Next Expansion Plans

[xycotta]

Anyone have any thoughts what the next expansion might be about? Personally I am hoping for something much larger than Astral Planes, hopefully flushing out more exploration and discovery with some espionage thrown in for flavor.

[steven1mac]

I could see a inner-empire DLC, that improves what is already in the base game, but it would have to be simple or risk losing all the multiplayer games. Perhaps an early crisis or additional mid game crisis. A early game crisis couple be something like pirates or a spaceborn/generation ship invasion, but shouldn't be game ending if you fail to defeat it.

I honestly think there might only be 2 or 3 major DLC left in the game, the minor ones are easy enough to implement without fundamentally changing the game so I'd expect for those to release more frequent.

[Biggs]

im not buying any more dlcs after astral plains ruined the outliner but ill tell u guys what i would put as a dlc. a galactic war dlc. introduce morale into fleet combat, prisoners of war, various pop up situations regarding how a war is to be conducted etc. it would be epic
devs fish for ideas in the comments and never credit those who had the idea, they are paid six figures for coming up with a copy and paste of what someone said in comments.

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by zil:

im not buying any more dlcs after astral plains ruined the outliner

You do know that you can customize the outliner now? You can recreate the same outliner as before Astral-update, if you desire it.

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by steven1mac:

Perhaps an early crisis or additional mid game crisis.

I really like the idea of an early game crisis, maybe already at the start, with some narrative and some mechanics to defeat it until midgame.

[Segovax]

What I want to see is expanded ground combat, more species and origins and more precursors than the current 7.

What we will probably get is a complete rework and fumbled overtuning of a system that nobody really asked them to do, most likely tech given the current beta.

[Biggs]

Originally posted by monkeypunch87:

Originally posted by zil:

im not buying any more dlcs after astral plains ruined the outliner

You do know that you can customize the outliner now? You can recreate the same outliner as before Astral-update, if you desire it.

seriously? i hope this is not a trolling of me.
i want the old outliner. might rebuy the dlc if dis is tru

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by zil:

Originally posted by monkeypunch87:

You do know that you can customize the outliner now? You can recreate the same outliner as before Astral-update, if you desire it.

seriously? i hope this is not a trolling of me.
i want the old outliner. might rebuy the dlc if dis is tru

No trolling. They introduced ingame outliner customization 1-2 hofixes later because of bad player feedback.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/281990/view/3882727783081958633?l=english

You still have the tabs, but you can ignore them and have everything in one tab. I do it until midgame. But to be fair, the tabs come in handy in late game.

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by Segovax:

What I want to see is expanded ground combat,

I don't believe we will see this since they introduced planetary surrender via orbiatal bombardment, invasion without troops. They don't have a handle for ground combat.

[Segovax]

Originally posted by monkeypunch87:

Originally posted by Segovax:

What I want to see is expanded ground combat,

I don't believe we will see this since they introduced planetary surrender via orbiatal bombardment, invasion without troops. They don't have a handle for ground combat.

Yeah. We're probably going to get some garbage rework of an existing mechanic that nobody asked for.

[CrUsHeR]

There would be plenty of ideas, including:

- Physics-based Ascension path
- An actual continuation of science and empire development
- New territory to explore and settle, example another galaxy in a different universe


But if you followed the recent development, we got instead:

- Nerf after nerf of existing ascension paths, origins, etc
- A rollback of all existing science and empire development
- A couple of event boxes sold as "exploring different universes"


Likely the plan is to really roll everyback to square one, making all previous DLCs ultimately obsolete, so players will greedily buy any form of DLC giving them back a splinter of their former options, no matter how tiny and expensive.

[Xaphnir]

With the current beta, I would not be surprised if the next expansion is focused on technology.

[DYNIA]

add new ships
add new things to war
make wars great again

this game is all about wars so they should invest there

idk how some1 can play peacefull in this game or add some story ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that no1 care about

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by DYNIA:

idk how some1 can play peacefull in this game or add some story ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that no1 care about

I know you are baiting, but I usually avoid war, so I can enjoy a peaceful economy or diplomatic game, trying to become emperor or building a federation without starting wars and just fighting the crises.

[DYNIA]

Originally posted by monkeypunch87:

Originally posted by DYNIA:

idk how some1 can play peacefull in this game or add some story ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that no1 care about

I know you are baiting, but I usually avoid war, so I can enjoy a peaceful economy or diplomatic game, trying to become emperor or building a federation without starting wars and just fighting the crises.

its not bait, peace is fking boring im always in war and got emity ascendency to rival every1 around

if you can't win wars you are bad player cause

1. dyplomacy is OP
2. ganging some1 1v5 its not a win
3. its boring
4. no challange if you not fight 1v3 with equal enemies
5. federation and more than 1 ally in def pacts if you rly 2v6 is gay
6. counquer is best economy factor
7. im f.xenophobe in real life

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by DYNIA:

if you can't win wars you are bad player

I can win wars, I just choose not to wage wars. It's boring.