Umbral Shadows are not created 8 months ago

I have abducted at least 4 sleepers in my last game ending on turn 129 thanks to an endless end turn bug but NONE were added to my only system. What is happening here?

Do they have to travel back to that system?

umbral choir desync 3 years ago

I am having a problem with spawning ships at sancturaries. early game it works fine all of the ships spawn at the sanctuary as they should but later in the game the game starts to desync everytime i want to spawn any ship. as soon as it desyncs any ship i build spawns at the ship wich started the desync. choosing a different sanctuary to spawn my ships doesnt work and if i destroy the ship where all other ships spawn, the ships stop spawning and stay on the waitinglist of my main system.

anyone know how i stop this from happening? when i played a few months prior i never encountered such problems and it has now gotten impossible to figjht as umbral choir.

this problem happens to me with every faction i created that use sanctuaries and happens on both my computers.

Who is this guy? 5 years ago

I thought UC used robots to fight, but then noticed that infantry sprite of UC depicts only wraiths, no robots.

In the shadows/riftborn Custom faction bug? 5 years ago

So have some problems with the custom faction combination, of the gameplay affinity called in the shadows and the visual affinity Riftborn, when i go ingame with this combo, and i hack a system, and i have got a base, i cant rememer the name but the thing the umbral chior can place instead of a base, and i have max pop cap in my system, and i want my home system to make population on the new base, then i press the send new pop to the other base, i toggle that, and then i place a riftborn pop in the queue to be made, then i end the turn, and it has been made, but it has not been sent to the other base. is there a fix to this, i really like to play that custom faction.

How do you detect UC sanctuaries? 6 years ago

I am playing as riftborn and my friend sanctuary bombed my constellation as I was expanding onto it. So now I have sleepers everwhere. How do I counter this? I see the reveal sleepers, but what else can I do?

How to tell if cloaked ships have been revealed? 6 years ago

So I'm about 100 turns into my first game at the Umbral Chior (mind you I just bought the game about 4 days ago. So far I freaking love it) and I'm a bit annoyed with the cloaked mechanics.

Only a few turns ago did I finally discover where I can tell if a system is undected, which is super helpful. However I cannot for the life of me figure out how to tell that with ships.

Is there any kind of indication to tell you if other players can see your ships? Or at the very least to tell you if enemy ships have detectors?

It seems really unfair to make it so you have no way to tell if your ships can be seen or not. Especially since you CAN tell with your systems.

Beacon bandwidth allocation requirements 6 years ago

I'm trying to figure out how much bandwidth a beacon takes up, because I don't remember the tutorial mentioning this. Sometimes it takes up 10, sometimes it takes up 20, and you don't find out until you've placed the actual beacon from what I can tell.

Now, am I right in assuming that the "price" in bandwidth goes up by 10 for each subsequent active beacon? Not for all of them of course, I mean the first one will cost 10, next one will take up 20 and so forth. 

If so, I'm wondering if there's a bug with that mechanic in that the bandwidth requirements aren't automatically adjusted on your remaining active beacons if you remove one of your earlier acquired beacons. 

For instance, let's say I make a beacon on a special node and it takes up 10 bandwidth. I then make another beacon on another special node that takes up 20 bandwidth. Being the early game, I'm now very short on bandwidth and need to remove one of them to get some bandwidth back, but I prefer keeping the second beacon that takes up 20, so I remove the one from the first special node that takes up 10. But the other one still takes up 20 even though it's the only one left. I eventually think "I have enough bandwidth now for a second beacon" and make a beacon on the special node I initially made the first beacon on which only needed 10 bandwidth, but this new one takes up 20, and so now I have two beacons both taking up 20 bandwidth.

Help for hacking at greater ranges D: 6 years ago

I can't really decide how to go about this, even while playing as the UC.

1. Backdoors is an option but seem pretty lackluster. Creating a backdoor doesn't seem to guarantee that you'll be able to hack through them unnoticed (not that it says anywhere that it will, but at least then you'd be able to build up some speed, right?), it takes up valuable bandwidth, you can't defend the node with defense programs, and if you're traced back to the backdoor both the backdoor and your hack is lost. That 5% hacking speed boost that it's supposed to provide on its neighbors (whatever that means) I don't feel makes up for all the downsides.

2. You can create new colonies or sanctuaries, but it's limited how many of those you can have before penalties start kicking in, and if you're playing as the UC and the sanctuary is on a colonized system, you're again not guaranteed to be able to build up some distance/speed before getting caught in the process.

3. You could try to maneuver around hostile nodes to get to what you want, but that can be really finicky, and if your target is inside a big cluster of hostile nodes, there's still no getting around that.

4. If you're playing as the UC there is the option of switching home systems, but then you have to hack your way to a fitting special node which can take time if where you want to go is far away, and then you still have to wait 15 turns for SOME (correct me if I'm wrong) of the penalties to go away so you can switch, not to mention losing all other existing beacons.

As a side note, those beacons are annoying. They take up bandwidth and don't even allow you to hack from them :<

So I don't know what to do :( Anyone got any hints or ideas, I'd appreciate it. If I'm wrong, tell me. I'm hopefully not the only one having trouble with this.