Use a constructor ship for the others.

They should add a "maximum power consumption" figure to the design screen, would save us a lot of hassle there..

Well, for every enemy they took out I lost 3 to 5 freighters. What's worse, they pretty much instantly destroy any in-production ships. So, stay well away from planets with area weapons.

<t> Torps seem to work well for me too.. the only nuisance is when the enemy is running away and my ship is trying to stay at max. range instead of closing in, allowing the enemy to outrun the torps.. I've seen ships play this futile pursuit game until they ran out of fuel. This applies to higher ...

In my first game, I had the fabulous idea to add area weapons to my space ports.

What a massacre.

Hmm, just make sure they have a slightly larger fuel storage. Private freighters resupply them. Maybe having a fuel source somewhere nearby helps with that.

It appears to depend on your race.. sometimes I get designs with armor, sometimes without. Sometimes I start out with unshielded escorts, and sometimes they do get shields..

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I tend to automate my troop transports for that task. If automated, they'll _usually_ load up on troops and wait somewhere. So if I hotkeyed the transport group before it's easy enough to reassemble them, fully loaded.

<t> I'd never play at max pirates.. pirates improve their ships with your tech so they remain a pain throughout the game if you don't colonize everything and eradicate them.<br/>
Losing a few mining bases and freighters here and there doesn't matter much, but you should keep an eye on your resource ...

Same here, I call it "Colony Outpost". Basic defense, scanners, recreation, medbay. Keeps a planet happy and pirates away.

<t> It's an abstraction of sorts. In reality, there's only acceleration and the speed of light, not some arbitrary low speed limit. But that doesn't work in games, at least i've seen none past Elite try it. Anyway, acceleration depends on mass, so having a ship's speed go down with higher mass makes ...

Your trading ships are visiting foreign nations. Even if it is okay going to the supermarket with a gun in your place, try doing it in (most of) Europe.

Might be a balancing issue there, not sure about it yet. However - it is also much too easy to obtain colonization capabilities now. Just take over an independent world, or some random ruins/abandoned ships give access to other races too.

Range is decent enough, at higher tech it's easy to get full sector coverage. They're essential for defense anyways.

Don't really need that many shields, just enough to buy them time to jump away.. and if one freighter goes down, so what? Your private sector will buy a replacement from you, so more money in your account :]

I believe that is correct. Reserved also includes amount reserved for transportation (freighters inbound). It's sort of cute, when you have foreign traders around you can even see what they're going to buy.

Tempting ...
Keep politics out of here please.

That's strange. Commercial centers don't have to be built on planets, so I'd guess they should work in deep space too..
Maybe you're missing something else? I suspect you also need space yards on that base.

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I`ve noticed that too. While my colonies were not taxed at all my homeworld was assigned a tax of 50%! I wonder why my people did not rebel against such tax! Turned AI off and manually adjusted taxes on all planets (so far there are less than 15 ...

<t> The interface is a little clumsy. If you use "Upgrade" it automatically marks the old design obsolete. On the design screen, you can deselect "Hide obsolete" and edit the old design (remove the obsolete mark). That will make it possible to build the old design, but the design screen by default ...