Build colony ships manually at your planet. You can't build them in the order ships interface in the construction menu for some reason that escapes me, but you can build them directly at the planet by clicking on the planet and going to the build menu at the bottom. After they're built load up by ...

Hey, at least 'you' can GET another planet. I can't get my colony ships to so much as pick up colonists, let alone go and colonize worlds.

Set the ship on Automatic. Asuming the Planet is still tagged as "colonize it", the game will notice the idle colonizer on automatic and prompt if it ...

Hey, at least 'you' can GET another planet. I can't get my colony ships to so much as pick up colonists, let alone go and colonize worlds.

My problem is my colony ships won't pick up population at all.

I select center, I always get edge, every time. Tried at least a dozen times.

How did you get them to warp out of system? My explorers just sit idle after exploring their home system. (Yes, I put them on auto...)

Ship hulls having size limits is great.


I absolutely loath ship size limits with a livid passion. It is an utter copout, a failure of imagination.

Leave the ship size completely free, but introduce a tech category maybe called "Ship Scaling" which increases the size of ship your empire can ...

DWU had a nice system for me. Fixed ship sizes with preallocated equipment module slots is a MAJOR step backwards in my opinion.

The best ship design system I have ever seen in a 4x game was Star Ruler (not Star Ruler 2). It allowed you to build any ship size you wanted with any mix and size of ...

BTAxis wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 6:47 pm That leads, fairly inevitably, to hardpoints.

It's not inevitable, it's just the easy way to do it.

A thousand thank yous.

He's probably got cookies turned off/do not accept.

<r> I have a long history of using rock bottom graphics cards. It has been my experience that if you are fine with putting ALL graphics setting at off if possible and absolute minimum otherwise, and can live with a 30 frame per second screen refresh rate, you will be able to play virtually anything ...

It probably wouldn't be too difficult to copy/paste the text of the Galactopedia into a PDF, which would pretty much cover a manual.

Zero tax is NOT optimal. Those doing the preview streams have determined this without a doubt. You get more by taxing and using some of that tax to fund colony growth (and research) than you will by having zero tax and therefore doing no such funding.

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I don't understand what the 'reserved' funding does. If it goes into your surplus cash pile, the same pile that gets boosted from civilian ship construction, then it would seem to me to be ...

<t> I don't understand what the 'reserved' funding does. If it goes into your surplus cash pile, the same pile that gets boosted from civilian ship construction, then it would seem to me to be entirely self defeating. You WANT that money in colony growth and research do you not? Or am I missing ...

Just bought it (from here of course). I think this is the first game I've bought in at least a half year, maybe more. Been playing oldies but goodies, as very few new games seem to have much appeal to me these days. Obviously Distant Worlds 2 is the exception.

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So, new colonies will be a drain on your resources, apparently (from streamed playthroughs) for a very long time. Then for a while, they will be a net positive. From what is written ...

How are fighters at penetrating high level armor? Of course, my range attenuated torpedoes probably aren't better.

I think a large part of my own success is due to being able to quickly gain a massive technological advantage.

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No, my ships almost always maintain ...