In Beta 5, we considered only one species was inhabiting the universe: humans. Each player was the leader of a group of survivors from the destruction of Earth who were settling in a remote part of the universe. However the universe is huge and not encountering anyone else than other humans feels a bit… poor. [...]
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Planet characteristics
In Beta 5, planets are managed in a very simplistic way. They have a name, a location, an owner, an associated picture, and it’s pretty all there is to say about them. However in a real universe, planets would be linked to way more complex parameters. In order to reflect this diversity we have chosen [...]
The shape of things to come
One thing that has become clear recently is that Beta 6 will not be the same game at all; while Beta 5 was already very far from Beta 4, it still amounted to the same principles: build factories, research technologies, build more ships than your neighbour and then bomb him back to the stone age. [...]