New Economy, here I come!

This is looking so cool Can't wait!

Dear Developers,

The expansion certainly seems amazing. However, I can't count how many times on this forum I've tried to ask if you'll be adding end game challenges. These features are great but many of us have felt since even before WOM that the game snowballs after you take out the first ai or two. Are there any end game crises or allying against the greatest threat mechanics? All the amazing features in the world fade if you're too powerful right after your first two or three victories. I'd just like to see them make alliances against whoever gets too powerful.

I hope you could give your thoughts.

Have you played 2.0?

Wow, there is more to this expansion than I was expecting. New graphics engine? 

I'm super keen to hear more about how you are continuing to evolve the AI. 

One question I do have relates to those of use who play with a custom faction we've modded into the base game currently. I went to the lengths of designing my own shipset and fixing a modified xml file specifically -- can you comment currently on how easy it will be for these custom factions to be brought into Crusade?

Very excited to hear more and to play for myself. Keep up the great work Stardock!

EDIT* Just want to drop an extra comment of appreciation for the artists as well. Those new leader portraits are gorgeous and I'm really looking forward to seeing the new races and every other bit of new art.

Thanks for the response Frogboy, I have. I believe there was another thread on snowballing someone else made here. But in a game of 8 AI and me, after I take down the first 2, I didn't see in those last 2 games much alliance making between them against me and I just picked off the isolated AI's until I was too powerful. Was that a fluke? That being said, the AI was definitely more engaging and thoughtful than it had ever been before and I did lose a few games before that due to them taking me out early.

Will there be a close beta for founders?

BTW first post in 11 years

Coners

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Will there be a close beta for founders?

Only for Founders, for  Jem'Hadar and Vorta no.

Outstanding news! I am eager to hear more. In fact I think I will fire up a new game this weekend and run thru it. I was playing a civ 6 game and I simply cannot dislodge Gandhi from a mountain surrounded city with knights and legionnaires. Those damn elephants are too strong! 

Probably a ring of hills around the city in all non-mountainous spaces, with flat lands behind those so you can't range attack either?

Back on topic: Looks like a stupendous update. I really have to get in to GC3 one of these days. Recently, just a tiny bit of Civ6, mixed with a stupid amount of Rimworld. Damn game has taken over all my time for 4x-ing!

Excellent. The cold, dark, and depressing winter, is no doubt very natural and full of frozen insects. I do like them best when they are in that state. But now comes the spring, full of life. Alien or otherwise! Very invigorating!

This look great. Isn't the price too low?

@Frogboy, will the Alliances get fixed? Current system is really... insufficient, to say.

I agree.  In fact, I'll copy and paste my post from the founders thread with a couple of ideas.  I hope this is on the short term to-do list.

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I was wondering if alliances will be improved in Crusade. As they're currently implemented, they're pretty terrible, and as a usually Terran player, they're very important. Alliances need a couple of key improvements:

1. If I'm in an alliance with several strong races, this should give much pause to any race that is thinking about declaring war on me. There should be a huge diplomatic 'plus' that says "you have strong allies!" and have the number of pluses be dependent on the number and strength of my allies.

2. ...and equally important, if someone declares war on me, my allies should have to join in the fight on my behalf, or break the alliance (with a huge diplomatic penalty with the other civs).

Alliances are currently not much more than just another diplomatic positive level above 'close', they don't really do anything. This makes diplomatic gameplay not much fun.

Thanks!

I'll be doing surgery on all of the AI including diplomacy.  Feel free to create a thread dedicated to that.

As some of you know, I eat up your saved games and feedback like candy.

Outstanding Stardock! Finally invasions getting some love.  I think I can envision how it might work.  You assign soldiers to different planet sectors and they protect all the buildings in that sector.  I wonder if there will be different units for the invasions represented graphically.  For example, you might research space marine technology and your unit looks similar to a warhammer 40k jacked dude in power armor.  Perhaps there will be technology for mechs?  Androids?  Xenomorphs?  My first reaction when I saw that Stellaris had xenomorph you could possibly research was AWESOME.  However, Stellaris doesn't really show the planet invasion graphically.  I miss the simple system MOO2 had where you see a quick animation of soldiers firing at each other and if you had battleoids they would be represented graphically, tanks would also, etc.

Oh and the economy... yeah that is actually one of the weaknesses of the galciv series in my opinion.  I know it probably feels like you are jumping back on the bandwagon with the economic changes, but I think I like the direction you are taking the economy.  Now, one issue is can you switch specialties like make scientists into soldiers if you have to probably subject to inefficiency?