How fast should my capitals be engine wise, and how much excess (in green) power output should I have?

<t> First of, what is the most effective way to attack with Fleets? When I have a Fleet of ships selected, can I have them all attack a target by right clicking on a target and selecting attack?<br/>
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Also it seems like I stupidly built nothing but capital ships and although I have the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Rustyallan<br/>
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I'm quite happy with this remaining single-player. To make a good multiplayer game, you normally have to build that in from the start. Also, the graphics lag is bad enough already without adding network lag to the mix as well.<br/>
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Is it possible there will be a multiplayer patch in the future? The way I see it's either improved AI or a multiplayer patch. Personally I would love to see both!

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: alexalexuk<br/>
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increase your population <SM sm="fighting0043.gif">[sm=fighting0043.gif]</SM>
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That is likely my problem, I am still a very small empire so my research shouldn't be bogged down. How do I increase my ...

<t> I do like the DW musical score, but it's too bad that it's not an original score. I think it's never a good thing for a game's music to be heard in other sources of media. It makes the music come off as super generic. Before I was aware of this, I thought the score was very good since it sort of ...

Hello,

I noticed my research production isn't at maximum but my actual output is at the same level as total empire output. What is preventing me from reaching my maximum?

I'm currently restricting to building a ship size of 200. How do I break that ship building limit?

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Fishman<br/>
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If you build, or even design, more escorts, you are making your problems worse. Don't do this. What happens is that if you build a shiny new anti-pirate escort, frigate, or destroyer, the pirates will get exact copies of these designs and you ...

Hi,

If I wanna fight off pirates that are trying to extort me by attacking my trade routes, do I just build more escorts? Will they automatically protect my freighters?

Thanks! The screenshot clears up a lot of confusion! I do appreciate the effort you put forward to help.

Now I noticed that my colony ship can colonize Volcanic planets even though it says I can only colonize continental planets. Why is that exactly?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>you can see a colony development by hovering on it and looking the bar thing (it fills up vertically for development and horizontally for population). <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I hovered over a colony and I didn't see this. Is this in the beta patch? I'm using the ...

If I discover an abandoned ship in space and I want to learn about its technology, should I have it retired or retrofitted?

&nbsp;Do Mods is DW actually change how the gameplay is done, or does it simply change the graphics?

Now will freighters from the private sector pick up resources from the mining station as long as a ship design is established?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Munchies<br/>
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right now your "colony development" is automated and only shown as the culture %.<br/>
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At least I assume that is what you talk about. At 100% culture, your colony is fully developed and happy. Just need to fill it up with people.
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Yeah I looked at the expansion planner. Though actually my colonization right now is fully automated it turns out, which means I don't need to worry right?

>as for colonies.. check the colonies screen (F4) of course!

I did, I can't find development anywhere!

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: lostsm<br/>
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use the expansion planner to send mining ships to luxuries. you can see a lot in the expansion planner <br/>
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the music is okay. i dont listen to it anymore. i'm curious as to why music slider to the leftmost mutes it, but effects ...

<t> Hi,<br/>
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I just started playing this great game, and it's actually my first 4x game that I played. I saw another gaming forum talk about this game, and I decided to buy it. I'm glad I did.<br/>
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Also it's suggested that I have at least 10 luxury resources given to my colony. How ...