Month: January 2020

Hello again! Long time, no chat. It’s Mojumbo here today to discuss the changes we made to Gala Collider’s core gameplay over the last year. Without further ado, let’s jump into the list of changes:

1. Resource types reduced from 3 types (Materials, Research and Energy) to just one type (called “Resources”). As such, the Resource exchange window has been removed as well. We decided on this change to simplify the game and focus on the action. In particular, the Resource exchange screen was relatively hidden from view and newer players often forgot it existed.
2. The starting deck size requirements for both Sylith and Coalition decks have been reduced. This will allow players to reshuffle their deck faster and more often each game leading to more high tech level cards seeing play.

   

3. Any Ship can now attack a Development on a planet rather than just Ships with the Bombard module.This was another change with simplifying the core game mechanics in mind. Deckbuilding, for example, is more straightforward when Ships can cover more roles out of the gate. Need to destroy a pesky development but don’t have Bombard? Just amass a fleet of Frigates and chip away at it over time.
4. Ships must now pay their fuel cost to move equal to the number of spaces they moved that turn instead of just paying one flat amount per turn regardless of distance traveled. Paying Resources per move is more intuitive and keeps the power level of highly mobile Ships in check.
5. Your starting Command Center can no longer be contested. This means that you will be able to build ships and developments on your Command Center even if the opponent has enemy ships in the Sector. The change will allow you to better defend yourself in sticky situations and prevents you from feeling completely locked out of a game.
6. Ships can now attack the enemy’s starting sector (Command Center) directly. When doing so they reduce the Star value of the sector by their attack power. If your Commander’s Command Center is reduced to zero Stars, you lose the game. We decided to add in this new win condition to resemble a standard military victory. It’s most comparable to playing an RTS game (like Starcraft or Age of Empires) where you win by destroying the enemy’s starting base.

   

7. Ships must choose if they attack an enemy Ship, a Development, or the enemy Command Center. Since we allowed any Ship to attack Developments and added the new win con above we decided to make players choose which target they want out of the 3 options. It used to be that a Ship could attack both a Development and a Ship in the same turn. Developments would be far too vulnerable if every Ship could attack them while also targeting a Ship in the same combat round.

That will do it for me today. Let us know what you think of all the changes and I hope to see you all on the battlefield soon!