I'm still hoping for a "playback" similar to what Civ4 offered, showing how the empires spread across the map, taking note of when colonies where founded, wonders built, wars declared or ended, maybe even notable battles.

Frogsquadron wrote:
Graphics are the most labor-intensive part of a game by quite a significant margin...



But as an avid ES player I agree with you on principle, I'd love all these things too! But my colleagues doing the planets would probably try to poison my drinks or something.

Frogsquadron wrote:
Graphics are the most labor-intensive part of a game by quite a significant margin...



But as an avid ES player I agree with you on principle, I'd love all these things too! But my colleagues doing the planets would probably try to poison my drinks or something.

What this makes me think of is the anticlimactic way games can end. For me, at least. You may spend hundreds of turns carefully building your empire up, and then when the game finally ends, you get a little congratulatory victory message, and it let's you decide to keep playing or get dumped at the results screen. A nice, brief epilogue with some original artwork or something would be nice, at least. Especially if you lose. Have a few sentences about how your civilization was overrun and devoured by Cravers, or how your people were forced to submit to the sheer economical power of their neighbors, and it wouldn't be quite as disapointing an end.

Might be an odd request, but it doesn't seem too difficult, and it would give a better sense of closure to the grand history of your empire. Or something like that. And while it is more about the journey than the destination etc, it would be a nice payoff for everything you've spent the last several hours doing.

razielreaper wrote:
If it isnt too much of a bother

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

I'm still hoping for a "playback" similar to what Civ4 offered, showing how the empires spread across the map, taking note of when colonies where founded, wonders built, wars declared or ended, maybe even notable battles.

God I would love that.

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

I'm still hoping for a "playback" similar to what Civ4 offered, showing how the empires spread across the map, taking note of when colonies where founded, wonders built, wars declared or ended, maybe even notable battles.

That would be awesome. I remember Total War would leave monuments on the map at the site of a particularly notable battle. Wasn't sure how it was decided, but it was a cool feature. Would love to see something along the lines you suggest.

monkeynaut wrote:

VieuxChat: some heroes could obtain the trait “nemesis” and share quests/events in order to develop their relationship. We could also go for pre-written stories revealed during specific quests and launch them when the two heroes are unlocked by players. 

I don't know what "VieuxChat" is supposed to mean but this reminds me somewhat to the elevator in Dungeon of the Endless. And I would like that.

Pretty sure VieuxChat is just the name of someone in the VIP program and not a gameplay concept

Silver2238 wrote:

What this makes me think of is the anticlimactic way games can end. For me, at least. You may spend hundreds of turns carefully building your empire up, and then when the game finally ends, you get a little congratulatory victory message, and it let's you decide to keep playing or get dumped at the results screen. A nice, brief epilogue with some original artwork or something would be nice, at least. Especially if you lose. Have a few sentences about how your civilization was overrun and devoured by Cravers, or how your people were forced to submit to the sheer economical power of their neighbors, and it wouldn't be quite as disapointing an end.

Might be an odd request, but it doesn't seem too difficult, and it would give a better sense of closure to the grand history of your empire. Or something like that. And while it is more about the journey than the destination etc, it would be a nice payoff for everything you've spent the last several hours doing.

The-Cat-o-Nine-Tales wrote:

I'm still hoping for a "playback" similar to what Civ4 offered, showing how the empires spread across the map, taking note of when colonies where founded, wonders built, wars declared or ended, maybe even notable battles.

Yeah, more of it ! Amplitude, implement that stuff !!  

Yeah I agree a playback feature at the end like in Civ would be awesome.

Silver2238 wrote:

What this makes me think of is the anticlimactic way games can end. For me, at least. You may spend hundreds of turns carefully building your empire up, and then when the game finally ends, you get a little congratulatory victory message, and it let's you decide to keep playing or get dumped at the results screen. A nice, brief epilogue with some original artwork or something would be nice, at least. Especially if you lose. Have a few sentences about how your civilization was overrun and devoured by Cravers, or how your people were forced to submit to the sheer economical power of their neighbors, and it wouldn't be quite as disapointing an end.

Might be an odd request, but it doesn't seem too difficult, and it would give a better sense of closure to the grand history of your empire. Or something like that. And while it is more about the journey than the destination etc, it would be a nice payoff for everything you've spent the last several hours doing.

A better option than that would be to have the galaxy change dynamically due to the progression along certain quests. To take the example of Alpha Centauri, Planet became much more ecologically active the further you pursued the transcendence storyline, and this was reflected in the increasing urgency of the flavour text and stuff. One of my problems with Endless Legend is how the flavour text for your quests would talk about how the planet's ecology was permanently ruined or how all the other factions were ready to bend their knee to you when that wasn't necessarily the case ingame at all.