<t> I am wondering whether there is a different kind of message when an enemy's espionage mission fails because of one of my spies' counter espionage activity. If there is, I am fairly certain, I've never seen one such.<br/> <br/> I am almost as certain, that I never saw the counter espionage skill ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: CyclopsSlayer<br/> <br/> Yeah well, my own fault, I had grown too fast and my economy was buckling under the Troop maintenance. Simultaneous conquests of 10 close to each other Independents had me over stretched trying to defend them all, [...] <e>[/quote]</e></QUO...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Antmf<br/> <br/> Hey guys, been watching youtube videos on this game. Trying to relearn <E>:)</E> Anyways, the video I am watching shows the player using the move to command to go to new planets in his system when he first started for his explorers as opposed to ex...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Icemania<br/> <br/> Interesting post and I'd say this is worth a response from the developer. <br/> <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Maybe its all cleared up, or at least different, in the recent patch? It is supposed to touch priorization of freighter jobs, although ...

<t> The AI is capable of transporting the last reserves of super luxuries away from your home world to a secondary planet.<br/> <br/> In my recent game it went like this: I could find and settle a planet with Loros Fruit early. Although I had built too many space ports (those may muck up the distrib...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: letmein<br/> <br/> Do people board and if so why over simply annihilation?<br/> <br/> Boarding means getting beat up ships with different specs to your lovely homogeneous fleet and wiasting build space/research time on boarding pods?<br/> <br/> I do keep a single f...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Lucian<br/> <br/> [ discussion about option 'UseExplorationShipsToScoutEnemySystems' ]<br/> <br/> I didn't know about this. Question is though, once the entire galaxy is explored and the explorers go into their "sit around and do nothing" mode, do they *still* try ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zenkmander<br/> <br/> Ha I just realized that! I really hope my save isn't bugged.<br/> <br/> Edit: Actually, is it possible that the expansion planner stock already subtracts the Reserved amount from its Stock? But if so, then what would the unfulfilled requests b...

I demand a good flower race!

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: hellfish6<br/> <br/> I've almost completed rebuilding the World Destroyer. It's in someone else's system, and my construction ship has halted work for want of dilithium crystal. Is there any way to supply the construction ship with the materiel?<br/> <br/> I've tri...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zenkmander<br/> <br/> <br/> I'm guessing some of you have run into this problem before. What would you recommend? I was hoping I could give the colony to a more suitable friendly empire, but it doesn't look like that's an option. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> You c...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: letmein<br/> <br/> The only things I can think of are:<br/> [ol]I also have a mining base there but that shouldn't matter?<br/> Because I have no treaties and other nations are far away foreign tourists aren't coming<br/> it too early in the game - I have 8 colonie...

<r> To avoid 'out of memory conditions', keep the following in mind:<br/> <br/> * On non-64bit OS, limit the galaxy size some. Stay clear of 1400 stars. I usually play at 1000 stars on a 32bit Win XP system, and even that looks to be a bit much.<br/> * Do not reload games within one gaming session t...

<t> Regarding Constructors, I do not think the ability to capture has to do with policy. With combat ships (and Mining Stations) is certainly does.<br/> <br/> I again tried to capture a Constructor last evening, after making sure all policies regarding boarding were as liberal as possible. The thing...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Fenrisfil<br/> <br/> Starting in pre-warp I micromanage everything except taxes. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Micromanaging taxes on your home world is by far the most influential task regarding long term development.<br/> <br/> The thing to do regarding taxation ...

<t> I can feel with you Lucian, and I can also feel with the developer. What we are asking for is actually pretty hard to implement in an elegant, performance friendly way. More importantly, it has likely been always lower in priority than other urgent tasks regarding the game. But an entire class o...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: CyclopsSlayer<br/> <br/> I have seen this happen, maybe when the Pirate captures ships or designs they cannot normally use? Colony Ships vanish for sure, as seemingly do Construction Ships, yet freighters, mining, military just change ownership and continue as norm...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Lucian<br/> <br/> I don't have any serious issues with the exact way that explorers explore. But it does annoy me greatly to have 60+ explorers sitting around doing absolutely nothing once the galaxy has been fully explored. That can't possibly be WAD can it? <e>[/...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Icemania<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: sbach2o<br/> <br/> [... discussion about where constructors pick up their materials and using fake orders to get them to pick their load where you want ...]<br/> <br/> Ermmm... I am <I><s>[i]</s>almost<e>[/i]</e></I> sur...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: elanaagain<br/> <br/> A poster above suggested only building one spaceport per system. So, if you don't build a second spaceport at the secondary colony (colonized planet/moon) in a system, how do you get the resources of that colony into play? Mining stations disa...