Hi team,

I just purchase the game in Steam and even though I realized is on Early access the game looks great and it is very addictive. Now that the holidays are approaching and many of us will be off, I just want to know if you are planing to add anything else to the game before the holidays starts.

You should tell when does start your holidays ;)

Kweel_Nakashin, I live in Germany and the holiday season start in full this year on Friday the 23rd, but in most companies, people start reducing work hours on Wednesday the 21st.

The release of Update 2 isn't happening before next year, but before you go on holidays, we should release a patch fixing current game-blocking issues.

Frogsquadron wrote:

The release of Update 2 isn't happening before next year, but before you go on holidays, we should release a patch fixing current game-blocking issues.

Is an influence fix one of those issues you will address with the patch?

if you want a border growth nerf i made one 

https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/forum/66-game-design/thread/22231-influence-border-growth-too-fast

Frogsquadron wrote:

The release of Update 2 isn't happening before next year, but before you go on holidays, we should release a patch fixing current game-blocking issues.

I'm so glad I won't be encumbered by holiday events from playing the bones out of update 2.  Hope to be helpful in the bug reporting for the patch, ran into several in just the last two days, and only one has been uploaded to a forum.  It's kind of challenging to isolate the variables sometimes.

Frogsquadron wrote:

vahouth wrote:

Frogsquadron wrote:

The release of Update 2 isn't happening before next year, but before you go on holidays, we should release a patch fixing current game-blocking issues.

Is an influence fix one of those issues you will address with the patch?

Border growth speed will be reduced by about a third (note that this is a tentative balance change and it will be fine tuned as necessary).

But this didnt change anything except a time before you encounter a unstoppable influence globe. Not a big difference this would happened at 70 or 90 turn.

Need some other mechanics to counter influence spread. Probably laws or special ship modules. Just a two ways(building own influence globe or simple erasing opponent) to deal with it is not enough for versatile gameplay.