ah thats stupid

I too agree with the abandoned empires; after having to abandon one of mine, I thought of the idea of ruined empires. It's rather cool.

Sounds interesting. I'm still thinking about the idea of learning other races' technology and adding it to your own, but your train of thought also seems pretty neat. What if, you had to do things to keep both cultures happy? Monuments would quell the human morale needs, but maybe the Masklings would want mini-totems all over the place? Those would be the negatives of a 2-race settlement, but maybe if it allowed you to use both structures, it would have some rewards too?

Also, maybe the more masklings you have in your empire, the better diplomacy will be. It would be neat if that was represented in the world map sidebar. It would show population, then individual race's population (If there will be more races added in the future) and the percentage of your population they make up. It could effect their opinion of laws, diplomacy - even trade could be affected if the new races brought new resources and structures to the table.

Then when the AI empire comes in, your main advantage is really that you have the technology and resources of multiple races forming one large empire, a borg-style utilization of everything you can use to bring down the enemy, who would probably just be busy destroying anything it comes into contact with.

Awesome idea

3 days into new game my only free citizen riots and destroy my farm then my brewery then the homes around the brewery thought you said you were going to change the rioting to be more controlled how do you expect us to play the game when we can not improve the happiness of our people quickly before the brewery even had a chance to do anything the people riot and destroyed the only thing making them happy monuments no longer add to happiness ya broke your own game ya need to fix it so we can make people happy quickly 

I too was having an issue along these lines, I had started out on an Island and had advanced all the way to full bronze everything, when I suddenly realized I had run out of administration. Without administration to build I then was confined to my lonely fate of eventually starving to death because lack of food, and lack of ways to make food or new space.

 This got me thinking, the fact that every city is doomed to slowly starve to death due to lack of administration is a weak point in the game, cities should be allowed to prosper until a raid or enough unrest that will engulf the city into turmoil in due time. However as I was reading the discussions here and there, looking to see if someone else was voicing the same difficulty as me. I found this comment, and I understand that having a source of income or a way to continue to upgrade an administrative building would negate your idea for the cities of "Quality over Quantity". So that did away with my idea of suggesting a "Library" building that slowly gave administration to the city. Thinking along your lines of quality over quantity I decided upon suggesting a alternative to just giving the player more administration until they just reach the boarders of their region.

My alternative is that you change the food stat in a city (which is currently a almost static resource, I think it should be more like grapes or tin or one of those kinds of resources that have a indicator to show if the resource is decreasing or increasing) if food is based like that, I would suggest that food be a tradeable resource. Doing this will allow for the player to import food into a city that has reached it's peak administration capabilities, saving the city, from starvation, not unrest perhaps. This I believe would follow your vision "Quality over Quantity", in my playthroughs I found that I typically settled where I could find the most resources to help my colony expand to it's fullest potential. This tactic though somewhat historical, makes it that the large open grasslands and forests remain unpopulated and unused, I believe that by allowing food to be exported and imported, places like the fertile plains or the densely wooded areas would become useful, like a grasslands colony to export food to a forest colony that cant make enough food alone, then that forest colony can export its resources to places like the grassland colony to create more stuff to feed more people etc... thus creating a full circle of supply and resupply for your game.

I believe that it is in your hands to make the best choices for your game and I cant wait till the next update. I hope that the ideas I tossed around will give you even more tools to shape this game into what best suites for vision.

The current enemies, the masklings, are a very simple enemy designed to add some challenge to the game. Eventually there will be rival humans with ships of their own, and possibly several different races.

But for now, deep water is an obstacle only you can cross.