In the otpions menu you'll find checkboxes for all the different types off pop-ups, just turn them off. On this same page you can turn automation on and off for different areas of the game, so you won't get suggestions all the time, like declaring war, colonisation and such.

Thanks for the quick reply Erik, glad to know you considered this also.

MasterChief, I agree that would have been nice !

<t> I was thinking that government type of your empire affecting character generation rate might be a good idea. For example, playing as a human military dictatorship it seems kind of silly to have -20% admirals and generals, or a Mortalen diplomacy with -30% ambassadors? The race should still be ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>When a colony wants goods for its construction project, it should ask its local spaceport for it. If the spaceport does not have it, it should ask the local trade hub. And if the trade hub does not have it should ask all its "local space ports" and if that fails, ask its ...

Great, thank you Elliot.

23, judging by the responses I guess I'm an old bastard at heart! [:'(]

Loving the expanded territory size on larger galaxies, a lot more contested bases in my game all of a sudden !

Pretty sure they do ?

Didn't look right to me either, thanks for confirming. I knew you could be trusted the moment I saw Adama's face! [:)]

<r> Thanks for the help, that might be it. I'm getting really confused to be honest. Here, easier if I just post this.<br/>
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Some bonuses are applied to your empire (e.g., research, ship maintenance) and some, like war weariness and troop bonuses stick with their native populations. So your Mortalens will recruit troops quicker and not suffer as bad ...

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I've never noticed these problems before. In fact when I had -10% to skills and +10% to skills before they cancelled each other out fine and I thought it was a bug because I couldn't find that skill in my characters list (because it was 0 ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>However, that may be out of date. It seems as though, based on my current games, the bonus you get scales with the size of their population. I found a colony ship full of Zenox, and when I used it to found a colony I received a -1% ship maintenance bonus (the full Zenox ...

My intelligence agent has 2 traits, lawful(-10% to all his skills but counter-espionnage) and sober(+10% to all his skills) yet he stays at -10% in everything. It's like sober doesn't count.I imagine they should cancel each other out. Is this a bug or am I missing something ?

How much population of an other species do you need within your empire in order to gain their racial bonuses? I know I saw this somewhere in the galactopedia but I'm having trouble finding it.

<t> I would like to be able to add ships to my fleets directly from the fleet screen, also numbers to indicate how many ships of each type(escorts, frigates, etc.) are in a particular fleet. This would make fleet management much easier than doing this from the ships screen, especially later in the ...

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I haven't played for a while and got the Email to say a 2nd expansion had been released the features looked interesting so I gave it a go. I must say how much better the game gets with each expansion and I'm really enjoying the game again. <br/>
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That would get you a big reputation hit. Any offensive action without a declaration of war hits your Rep, except killing freighters during a blockade, I think.
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Right, makes sense. Before that happened I had destroyed their starbase and had the planet blockaded, with no hate from my people as I wasn't officially at war...What if I had just sent in my transports without declaring war ?

2. Automatic exploration sucks. My exploration ships just sit "waiting". "Waiting" on what?

Was the explorer damaged? I believe that if the ship's hyperdrive is damaged after an attack it won't be able to explore.