In Progress Lets Play Endless Space... BETA

[Muty]

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Let's Play Endless Space​

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I. Introduction​

A month ago while browsing around steam to see if there's is anything interesting, my eyes suddenly stopped on this little gem, "preorder for just 15bucks and you can play the alpha right now" or something like that was mentioned, so I said whatever and decided to bite the bullet and see what's all the fuss about. After about 40 hours sunk into the game I can honestly say that I'm hooked. The alpha was in a far more polished state then some other games were an year of patching after official release. There is nothing overly complex about it, no 3D map, no complex gameplay systems, just what we have come to expect from a solid 4x title, with a few little twists, but it is addicting. The "just one more turn" feeling is definitely there.​

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Or maybe I'm starving so much for a good 4x that I'm becoming delusional.​

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The beta came out a few days ago adding the rest of the races and multiplayer. Since then I've played a few SP and MP games and I think that the game is more than ready for release apart from some small issues, so decided to make an LP of it and see if it really lives up to everyone's expectations.​

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Without further ado:​

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II. Galaxy Settings:​

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I've decided to go with a standard galaxy setup: 4 legged spiral galaxy will will include all 8 empires, 2 in each leg, large size normal age.​

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If anyone has any other suggestions about the galaxy settings I would like to hear them.​

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III. Game Settings​

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Again I've decided to go with the standard settings: normal difficulty, normal game speed.​

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IV. Empires​

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Now comes the most important part of the game setup. Lets choose our empire!​

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The possible choices are:​

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So which one would it be? The jews? The eggheads? The Reapers? Or maybe the religious fanatics?​

The choice is yours.​

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[lightbane]

The Sowers, for a change.

 

[Cassidy]

I'm voting for Prosper, I mean, Horatio.

Hopw roewr ne.

 

[SerratedBiz]

Sowers, let your first victory be the one owed to us after Avatar.

 

[TripJack]

the hive must be fed

cravers

 

[SuicideBunny]

prosper!

 

[Azira]

Andhaira.

 

[Arpad]

Horatio

 

[m4davis]

sowers

 

[Ashery]

Man, that +5% weapon damage for 15 turns could be overpowered as hell if you're able to get into frequent skirmishes.

Cravers or Sowers.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

Can't decide between Horatio and Sowers.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Sowers.

 

[laclongquan]

:for the emperah:

United Empire. I want to build some Death Star, and go around blasting up the neighbourhood.

 

[Tzaero]

Horatio

 

[Muty]

So far sowers and prosper/horatio are even.

I'll leave the vote open until tomorrow morning.

 

[Kane]

Excellent Muty. May I inspire you to round of Multiplayer, old chap?

Also, Sowers. Put all planets on industry and win the game.

 

[Muty]

Excellent Muty. May I inspire you to round of Multiplayer, old chap?

Yeah some hot steamy mp action would be fun. I'll be in CDS later today.

 

[Fafnir]

prosper

 

[Ashery]

I saw you playing it for several hours earlier while in the CDS chat, so where's our update?

 

[Muty]

I saw you playing it for several hours earlier while in the CDS chat, so where's our update?

I was playing mp with a friend. I'm going to start working on it right now.

Since prosper and sowers are even again, I'm going to pick sowers for my playthrough, stay tuned.

 

[Kane]

I saw you playing it for several hours earlier while in the CDS chat, so where's our update?

I was playing mp with a friend. I'm going to start working on it right now.

Since prosper and sowers are even again, I'm going to pick sowers for my playthrough, stay tuned.

now that my guild guildwars2 weekend ended i can join you.

 

[Muty]

I. Birth of Codexia.

The year is 3000AD. A group of young sowers have just colonized their first solar system.

Behold mighty Codexia:

We got an ok starting system. Sowers produce only 50% of the food possible and get the other 50% from industry which is a huge bonus since we can use our mighty industry to expand the population on our planets, so having a desert and a tundra planet will help when we build a few things in this system.

On to starting our first building project. Let's zoom to the planet Codexia I:

A good starting point would be to build the Industrial zones improvement to increase our food and industry output.

Next, let's select our first technology to research. Here's the the whole technology tree:

Let's zoom a bit more to the starting techs:

The best choice here is the N-way fusion plants:

This tech will allow us to build Heavy isotope refineries which give a good boost to industry in the system especially when you have certain types of planets in it, but I'll get back to this when we finish this research.

Next thing to do is to send our Factory(colony) and seeker(scout) ships to the neighboring stars:

We have a few choices here. 2 binary systems, a yellow sun, a red dwarf and a blue star:

After some thought I decided to send the ships to the binary systems. We'll see how this is going to work out:

One last thing, let's have a look at our emerging empire:

And on to the glorious next turn

Our seeker arrives at the next system and it is

Shit...
Arctic planets and asteroid belts are the hardest planets to colonize. You need some serious improvements built in the system before you can get anything from them and having only those 2 in this system makes it utter crap for now.
Let's move on.


Turn 4. Our factory ship arrived at the second system and it is:

Shit...
The planet itself is not bad, but single planet systems are not worth the investment in the beginning.

On to the next system, the blue star. It is a bit far and will take a few precious turns to get there, but let's hope that it is not going to suck so badly.

Our current research was also completed this turn so let's choose the next one. It will be:

Xenology will reveal a couple of good luxury resources on the map. Let's hope that we will get some in our system.

Turn 5. The industry improvement we were building on Codexia I is completed. Let's build an isotope refinery there:

Turn 6. The xenology research is completed. Of course we didn't get any luxury resources in Codexia. Well, nevermind let's start our next research, which will be:

Turn 7. On our way to the blue star we meet another ship.

It looks like united empire design, but I'm not 100% sure and it doesn't matter anyway,we will conquer them soon enough.

On to the next turn.

Turn 8. Our factory ship arrived at the blue star and...

JACKPOT! A huge 6 planet system with tundra, desert, lava and ocean planets in it!


It even has luxury resources on 2 of the planets:

Pure awesome.

We promptly colonized the large tundra planet and established this system as a codexian outpost:

We got enough dust(money/spice) to hire our first hero.
Who are we going to pick?

Kef looks like the best choice for a governor:

So we hire him/her and appoint it as a governor of our newly established outpost.

One last thing we can do this turn is to lower the taxes in order to make the drones fervent, which in turn gives us +15% industry and +15% food:

And this concludes our first chapter.

How should we name our new system?

 

[Kane]

jungle is the best planettype, followed by ocean and terran.just wanted to put that out there.

 

[TripJack]

psychoactive air? fuck yes sign me up

 

[GarfunkeL]

Looks interesting. Wasn't JarlFrank singing this one's praises as well?