<t> I can't find any way to remove planetary facilities, even with the editor. Am I missing something?<br/>
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I have a regional capital that could be better places, and I didn't know having robotic troop facilities would prevent me from building troop cloning facilities, which seems like it'd ...

That's interesting, a glitch in the map generator I guess.

&nbsp;In some games I have that resource on my homeworld.

<t> Regardless of traits, no AI player should do what amounts to almost nothing.<br/>
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&nbsp;Anyway in my last game it's races I've often seen in the top 4 in games with 9-12 AI empires. Dhayut, Mortalen, Quamino. The Dhayut in particular. They usually end up, in my games, as one of the biggest ...

There just needs to be some kind of check that ensure that region around each empire's homeworld has expansion possibilities. Tough luck if it's sparse and inhospitable but there should be something so they become part of the game instead of doing nothing.

<t> I just noticed that empires I set as distant from me, and me being in the core of an elliptical galaxy, were put so far out that after about two hours still haven't expanded beyond their home systems. Their home systems are quite a way from the main cluster of systems.<br/>
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I've began ...

I like to make a huge orbital shipyard base with tons of construction bays and plants to rapidly build ships when I'm involved in large wars. Building them at the planet makes them easier to defend and you can make larger stations in orbit.

<t> Those are pretty harsh starting conditions, and I am fairly sure through my own experience the average system size/complexity (less planets, moons, asteroids etc) is lower when you have it on max galaxy size. I've had trouble a few times with AI empires struggling too much, so to help them out I ...

<t> I've seen AI empires with 53 colonized worlds in less than 40 minutes, covering half the way across a 1000 star galaxy - when I put everyone on the lowest expansion setting on game setup. Sometimes 1-3 AI empires will do this. By mid to late game I might as well not have even added the other 4-8 ...

<t> In every game I play, I find myself having to waste time with tedious and spammy relation problems.<br/>
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1. It gets bothersome having an empire message you, complaining about your military ships invading their sectors when it's but one escort - escorting a freighter trading at one of their ...

This has happened to me too. I noticed that about 5 various types of mining stations in my home system were gone. They weren't destroyed, I had no enemies and they were armed just enough to fend off pirates. Not to mention I had a lot of military ships in that system.

Works good for me, too.

<t> I've been experimenting with making mining ships and stations that have more cargo space and an extra gas extractor/mining engine (depending on which station it is) and an extra luxury resource extractor.<br/>
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I haven't been able to notice any difference with the mining ships/stations ...

Runs fine for me, although I have a dual core system and NVIDIA GTS250.

&nbsp;The only thing that bugs me or makes it "seem" to be sluggish is that way you zoom in and out, instead of a steady in/out it's in steps which can make it appear to be choppy.

<t> I've been enjoying this game so far, however, I was curious how the AI seemed to expand so rapidly. So I decided to monitor it. Very early on into the game with minimum tech and starting status (less than an hour) the AIs have many colonies. They fully colonize their home system, including ...