The changes are good yes. In DWU it was really too easy to make OP design the IA would have no chances to beat. Now with the added design constraints it is more difficult to exploit the system. The UX of the ship designer could be better through, as noted just above.

"Boarding calculation" -> How doest it work? Race factor involved?

Has this bug been corrected in the last update?

<r> Wonders could be rebalanced too. <br/>
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As it stand now, in addition to their global and exclusive bonus, they give a development bonus to the colony where they are built. This way they allow a small empire to compete economicaly with bigger one. The concept is OK I think. The problem ...

<r> Same bug here. It happened whereas I was building the Zenox wonder which would give me the win.<br/>
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I have an autosave before and a save just after the DoW. Erik, could you please indicate me an upload link, I dont remember where it is.<br/>
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EDIT: I have found the link, upload ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I like how wonders allow you to focus on a smaller more vertical empire instead trying to sprawl everywhere, but they might be too powerful in Shadows. At least the way the High-Tech tree is right now, it seems like it's too easy to snowball. I had weird map settings ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: DeadlyShoe<br/>
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Wonders really are still too powerful. Especially Trader's Bazaar. My arch rival in a current game has a much smaller empire but nearly equal income just because of Trader's Bazaar. If the player gets it it's basically an auto-win.<br/>
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Yeah, from my experiences, wonders can really make you swim in money. The development bonuses they give are really powerful. Maybe too much?

Something weird and quite similar happened to me, but during a pirate base assault (empire point of vue) : during the battle my governor was printed on the pirate side and was killed at the end of the assault (I won).

<r> I think that the underground question about ship size is :"few big ships or many small ones?". The easy answer is :"it depends". And it is why DW is great, because "it depends". <E>:)</E><br/>
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Personaly I tend to prefer small ships for defensive duty, and big ships for offensive ...

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1) <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Will the scientist placed on the research station give a bonus of 20+15% is 35% to weapons research? I assume yes.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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<B><s>[b]</s>Yes.<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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2) <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>If you place him at a spaceport, will you only ...

I will check ingame, thank for the info.

<r> I am not sure that scientist bonuses stack. From my observations, when you have multiple scientists, it seems that it is the best bonus wich is applied.<br/>
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For example, if you have one scientist with +13% in HT, and another one with +25% in HT, it is the +25% which is applied empire ...

Aaah yes! Ok, it is related to popup message when you first built something, I see. Nice!

<r> Just wondering from where comes the +20k income bonus which always happen some years after game start.<br/>
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Ok, I will try this, thanks.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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If all automation is turned off, then automatic retrofit will also not happen. If you have advisors or full automation turned on, either of those will allow automatic retrofits to happen. If you have everything set to manual, you can ...

<r> Here are some screens of my settings :<br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bingeling<br/>
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Do you have suggest on ship and base building?<br/>
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I think the "auto retrofit" is about the "retrofit all ships and bases" prompt. If they have auto retrofit, they will retrofit after this, if not, they won't. And this prompt ...

<t> I dont understand how automatic retrofit works.<br/>
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I have done some research and I have now new design available in the design screen. For example my last LSP-6 design now have some fighter bays. But strangely, my LSP seems to be stuck in its old LSP-1 design, if I do not tell him ...