<t> A rough indicator of if there's enough of a resource or not is it's price. If it's .8, that means there's enough of that recourse in the galaxy to meet the demand. If that price goes up at all, it means there's not enough. This not only means you have to pay more to buy it from another empire ...

Personally, I redesign small spaceports to be even smaller, and build those at all my new, undeveloped colonies.

I think he's saying that when he added the new colony, corruption increased a small amount at all of his other colonies, and that combined loss was more than the revenue he got from the new colony.

Is that right?

<t> I have a suggestion to help with the "having too much money and resources", and the "it's too easy to expand!" problems. Make new colonies need massive amounts of strategic resources and capital in order to build it's infrastructure. A colony's infrastructure could be a simple number, such as ...

such as a maximum number of ships/bases the game will allow you to have?

baring my computer bursting into flames ([:D]) would the game allow you to have tens of thousands of ships or more?

hopefully it's the calm before the storm[;)]

I shall let my master know. He will not be amused.

We'll be waiting, all of us. all of the trigger happy emperers. [:@][:D][;)]

yup, on 64 bit i=windows 7, and it runs just fine.

i don't think there a way to do either of the things you are asking yet. i would kind of like to get rid of independent colonies too sometimes. maybe an idea for a future patch?

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I don't have a problem with it at all.<br/>
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resources are unlimited. the percentages is just how fast you mine that resource (100% is twice as fast as 50%,ect).

i put tons of mining components, more shields and docking stations, and some guns on my mining stations. they may cost more in maintenance, but i need less of them, and they last longer that way[;)]

it would be nice having a use for all those rocks[:D]

and a solid shell dyson sphere would have a surface area equal to 550 million earths.

now THATS what i call real estate[:D]

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I think he is just demonstrating the sort of scale, if a ringworld was in the game then that would be its scale, it would however be a single png with a transparent centre and not loads ...

<t> about the console game market, everyone is trying to copy the pc game market (except nintendo. they're always kinda doing their own thing[:D]).<br/>
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back on topic, distant worlds is one of my favorite games of all time. i ranks high on my list, just behind SEIV. it's really fun ...

i was thinking more along the line of sex slaves, but that works too&nbsp;[:D]

i wonder how fred will react when he finds some securans[;)]

nice job staying quite for a week and making everyone think he's dead.

now lets get back to the galaxy conquering! [&o]

<t> i usually play with everything on manual except tax rates and ship design. i then build lots of escorts and frigates, and put them on auto so they'll go about patrolling my private ships and mining stations. when my empire gets bigger and harder to manage, i start setting other things to auto to ...