<t> Two weeks ago I was forced to switch to UMTS from a good DSL connection. Since then I was unable to download the next update to *.6 of Distant worlds. The updater would start, it would say "create handle..." and after some timeout it would say "failed to create handle". Using the manual download ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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Titan Beams are very good indeed within short ranges. In the late game however, combat occurs at increasingly longer ranges. There are many weapons that are superior to Titan Beams as you get to those longer ranges, and others that are ...

Then tell it to attack your space port.

<t> On the other hand, a ship with damage reduction, shields, repair drone and highly reactive armor plating is practically invicible to railguns, as they barely scratch the surface, but it gets quickly repaired. I think the repair drone tech should be available very early, but with terrible repair ...

I tested the "pirates get no taxes" on my old save from 1.9.0.0 version but I still cannot set taxes. Do I need to start a new game for this to work?

Any sizeable ship should have a spare hyperdrive just for that reason to not be easily disabled.

<t> Another problem related to this: on a planet where I had a hiddeen pirate base the colony started attacking the base. So it was like my 4 troopers against them 8 or so. So I thought okay, let's land some raiders to support my troops. Guess what, they were added to the attackers forces! So my ...

<t> For the devs: I think in order to avoid complex threat analysis, a simple system could be used that is also used by ants:<br/>
Whenever a ship dies in a system, increase a threat number for that system or planet. This threat number only goes down very slowly by itself, or is set to zero ...

hmm, how about a two-point comparison: compute potential damage at close range (as sum of weapon damaged), compute potential damage at long range, compare, and then pull or push.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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They do not always pull - they are designed to pull weaker targets in and push stronger targets away. Tractor beams and railguns are usually a great combination as they will pull any targets that are not much stronger than the friendly ...

<t> I once had a crippled ship sitting somewhere in some orbit. I sent a constructor to fix it. This constructor also got crippled by more attackers. After those were chased away, I sent another constructor to fix the first constructor, which finally succeeded. After that, the first constructor kind ...

<t> Playing as a pirate, I have a fleet of let's say 20 ships. I send them to raid some colony. They fly and get there, kill the star base and unload their assault pods. And then, instead of staying in orbit they do either of two things:<br/>
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- if there are space creatures in the system ...

<t> Currently, a tractor beam will always pull the target closer to the ship. However, in many cases this is not desirable:<br/>
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- I my ship has long range weapons and the enemy ship has railguns, the tractor beam should keep the other ship at a distance to prevent its railguns from doing ...

Oh, great. No, I am not running an updated version yet.

<t> Recently I raided a small colony using a fleet of 40 destroyers with two assault pods each. After one raid succeeded, I immediately launched another, which succeeded very quickly too. Except this time around I was presented with a report indicating that my troops pillaged -435 credits, which ...

<t> I just want to chime in and say that the exact same thing happens to me as well. Some more peculiarities: I cannot even change the tax rate of the first colony where I built the criminal network. In all subsequent colonies I can change it, but after a couple of seconds they will always fall down ...

<t> I just discovered, that when playing as a pirate faction and having conquered my first planet, capturing other planets throughout the galaxy is too easy:<br/>
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I load up a troop ship with 3 troops and send it to attack some enemy colony with, say, 15 troops. After my three troops land, I ...

<t> When playing on the bigger cluster maps I own two big clusters which are rather far apart from each other. What I noticed is that my 50 patrol frigates and escorts spend most of their time travelling back and forth in a steady both-way stream between the two clusters. Probably because the ...

<t> In the current patch 1.7.0.2 things have gotten a bit slower again. This prompted me to have a look at the CPU utilization of the game and this was in for a surprise. Out of my 4 real cores, all were busy - but each for only about 14%. The other 4 hyperthreading cores weren't doing anything ...

Also, where is my 30x30 option?