More abstraction is not necessarily good if the game relies on stimulating the player's imagination, which IMO Stellaris does considering the focus on exploration events and race design. Is that all? Sliders replacing tiles also remove each planet's uniqueness. And the most important for last: What happened to the idea of differentiating of planets? I see nothing there at all that would make planets different from each other, each planet is reduced to just four sliders that you instinctively want to 'max out' and a bunch of 'checkboxes' (buildings) that elongate the slider.Tile blockers in a system with no tiles? Why would we need to clear a blocker to build a certain building in addition to building that building? Seems like pointless micro that can be eschewed for something else at least?.Why is this not something to be looked at to make the tile system more interesting instead? Two simple changes that change the tile mini-game considerably. make more use of adjacencies to make planet planning a real thing, and 2. Stellaris had so many patches now during the development we repeatedly asked to 1. What are we going to get instead? Modifiers? Unless the plan is to make them extreme in terms of benefits/problems, I don't think they'll do the job considering they can currently be basically ignored for the most part. It used to be tile yields that made planets different, but if tiles are removed then so are tile yields.My beef with this comes from a 'game feel' perspective that raises a whole bunch of questions: But maybe that can be fixed with iteration? The interface might be very early, but it looks very unclear at the moment, there's no final yield shown on that screen (probably should be), no applied percentage bonuses and stuff like that. Hive minds and robots empires get 'evolution' points each time a new pop is created.Īlternatively robots empires get 'upgrade' points from tech. Pleasing you factions becomes more important. Spiritualists are good at internal stability and as a result have more unity.Ĭurrently colonizing small planets feels better.Ĭolonizing planet with happiness penalties feels worse. Xenophobes get reduced unity penalty for unhappy xeno pops. Slavers and conquerors have less happiness, smaller empires are more united.Īverage pop happiness 50%, no unrest = 10 unity/monthĪverage pop happiness 60%, no unrest = 12 unity/monthĪverage pop happiness 50%, Average unrest: 20 = 8 unity/month Make unity be based on average happiness of pops. Make old unity buildings generate slight happiness and ethics attraction. Regular empires reform their society and culture. I was inspired by this thread: Unity should actually reflect Unity

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