Sandrock wrote:
edit: It seem there is a bug on this topic, i cannot see previous post.

Sinnaj63 wrote:
Isn't there supposed to be a thread here? I can only see a title.

Frogsquadron wrote:

It's a mix of love, hate and fear. I buy them drinks regularly to keep the love side up.

"Sir, your tax return has over $40,000 in liquor listed as a 'work expense'? That can't be right..."

"IF THE DRINKS STOP I'M A DEAD MAN."

It's a mix of love, hate and fear. I buy them drinks regularly to keep the love side up.

Frogsquadron wrote:

TheTakenKing wrote:

Amplitude might give the minor factions animated avatars for diplomacy as part of a general update to minor faction depth and interaction (I mean, it's unlikely, but it would be cool). And even if they keep the static diplomacy screens, the only problem would be that the elevated minor factions wouldn't have as much bling as the standard major factions.

That's actually a pretty good idea. Have you suggested it as an Idea already?

Man, the other folks at Amplitude must loooove you adding more work to their mix.

TheTakenKing wrote:

Amplitude might give the minor factions animated avatars for diplomacy as part of a general update to minor faction depth and interaction (I mean, it's unlikely, but it would be cool). And even if they keep the static diplomacy screens, the only problem would be that the elevated minor factions wouldn't have as much bling as the standard major factions.

That's actually a pretty good idea. Have you suggested it as an Idea already?

Romeo wrote:

CappinCanuck wrote:

And to add to everyone else, depending on the level of modability, adding and playing around with the playable races won't be the most difficult.  It seems like a decent amount of people still want Hissho playable so I'm sure someone will make it happen if it's possible.

Well, the only tough part will be "filling in the blanks" with regards to assets. They won't have all six classes of ships, they won't have an avatar for diplomacy, and they won't have artwork for a quest-line. Still, with them being a minor, some work is already done (They have heroes, some ships, citizens, etc). And the actual data stuff is pretty easy to work with.

Amplitude might give the minor factions animated avatars for diplomacy as part of a general update to minor faction depth and interaction (I mean, it's unlikely, but it would be cool). And even if they keep the static diplomacy screens, the only problem would be that the elevated minor factions wouldn't have as much bling as the standard major factions.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that heroes, an Empire bonus and population traits aren't the only unique attributes that minor factions will have once the game is released. I could see things like unique ship hulls, multiple empire traits (some minor factions already have more than one), faction-specific questlines, even unique technologies being implemented to grant minor factions a lot more versatility and uniqueness. If they end up being small, insular empires that can have intricate diplomatic relations with multiple major factions at once, that would be a big win in my book.

For what it's worth, I doubt that by release the only minor faction unique ships will be the current system of pirate-types shared by all minor factions.

CappinCanuck wrote:

And to add to everyone else, depending on the level of modability, adding and playing around with the playable races won't be the most difficult.  It seems like a decent amount of people still want Hissho playable so I'm sure someone will make it happen if it's possible.

Well, the only tough part will be "filling in the blanks" with regards to assets. They won't have all six classes of ships, they won't have an avatar for diplomacy, and they won't have artwork for a quest-line. Still, with them being a minor, some work is already done (They have heroes, some ships, citizens, etc). And the actual data stuff is pretty easy to work with.

And to add to everyone else, depending on the level of modability, adding and playing around with the playable races won't be the most difficult.  It seems like a decent amount of people still want Hissho playable so I'm sure someone will make it happen if it's possible.

Well, I won't propaply be spending my moneys to ES2 until Hissho comes to playple faction. All the other factions are fine but I just enyoed playing Hishho plus loved they fluff...

 I was pöanning to spend money to buy early access and the more expensive one to support my favorite game studio ever, but know, after buying last two dlc to eL, I thing I have enough Amps games for, maybe, life tim, exspealicy if they say that bugs are not playable eather.... (what I fear they say..)

Sandrock wrote:
There is no chance to see them come back like playable faction in futur DLC?



edit: It seem there is a bug on this topic, i cannot see previous post.

if their removal from the major faction roster is going to create room for more unique and interesting factions, then I'm all for it. If on the other hand, we end up with 3-4 human factions out of 8, I'm going to be unamused.