If you're familiar with "Rise of Cultures" by InnoGames or similar civilization building games where you start off with a small town in the Stone Age and gradually work your way up through various ages upgrading buildings, conquering land and researching new tech then you might get a bit of an idea of what I'm looking for.
Something similar, but instead it's set in space.
What I'm looking for...
You start off with a small colony on a piece of land on a small (alien) planet and need to research tech to expand your colony. Build housing, build production, build barracks, build an army and conquer small pieces of land owned by the native inhabitants (not PvP).
Once you've conquered a certain amount of the planet (claiming dominance) and developed enough tech you get to explore space and expand your colony to another planet (or moon).
I've seen games that are set in space that look like they offer something like this, but it turns out they are usually just PvE or PvP war games. Some offer mining astroids, others offer trading resources with other players. But they still miss something that I'm looking for.
Any tips would on what games to try are much appreciated.
Hello,
I am working on a sci-fi rpg setting where corporations have pretty much been leading colonization efforts in the solar system. For reference, In my setting humanity has stretched to even putting space stations/colonies around the Neptune area.
My question is in y'all's opinion what would be the likelihood that Mars would be terraformed or would it be Venus? I think most of the space colonization theories center around Mars but given the proximity of Venus would a corporate driven colonization effort basically quit terraforming mars because it would potentially be cheaper to do so to Venus?
A good idea would be to colonize space is RON, how it works is that you need to research a "space" research tree (like the nukes, but 4 research items to invest in) And you can build a rocket (1K steel, Maintenance is 50 oil and it would cost 2 billion of the in-game currency. Upkeep is 5 million/turn.MP cost is 500K) And you could send a rocket to space.
Then they could go to the moon/planet and collect recourses. It should, in my opinion, have a 25% chance of failure. And the recourses that they got from the moon/planet will be used to unlock more items like a rover and more tech to then advance to the next space object.
The order it is in is: Moon, Mars, Mars moon, Venus, Asteroid Belt, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Sun, Uranus (don't laugh) and finally Neptune!
Now this can go multiple ways, invest in a rocket, go to object chosen, rocket comes back after 4-12 months and you can increase research production. Or you could use the recourses to make things like upgraded machinery to increase factory output and light/heavy weapons.
My other idea is Weapon/Ammunitions Factories.
You need Weapon factories/Shell Factories to supply your army, each factory produces 50/turn, 1 is needed for 200 tanks (1 per unit) and 1 is needed for 5K infantry (0.2 per unit) for artillery it will be 1 for100 artillery (0.5 per unit)
For the shell factory you need 0.1 titanium and 5 steel. For the Weapon/Ammunitions factory you need 2 steel and 2 iron
Infantry will use the Weapon/Ammunitions factory, Artillery will use the Shells factory and so will tanks
These updates I see a lot of potential in and could add a whole new player base to the community. If someone can send these to the mods I would be happy. I was banned from the server for accidentally sending a link when I was supposed to send it to my friends. So that makes it way more painful.
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I was recently reading "World Engines: Destroyer", a book by Stephen Baxter.
In his novel, the human race retreated to Earth in the 25th century, after a successful space exploration surge has ended. In the previous few centuries, the human race explored the the solar system thoroughly and even set up colonies on the Moon and Mars, but space and other planets beyond the earth had such harsh environments that they continually required inputs of supplies from Earth - and once Earth itself enters ecological collapse and resources become scare, those colonies collapse. The result was that much of the people in human civilization in the novel have an ingrained belief that humans can't self-sustain a new civilization permanently beyond Earth's biosphere.
So one of the driving plots of the novel is an cryogenically-frozen 20th century astronaut, Reid Malenfant, whom is frustrated in his attempts when his views on space exploration (outward and beyond esque) clashes with the people of the 25th century. To be clear, the people of the 25th century possess the means of space travel beyond Earth, including sub-orbital flight and advanced farms on space stations but they keep within those limits.
I think it is a different take from the normal trend in Science Fiction views of space exploration, where colonization is seen as something that is possible, even if it leads to dystopic outcomes, such as in the Altered Carbon trilogy.
I think it is an interesting take, that despite best efforts, the hostile environment of space requires too much resources till colonization beyond Earth becomes unsustainable.
Are there any sci-fi work (novels, short stories, novellas, comics) that approach this angle?
Let's say humanity became a space faring species and wanted to colonize mars, would mars respond in hostility and send its Ultimate one? How about if humanity became an interstellar species and encountered an intelligent species and wanted to colonize it like in those alien movies, would the 'gaia' and the 'alaya' of that planet hinder or stop the theoritical humans?
- The game has very similar mechanics to Galactic civilizations. It was turn based, and you started on a home planet. You can research new ship types and technology.
- It had multiple sequels to the game (I believe the one I am looking for ended in "IV").
- It had a galaxy map with multiple planetary systems. There were different planet types (rock, gas, water etc) that you could colonize.
- It featured diplomacy system between different races.
I am asking this because of Ainz's world being in the future (World of 2138) so I just assume that people would be at least somewhat interested in space colonization...so do you guys think Ainz and Nazarick would be interested in colonizing the moon of the NW for example to have a ''Magic-Industrial complex'' maybe.........something like what is talked about in this videos below, but Magical in nature - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47MMNqKGxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGcvv3683Os
or maybe not, but what do you guys think?
I'm looking for something realistic and thought provoking but everything I've read and watched just the up being a monster movie in disguise. It's frustrating. Who's a good author that's thought deeply about space exploration and colonization? Thanks!
This has been bugging me all day, SPace X has been hauling heavy loads for NASA forever without any fanfare, so how come jeff spending 11 minutes in spaces is receiving so much media coverage, and how does this help the cause of space colonization?
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It is planned to grow the economy and use the recourses of moon and also for exploration
THE START OF SECOND AGE OF EXPLORATION ^(now in space)
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Hello everyone, I have been playing spore for almost ten years now and somehow this issue has never come up for me. Is there a way to "uncolonize" a planet/solar system in the space stage? I have probably 15 solar systems and i only really want the ones i have spent time terraforming (about 5 or so). Unfortunately, through war, i have collected way more systems than i want. I cant seem to find anyway to get rid of these systems easily, perhaps im blind or missing something XD. Any help would be appreciated!
I'm in dire need of new reading material and my space colonization itch has been re-kindled recently.
As the title says: I'm looking for space colonization books or series with a massive scope. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy is my favorite in this subgenre, but here's a few others I've read and enjoyed:
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We are Legion (We Are Bob) (But only the first book so far)
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Manifold Time and Manifold Space by Stephen Baxter
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Macrolife by George Zebrowski
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Most of Alastair Reynolds' stuff
I also really like looking through the stuff in Orion's Arm.
But please don't recommend Peter F. Hamilton. I read the Void Trilogy, Pandora's Star and about half of The Reality Dysfunction. He's just not my cup of tea.
Space colonization seems like it could have a lot of religious issues pop up due to the fact that it would be the first time a large group of people live outside our ancestral home. For example, if you are a muslim living on Mars how do you determine which direction is Mecca? Given this, what are your religious views on space colonization?
After the end of the Second World War, the world was split between two ideological blocks. With the USSR on one side and the USA on the other.
For the next half century they began engaging in proxy wars all around the globe, as well as economic and technological competition.
During the 1950s the First Space Race began and in 1969 USA landed a man on the moon.
In 1977 USA launched 5 probes called the Voyagers into space. They contained information about life on Terra and the Human race, for any alien life to find.
In 1991 the USSR began a series of reforms under Mihail Gorbachev, in an attempt to restructure the country and make it more capitalist and democratic. After an unsuccessful overthrow of the government, attempted by hardline communists, Gorbachev managed to turn the once communist USSR into the more capitalist Union of Sovereign States by 1995, but the country still remained undemocratic.
With the weakening of it's rival, the USA became the world's sole superpower and the world hegemon. The European Union was established in 1997 as an economic community of several European countries, in an attempt to hurt the weakend USS.
USS all though weakened was not dead. It began a slow restructuring of it's economy and slowly recovered. By the 2010s it regained it's former Caucasus states but the Baltic remained under EU influence.
The EU became more and more centralized and in 2011 a United European Military Alliance was made in response to the ever growing threat of the USS.
With the EU starting to act more like a European Superstate and not an economic Union, the UK left it in 2016 and turned more towards it's allies in the Anglo sphere. The USA by this time started to focus more on China, who it saw as the growing threat and at the same time started to improve it's relationship with the USS.
China became more and more powerful and started spreading it's influence to Central Asia, The Middle East and Africa. This put it in opposition to the USS.
The EU dominated by Germany and France organized the creation of the West African Federation, made up of old French colonys, to fight Chinese influence in 2025.
In 2030 the CANZUK Royal Union was formed from the UK and it's former colonys of Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the European Federation was formed just 10 years later
With the growing need for more resources and ever improving technology, the second space race began in the 2050s between the USA and China. Thi
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i just watched the film "Voyager" which was pretty interesting but it got me thinking about why there seems to be a lack of movies/series about the part after the space travel.
I'm looking for something that tells the story of the people AFTER they land on the new planet, kind of like if it was a sequel to "The Passenger" or "voyager" as mentioned above.
either I'm terrible at google searching or there really just aren't very many good films/series with that premise, everything i managed to find so far have either been at the end of movies as a conclusion or its an altered version of said premise ie "100" ( it still being earth but kind of a "new world" then what they knew )
I just want a straight forward, first group of humans on new planet cus earth is dying and watch them build up civilization on another world.
Any insight/recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
How would it work without it being exploitative or invasive to colonies or alien races, would there be 'pirates" or something similar
So as said in the title I would like to know how in an anarchist society things that simply can't be handled on the Local level would be handled.
Like environmental policy which could be handle on a local level but would probably better handled on an international level. Also electricity which would be best handle on a regional or even national level.
The final one space colonization. The simple fact is we're going to have to get off this planet one day and how would that be handled within an anarchist framework. It would take huge amount of resources to to something like that and not I'm sure an anarchist society would be cable of centralizing such a vast amount resources.
I should also say that I am not new to Anarchism. I actually understand it well when it comes to the understand Council based delegation-based government. I just can't understand how this would work without some communes being forced to except the consensus for the betterment of all humanity.
Platform: PC
Genre: space strategy
Estimated year of release: 2000-2005
Graphic/ Art style: 2D detailed graphics like space colony/command and conquer.
Notable characters: i don't remember the characters but none of them were human but cyborgs or just machines. i remember of build power plants and barracks.
Notable gameplay mechanics: after colonizing (kill the other robots) the entire planet was released a spaceship where we put resources and machines to go to the next plane, when the game end because it's a demo, something like that.
Other Details: it's came in a CD with many games, remember in the game had some demo of Sierra Entertainement.
I'm looking for something realistic and thought provoking to but everything I've read and watched just the up being a monster movie in disguise. It's frustrating.
This has been bugging me all day, SPace X has been haulingheavy loads for NASA forever without any fanfare, so how approach jeff spending 11 minutes in spaces is receiving so much media coverage, and how does this help the cause of space colonization?
