Carewolf, that's simply a great idea! It would balance the game a lot more. Totally support this!

<r> At first, pure concentration on colonizations techs. <E>:)</E><br/>
Then, I personally like to make ships use raw power to defeat their foes. i.e. 6 reactors and a bunch of phasers. >:D<br/>
I also prefer to play with really high research costs, so it forces you a bit to concentrate research ...

In my last game, I had human colonies randomly switching to my empire, I bet it was caused by the automated taxes too, lol.

You know what, I'm happy. Because I'm not the only one... lol
Soso, it's time to fix this, guys.

<r> I can only say that in my games, there are independent colonies of many different races. With many times some colonies of my own race scattered around the homeworld. <br/>
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I have been wondering though, that maybe if a certain race is not in-game as a main player, they get spawned as ...

Just had the same error after playing a long time... In a newly started game. The savegame and error details can be posted, just send me a message.

<r> Savegame has been uploaded to the server under the name of "Strange crash bartomanboy December 29 (1.7.0.6 & 1.7.0.7).dwg"<br/>
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P.S. The crashdump <E>:)</E><br/>
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Distant Worlds - Crash Dump - 1.7.0.6<br/>
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21:10:05 Thursday, December 29, 2011<br/>
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Just downloaded the 1.7.0.7 beta version and loaded the savegame. Which resulted in the same error.

<r> I seem to get this error all the time after loading my savegame for a while.<br/>
I have no idea what it is, but it's kindof sad, since I can't continue my game as the error pops up at a certain time in-game.<br/>
A picture is added. The game version is Distant Worlds: Legends 1.7.0.6<br/>
I ...

Tschai, by Jack Vance. A book I read over and over again every few years!

<r> I am still learning the game, but I think I found an explanation for it. Always when I find a new empire, and swap territory maps, half of my freighter fleet gets dispatched because there are cheaper sources for raw materials in any of their systems. (Mostly their capital) Bad thing is, they don ...

Yeah, I was wrong about the largest storage thing, it was just a thought of mine.
Still, what I find interesting is that I got good gas planets with mining stations all over my empire. Still they seem to prefer caslon from an AI's capital? That's something I don't understand.

<t> It seems that my civilian ships don't think about distance when my empire needs a resource.<br/>
Lets say my empire is in need of caslon, they go get caslon at the planet with the largest storage of caslon, which is often some alien capital planet on the other side of the galaxy.<br/>
This ...