Would it be valid to see the order in which a player got taken over? I recognize that amongst the best players, they will attempt a takeover of whomever they perceive to be the greatest threat...but over time, you would think that there would be some merit for players that placed consistently in the top three or so.
Semi-random contracts like this would increase the re-playability, and the strategy of the game. Good idea!
Why not have geothermal vents vary in energy? Instead of +2, why not have +2 and up..and the higher, the more likely they are go blow up. Risk vs. reward...you could even have an infra-red overlay to see where these "hot spots" were.
[quote who="Ivoyanity" reply="2" id="3531379"] Also, i'd like to suggest some kind of ranking stats (win/lose for instance) to show in MP to somewhat justify people picking a lower difficulty .. I don't mind losing all the time (which i do) but perhaps there could be some kind of system in multiplayer that balances players so less experienced/bad players have some kind of handicap tied to them when playing against experienced/good players or the other way around, i hop
There should be a sticky for confirmed cheaters, here, and on the Steam forums. There is no place in a multi-player game for CONFIRMED cheaters.
I read that the colony dying will get some love on the next version of the game..I believe that their dying off will be eliminated.
I was a chess player for many years. I held a decent FIFA rating. Mohawk could do worse than to use a rating based off of international chess ratings. The games online could be rated, or non-rated, based on the player's wishes. If I wanted to try out Scientific, I wouldn't want my rating to be compromised during this test game. So...the key here is to also give us primarily single players the ability to be ranked as well. A game won against the easiest AI should give y
I love the mechanic of getting an additional claim if you wait. Very much a risk vs. reward. I just purchased this game last night..went through the tutorials, and am now trying the campaign, on the dead easiest setting. I knew that watching cubit32's 100 or so videos on youtube would come in handy!