A patch with a rush construction command would allow a modder to fully construct all available infrastructure or starships based on research and energy and raw materials and treasury. I know how to consistently do that now... but to accelerate scenario creation with advanced save games, I need to be...

I want to reduce micromanagement and vastly increase your amusement by wargaming. Most players do not have 400 hours for a single scenario but they likely have 8 to 100 hours. Statistically they spend up to 40 minutes a day so need much shorter scenarios and that is consistent with multiplayer mode ...

Leaving BotE as is, I could build any kind of scenario with prebuilt subclasses of starships, but it would likely confuse the player as say one scout would have the same class, but have very different armored hulls and weaponry and shields. You would have to click on starships as there would be some...

Strangely enough, unless patches are issued in BotE, then BotE for Android is restrictive to modding more buildings, units, starships, and research as Android apps are designed to auto update. Likely the best solution is a patch. If not that, one would run a parallel app so you had both the BotE for...

Medieval 2 Kingdoms is brilliant as you have a turn based strategy game AND have an RTS game combined as a whole 3D representation exists for each map coordinate point. But good luck doing this on a tablet, though Rome Total War looks awesome on a better 3 gb ram tablet, so it is for high end tablet...

Unciv allows for a complex map of 31 opponents (not that you would ever have more than 6) plus city/states which are just like minor race aliens (who have missions so that is a plus for diplomacy). Then you can have generals for land based units and admirals. https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Gre...

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Army_(Civ3) There are real limitations in Civ 3 with 512 total regions (which could be solar systems) but it is fraction of the inhabited sectors in BotE. Not only that, the combat is extremely complex in BotE and simplistic in Civ 3. On top of this, "armies...

In Civ 3, some mappers figured out how to make very realistic huge 256*256 Earth maps and made some varieties that must have taken meticulous care as the terrain was a decent approximation. But the problem was that has a 512 region maximum, thus the AI has issues sending an invasion force so far awa...

I think it's in Aliens 1986 that Ripley asks Corporal Hicks, "How long is it before the colonial marines send a second ship to investigate," and the squad is just screwed as it is hopelessly long and they will be dead unless they can figure out a realistic way to cope. It is grim and defin...

http://birth-of-the-empires.de/wiki/index.php?title=Constants.h_(Content) STARMAP_SECTORS_HCOUNT; /// < Number of sectors horizontally external int STARMAP_SECTORS_VCOUNT; /// <number of vertical sectors extern const int STARMAP_SECTOR_WIDTH; // 80 /// <width of a sector in pixels at 100% zoom exter...

Imagine you are on a clipper ship and reliant on steady useful wind, or later fuel availability. Aviators who were the first had the former and latter issues as they work in tandem to affect efficiency of the plane. You could easily run out of fuel and be forced to consider landing where a proper ai...

If you have that kind of spiral galaxy with stellar density in a predictable pattern, then you reward those explorers who venture away from that. In GalCiv2 that was by random events in empty space where the wreckage of a starship, or a crystal might be an ideal starbase and then promote influence o...

A spiral galaxy like the Milky Way seems evenly distributed, but actually the center or galactic hub has an intense stellar density. Thus whoever is there has a higher likelihood of colonization versus those on the periphery. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IxhzaiO0umc Galactic mapping matters and tha...

If you put six empires in a maximum galaxy already populated by maximal minor races then this microcosm in 1/9th of the galaxy is what happens as overcrowding begins as zealous colonization begins to encroach upon a competitor's sphere of influence. You can easily expand in your 1/9th subsection, bu...

Once you have some kind of astronomy constants in BotE, then you can start inserting stellar anomalies in some logical pattern as you know how many sectors need to be available for terraforming and colonization versus already populated. Then assumptions and ranges for this astronomy within BotE can ...