Lets Play Cosmic Supremacy
Galaxy 290
So right now I am starting my first round of an actual game instead of the practice and tutorial rooms. The client is activated by downloading a GalaxyPass which you take each time you enter a room. The first game I joined is simply called Galaxy 290, it starts on friday so right now the turn timer is not moving.
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The game starts in 18hrs to allow players to join the room, sorta like a FPS team room. The timer is at the bottom along with my name, the turn number , ship count, money count and planet count. The middle box is a simplified view of my home planet. The first two columns are self evident, the third is population which is 7 out of 30 spots available. After that is ships again and Food production with the green part indicating surplus food. Next is production and research and which we will get to later. Then there is 0 where it says resource which is because my planet lacks miners. Next is citizens, soldiers and then what I am currently producing which is a farm.
Above that is the tabs which let me move between other screens.
On a second screen which appears at the same time(not a tab) there is a 3D view of my system
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Its not exactly sins of a solar empire but it does the job. My homeworld is the only one labeled and it also has my insignia which is just a picture I drew and had lying around my desktop. The 7 is simply the population and it says what is currently being built which once again is a farm I selected. The two blue triangles represent the colony ships I start out with, each of them can plop a couple of farmers down on a planet.
At the bottom are some options for marking my territory and measuring the distance between worlds. Cosmic Supremacy does not have any FTL drives at this stage of the game so your ships will manually drive across space to reach the next system.
Luckily space in CS is quite compressed
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Anyway It would be a good idea to change the planet name first for some flavor
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Tis a start.
Anyway while the ships aren't going to be moving for some hours I can set their actions right now
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I'm going to tell both colony ships to colonize the other two planets in this system so I can jack up my population and start building more ships or possibly using some of those to research more weapons. I don't think I even have mass drivers available so it would be pretty useful.
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The two planets in the system look pretty similar one is slightly better at increasing population and research faster while the other is better at production which means its going to build its buildings and ships faster but only slightly.
There no reason to wait with these colony ships so I am going to send one to each planet now .
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To be continued