Many types of objects in Legacy Worlds Beta 6 will have to travel the universe from one point to another. While this set obviously includes ships, many other elements such as probes, resource extractors or migrating populations will need to travel. It is therefore necessary to write rules regarding the method used to travel from [...]
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Intergalactic News Service
Beta 5 doesn’t include any notion of time flow. Nothing is really recorded and past events only remain as a part of the memory of players. However only relying on memory isn’t sufficient if we want to build up a real history. And history is what makes a game alive. As such we are planning [...]
Random events
In Beta 5 the only events which can occur in game are the direct consequences of some game actions performed either by yourself or other players. There is no surprise nor anything linked with the universe itself. Introducing alien factions controlled by the game itself is one way to improve the game dynamics. Another way [...]
Space-time drilling
Space-time drilling is a technology allowing an alliance to bypass the standard fleet movements rules by jumping to a layer directly without having to go through supergates (it doesn’t allow players to jump to a different protection level tho). While this very powerful technology has quite a few inconvenients (it costs a lot and presents [...]
A reshaped universe
While Beta 5 universe is very simple to manage, with a grid of 6 planets systems or nebulae which expands when needed, it poses several problems. It isn’t very realistic and we have always been attached to have a universe which would be as close to reality as possible or which could function in a [...]