hmmm. I played for four hours after disabling videos and it worked fine. I have the new Nvidia driver in a laptop.

I disabled movies in the start.ini and now it launches fine.

<t> Mine was working fine with Windows 10 until Aug 8th or 9th. They did updates on both those dates and it has not worked since. Loading splash seems to work fine and just as it goes to open the start menu it crashes. One can actually see the profile of the start menu but no detail. I have insured ...

Any chance of putting this file somewhere else. I have tried a dozen times over 24 hours to download from Google and just keep getting "Too many people have downloaded this file, come back latter"

<t> If we look at the parrallel of modern marine assault ships such as the Uss Iwoa Jima deployed to Haiti after the quake, there should be a requirement to have a mdedical module for each troop loading module. In addition the presence of the ship should either heal a percentage of troops on the ...

<t> More and more frequently after capturing a ship go thorough sale, cargo value, message on crew healed by my sick bay and then i get a window style message that says:<br/>
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"Cannot make window" and the game freezes back at the combat screen just before I boarded. I have never seen a window ...

Yes but this unbalances the game. The AI specifically targets player worlds with high value resources, but there is no way for the player to do the same against the ai. There needs to be some way to identify all planets with a given resource as long as the player have seen them once.

Both ice and volcanic do not seem to show unless you have a colony ship built that can colonize. If you come across one of those you can still give a "build and colonize order. i have a feeling this is a "feature" not a bug but it would be better if they showed.

I think this is a much needed addition. Last night I have an "ally" take one of my rare resouce colonies and at one point I lost track of it and it took over an hour of checking systems to find it again.

Since the latest patch, the generation of independent races seems to cluster very strongly in one or two race with only the very rare independent colony of a different type. Previously the racial types were much more varied. Is this intended? I really prefer the more random mix.

Don't know if anyone can confirm, but I seem to have had good luck letting the AI select position by zooming all the way out then clicking the black hole and giving order to build. Haven't lost anything but have not done enough testing to prove.

When you modified design yourself did you then go back to original design, open it in edit and click the make obsolete box at the top. If not, the AI will keep upgrading the original design.

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As to the private sector ships, the fault seems to be in the combat AI while they are set to flee on sight of enemy, they do no do that. This is a bug that needs fixing.<br/>
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I do not find pirates that much of a hassle. I do arm mining stations to a point ...

<t> I have noticed this with retroing constructors, building colony ships and rearely with upgrading space ports. All related to planetary built items. I suspect it has something to do with the new size limits for planets they put into the new patch. Hopefully Erik is looking at this, it is very ...

<t> Only bug I have noticed still in b4 is I am frequently encountering investigation screens (both ship, base and ruins) where clikcking the investigate button gives no results and pauses the game. With ships it iwll often go into a loop where it again offer the investigation only to end if I give ...

Thanks Erik, that seems to have cleared it.

Sorry. During the load cycle before I get into the game. Always at the "Feeding the Karelia" message.

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Thanks Erik for all the great work.