Twilight Imperium

[GTSchemer]

Hi, i noticed that after making tactical/strategic action turn ended automatically. This isn't really comfortable cos when movement is done and new neigbour is founded i wanna make transaction but cant. I think it will be good to have a button to explicitly ask for ending the turn.

Greetings,

Although I am not allowed to add more confirmation by default, as I understand, you may want to use the "Pause At End Of My Turn" button in the Alerts tab. It should do what you want.

[GTSchemer]

New faction: L1z1x

This faction is about aggressive fighting and planet capture.
* Their home system has 5 resources.
* Their dreadnoughts start with extra capacity.
* They can bombard during ground combat.
* When they capture a planet, they replace any space dock and PDS structures with their own.
* Their flagship helps target non-fighters first.
* Their faction tech lets them ignore technology prerequisites.


Various bug reports have also been addressed. As always when a new faction is added, logic behind the scenes may have changed, so please watch for any bugs.

[SilentNSly]

The speed of updates is amazing. Thank you so much for continually adding new factions.

Additionally, I appreciate you updating the two techs from Codex 4.5 that you did a while back.

[powodzenia]

Would be possible to introduce some kind of player targeted pings, or showing a notification fo their turn?
Fx. I am discussing a deal with someone and they accept in chat. I send an actual offer, and then it hangs for many hours. I see them logging in on and off, and I do not know if they checked the deal? But the game shows it is my turn, so they might miss it.

However the fact if they accept or deny the deal changes the strategy for me so I cannot go on....


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Hi, i noticed that after making tactical/strategic action turn ended automatically. This isn't really comfortable cos when movement is done and new neigbour is founded i wanna make transaction but cant. I think it will be good to have a button to explicitly ask for ending the turn.

I think I turned this in options so it pauses before and after every my move, so I can still propose a transaction etc.

[GTSchemer]

Would be possible to introduce some kind of player targeted pings, or showing a notification fo their turn?
Fx. I am discussing a deal with someone and they accept in chat. I send an actual offer, and then it hangs for many hours. I see them logging in on and off, and I do not know if they checked the deal? But the game shows it is my turn, so they might miss it.

However the fact if they accept or deny the deal changes the strategy for me so I cannot go on....

You may want to vote on one or both of these suggestions: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=174686 and https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=176705

There are many comments and details in those issues which discuss some of the challenges and risks. Some level of wake-up to resolve a transaction may be added in the future, but I do need to point out, even that will not guarantee a player responds. Sometimes people appear to be online, yet will not make normal moves in their games, so they still might not respond to transaction offers.

The best approach for now is to type in chat "Hey powodzenia, I sent you an offer" since this often will notify the player. If this fails, and it is important, you may wish to politely PM the player to tell them they have an offer, if you are comfortable with that. Of course, some players might not want PMs, so this is up to you to decide if it is appropriate.

[powodzenia]

The best approach for now is to type in chat "Hey powodzenia, I sent you an offer" since this often will notify the player.

Thats what I have done finally after waiting 24 hours, but a notification to them that they can make a decision would be still better I think

I think Catan has this implemented where everyone is notified about trade that this is their turn to make a decision? This makes games much longer I know, but if that would be just directed at the target player it would be not too bad?

[GTSchemer]

The best approach for now is to type in chat "Hey powodzenia, I sent you an offer" since this often will notify the player.

Thats what I have done finally after waiting 24 hours, but a notification to them that they can make a decision would be still better I think

I think Catan has this implemented where everyone is notified about trade that this is their turn to make a decision? This makes games much longer I know, but if that would be just directed at the target player it would be not too bad?

With respect, I would prefer to keep this discussion in https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=174686 because the issues involved are discussed at length in the comments there.

[LincolnHawk]

How does "Table Host Custom Setup" exactly work for map and faction set-up? Don't want to start a game and then be completely lost with us newbs lol

Thanks!

[GTSchemer]

How does "Table Host Custom Setup" exactly work for map and faction set-up? Don't want to start a game and then be completely lost with us newbs lol

Thanks!

The host can either pick one of the premade maps, or import a map string from generator websites such as https://keeganw.github.io/ti4/?settings ... 0414051112

With 3-5 players, some people might also do a Milty draft: https://milty.shenanigans.be/

If you use a site like those to generate a map, you will need to turn off all Prophecy of Kings expansion content. Also, you must only use factions that are currently supported on BGA. In short, it's for advanced players who want to carefully customize the map they play.

[GTSchemer]

New build:
* Added faction reference card below the faction sheet. This can also be used while drafting a faction.
* For desktop / laptop, more of the map is now shown instead of using a smaller vertical window.
* For desktop / laptop, the new option "Mouse wheel zoom" lets you turn off mouse zoom but still drag the map.