I won't be able to reply today but tomorrow I'll be back, so please leave the call to Dhanyl till then.

Nobody wants to talk to Ylona?

Oh, and has anybody else the problem of phantom notifications for posts in this thread? I'm not sure if the current inactivity is because of some kind of limit we reached.

AngelicStorm wrote:

Sorry, but that's me. Sometimes I post a question for another player, but then I delete and go through all of their in-game posts to see if the answer is in there. It usually is.

That really explains it. I thought the G2G server was being buggy. 

https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/votes/189-gas-planets-anomaly-pack

It's about time we got something special for Gas Giants. I've been getting tired of finding Hadopelagic Life, Metallic Waters, and Hollow Planet anomalies on them. So what's everyone thinking? Endless, Precursor, or Space Oddities?

About the anomalies, why can't they just add all of them in? Doesn't sound too much of a big deal, but then again, who am I to judge.

I think they want to give the community choice, but are trying too hard to give us choices. They then decide to throw us something small to pacify us. That's just a theory, though.

I'd like there to be more of an Endless presence in anomalies, 'cause all we have right now are Dust Ruins, but the sheer strangeness of the Space Oddities is pretty cool. Like, a singing planet? That's worth exploring.

Also, CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE RIFTBORN FOR A MOMENT?

Sure, no reason to shout. They seem ... interesting. I mean, their faction affinity doesn't actually explain what it's doing gameplay-wise, and until the update drops, I guess we don't know the full story. They seem like a mix of the Allayi and the Harmony to me.

Sigh... better update the species list again.

I think the Riftborn are a lot better than the green goblins.  The green guys seemed so generic and uninteresting, but the Riftborn are something entirely new and I am curious about their gameplay and story.

Also, I absolutely adore their design. I thought the Horatio ships were beautiful, but the new Ships.... they look marvellous!

I'm shooting DM's back and forth with the guy who was playing Ricards, and we both love how they look. There are some cool angelic elements in the Riftborn's design, like the halos on every hero's head, and those two wing-like wedges the leader has floating next to him.

But what I wanna know is how their faction story is going to progress. What does mending a rift between dimensions entail exactly? Will the Riftborn hate all the chaotic life in the Endless universe and prefer war, or find some races beautiful in a strange way and want peace instead? I have so many questions, I can only hope they release a beta of the update like with Update 2.

I think the Hero and government descriptions make it pretty clear that they are more of an Expansionistic and Hostile Race. After all they exiled one of their heroes because he was a pacifist.

Alien@System wrote:

They seem ... interesting. I mean, their faction affinity doesn't actually explain what it's doing gameplay-wise

I've watched the preview stream. Their faction affinity is: in system you can build something called ,,Singularities" and later place them in the systems in your vision range. There are two singularities: positive (+, more exp for heroes) and negative (vice versa). Moreover, they have to build populations using Industry and in the same way they generate Manpower.

Sign me up. I've watched the stream too and they sound like an Industry-centric Broken-Lords type faction, which are two of my favourite things in Amplitude's games.

LordDarkon wrote:

I think the Hero and government descriptions make it pretty clear that they are more of an Expansionistic and Hostile Race. After all they exiled one of their heroes because he was a pacifist.

You're talking about π, right? It says that the Grand Viceroy was tired of him blocking expansion efforts because he wanted to put the other races of the galaxy first, so the Viceroy sent π on a mission to learn about the other races of the galaxy. That isn't an exile; that's giving π what he wanted.

Again, it wasn't sent away because of a differing ideology; Π was sent 'on a mission to learn what it could of the other races of the galaxy'. However reluctant the Grand Viceroy may have been, it still threw Π a bone and made cooperation with other races its mission. That implies government backing and a certain level of compromise, even if they differed in ideology. And as for if Π wanted to be sent off to learn about other races, if you wanted to cooperate with someone, wouldn't the first step be talking to and learning about them?

Well, playing ES 2 in multiplayer might be fun, although I suspect we're all players with very different skill levels. However, a friend of mine roped me into trying out ME:A multiplayer once it comes out (which happens on the same day), so I'm pretty sure I won't have time on that thursday. But for a 4X game, it's probably better to reserve a whole weekend anyway. For the record, I'm in GMT+1.