I've got a few colonies up to around a billion(1000M) population now, leaving taxes at 0% so they could grow faster. I'm wondering when I should start taxing them, is there a revenue or a growth bump at some point?

I'm still on RotS. It only put me down to dubious which was recovered to satisfactory after a short amount of time, presumably from free trade agreements or some other diplomatic deals.

<t> I've recently encountered an independent, hostile population. I was going to leave them be, but I've colonised another planet in the system which is losing approval because they are impressed by the the independent colony's size and development and the approval penalty keeps growing and will ...

Sorry, but was a feature list for the upcoming expansion released or something? If so can I get a link? Or is this just a discussion of a possible feature?

Best of wishes to those affected by the Christchurch disaster.

Nice

The AI keeps suggesting ship building orders but when I pull up the build menu, nothing is there. It says that it would cost XXX and it's been doing it for quite a while now.
1.5.0.4

Ah...

An unrelated question since I can't find it in search nor does it really need it's own thread;

Is it normal that there's a race about one or two years in that has Super Beam weapons? I can't even find that on the tech tree.

I'll try the fleets, shouldn't be too hard to get the hang of it.

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Cheese, a tip for you. Pirates will tell you of an independent colony, and its a trick, they guard the colony. So, if they do give you this info, send a fleet of military ships while that colonyship is being built [;)]<br/>
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Or buy ...

Thanks.

The independent colony started an empire and the AI is keeping a destroyer there which is holding off attacks, which works pretty well for me, I'd rather have this independent grow and have a strong ally.

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I recently started up a new game and I bought some info on an independent colony from some pirates. It was the same race as me, Human, but quite distant. At some point the AI suggested that I send a colony ship and I decided to agree, seeing as it's almost as developed as ...

<t> I've got 2 locations now, investigating them both. It also seems to help to have good relations with the zenox, they've revealed quite a lot of locations to me.<br/>
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Edit: I just investigated some ruins and some refugees running from a 'brutal race' have asked to join me. Hopefully these ...

<t> Hey, recently got DW, it's pretty awesome.<br/>
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I'm in my first game and I've got a decent empire going with almost all the galaxy explored either through my own exploration or galaxy map trades. I've got both normal and RotS storylines on and I've been following the beacon things up to ...