I disagree. And also you started giving advanced gameplay guidance in a topic for a starter player. Maybe let them ease into the game, it takes some time to learn everything.


What do you disagree about and why?!?!

It can't be that Escort ships are weak because they simply by fact is not ...

Sure, if you play special settings the game might be different. I've not seen 2500/year as you say. Escorts are so weak. As I've said it is possible to deal with an agressive strong pirate, if you really want. But you will be a lot of years behind in development due to them screwing up your ...

Sure, if you play special settings the game might be different. I've not seen 2500/year as you say. Escorts are so weak. As I've said it is possible to deal with an agressive strong pirate, if you really want. But you will be a lot of years behind in development due to them screwing up your ...

Pay them protection money, or bribe them with gifts and then pay them protection money. Pirate bases in the same system are different, they won't attack, and you will need 8-12 frigates to kill them - escorts are useless. You may be able to work with pirate bases in the system in the dlc.


I ...

Around 20 combat ship for an AI attack fleet is probably alright in my opinion so I see no direct problem with this. Attack fleets should be quite a bit more powerful than defensive fleets under AI control.

Personally I would not add troop ship to attack fleets and rather consolidate them into ...

From my testing and working with AI and modding AI behaviors the AI work really bad with large fleets, you are better off with smaller AI fleets. The AI will coordinate attack and invasion fleets for the threats and needs and send multiple fleets. If you have just a few large fleets the AI will ...

From my testing and working with AI and modding AI behaviors the AI work really bad with large fleets, you are better off with smaller AI fleets. The AI will coordinate attack and invasion fleets for the threats and needs and send multiple fleets. If you have just a few large fleets the AI will ...

How many defense fleets do you have, and what are the engagement settings set to on your fleets?


No defense fleets, they stay to close to home / too short ranged. When I did build them, I changed their engagement range to max, and then changed them to attack fleets, and they swapped to the ...

In my opinion the whole system might need a small overhaul. I really think there should be a big difference between local troops and troops you ferry around both in cost, maintenance and efficiency in general. It also would make it way easier for the AI as well I'm sure overall.

Also... ground ...

The game treat both fighters ang fighter bombers as in the "fighter" category and only need to research one of them. Fighter bombers can be useful if you are dominating the fighter scene and don't need as much anti-fighter capabilities and use torpedoes on your bombers and fighter bombers.

That is ...

I asked the same thing a while ago and they responded...


We've noted that there's a bug that may be causing issues in the game where it's looking in the incorrect place. We're expecting to release an update that hopefully resolves this issue very soon. Please keep your eyes open for it.


You ...

MaximKI wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 5:01 pm We've noted that there's a bug that may be causing issues in the game where it's looking in the incorrect place. We're expecting to release an update that hopefully resolves this issue very soon. Please keep your eyes open for it.

Thanks!

What mode are you trying this for?


I can "export" the file and the file goes to the ...\Documents\My Games\Rule the Waves 3\Custom Files folder... when I try to load the file by pressing the "Load ship design" button and choose a custom design the game simply give me the error of "File not ...

Yes... I have discord installed so removing it from RTW might fix it... will try it...

Same with Steam overlay as well then I guess?!?

When you hover the mouse over a ship it tell you the ships speed and the overall damage such as light, medium or heavy for example.

This only works occasionally for me, most of the time the status never appear no matter how long you keep the mouse pointer over the ship

Why are the status when you hover the mouse over enemy ships rarely working?

Are there any reliable way to make this actually work?

Not sure what you mean... I just try to export and import the designs from the game?!?

How do you open custom saved designs?!?!

It just say file not found!!!

It is exported according to the game to the following folder.

...\Documents\My Games\Rule the Waves 3\Custom Files

And why on earth can't I open a prototyped design for editing if I made some mistake on it, make zero sense ...

Yes... you can do any modding you find necessary to suit your preferences.

The vanilla game are not really suppose to make all races equal either and the random factor will also play a very large part in how easy it will be to expand in the early game.

Although I never heard anyone complain that ...

Not sure what you have issues with exactly but I don't think Plagues changed much. The Plagues is a mechanic that works the way it is suppose to work. It is generally a good idea to eventually remove the messages the shows up for plague spreading as you can be spammed with it when you have allot of ...