<t> You have to put special bombard weapons on a ship design before you can bombard. If you are using automated design, I think any capital ship has bombard weapons.<br/>
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Bombarding is generally considered really bad for you and your reputation. Makes the planet useless to you and makes you ...

I have the same issues, and I'm pretty sure it starts when one of your auto ships goes into one of their systems, and they fire on your ship to 'defend' the system. Not sure what causes them to decide to fire on you, but something weird is going on there.

I know sometimes you can issue orders to ships that are being built and they will leave and fly around with unbuilt parts. Perhaps what happened to you is the same but the party unbuilt was the reactor or something else critical. Is it a big big?

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yeah seems that maintenance reduction also has a positive effect on being mega rich, but the assumption is, so is the AI<br/>
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It seems that the new patch does boost AI ship numbers by a considerable amount - im going to release a ...

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Actually, there should be both the Master Wishlist (Gameplay) and Modders Wishlist (Modding). These are two different things. They are in separate threads for a reason.
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There is no need for either of them in ...

The list from the ships and bases UI doesn't include other sized bases, you have to use the r-click method above. Just select the base from that UI then click go to unit, then do it from there.

I don't think you are understanding me, my actual output is lower then my total capacity. A lot lower, it's one third the size. This means most of my capacity isn't being used. What gives?

<t> I'm mid way into a game now, and it seems like I am super insane rich, my taxes are all on low and I can't seem to spend my money. I am playing the trader rats, so that might be it, but the maintenance reduction might be too much. I didn't use this before the patch though, so I'm not sure if ...

So I've built a ton of research bases, but I seem to not be getting any effect from them, why is this? Can you only have 1 base per planet?

My research page says I have total output of almost 1mil in weapons, but actual output of 350k, whats going on here?

There are WAY WAY too many stickies in this forum, and it kinda limits the front page.

Most of them are really really out of date anyways, and some aren't even in the right forum! Like modder's wishlist!

Yeah, when you select the planet with a foundry, there are two different troopers to choose from. Be careful of their names, can be confusing.

Is the fleet full? I find that if you order a fleet to pickup from a mostly empty planet, only 1 ship takes the order and the rest just drop the order immediately. It's kinda frustrating when you try to micro them, but it does work if you don't look to closely.

<t> I think he was asking about how slow the tech counters update, not how slow the progress is. On the topic of how slow they progress, the techs double in research time for each level of tech down the tree, and if there is a gap of 1 space, the next one costs 4 times as much, which is a very long ...

I was thinking more of mining stations without solar panels.

And the interceptors? I assumed the torpedo ones must have a drop off because their damage number is just so damn high.

<t> You really don't need to make an effort to learn it, just play with most automation on, then as you get each bit of the game, turn off that bit of the automation. It really helps to flatten the learning curve, and basically why the game doesn't need a difficulty slider. But I'd still like a ...

I'm comparing the damage of the different kind of fighters, but if the bombers have no drop off while the fighters do half damage at range, the bombers would be obviously better. Any idea about this new feature?

So can a gas mining ship fill it's own fuel if it's above a planet with it's gas? Or does the fuel have to go through a space port before it can be used as gas?

<t> If no, why do they have a luxury miner by default?<br/>
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Also, what space does the gas take up, cargo or fuel tank? Is is cargo for all the gases that aren't used by it's reactor and fuel tank for anything that is used by it's reactor? Should I be putting lots of gas tanks so my ...

How's it working with the new patch, or does it override the changes in the patch to AI shipbuilding? About to try it now with the patch.