<t> Wow, after reading these replies I realise I've been quite lucky, the refugees in my games have turned up when I had colonised the whole Galaxy and closing on full tech tree.<br/>
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When I suggested they should start with Planet Destroyers I didn't realise they already did!<br/>
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<t> Not me so far, though I haven't seen them 'transition' yet, they seemed to be taking their sweet time.<br/>
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I wonder if its a good idea to have them play possum for so long, leaving the player to decide whether to allow them to become a menace or not, since we will all know what the ...

The research progress 'sticks' to the tech it was spent on; not sure if it degrades over time, like certain other games, if you don't go back to researching said tech. reasonably quickly.

Theres a progress bar on the tech. box in the research screens you can check.

Still present in latest Beta, wondering if this is intentional to limit early pop. movement in some AI races?

<t> I've been playing with this setting on the lowest levels and I seem to end up with very few Continental/Marshy planets, a reasonable number of Ocean/Desert planets and plenty of Volcanic/Ice planets.<br/>
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Not sure if there are supposed to be proportionatly more of the extremer planet ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: WoodMan<br/>
Breedinghive (Resort Base) - A happy place for Loverbosks(?)[:D] One of the only Boskara hives that is probably more ugly on the inside than on the outside.
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For the sake of the Galaxy, equip these with Scanner ...

<t> Seems to work well for some buildings sometimes but not at all for others.<br/>
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eg: my last game I set the shield, troop defense and clone facilities to be built at 50 million pop. well before I got the techs for them, when I got the tech for the troop def. facility they all built ...

I vote Boskara, but all those 'eyes' make it look Dhayut/Spiderish (I know, already done).

Any chance your anti-virus is blocking it?

<r> Actually it seems all Passenger Ship designs have 10 Passenger Compartments.<br/>
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And many Races start with a design > 230.<br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>Akdarian: 249<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
Atuuk: 213<br/>
Boskara: 213<br/>
Dhayut: 230<br/>
Gizurean: 229<br/>
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<r> Lotsa passenger compartments.<br/>
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<t> Many are too big to be built until a construction level is researched.<br/>
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Akdarian: 249 <br/>
Atuuk: 213 <br/>
Boskara: 213 <br/>
Dhayut: 230 <br/>
Gizurean: 229 <br/>
Haakonish: 240 <br/>
Human: 240 <br/>
Ikkuro: 240 <br/>
Ketarov: 240 <br/>
Kiadian: 249 <br/>
Mortalen: 213 ...

Does anyone know how the repair works on these components?

Is it supposed to repair everything eventually? I watched a damaged (12) destroyer for about a minute and only saw 1 component fixed. Not sure how this fits with the 'X seconds' in the component description.

Maybe you could buy one of those pre-paid credit cards?

Yeah, penetrating shields would be a good role for missiles; currently once you stack enough shield units the regen rate alone makes the ship near invincible. Especially lategame when the space restriction becomes minimal.

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Normal beam weapons do target fighters. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Hmm, so Fighter Bays are a soft counter to Beams, makes their role stronger I guess, but Beams were bit weak already. I wonder if equiping a few PD alongside a Beam loadout would ...

<t> So I've been trying to break out of my 'fast energy torpedo ship' design mentality from vanilla a little; I added a decent layout of PD to my general workhorse patrol ships. <br/>
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Watching the PD work against a fairly large swarm of fighters, I noticed it didn't clear them out very ...

Need more curves [;)]

Fuel is cool.

That is all.

<t> I'd like to see 'Planetary Governors'. Have a system where colonised planets without a governor have some kind of penalty until you assign a Gov. to it.<br/>
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New Govs could become available at a limited rate, and would have a range of possible negative and/or positive effects. 'Bad' Govs ...