I am not sure that there is a maximum distance as such.

Tourists tend to go to nearby resorts with scenic bonuses and colonies with larger populations generate more tourists to travel. Closer colonies means that your passenger ships can make more trips in the same time.

The ice planet with the scenery bonus, yes. Might wait a bit if you already have better locations or if not much population (yours or others) nearby.

At a monument, probably not. (If the desert moon is roughly 70%+ quality it would make a good colony though.)

The Ketarov are nearly always the early tech leaders in my high tech cost games. They don't come back to the field until most of the galaxy catches up with the pirates.

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I will just build 2 of them, considering that in later-game stage money is the least Im short with. Hell even if I crash all the research and build excessive stations and fleets, it still flows in faster than I could spend... Also, I will ...

Actually corwin90 if anybody is going to get sent off here it is you since your comment adds absolutely nothing but snark to the thread. It certainly does not add anything to the discussion.

<t> You can definitely place research labs on ships and they will function. (There is an old but very funny AAR where it was necessary since the homeworld kept having its spaceport trashed at the beginning of the game.) I'm pretty sure you will get the scientist bonuses as well. But you cannot ...

<t> Did you actually bother to read the thread? <br/>
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I wanna see you defend (or attack [;)] for that matter) two systems at once with your mega-ship...<br/>
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Or to pushing your logic to its extreme - the winning strategy would be to have one mega-powerful fleet of max sized ships and ...

<t> My experience is the same as Tanaka's and (to a degree) tjhkkr's. A high stakes crapshoot, as I put it elsewhere.<br/>
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I have been playing Kiadian's (so no racial spy bonus...) recently and with a spy with +20 espionage I will steal something like 1500k worth of tech. (I play 999k tech ...

Do you have a colony to build them at? Unlike other ship types construction ships (plus resupply ships and colony ships) must be built at a colony. Usually it takes a long time for pirates to enable these.

You could try a third party key remapping program, such as Autohotkey. Not sure if it works with DW.

Was this with either 1.9.5.6 patch?

<t> From what i have understood from earlier posts (which colours what I think I have seen replicated in the game...) there are two mechanisms by which characters can be generated. The one that Erik's comment refers to is a limit to the number of characters based upon empire size (population, I ...

<t> The Naxxilians will make better tank drivers, stronger upon initial recruitment, but more importantly much cheaper to maintain.<br/>
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A Gizurean colony will be unhappy from being part of a Securan empire, but in the normal course of play it really just means you can't tax them as much ...

You, or the AI, can invade without declaring war but the reputation drop for doing so is much larger than if you had declared war.

<t> No I am not sure about what the cutoff is. Would need some testing by someone interested in taking this approach... [;)]<br/>
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The other tweak (which won't change the 'bigger' equation though) is to go through the policy files, and probably design files as well, and adjust the AI to build ...

<t> I should add that I'm not convinced by the 'bigger=better' argument. There is some truth to it... if we are talking battle fleets where destroying other ships/bases is the aim. On the other hand although you get more bang for your buck, like with resources, sheer quantity is often not as ...

Have you tried permanently firing Strength in Numbers for all races? It's a bit clumsy but that would at least give a taste of gameplay where smaller ships have cheaper maintenance...

<t> 704k is the research (before bonuses) your empire can do.<br/>
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1200k/1150k/1200k is the labs your empire has which can do research. You have far too many... All you need is labs totaling a little bit over 704, so something like 250/250/250 would leave a bit of room. All those extra don't ...

The cap for gases is 4x that for minerals. Otherwise extraction rate depends on the number of mining engines and the mining tech level.

The game requires Windows Media Player to run. Does windows 8.1 come with this? Also try running with admin privileges. Not sure if this will be helpful but since you were online hoping to play... Best of luck. You will enjoy once it starts working. [:)]