Devlog #9 - Rebels, Minor, Custom, and Randomly generated races

Hello everyone!



Two weeks ago the subject of our devlog was Research and Projects, today we are shortly going over the different kind of races you can play with, encounter and even create in Dawn of Andromeda.



There are 8 main races in DOA, each one with different traits, personalities, playing styles and even their own technologies. However you can also create your own and customize them however you want.



Among other things, you can customize their appearance, their traits, as well as their ship style and their flags and conquer the galaxy with them, or play against them.

To make things even more interesting you can also start with randomly generated races, when you start a new game to maximize the element of surprise when exploring Andromeda.

Throughout your quest for domination you’ll also encounter Minor Races, more primitive civilizations that haven’t discovered space travel yet.

You can give them gifts, boost their technology and even promise to protect them. As relations with them improve, they can send you gifts of their own, artifacts, praise you, improving your influence or even join your empire. Regardless of whether or not you help them out, their technology keeps on improving and eventually they can discover space travel and become a main player in the game. Your previous relations will be taken into account, so they can be a valuable ally.

If there are one type of faction that probably won’t be your ally so easily that would rebel factions. These usually take over your colonies when approval is very low for example, and because their technology is the same as yours they can be harder to defeat that it may look like.

You have however the choice in the first months after the rebellion to grant them their independence, effectively giving up on whatever colonies they took over, but also meaning peace.



That’s all for today, talk to you again in two weeks!



Cheers!



