<r> The concept of laying "claim" to a system just for passing an exploration ship through seems ridiculous to me. If I want to colonize an unocupied system, hell even an unoccupied planet in a system that otherwise has planets owned by others, just go for it. It doesn't stop me, it shoulden't stop ...

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I agree with much of what barnacle bill says in the post above. I still have Steller conquest (both versions) on my collector's shelf. Although it seems to me B Bill is ...

The answer also depends on what you set your victory conditions at: there are 5 or 6 different VC settings. If you've set 50% planet control you need to take 50% of the planets one way or the other, either conquest, colonization, or both.

<r> I generally agree with J HG T, strategy games in general appeal a smaller number of gamers. However, while there's a pretty clear distinction between first person shooter & roll playing type games which dominate vs strategy type games which are fewer, the definition of what a "strategy" game is ...

<t> I agree with much of what barnacle bill says in the post above. I still have Steller conquest (both versions) on my collector's shelf. Although it seems to me B Bill is fundamentally a macromanager (from the post), I'm in the minority as a micromanager. When I play a game, I actually want to ...

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I don't think that really addresses my problem, though. If it were a simple case of losing money, sure, but it's hard to even tell if I'm actually gaining or losing money at this point.<br/>
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At one point during a game month I'll have ...

<r> I started a new game, as I can't seem to transfer ship designs from "non-obsolete" to "latest designs" of the newest game I started. I took this screenshot of the "all designs" drop down list. Note the exploration ships, there are 4 explorations ships shown, there should only be two: surveyor-1 ...

<t> It seems like every time I try to "load designs" for example and load a design I previously designed in another game, it's loading dozens of extra designs from that other game. It's not just loading one ship design, like it should be doing, but a whole slew of extra ship designs. I have no idea ...

<r> I'm trying to design ships using my own specs instead of using default desings. I want to add more fuel tanks for one thing. I figured out how to make ships obsolete & how to "save designs" so I can re-load my new designs in future games. I have the folliwng problems though:<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Nibelung44<br/>
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ok, I'll play more and see ... still, that that the passengers ships do nothing while there is pop to move around is suspicious, don't you think so?
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Are they all just the passenger ships or the ...

<r> I started a completely new game using what I learned in this AAR. I re-designed all my main ship designs from scratch bottom-up, and added more fuel tanks for one thing. Made my exploration ships more expensive but it's paid off in a big way. One thing I noticed is that I was able to colonize a ...

Play the game for about 7 years and colonize a few more planets. The private sector doesn't really ramp up for a while, then let us know what's happening. The player has no control over private sector ships, so you're completely at their mercy & there's nothing much you can do about it.

<t> I decided to do a couple of last experiments before exiting this AAR for good. I went back to the 2763.09 turn and did two things: raised taxes to 20% (instead of 25%) in order to determine where the "point of diminishing returns occurs", and I also laid down a colony ship on a marshy swamp ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Equendil<br/>
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Galaxies seem to be generated with "patches" of independant colonies and good quality continental planets (well it seems that way to me at least). Once you've colonized your local patch, you might well not find ...

<t> Those are definitely some good suggestions. I definitely learned a couple of key things this game. It's good to know that caslon & hydrogen are the fuel sources. I was not aware of this up to this point (for some reason I thought there was some kind of generic "fuel" that I was missing); this ...

<t> I would send the saved game as I definitely have it somehwere, the problem like you mentioned is finding it. I found the matrix game -> distant worlds directory and I went through every single folder trying to find the saved games folder, but it's not there. I also have windows 7. I tried using ...

<r> This screenshot shows the position of the transport fleet: Praeter 1 is in the Abset system doing its suicide attack on Abset-1. Praetor 2 is the triangle halfway there (between the KG and Abset system). The fleet is set to engage system targets & it's set on manual (no blue arrows). I assume ...

<r> This next printscreen shows my praeter 1 troop ship which is set to manual. This was where I found it after the previous battle in the KG system, which was what I was focusing on at that time. Afterwards, I found my transport fleet unbelievably attacking a strongly defended colony in the Abset ...

<r> I have saved games at all the printscreen shots in my posts above, so I could start the game from where I left off each time while making the gif image in paint. <br/>
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I went back and found the cargo tab at KG_5 just after I took that planet. I have no idea which item is fuel? How do I ...

<t> One thing that I noticed, that would've had an impact is that I had 5 colony ships built eating up 13k of ship's maintenance costs. I laid these ships out early in the game in the expectation that I would use them quickly, which has always been my experience in prior games. Little did I know, I ...