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Really great campaign reports, BroAdso! I've been stuck in the dilithium mines in Coridan the last few months, but it's always great to see that the Federation is keeping up the fight in the Bajor sector! :D Hopefully neither the Romulans nor the Klingons decide to take advantage of this situation, ...

Another month, another update! I've been continuing to work on the Galaxies side project and have it almost to a playable state, but I'm starting an internal 2 player playtest game in order to knock off the remaining rough spots and make some final decisions about the state of the rules and where th...

The system importance modifiers I think should only apply for the primary star in the system when using those expanded system generation rules. I'm still tempted to just get rid of the multi-star systems entirely because it adds an extra complication that just isn't all that interesting. But I'll ho...

I've been working on converting the Narn ships from the B5W game over into Galaxies and am just now realizing how odd their in-service dates are. They have a number of starter ships around 2211, which would be the equivalent of TL 0 in my current tech build, but then there is a massive gap between 2...

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll have to download that and test it out on my local environment and see how it runs and what features are there. The sysgen stuff I've been fiddling with in Galaxies and in my Fall of Night campaign are still pretty close to the original VBAM, so whatever rule set y...

Once I get the map fully updated and the Narns set up I'll shoot you the final stats, but here's an overview: Homeworld: 12 Capacity, 3 Raw, 9 Census, 8 Morale, 6 Productivity Kotok: 7 Capacity, 2 Raw Configuration is minor jump lane from Struve northwest to Homeworld, then Homeworld has an unexplor...

Looking at the latest screenshot, one thing that jumps out at me is that maybe the neutral (non-controlled) systems shouldn't have the grey circles around them signifying control? I think that might make it more obvious at a glance which systems are neutral and which aren't. I am living in a glass h...

As always seems to happen in my games, just as I was trying to wrap up the campaign year and go to bed I ended up finding an inhabited major system off of Struve and activated my first non-player empires of the campaign. I ended up spending an hour tossing around different ideas and settled on the r...

It seems like one of the big advances in UI design with games the last few years has been finding ways to do those kinds of intuitive overlays so that players can turn on as much extra information as they need, and remove those that they don't, rather than searching through tabular data on another s...

I'm not sure how practical it it, but I could see having togglable UI overlays that would pop up the icons for the additional data, such as for resources (CAP/RAW), population (CEN/MOR/PRD), etc. I think the best way to do those resources would be to have an icon for each and then color code them. S...

Year 3, Turn 6 Skipping a few turns, but I've had a pretty disastrous event again. 5% chance of pirates in Barnard, and although the force was small and disorganized it managed to cut off supply to the already out of supply scout fleet that was coming back from Luyten to Indi. The result: 2 dead Ar...

Year 3, Turn 3 The Orion station completed in Centauri last turn, and that system is now much more secure that it was before. This turn, we used its 2 Supply with the 1 Supply from the Oracle to continue repairing units, this time fixing up the Aries starfuries that were damaged in the battle. Repa...

I just hope something ever comes out of that kind of funding and that it doesn't just blow up, for the sake of the people that have dropped way too much money into it. But a lot of it is pretty. The screens there look good! One thing that I'm still working with is how best to demonstrate that I have...

Year 3, Turn 1 EarthForce has taken stock of its situation and has ordered the construction of an additional Orestes system monitor. This is the heaviest ship in the fleet, and our shipyard at Sol can just build one per turn. That fills out that particular maintenance group and gives us a heavy hit...

The year is now over, and the Earth Alliance is kind of in a sad state of affairs. Our economy is not doing well because of our military investments, and the recent raider problems has put us in a position where we really can't project power effectively. I concentrated too much on escorts to the det...