Sub-stages for space stage

[TheForumGameMaster (14M e/acc)]

they are in the parantheses

[Deathwake (i nuked zenzone and will never let him forget it)]

Those aren’t substages those are milestones. Substages have different mechanics. At most that’s adding mechanics incrementally. This whole substage discussion doesn’t make sense to me. If we add FTL splitting pre-FTL and post-FTL is reasonable, if we have a singularity having pre-signualarity and post-skynet is reasonable. Aside from that there are no mechanical changes and as such those are just milestones.

[Underfishagain (EVO Theory of Evolution should have started with me)]

Guess it was just a case of insistent terminology

[TeaKing (The modTEArator)]

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[Nonametoseehere (Plant Hiveminds!)]

I guess i meant more of milestones than substages

[domin2ktr]

As for me, it is better to divide it into 3 stages:
STL space exploration - Space, due to the high cost of space missions, is of only scientific interest, begins after the launch of the first rocket into space.
STL space colonization - Due to the space elevator or industry built in space, as well as improved technologies of spacecraft, space begins to represent a full-fledged economic and political interest, begins after the construction of a space elevator (or its analogue) or an industrial facility in space.
FTL - you have mastered the technology of faster-than-light travel, which has opened the way to interstellar colonization and science fiction technologies.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

Are we sure near-ascended civs are the same substage as civs which have just barely left their star systems?