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Design:Main Document

2025-09-09T14:24:00Z

Librae: /* War */ fix wording

==Key values==

Things that are considered ultimate goals of the project. These should be always kept in mind.

Headings have a link to more detailed description of what is wanted.

===Multiplayer===
{{Main|Design:Multiplayer}}

The game should provide deferred turns (aka WEGO) multiplayer and generally provide good multiplayer experience. Deferred turns make it faster to play and it is hard to provide an AI that is challenging while keeping game still interesting for human players. Turns should not take a long time and should provide similar amount of things to do to all players, so that players can play simultaneously without getting bored.

It should be impossible to cheat in multiplayer, as server does not trust player data and players are not sent any information that they are not supposed to know ingame.

===Performance===
{{Main|Design:Performance}}

The game has to perform well even on weaker hardware, making it accessible to the widest audience and respecting users' resources.

===Economics===
{{Main|Design:Economics}}

The game should realistically simulate real world economy, for realism, balancing, and exploring the possible economic relations in future society.

===Human Space Empire===
{{Main|Design:Human Space Empire}}

The game has to simulate a space empire. Other than just generally being an exciting frontier, this settings is chosen to be relatively easy to implement: having a well-automated economy is plausible and movement is limited to starlanes.

Only sentient species present in the game are going to be humans. Aliens in fiction are often just humans in disguise anyway, and this limitation helps to provide a believeable setting.

===Internal politics===
{{Main|Design:Internal Politics}}

There have to be interior politics: subjects of the empire should be not a resource but people that can self-organize and should be considered when making decisions. This helps to balance various snowballing issues.

===Science===
{{Main|Design:Science}}

It should be possible to improve your empire through technological improvement.

===Space Terrain===
{{Main|Design:Space Terrain}}

Despite space being a simplified playing field, it still has to feature varied positions. Starlanes are proven to be necessary for any sort of sensible space game (see the evolution of Stellaris, for example), but systems should have special conditions like asteroid/debris fields, making them less or more suitable for certain maneuvers.

===War===
{{Main|Design:War}}

As war is the most ancient way for humans to interact, the game should simulate the war well. There is no goal to simulate extremely detailed ship battles, which often end up silly due to shortcuts taken. However, combat should require resources, be somewhat easy to calculate without using external tools, and should not lead to extremely one-sided outcomes (armies should retreat with losses, not be destroyed on the spot if losing, and damaged vehicles should incur heavy costs similar to destroyed ones).

===Diplomacy===
{{Main|Design:Diplomacy}}

The game should allow regimes to make automatically enforced pacts, agreements, trades, and such. It should be possible to back out of non-immediately enforceable deal, but this should incur heavy consequences.

===Covert Action===
{{Main|Design:Covert Action}}

The game should simulate covert actions, like building spy networks and using them to disrupt your enemies. This brings another dimension to gameplay and helps to avoid snowballing based on secrets like technology.

===Modding Toolset===
{{Main|Design:Modding Toolset}}

The game should be easy to modify even without possessing programming skills. All data that does not involve executing code should be kept in easily modifiable format and GUI tools like map editor should exist. Of course, it should be easy to extend game by modifying the code, too.

===Soundtrack and Graphics===
{{Main|Design:Soundtrack and Graphics}}

===Logistics===
{{Main|Design:Logistics}}

Game should feature advanced logistics.

===Monetization Without Restrictions===
{{Main|Design:Monetization Without Restrictions}}

Game should be open to be monetized to anyone, like making it easy to run own public server and reward players with cosmetics or preferential service for donating. At the same time, players should not be prevented from opting-out from witnessing such cosmetics or modifying their local code as they like.

[https://gitlab.com/librae/librae Current code on GitLab]

Population

2025-09-09T12:45:40Z

Librae:

Population is groups of humans living in [[Empires]]. Humans can live on [[Planet]], crew [[Ship]]s and exist in many other environments. Population requires [[Food]] and [[Insurance]] to stay healthy and productive. In good conditions population naturally increases over time. In Librae, large groups of homogenous population are usually considered for their shared characteristic.

== Planned features ==

===Culture===
Humans which share a [[culture]] are usually grouped together and can act collectively. If the culture is similar to the government's culture, the population is most content, otherwise it might require a degree of autonomy. Tensions between different cultures have to be managed by separation or special administration measures.

===Luxuries===
Humans can consume various goods, starting with excess food and fuel, to raise their happiness. Groups can develop a habit to a certain luxury, which will increase their tolerance to it and eventually require more of it to even stay content.

===Human Resources===
Population have levels of various useful characteristics, like expertise in some craft. Such levels are called HR. Level of HR can decrease if humans are hired to work elsewhere (but increase in the target group) or killed, and can be raised by education, exposure to some conditions, or working on something. Higher HR levels lead to higher productivity.

2025-09-06T16:26:30Z

Librae: Created page with "```Fusion drone``` is a versatile and generic semi-autonomous vehicle, basically a levitating air-cooled fusion reactor. Originally, fusion drones were developed to provide heat and energy to enclosed spaces like mines. Due to self-regulating nature of the fusion reactor scheme, even in harsh and hazardous conditions these drones will not melt down, instead temporarily shutting down when damaged or overheating. Still, cheaply produced versions are notorious for leaking..."

```Fusion drone``` is a versatile and generic semi-autonomous vehicle, basically a levitating air-cooled fusion reactor.

Originally, fusion drones were developed to provide heat and energy to enclosed spaces like mines. Due to self-regulating nature of the fusion reactor scheme, even in harsh and hazardous conditions these drones will not melt down, instead temporarily shutting down when damaged or overheating. Still, cheaply produced versions are notorious for leaking radioactive materials or not following temperature limits well.

A fusion drone consists of a hard spherical shell, a turbocharged fan in the middle of it, venting the plasma generated by fusion reactor contained in the body, and warp bubble generators on three protruding masts.

Later, fusion drones were picked up by military and para-military to use for assaults or terror missions. While death by plasma discharge is swift, malfunctioning drones are notorious for shutting down from overheating. The hard shell protecting the reactor also makes the drone resistant to kinetic weapons, so heavy anti-tank munitions or precision fire to disable the motion-providing warp generators from afar are required to neutralize it.

2024-11-14T13:40:27Z

Librae: An illustration of a moon-located fuel sifter asset

== Summary ==
An illustration of a moon-located fuel sifter asset
== Licensing ==
{{CC0}}

Farm

2024-11-13T18:39:32Z

Librae: comma

{{PAGENAME}} is an [[asset]] that produces food. 1 Farm produces 1 [[Food]] in one week. This is a constant, other parameters, such as construction cost and maintenance, change depending on circumstances.

== Construction cost ==

* [[Fuel]]: <code>50 + 50 * surface_bio_quality_offset + 10 * atmo_quality_offset + 10 * effective_cosmic_ray_intensity</code>

== Maintenance cost ==

* [[Fuel]]: <code>0.1 + 0.125 * atmosphere_bio_quality_offset + 2 * surface_bio_quality_offset</code>
* [[Workforce]]: <code>0.25</code>

[[Category:Assets]]

Fuel

2024-11-03T13:42:39Z

Librae:

EC

2024-11-03T13:38:50Z

Librae:

Void Church

2024-11-03T13:27:51Z

Librae: formatting

[[Category:Lore]]

{{quote|Know that you are living in a cursed world. Nothing here will ever match to your expectations, others will fail you, the Void will fail you, and you will fail yourself and eventually die. The best you can hope for is to improve it a bit in order for your brain to release the proper chemicals. Abandon your hope and prepare for an endless struggle.|Speech at a Void Church initiation meeting|a clandestine recording.}}

==History==

The Void Church (VC) is a religious organization originating somewhere during early FTL travel period. It started from a group of frustrated corporate engineers working on warp drives and failing to fully understand and improve their work. These adopted paradoxical system of beliefs and methods that relied on insights and experimentation guided by insanity.

Eventually Void Church members invented the breach drives and managed to extract that knowledge, as well as stolen equipment, from their workplaces to a secret orbital hideout, from which they started to build their trade empire. The breach technology, allowing quick and cheap FTL travel, allowed them to become a interstellar power of their own.

Void Church equipment can be only understood by sufficiently ranked church members, and attempts to reverse engineer it by secular powers have failed so far. Thus, Void Church effectively maintains monopoly on FTL travel. Independently functioning breach engines can be bought and used, but bulk shipments are only feasible with coordinated assistance by the church members, and even the automated engines require sacred maintenance.

==Policy==

Luckily, Void Church is rather indifferent to anything except direct interference with their operations and will provide their services and equipment to the highest bidder. They organize shipments of goods, providing guarantee of delivery for most types, substituting their own stock in case of failure, provide banking services and sell equipment as well as maintenance services, and, for trusted clients, dedicated church members to provide onsite maintenance and breach assistance.

Fuel

2024-10-30T11:10:12Z

Librae:

"Fuel" is fusion fuel, a rare compact substance (Helium-3) that powers fusion reactors of virtually all machinery, from farming implements to space freighters. Due to its relative ease of transport and universal usefulness, it is considered a basic exchange unit. [[EC]] are usually used as a substitute for virtual exchanges.

1 Fuel can be produced by 1 basically equipped [[human]] on a core-dead moon in 1 [[week]].

{{good|Fuel|transport_cost=0.0001 EC|producers=[[Fuel Sifter]]s on moon-likes, [[NIL]]s|users=anybody}}

==Obtaining==

Fuel can be obtained from scouring any kind of planet, but it is most abundant in crusts of cold planetoids lacking a core. Obtaining fuel on a core-active planet would involve mass mineral processing, which usually not profitable.
Fuel is also potentially available from gas giants, but that requires much higher technology.

Fuel Sifter

2024-10-27T13:01:50Z

Librae:

{{PAGENAME}} is an [[Asset]] that produces [[Fuel]] by sifting through upper layers of local planetoids. Efficiency depends on the historic presence of a magnetic field which would deflect the incoming He-3 over millions of years, preventing its accumulation.

Construction cost: <code> 50 + 10 * bio_quality_diff + 10 * atmosphere_quality_diff + 10 * effective_cosmic_ray_intensity + 50 * (1 - fuel_availability) </code>

Maintenance cost: 0 (pays for itself in fuel, other costs not implemented yet)

Workforce cost: <code>1 * fuel_availability</code>

[[Category:Assets]]

Earth

2024-10-26T11:32:22Z

Librae:

{{PAGENAME}} is the now-destroyed home planet of the humanity. It mostly exists as part of the supernova Sol, but still serves as a golden standard of [[human]] habitat, and artifacts from it are still being sometimes discovered in most unexpected systems, either thrown there in the process of the project HIGHWAY, or serving as a life raft for survivors.

Food

2024-10-26T11:31:53Z

Librae:

2024-10-26T11:28:01Z

Librae: Created page with "{{PAGENAME}} is an Asset that produces Fuel by sifting through upper layers of local planetoids. Efficiency depends on the historic presence of a magnetic field which would deflect the incoming He-3 over millions of years, preventing its accumulation. Construction cost: <code> 50 + 10 * bio_quality_diff + 10 * atmosphere_quality_diff + 10 * effective_cosmic_ray_intensity + 50 * (1 - fuel_availability) </code> Category:Assets"

Fuel

2024-10-26T11:09:57Z

Librae:

"Fuel" is fusion fuel, a rare compact substance (deuterium) that powers fusion reactors of virtually all machinery, from farming implements to space freighters. Due to its relative ease of transport and universal usefulness, it is considered a basic exchange unit. [[EC]] are usually used as a substitute for virtual exchanges.

{{good|Fuel|transport_cost=0.0001 EC|producers=[[Fuel Sifter]]s on moon-likes, NILs|users=anybody}}

==Obtaining==

Fuel can be obtained from scouring any kind of planet, but it is most abundant in crusts of cold planetoids lacking a core. Obtaining fuel on a core-active planet would involve either mass mineral processing or digging into the core, first being usually not profitable, latter requiring very advanced and expensive engineering projects.

NIL

2024-10-20T19:13:47Z

Librae:

'''NIL'''s, for Non-Insured Labor, are people living outside of large organized governments. On owned planets, it mostly happens because of poverty or dissatisfaction. NILs don't produce much and their numbers are stable, but they are self-sufficient.

[[Image:NIL.jpg|thumb|||A rural NIL ready to defend his way of life]]

Each NIL produces 0.125 [[Fuel]] and 0.25 [[Food]] in a week.

File:NIL.jpg

2024-10-20T19:11:19Z

Librae: a NIL citizen standing in front of his homestead.

== Summary ==
a NIL citizen standing in front of his homestead.
== Licensing ==
{{CC0}}

Human

2024-10-20T17:16:51Z

Librae:

'''Humans''' are creatures inheriting interstellar empires and an emperor's most important charge. Humans need [[Food]] to eat and afford proper [[insurance]] to be productive and happy.

Each human needs 1 [[Food]] per [[week]] and [[insurance]] depending on local conditions to be a part of [[Workforce]].

NIL

2024-10-20T17:15:55Z

Librae: Created page with "'''NIL'''s, for Non-Insured Labor, are people living outside of large organized governments. On owned planets, it mostly happens because of poverty or dissatisfaction. NILs don't produce much and their numbers are stable, but they are self-sufficient. Each NIL produces 0.125 Fuel and 0.25 Food in a week."

Workforce

2024-10-20T14:38:12Z

Librae:

{{PAGENAME}} are insured and well-fed humans. They can either work in [[Asset]]s, or provide [[economic support]]. Other humans are considered [[NIL]]s.