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some ppl can't accept a no....

if you want to play a game with military aspects, bast is planning on a game "Colony Wars". You can play this :P

Yeah it was even discussed in one of the first few podcasts we did. Imagine my colony as a peace oriented building game. The factions rule through resources and money instead of conflict. The more wealthy a commonwealth/federation and the like is the more powerful it becomes. Bast does plan to use this games core engine to build a war game and has said possibly doing something akin to age of empires and other rts titles.

What some people here seem to be missing, is that war is actually a terrible thing. I can't understand why anyone would actually WANT it. Even in a game, violence is not a thing you should be wishing for. I really love the city building aspect of my colony, and I can understand that you would want more challenge in late-game, but does it really need to be military? Call me pathetic if you wish, or naive, but I would not like any form of war related stuff added to this game.

Protoceratops said:What some people here seem to be missing, is that war is actually a terrible thing. I can't understand why anyone would actually WANT it. Even in a game, violence is not a thing you should be wishing for. I really love the city building aspect of my colony, and I can understand that you would want more challenge in late-game, but does it really need to be military? Call me pathetic if you wish, or naive, but I would not like any form of war related stuff added to this game.

People look for war in this game because we're building a colony, then a nation. As a government's power increases war is a common theme among rising powers. It's seen throughout history where great empires rose and fell from violence and war. When building a political entity from scratch having military, violence, and war adds another layer of depth and realism to the task.

My take on this might be kind of out of this world. My understanding of how this game is envisioned was that the Earth was already torn apart by multiple wars which led to speeding up of natural deterioration of the planet. Thus the set up of colonies outside of earth. The colony, moving forward, wants to live a peaceful life where any scenario that would lead to war is avoided. Thus United Earth having strict rules about resources and stuff and League of Independent States sharing resources with each other. I personally think that the main point of the colony is to survive the hostile environment outside of Earth and how long can the colony sustain with limited resources.

I think that is the main point for THIS particular game. Perhaps the developers might change their mind but I do not think that he will agree to adding such "change of mind" into this game. He might add such thing to another like what Ottioch mentioned. So let's just let this go. If you want potential "war scenarios", then just wait for that other game from the same developer or play another developer's game all together.

I agree with Constanryuk. It's enough of a hassle to worry about making sure you colony stays alive and happy. That alone requires every bit of the resources that a colony can produce, at least until later stages. There is no room in the colony growth process for developing a Military, it just doesn't fit and it would make the game a joke in my opinion and I probably would stop playing it.

Wardog said:
My ideas wouldn't really convert it into a war game. Since the majority of players are colonies, military would be of little importance to them.

What about the independent/colonies that wishes to not get attacked and remain peaceful/neutral?(aka, to Not get involved)

I don't have any plans to add combat to My Colony. I mean I didn't plan to add any online to it either, and you see what happened there.

I am not saying it is impossible that I will add it in the future. But I will never add the ability to have your colony get attacked or for you to attack another colony. Perhaps a way that your colony can build starships and you can have battles out in space somewhere. Maybe when Federations are implemented, a federation can band together and build a starfleet where you can fly around and find resources and shoot at other spaceships.

But then again, adding all of that would make it a totally different game. So i don't know.