Wow! Great news, thank you for your answers!
Glad to hear about the pixel shaders. :-) I will buy this game.
Two more questions
1) Is it possible to have fleets with several hundrend ships or are the numbers lower? I don't mind either way (though yes I would prefer the larger number
) , I am just curious.
2) My guess is the answer to this one will be no (as it reasonably should) but I will ask anyhow. In cases (if any) of very different civlizations, is there a chance of having also very different weapons? Meaning not just different attack numbers but also different type of attacks, beyond perhaps the beam/laser missiles/rockets combo?
Your choices for the game intrigue me very much. The idea of limiting the time of the battle encounter is a very nice touch IMO, I would love to see how it works.
Also the idea of having the feeling of being an emperor etc is a GREAT change IMO. Good, good move.
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