<t> combat has always been this way, the fleet acts like a single unit and they all attack one ship and it is a pian to get them to break off that target to attack another one. I want my ships to break off from a target once they have beaten it to the point where it cant fight, once they have ...

I think the slugs will sometimes go back inside the planet to hide and pop back out as a ship gets within attack range. At least that is what it looks like to me.

they have always missed a few that are later found by builders or colony ships.

They also will skip any systems where you got a map discovered event. So any ruins in those systems are never visited.

<t> that is normal, the game sometimes randomly will stick you in the same system as another race. Then it is a race to see who can crush the other one first. Not a bug. with 20 + races it will happen more often then it does with few races. You can't build there cause it does not belong to you, so ...

if you queue build , it should build in the right location. Manual placement is way to tricky.

I do know you can't keep pirate ships cuase the AI still sees them as pirates and will attack even if you are the best of friends and had babies together.

<t> set you range to current target, Stance to nearby , posture to attack and empire attack/bombard to nearby targets. (this returns your stance after battle) They will then only attack stuff near them when automated. If you dont want them to attack anything at all unless you command them the fight ...

yea 100 years to build a tank in CIV was crazy

go to Control Panel\System click advanced system settings, go to advanced tab, click on preformance, go to advanced and change the virtual memory setting to a custom size and make it 3 tims the recommended sizes. save and close.

I was getting these alot on my 32 bit machine but have not gotten them yet on my 64 bit with 10g mem

some will be stripped away to move to other empires that are near thjose planets but it should never drop that low.

agreed, that kind of caused me a few issues before.

which ver of the game are you playing

I am sorry most of us can't read German so it is kind of hard to figure out what your issue is. Are you playing with the latest patch?

Don't overwrite the game files, any custom files you want to use are to be placed in the customization folder as a mod.

<t> Did you try starting a game with out shutting down and re-launching. I get this error if I played a game for a while and then try to start a new one. If I shut down and re-start, I am fine. You did not load the mod over the orginal files if not then you can delete the mod folder and set the game ...

<t> The game does crash alot on vista. I found the latest beta patch does make it run somewhat better then before. I also found that I can not run games larger than 700 stars. Also turn off auto save, that cuases my games to crash. Do your saves manually every few hours and make sure to keep a ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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Ok, one last battle screen, this one of a pirate raid, and I need to get back to work. Still a lot of final production tasks to finish and not much time left...<br/>
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(Oh, also we replaced the official attack alarm sound [8D])<br ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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The much requested updated ground combat screen, taking community feedback into account. This is one from a Mortalen homeworld planet with lots of troops. You'll see the armor units in the front row, infantry behind, planetary defense ...

I run it at 1280 x 1024.