Won't this change add a lot of micromanagement? Previously if a planet or star showed it had hidden resources I could plunk a mine there and forget about it and eventually the resource would show up. Now I will (I guess?) have to manually do further exploration, maybe after new exploration tech ...

I have found three explanations online of how supply depots work:

- they add AP to the current total
- they refill AP, up to maximum of 100, but by no more than the amount produced by depot
- they replace current AP if current is lower than what the depot provides

So which one is it? And, as an ...

If I start a new scenario it has scenario build version 1.20q and scenario version #179. I started the messed up save on April 3 or 4, after the expansion came out. I do not own the expansion yet.

The problem may be that my scenario version is not up to date for some reason? Somebody came up with this in the steam thread I started.

Under both 1.20.2 and the open beta, the scrap mode button is not present on the stratagem screen. I'm far enough into the game that I have over 200 cards and all council members. Is there something that has to happen before that option is available? I do not yet have the expansion, could that be ...

My understanding is that any population not suited to the environment (not at least +20) lowers happiness and maximum overall pop, in other words effectively lowers the value of the planet compared to all pop at +20 or higher. Also don't you need 500 million of a race at a location before you can ...

Whenever you encounter a new species your population policy on every planet defaults to "assimilate" for that species, even though it is likely you don't what whoever it is on most if not all of your planets. So, if you have multiple races on multiple types of planets you have to go to every single ...

The tooltip tells me I am not able to colonize the ancient slave colony (or mars either) because they are out of colonization range. I have a colony just outside the nebula the planet is in, so I don't see how it is out of range. I have colonized a planet in the same type of nebula before with no ...

Playing as human, I have colonized a teekan independent. This gave me a colony that is about 85% teekan, rest human. When I load an empty colony ship at this planet, I get about the same proportion mixed together. I assume even a small human pop on an unsuitable planet is detrimental in some ways ...

<t> I've picked up this game again after a long time off. My memory is that in order to maximize logistic points the truck/train stations should be built one hex off the main line on a dead end. Should the main line pass through the cities and the stations be offset, the cities be off the main line ...

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- Do you usually have protection for every mine, base etc you build...<br/>
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Any other hints and tips would be greatly appreciated![:)]
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I try to keep all my mines together as much as possible to ...

<t> Sorry if this has already been asked. Is there a way to silence that obnoxious "plonk" noise every time you click an interface button, without silencing the other sound effects? I like the little chime when you get a new message at the top. The "plonk" is loud even with the sound at the next to ...

<t> After reading this thread I tried to set myself up a game with another race's homeworld in my home system, using the manual settings (I have Shadows, haven't upgraded yet). Couldn't get it to work through about 12-15 tries. I even tried with two races set to same system. The closest result I got ...

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The two galaxies - well, one is the galaxy you've been playing in, the other is the nearby galaxy where you-know-who came from. [;)]<br/>
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No follow up on this? Two galaxies in ...

If you save right before the mission end date, reloading can change the result. However, there are mid-mission die rolls as well because I've had spies caught well before the final roll at mission end.

<t> Is there a setup which distributes homeworlds more or less evenly across the galaxy? Using random pretty much guarantees somebody right in your face early on, and setting all opponents to average or far distance will sometimes result in several of them being crowded into one corner. This seems ...

That's it, thanks.

A while back somebody compiled a partial table of which races are compatable to colonize which other races. I had that bookmarked on a computer that no longer functions, and my search skills are apparently not up to the task of finding it. Help please?

After looking again I think sbach2o is right. The bonus is not listed, but is applied nevertheless.

Because in my current game I had the +100% HiTech wonder, and when I acquired the Techno Nexus the additional 100% never showed in the research screen. I let the game run for 7+ months to see if it was just delayed, but no luck.