i will just leave this here:
welcome in, Have fun, Play Fair, YadaYadaYada *insert useless speech here*
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Game Newsletter:
FTL Drives, and Technology continue as you have planned, But just remember, until I give the signal that you can start venturing out into other systems, just work on Improving it, as well as sending small research teams out to inhabitable systems.
I'm planning on completely lifting the Rules on Interstellar Flight by either Saturday, or Sunday depending on how far along everyones nations are. After that We will continue as we have been, expanding until we find eachother... Though a little note, Try to expand at a reasonable rate... what I mean by reasonable is anything but
"We have Colonized This world"
"We Have Colonized 10 More Worlds"
"We now encompase half the galaxy"
Have it take time to colonize your first out of system worlds, that time, will depend on you, though I just don't want everyone just being able to go out there and going Mine Mine Mine Mine and Mine and end up taking an unfair amount of planets before everyone gets their first few
something to keep in mind is, at first your Out of system colonization is slow because you have to send workers from your system and such to colonize it, terraform it, or however your going colonization (Terraforming should take longer by nature though) As time goes on and you get more and more worlds you will be able to send workers from several systems instead of one, therefore decreasing the time it takes to colonize a planet/system.
... anyways, after I lift the Embargo on FTL in the coming days, the next embargo will be Unregulated, which will be the Eventual finding of other civilizations, and whatever, and however you want to handle that.
There are no rules on how you meet your first contact, You want to meet Politically, Go ahead, Aggressively, Go ahead, Peacefully, Go ahead, Scientifically, Go ahead. (personally, I'm going to be meeting my first civilization Scientifically Peaceful Political, however they chose to handle that is up to them, And if they go aggressive I would have to react to that accordingly, through whatever means I find right for my nation.)
I have made this game keeping in mind with minimal rules, or if there are, consider them as "requirements that need to be fulfilled" before I open the next area. they are easily bendable, breakable, and they end up being lifted sooner or later anyways. Not to mention, that they are only in place to control the pace of the game.
an example is, were progressing too fast, so I open a Galactic Threat card, or give you some optional sets of goals that have a high risk/reward.
So continue as we have been. I'll try to give General Empires of the Zorah updates every few days to let you guys know of any changes, Updates, additions to the FAQ, as well as our progress in goals, or track keeping in Galactic Threat Cards. Think of this section as a newsletter of sorts
That is the end of the Newsletter, Continue as you were