<r> In my latest game, there was a <B><s>[b]</s>very<e>[/b]</e></B> powerful enemy that was on the other side of an ally of mine. The enemy declared war on my ally, and I declared war in keeping with our Mutual Defense Pact. Some of the enemy's earliest targets were the refueling points near its ...

I think I'll do my next game in a cluster map again -- I like the idea of getting from one cluster to another being a challenge. I'm not so sure we should race to decrease the distance?

I believe there's a technology you need to research before you can build resupply ships, much like you need a certain technology before you can build carriers.

<t> I do sandbox almost exclusively. Few very engaging games in Legends so far. I've especially noticed that the "Normal" difficulty is much more difficult, it seems. Probably has something to do with AI preparing for attacks? Setting postures is awesome and (mostly) effective. Better AI has made me ...

Moaning? I thought we were encouraged to provide feedback on our experience here? Was I mistaken?

I think that's kind of my point: it was happening so much that it wasn't fun.

<t> Early game, I'm engaged in a minor war, and my capital planet gets hit with an Earthquake. Ravages my economy. I keep my military going from my cash stores... but I ramp-down construction just enough to keep the war at a stand-still, hoping to make peace.<br/>
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Just as my capital is ...

I used to play primarily with clusters, but the larger scale is making irregular maps play fantastic.

Purchased via paypal using Chrome on OS X. Purchase completed no problem. Download was speedy and complete.

Aha -- this was the case: I had previously been using the "Star Trek" theme from TRSE, and had added custom empires (5 of them, in fact). When I got to the other empires screen, the error was happening again. Once I removed all of them, the errors stopped.

Also interesting: the message popped up 5 times in a row, and during new game setup, the "Your Empire" slider for "Home System" was all the way down to "Harsh", where it has never been set -- and there are 5 options in that slider. Related?

RotS

<r> With Diverse Worlds set as the active theme, I get this error when starting a new game from the main menu:<br/>

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</i> The following exception occurred in the DataGridView:

System.ArgumentException: DataGridViewComboBoxCell value is not valid.

To replace this ...