Assign a fleet to manual. All policies on manual fleets set to leave me alone. Direct them to refuel at a nearby base.

Half continue whatever it is they're doing (retrofit). A small quantity appears to head where you want, and then suddenly change their mind. The rest just do what they want.

I ...

Works sometimes and is erratic. Game crashed yesterday and no save for 30 minutes.

Is it me, or is autosave not working in the latest beta. Just upgraded from 1.1.0.0 and no more autosaves.

I'd like to be able to see how my resort bases are doing economically? Same for mining and research bases, if only to see their individual costs. Any way to do this?

Been in plenty of wars now. I note there are no options for proper alliances, which might contribute to a joint victory.

More disappointing, no option to force the ceding of colonies in peace terms.

Wondering if there are plans to address.

This screenshot I posted shows my colony ship literally in orbit around Sol, so the nebula has had no effect in stopping me getting there. A ctrl-right click on the planet, offers no colonization option. Something is very broken.

Seriously, a notification that is easily missed is my victory?

My colony ship is next door to the Ancient Slave Colony aka Sol, chock full of 80M human colonists and the option for colonization is not there. This is despite the colony repeated sending messages saying they want me to colonize. Any clues?

Thank you

I've just about completed my first full play through dominating the galaxy. I left most automation controls on in order to learn the systems. Occasionally, I'd jump in and direct a fleet or two.

Next play through what should I do to mix things up? Where do you start turning off automation?

Belated thank you.

I have a colony ship next door to the destination system (Gakirean), but when I send it to colonise that system, it plots this ludicrous round-about course. Any ideas why?

My primary colony went from 3500M population to 2500M population before it stopped, so yeah I think it's important. At least to know which colonies are currently suffering.

How do you know which colonies have a plague?
How do you know which plague?
How can you see the extent of the plague and progress towards a cure?

I know 1 and 2 are answered in the initial notifications, but how do you track after that?

Thank you

I just had three different viruses hit my capital and start spreading simultaneously. What a stroke of bad luck!

What can you do to mitigate?
How can you see which colonies are infected?
Come on seriously? Three all at once?

This may be the straw that breaks my first game's back.

Is there a way to set an overall policy for your empire that will influence the decisions the automation AI makes. Expansion, warmonger, peace, diplomacy, science, trade...

Thank you. I'll give that a shot.

I posted before about having a negative cashflow, but my cash balance continued to climb at a healthy rate. Some helpful responses suggests this was probably due to bonus income, which is difficult to consistently account for. Other advice suggested the negative cashflow was still not a good ...

bonus income isn't included in cashflow. Its not uncommon for bonus income to actually be your main source of income if you have a high upkeep. The main down side is it can't cover your now crippled research and colony growth


You may be right. It's just a bit disconcerting. If you're going to ...