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Fixed Home Planet and System for all Factions Lore Friendly

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8 years ago
Jan 22, 2017, 9:53:40 AM

I have noticed that each time you start a game, each Faction has a random starting home planet and system but the AI always has the lore friendly starting home planet. (from what I have seen so far)


My Idea would be to have a fixed starting planet and system for each faction but still have a random starting location in the galaxy, my reason for this is to enable a faction specific advantage from the start based on your factions starting tech as to begin your Imperial expansion in the game.


example: 

The United empire is industrious and Militaristic, they start with a specific starting tech of 'Plasma Metallurgy' giving them the industrious advantage of 'Hyperium exploitation' from the start of the game but for some reason their home planet never has the Hyperium resource?


why have the ability to mine Hyperium researched if the UE hasn't even discovered the element yet? they wouldnt even know what Hyperium is yet with out it being available on their home planet.


the Hyperium resource should be on the United Empire home planet as a starting advantage for that faction.


for this to work each Faction would need a fixed starting home planet including the Planets size and characteristics such as gravity, Biomes and Anomalies, with a specific starting advantage based on the factions starting tech or empire/species Characteristics, and to make it more lore friendly for the player, each faction should have a specific home system, just keep the starting position randomly generated for each game.


I believe this feature would be an asset to the game, give more identity to each faction and provide a more specific play style for the player from the games start when selecting a faction, but not 'lock-in' the factions direction so the player can still be able to change the future development of each empire as the game progresses.


I hope more people agree with this and hopefully this idea reaches the Devs for consideration.

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8 years ago
Jan 22, 2017, 9:39:49 PM

I like the idea, but it should be optional whenever you start a new game.

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