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Skywalker101 · 18-11-2008, 01:55 AM

No no, not expand at all. If they were just a System Governor, they get a star to look after. Ie, you place a colony pack on a planet in it, select what buildings you want it to use and then it sets about terraforming it up to say T2 or maybe even T3, in the process they would add more cities to it and add buildings to them autonomously.

They wouldn't be able to add colony packs to other unclaimed systems and I don't think they would expand to other planets in a system...if you wanted multiple planets to be occupied in a system you would have to initially place a colony pack on both planets in a system and then the Governor would take over.

The terraforming automatically would be quite easy to implement I think as it would just be using the same system as the Staff of Light but on a longer timescale, like it might take an hour to get to T3 rather than 10 seconds...

Cheers for the feedback though.

Ive just thought of something else that could be added, which stems from the Regional Governors idea. I dunno about anyone else, but I have a species that has about 200+ systems in various large clumps around the galaxy with the largest being the homeworld cluster. Since the new patch have been implemented, whenever you zoom out, the screen is filled with those damn flag pop ups...that just look messy.

If you have REGIONS of space assigned to a Governor they can do away all those flags when you zoom out to jus one flag per region. All we need to know is roughly where we have stakes in the galaxy and when we zoom in we can see things in more detail anyway. We dont really need it to tell us we have 200 systems when we are that far out...lol

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Skywalker101 Rookie Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 51	No no, not expand at all. If they were just a System Governor, they get a star to look after. Ie, you place a colony pack on a planet in it, select what buildings you want it to use and then it sets about terraforming it up to say T2 or maybe even T3, in the process they would add more cities to it and add buildings to them autonomously. They wouldn't be able to add colony packs to other unclaimed systems and I don't think they would expand to other planets in a system...if you wanted multiple planets to be occupied in a system you would have to initially place a colony pack on both planets in a system and then the Governor would take over. The terraforming automatically would be quite easy to implement I think as it would just be using the same system as the Staff of Light but on a longer timescale, like it might take an hour to get to T3 rather than 10 seconds... Cheers for the feedback though. Ive just thought of something else that could be added, which stems from the Regional Governors idea. I dunno about anyone else, but I have a species that has about 200+ systems in various large clumps around the galaxy with the largest being the homeworld cluster. Since the new patch have been implemented, whenever you zoom out, the screen is filled with those damn flag pop ups...that just look messy. If you have REGIONS of space assigned to a Governor they can do away all those flags when you zoom out to jus one flag per region. All we need to know is roughly where we have stakes in the galaxy and when we zoom in we can see things in more detail anyway. We dont really need it to tell us we have 200 systems when we are that far out...lol Last edited by Skywalker101; 18-11-2008 at 02:04 AM..