Just bin the tech trading totally, and instead have a series of research agreements similar to trade agreements. Each one brings you a research bonus amount equal to a % of the other empires research income. Spread it out over maybe 5 or so levels and you have an actual reason to develop good ...

Have you checked your planets to ensure their are no pirate facilities on them? Pirates generally try to sneak such things into your empire which then grow and allow them methods of ship building and such seemingly out of nowhere.

Sadly not possible, you must submit to the Matrix Games customer care policy of.

1. Bend over.
2. Grit teeth while shaft is inserted violently.

Good to see some high quality ships with plenty of detail, of course doing work like that now only sets the bar at a high standard for you to keep up and do the entire Federation fleet. [8D]

<t> Zero upgrade options to you, welcome the the wonders of how Matrix does business. No doubt you might get lucky and have someone try to offer an analogy of a shop weekly offer like the post linked, sadly that falls on it's arse due to a shop offer being a sale on a product to everyone which is ...

<t> Memory is not a big defining factor with this game, it is a well known fact that you simply cannot play massive galaxies in this game for a very long time before you get terminal crashes. They are probably due to something like a lack of memory that is true but simply having more will not help ...

<t> I do not know if things have changed since Universe but that was always the method I used before. Have you tired looking all the way down the picture list in the design screen? It could be that for some reason your new picture files are being dumped in another part away from the main race group ...

<t> I'm not sure what the start limit number is right now (something like 20/21) but this is the maximum amount of races you can start a game of any size with. However you can get a game with 50 or more actual empires in it after the start. There is a check box that allows new empires to form and ...

<t> Yes you can do this, simply name the extra ships how you wish. For me I tend to have pictures I already have in mind that will be a destroyer or cruiser etc, I then just name them cruiser 2, 3, 4 etc. Then when you are designing a ship in the game click the drop down arrow next to the ships ...

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<t> In the base game you do already have some ares of space where you cannot warp into or out of, such as storyline regions like the Kaltor nests etc. Also I think some nebula have the same effect, If you can find these things in the moddable files then I would imagine there is an effect ability ...

<t> I'm somewhat confused as to what purpose this would serve? Currently you have a number of direct fuels sources in the game, If you are finding yourself with fuel issues then you could either simply make them show up more often, or look to see if it is a strategic problem. Secondly there is the ...

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Speaking of things to rework, one very nice addition would be more control over what stuff results in screen activity and what doesn't. I don't think I have ever actually taken pirates up on their "kind" offers, but all the same, I'm getting ...

Seeing some of the titles in that list I'm stunned how the XCOM reboot managed to get a spot.

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If I remember correctly, you can designate which planet is your empire's capital world from the colony list. I think there's a button in there which says "make capitol" or something like that; click it and the selected planet becomes your new ...

<t> It is a nice idea OP but I think you are vastly under estimating just how much goes in under the hood of DW. If you consider that even for those of use with 16GB ram and high end CPU/GPU's we still get game crashes in galaxies with 1500 stars towards the late game. I doubt it is an optimisation ...

Yep destroy and rebuild always works fine for me.

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If you design your ships with a speed that exceeds that of the enemy ships then missiles are a win factor. You simply leave the ship at maximum range and poke holes in the enemy ships ...

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In fairness, SOTS missiles (and long range weapons in general) really are an entirely different animal. It wasn't that hard to maintain range in SOTS and it was pretty central to some of the less armor-intensive races. Slugging it out, Hiver ...

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It's $42 USD with the discount.

That is the going rate for a shafting so it sounds about right.