Mutiple maps download Beta:

[BlueGenie]

A few Galactic Barbarians should be the toughest, meanest, most dangerous barbarians ever, so much in fact that some we earthlings would need overwhelming amounts of units to stand a chance of keeping some colonies on the Galactic Map. Even with Great Generals it should be really tough.

Galactic Goody Huts on the other hand, sweetness on a planet where the natives are benevolent, unless it spawns those meany Galactic Barbs. Do you want to stir the hornets nest for the honey or leave it be to make sure you'll survive...

As for the memory footprint I'm certain they tested with same terrain on all maps. With C2C's varied and new terrain it'll probably kick up the memory footprint a notch or five. Remains to be tested.

Cheers

 

[Hydromancerx]

Well the way I see it is that most "barbarians" will be what you call "Space Pirates". They are still human and originate form Earth just like you. However they are no longer associated with a specific nation.

The other and VERY rare barbarian type will be "aliens". These will most likely be one type of alien and have non-Earth type units. These will be very powerful and will show up most of the time in late game. Possibly from an event trigger.

 

[BlueGenie]

These will be very powerful and will show up most of the time in late game. Possibly from an event trigger.

Or a space Goody Hut, low probability.

Cheers

EDIT: Actually I was thinking of the rare Nation in outer space that was extremely hostile Aliens that will always be at war, never negotiate, and think themselves supreme enough not to have to surrender.

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[DRJ]

Or a space Goody Hut, low probability.

Cheers

EDIT: Actually I was thinking of the rare Nation in outer space that was extremely hostile Aliens that will always be at war, never negotiate, and think themselves supreme enough not to have to surrender.

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And they might have artefacts of technology you can't get otherwise - which is the reason you have to fight the big guys over there (deep in the galaxy), even if you are the big guy over here (on earth, moon), so cooperation is key then...

 

[steampunk1880]

Some questions about multiple maps: How would you possibly be able to have a trade route from a city on one map to a city on the other for purposes of resource sharing? Will learning satellites reveal all the world maps? Is that desirable, like maybe space telescopes and probes are implied? I mean I was kind of looking forward to exploring stuff on foot. And won't running multiple maps at once on anything other than duel size be completely impossible for people who don't have 8gb of ram on a 64 bit system like I do?

 

[Hydromancerx]

Some questions about multiple maps: How would you possibly be able to have a trade route from a city on one map to a city on the other for purposes of resource sharing? Will learning satellites reveal all the world maps? Is that desirable, like maybe space telescopes and probes are implied? I mean I was kind of looking forward to exploring stuff on foot. And won't running multiple maps at once on anything other than duel size be completely impossible for people who don't have 8gb of ram on a 64 bit system like I do?

I would imagine the Moon and Mars would be all revealed but the Galactic map would not (or at least limited).

 

[Hydromancerx]

Bumping since this topic of planet scale was brought up.