Oh, and if you were commenting in a totally general way on this entire thread, feel free to ignore the parts of my reply that assumed it was directed my way, the rest should still be valid though.

This forum is 99% dead and I replied on a ton of threads today, so I assumed any new messages were relatively direct responses, lol. (even though you didn't quote me, but that's also rare here =/)

AXEL-M74 wrote:

There's also the EL Community Patch, but that's not as large of a project as ESG is for ES2. perhaps something like Vox Populi will emerge over time for the game. Who knows. 

Different scopes to each mod. ELCP optimizes the game, fixes bugs, and makes the whole package more playable. From what I understand the balance decisions were largely requested by the EL competitive community, but they aren't anything too big, mostly number changes. ESG however (as the creator of that mod) is more about improving gameplay and making things more fun than optimization or bug fixes (though we certainly have our fair share of bugfixes, as that's how the mod originally started). I honestly don't see a point to having a Vox Populi mod for EL, as the game already feels a bit bloated for content and ELCP "fixes" many of the balancing issues.

hazmat22 wrote:
I believe also neither is likely to see nearly the same active development going forward but I don't know as much about ESG so one can hope.

The two main people behind it, Waky and I, are both pretty busy nowadays, and a lot of what's left to do isn't super important stuff that also requires a lot of work. They'll probably happen some day, but as it stands I don't current have the ability to devote that much time to something without being paid, and Waky is busy in his own career and was largely just working on the mod for fun. So, probably updates, definitely small fixes and tweaks.

I went to check out that thread that was guaranteed to be a disaster and sure enough it was closed, but dammit that person managed to get a real reply from a Dev even =P

(can't comment there, so this is close) [and yes, I know they are 200% different situations and the one is actually much easier to deal with and shut up then the other, hehe]

Not even looking for one now that I'm closing up shop, but gave me a small chuckle.

Take care all,

haz

I highly doubt we will see EL2 any time soon considering that Humankind basically fits the niche, and it had huge potential on release and still has tremendous potential for expanding. I'd rather see Endless Space 3 as a new game, with more space (pun intended) for fresh ideas and experiments.

So I bet it's either ES3 or some completely new genre (card game a la Magic the Gathering, looter-shooter, you name it).

pixelgoo wrote:

I highly doubt we will see EL2 any time soon considering that Humankind basically fits the niche, and it had huge potential on release and still has tremendous potential for expanding. I'd rather see Endless Space 3 as a new game, with more space (pun intended) for fresh ideas and experiments.

So I bet it's either ES3 or some completely new genre (card game a la Magic the Gathering, looter-shooter, you name it).

It's always enjoyable to see speculation- keep it coming :)