After leading the mob to inspire changes in the Contest system (through both positive and negative means), I'd like to move on to another big issue, the ES2 Custom Faction Editor.  Out of the many things we learned from the last Contest, one standout fact is that 100s of ES fans have very detailed ideas on what kind of faction they want to play as.  It was amazing to read through all the entries and see all the creativity going around.  Many people had put a lot of thought into their ideas.  Some have even been working for years to develop their preferred faction, like The Legion by Sovereign.  As customers and supporters of Amplitude and their games, we all deserve a try at incorporating our imagination into the Endless universe.  The editor in ES1 was ok, but ultimately was just slapping a few negatives and positives over the template of another faction.  With an improved Custom Faction Editor, we could all implement our cool designs.  It may seem like a lot of extra work for the devs, but it would certainly be an attractive feature that players would love, and give the game long term replay value.  

Here are some ideas I would like to see:

- Faction Affinity editor

- Faction-specific tech editor

- Tech Tree editor

- Hero editor

- Custom Picture editor to add your own drawings to the Faction/Heroes

- Ship editor that could use parts of ships from ES1/ES2 to make your own design (think the creature/ship editor from the game Spore)

- A way to save your custom faction and share it easily with friends on the G2G site here (yes this could be abused with customs pictures but perhaps screened by devs)

The ES2 Custom Faction Editor isn't finished yet, as far as we know, and the new features we want may already be planned.  Regardless, I encourage everyone to add their own suggestions or expand on mine.  Perhaps we can inspire the AmpliCrew to help give us all a chance to play our dream faction!

EndlessCrashes wrote:

After leading the mob to inspire changes in the Contest system (through both positive and negative means), I'd like to move on to another big issue, the ES2 Custom Faction Editor.  Out of the many things we learned from the last Contest, one standout fact is that 100s of ES fans have very detailed ideas on what kind of faction they want to play as.  It was amazing to read through all the entries and see all the creativity going around.  Many people had put a lot of thought into their ideas.  Some have even been working for years to develop their preferred faction, like The Legion by Sovereign.  As customers and supporters of Amplitude and their games, we all deserve a try at incorporating our imagination into the Endless universe.  The editor in ES1 was ok, but ultimately was just slapping a few negatives and positives over the template of another faction.  With an improved Custom Faction Editor, we could all implement our cool designs.  It may seem like a lot of extra work for the devs, but it would certainly be an attractive feature that players would love, and give the game long term replay value.  

Here are some ideas I would like to see:

- Faction Affinity editor

- Faction-specific tech editor

- Tech Tree editor

- Hero editor

- Custom Picture editor to add your own drawings to the Faction/Heroes

- Ship editor that could use parts of ships from ES1/ES2 to make your own design (think the creature/ship editor from the game Spore)

- A way to save your custom faction and share it easily with friends on the G2G site here (yes this could be abused with customs pictures but perhaps screened by devs)

The ES2 Custom Faction Editor isn't finished yet, as far as we know, and the new features we want may already be planned.  Regardless, I encourage everyone to add their own suggestions or expand on mine.  Perhaps we can inspire the AmpliCrew to help give us all a chance to play our dream faction!

Some of the mentioned suggestion are of course a good bunch of work for the Devs but other wouldnt be that much in my opinion and could and should be implmented.

I think a faction affinity editor would be absolutly do able and would also add a enourmos amount of replayability especialy for those who do not want to bother to learn to create their own mod in order to play a faction with their own affinity. I moded Endless Space One to some extend too and I dare to claim

that creating an own fleshed out affinity is do able but not just with 2 clicks here and there. The more I am thinking about it the more I am convinced that the Devs would do themselfes the biggest favor by adding such a tool as it would something remarkable to the game.

I also think that an Hero editor would be completly do able.
And editing Techs and the Tech tree would be the cream on the cake.

A ship Editor would be the most awesome thing. But I could thing of also the greatest work and investment for the Devs though this could be sold as a DLC for itself.