It’s all managed in each individual colony, severely cutting down on the amount of micromanagement. There’s no need to place buildings on every space, no need to manage each province individually, and no need to shuffle around workers every turn. The forward bases require no management outside of defending them and the colonies themselves are all managed on one space. These provinces can serve as the foundation for a colony, an extension for a colony, or can be made into a smaller forward base.

This is done through the game’s use of a “province” system, where the entire map is divided up into a random amount of provinces dependent on map size. Of course, it did take longer to fully understand the combat (more on that later), but I feel like the devs did a good job easing the learning curve overall.Ĭool province system. Part of the reason why the game has such a great learning curve is the general lack of micromanagement when it comes to colonies. Within just a few hours, I was flying through combat, managing a bunch of colonies, and maintaining faction relations with ease. The game provided a tutorial that barely took an hour to complete, but managed to teach me just enough to get going on the campaign immediately afterwards. With Planetfall though, I had no such difficulty getting into things. Great learning curve. As with most 4X strategy games, one thing I dread is having to spend hours reading and going through tutorials just to grasp the basics and get rolling.

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