirate threat barring superceding orders (probably only in time of war). Quite frankly, if th...

I like to see a revamp of the population expansion model for VBAM. The end of the turn rolls for all the planets in the empire is a bit of a chore. The more I think about it, I like having the census increase show up randomly, but allow the player to spend Intel to push the randomness in their favor...

That said, Rainer, under a scheme where total empire population drives growth instead of individual colonies, where should the new population appear? Where the largest colonies are, representing the largest pools of breeding stock (if I may be so crude) or at the smallest colonies, representing the...

After reading all the comments in this thread, I like the idea of halving the output of the system adding modifiers based on threat level, civilian fleets and the like minus the number of military present to determine if raiders attacks occur. First off, I had a radical thought about military presen...

The big problem there is with supply lines. The ships need to make forays into hostile territory and be able to fight! Perhaps there is a new use for intel points. Basically make a secret supply point for which your personal raiders can draw supply. Actually, I think the better way of doing it is t...

I've being using the: (amount invested - tech requirement ) / tech requirement x 100 model along with the Research facilities (see http://forums.vbamgames.com/viewtopic.php?t=150 ) and it's been pretty cool overall. Yes, an empire has to spend more to get a technology payoff, but that doesn't really...