Thanks for the 'glimpse(s)'... if that's (Planetary Governor(s) --true-- control! Love it!!) any indication, we're in knee deep for yet another great *NEW* ride with this wonderful game.

I think everyone will agree, it's already worth the loooong wait.

I just hope CodeCritter fixed the surface tiles naming scrambler 'situation' so that i can finally detect my modded extremes tiles and produce a steady (and, "working" as it should) implementation of some third layer of colonization in X-Worlds.

It feels soooo strange - like i took a sneak peek over classified items from SD programmers' development workstations.

Bring it on - we enjoy being teased until the BIG day comes.

October 8th - calendar checked.

Will this replace existing improvements? For instance, if I was the Drengin and I got a hold of the techs for industrial sectors, can I do something with the governers so all my slave pits get replaced by industrial sectors?

Can you also stay low tech? Unfoturnately, many mining and planet assist starbase modules are tied in with the factory techs. As such, you can't get one without the other. Its annoying trying to deal with your factories trying to auto-upgrade to less cost effective versions. Its a serious problem with the Yor who lack the ability (without tech trading) to mass produce economic improvements to generate the money needed to offset the increased costs of production of their improved factories.

How well does this new governer handle planet populations? If I have a special food bonus tile on a planet and my governer has a farm on its list, will it try to place the farm on the food bonus tile? Can you tell it to do otherwise? As you should know, the closer you get to 25 bil, the more your morale drops on that planet.

Will it be smart enough to avoid that, or will we be needing a new planet management feature to restrict maximum population capacity?

Will this be the only new feature in the first beta? Or will we get a glimpse at the new spionage in it too for example?

sry, you wrote you hope to get all the new features in the beta, question answered

I am german but i think "planetary governers" is wrong, am i right?

Right... nice feature but (as i don't play super large games, just medium...) i'm more interested whether the diplomacy and/or UP will be improved.

If I'm understanding how the feature will work, I'd agree that the name is a bit of an exaggeration; the term "governor" does imply that the thing would be making some choices on its own somehow, at least through a set of decision parameters that BoogieBac already says are too tall an order for 2.0.

But the more accurate alternatives might have just sounded to dull to the devs: "Custom Build Lists?" "Colony Development Plans?"

I'll probably call them Planet Templates anyways, so they can put it as whatever they like in the game .

will it be possible to tell your gov's to replace all discovery spheres with stock markets, for example?

don't supposed anyone's thought about an asteroid mining manager...? okay i realize it's late in the game to ask for this, and probably low priority anyway. but on immense maps, i've been able to get 5K industry on a single planet by directing all the asteroing mining there. it's just very, very time consuming, especially because asteroid mining bases don't have any hot keys (i know of). a while ago i was preparing a suggestion... i guess it at least couldn't hurt to recapitulate it here.

basically it boiled down to a new kind of rally point, a "mining destination." the option only comes up if you place a rally point on a planet. hook a couple hot keys to asteroid mining bases, one for the destination function, another for the rally points. throwing in a governer that'd allow you to re-assign the asteroid mining targets would be great as well.

but even just a hotkey would be helpful. either way thanks for all the hard work

Holy crap.  I've been wanting this since about 2 hours into playing DL a few years ago.  I may have to break down and get TA.

Does this mean the AI will use it, and actually do a decent job at planetary development?

Also, are you going to add any hooks to control the starport via this governor?  So for example you could tell all your econ/farm planets to build transports, all your research to build constructors?  I'd much rather the old govenor got removed in favor of this style.  (based on named govenors)

Also, is the govenor smart enough to not build terraforming when you have free tiles and something else to build?  That's something the AI's been doing wrong for a long long time...

I'd settle for a button that automatically resets all mine destinations to the nearest planet. In the middle of an influence rush, I often flip the mines before the planet, so a mine ends up sending to a planet 3 sectors away even though it's touching a newly-flipped planet.

that's a lot easier than trying to reassign asteroids from across the entire map. you have to find the planet again each time, and if while mousing around you accidentally click on something else, you have to go back. i know it's not the highest priority in the world, but i think because of how difficult it is to work with them they were sort of an underwhelming addition when DA came around. just my opinion anyway.

I had mentioned in the "Things you'd like in 2.0" thread, that a scheme like the ctrl+click/drag to box a group of asteroids(like you can with ships/SBs) and assign them as a group would be a massive help in dealing with them. Seeing as the ctrl+drag scheme is already there for ships and such, it seems to be possibly the easiest way to institute a management system for asteroids.