He probably has them toggled off.  Just above the minimap are 3 little buttons for toggling ...drumroll... the background squares, the movement range lines, and also scanner coverage.

<t> Hopefully these haven't been mentioned in this huuuuge list:<br/>
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It would be nice to flag a planet as OFF LIMITS so some of your patrol ships didn't try to go there. Maybe because of a monster or a pirate base you aren't quite ready to deal with. My empire patrol boats were always going ...

<t> I always wanted to be able to mod the resource model and construction requirements. DW has this fabulous economic simulation happening, but for the most part once you get access to a resource, you have enough of it. You just have to wait for it to get carted around for new spaceports on fringe ...

You have the Supernova expansion right?&nbsp; For example, Gems, Rare Minerals, Artifacts are trade items.&nbsp; Majestic Heavens, Natural Wonders, Amazing Wildlife are tourism items.&nbsp; There are others, some of which Iceman mentioned above.

<t> To create an internal trade route you first need a trade good special at your planetary system or a tourism special.&nbsp; You then build a level 2 Space Port at the exporting system and level 1 landing zones at the importing system.&nbsp; Tourism needs a level 3 passenger space port at the ...

<t> Woodman, I love these shipsets and wanted to express my appreciation at all the hard work you put into them. I've used many of them in my custom games because I hate it when races have the same shipset, so I was really happy when I found these.<br/>
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I wanted to give a bit of feedback ...