Are you sure it's not just trying to "mine" the gas giant?

Yes it does, sometimes recklessly so.

So i get these slow-downs in endgame huge galaxies when scrolling the map. The game runs fine, it's just that when i scroll it takes a really long time to scroll anywhere because the scrolling is extremely slow.

Is this a common issue?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Wade1000<br/>
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Fighter combat is cool and all but it's based off of modern times.<br/>
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1. What are some uber futuristic advances for this science fiction game, beyond merely better levels of damage of various weapons and strength of defenses?<br ...

<t> This game comes closest to the type of 4x game I have been looking for for a very long time. <br/>
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Like i said, my only gripe is that there isn't more of it, more features, more depth, etc. Dw is like my favourite type of cake, but it could use more dressing. I'm thinking fleet tactics ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: lordxorn<br/>
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I am not quite understanding how you have out of control colonization, unless you are just manually overbuilding colony ships, and once every ship get's built they are on autopilot.<br/>
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A tip is to never build colony ships manually ...

<t> homeworld 2 was released in 2003. Not quite the same genre, but an awesome space RTS with rich features.<br/>
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I have everything turned off (expert), but the ships still come out with automation on. I guess i could turn that off as well, but it's handy to have them build your economy for ...

<t> This is the best game in it's genre that I've played since 2003.<br/>
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I love the resource system. I think it's brilliant to use materials that seems at least plausible as building blocks for certain items, not to mention the fact that it creates interesting strategic assets, and the need ...