Is your growth of your empire passed on how many people in your empire or how many cities you have established?

- If it is based on city's then what is the minimum for a stable city as far as buildings?

Thank you guys for the help

I'm uncertain if the engine Hazeron is built in could even handle it, but I think it'd really improve the visual quality of the game if Normal Maps were implemented for the textures.


Normal maps provide a great amount of extra detail for fairly minimal processing power.

A lot of free textures from OpenGameArt come with Normal Maps for their textures, so it'd be nice to be able to import the base texture as well as the Normal Map for texture for textures that I'm loading.

That said, I understand that this suggestion is a long shot because I imagine it's either 1) yes, normal maps can work with the games visual engine or 2) the custom game engine would need massive reworks to implement normal maps.

And while we're on the topic of Normal Maps, Specular maps would also be wonderful to see in the game. But that also hinges on if the engine was built to handle that..

When changing the module type of a subsystem on a spacecraft, you need to have the same amount of the new module type as it took to manufacture the spacecraft. This means that if the airport repair shop doesn't have enough modules of a specific type it won't show it as an option for upgrading. This is however confusing for players.

For example a player was just trying to upgrade a weapon bay to a particle collector bay. They had what they thought were plenty of particle collector modules in the city's storage, but they didn't know that their ship required double that amount of modules.

I would suggest that the airport repair shop simply show it as an option that it has that module type, and either mention that it doesn't have enough there or when requested. It is a less confusing way of handling it for the player.

To all and anyone that knows - 

Well the thread subject really sums it up.  How do I merge 2 empires together.

I absolutely love being able to animate doors and landing legs. The ability to do the landing gear animation is wonderful, and I think it should be implemented into other actions a ship can take. All of these suggestions will function the same as landing gear, where you designate a mesh as a part with states, then you can add states to represent different levels of deployment (from Open to Closed with the 8 other steps included, also including states for broken or stuck)

• Weapon Deployment - They activate when you have an active attack/patrol order or otherwise have your weapon systems ready to fire.
  
• Fire Animations - Would need to be have both the weapon deployment and the fire animation. Examples include large barrel guns having recoil, laser lens focusing, or missile launch bays opening.
  
• Shield Deployment - When your shields are up, this part appears. A big shield projector bulb rising out of the top of a ship.
  
• FTL Drive Deployment - When your you're traveling to via wormholes or have a deadhead order active, your FTL drive deploys. This would be useful if your ship wanted to appear to have deployable warp nacelles like in Star Trek (see gif below)
  

• FTL Drive Animations - When your FTL Drive is charging and activating, allow some animations to show it. For example would be the engine room having animations where the reactor is shoved into overdrive, or the warp rings on a ship spinning up (see below)
  

• Looping Ship Idle Animations - when the parts on your ship move its just cool, I'd love to have outer  sections of the ship animate when your ship is simply powered on - for example, the rings around a reactor core or the movement of pistons
  

The Hazeron.com website has been flagged by Bitdefender for suspicious/malicious links.  May want to investigate this.

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This isn't hazeron related and I accept that, but also the profile picture upload configuration doesn't seem to work. I tried uploading TIFFs, JPEG, and PNGs all less than 200x200 pixels and 500kb. Nothing seems to work.

Hi!

I just finished making my ship and realized I was throwing planet maps on pretty much every wall I wanted - to the point in which I realized I'd love to see more panels.

Here are a few suggestions I can think of for more panels:

Panels:

• System Map Panel (not sure how'd you figure out how to zoom it/have it follow the ship)
  
• List of planet resources above current world that exceed a certain Q value (probably the default like 200 but maybe its variable?)
  
• List of all planet resources in the current zone you're in/above
  
• Planet Statistics (Position [Inferno to Frigid], Size, atmosphere composition, pretty much all the basics that appear on the system survey)
  
• Coordinates (because who doesn't love seeing those numbers go up, down, and such as your fly through the system)
  
• Hold Contents
  
• Individual Ship System Health
  
• Crew/Officer/Captain Rooster
  
• Spaceship Account Info ($$$)
  
• Empire Announcements
  
• Harsh Environment Warning Indicators (if you're in a corrisive or incidious atmosphere, it's red, if you're landed on a planet and not at an airport so the ship will be damaged over tiime, yellow)
  

Hello,

Is there a way I can make a ship design in a manner that doesn't result in me sticking to the roof and suffocating in the ship I'm making? It seems to be a persistent problem with only some of the ships I use and the one I'm making is also having this problem.

I'm guessing theres some way to make the room voids better so this doesn't happen, but I haven't figured it out yet.

Any veteran ship designers know how to fix this issue?

Thanks,
Tipper