I waited for many years after playing DW sans the U DLC for DW2 to come out with the Shakturi DLC and all I can say is it's been a big disappointment. A tedious boring game that lacks challenge.

I finally met the Shakturi and found them to be total wimps. There were 4 gravitic rifts stupidly placed ...

Manual control in this game is the worst I've ever seen in any game! It's a sad nightmarish joke where sometimes ships don't move when they're ordered to and sometimes ships move without any manual orders. I never had such problems with manual control with that worthless paradox garbage stellaris ...

The worst default setting fail is the fact that we can't permanently change the default settings and have them stay changed once we leave the game. After that the lame default settings come back.

The fleet sort by lowest strength is really poorly thought out and rather useless. Fleet sort by name ...

Use that ship for target practice to improve ship combat skills.

I've always been a fan of playing on manual control and did so in DW once I saw how pathetic the Artificial Ignorance was at controlling fleets, ships and colonies. Sad to report that DW2 is a big step backwards for playing with manual control.

Someone posted that playing on manual control was easy ...

I agree, the random event does add variety and immersion. Sometimes the random events work in your favor and sometimes they don't.


This silly nonsense is why I hate having Artificial Ignorance controlling my ships. I would never waste a scout on a stupid long-distance lost colony, would rather ...

And what I do is just immediately grant the colony independence if it's too far away. No need to use the editor.


I didn't know this was an option but I gave this idea a try and now use it as standard procedure unless a newly found lost colony is actually within close distance of my empire and ...

I finally figured out the problem. It's ruins that have the lost colony event that tells of a lost colony somewhere far, far away. The problem is that the Artificial Ignorance will send a scout pretty much regardless of distance, if it can reach the colony on a one way mission it'll go investigate ...

After doing some testing and getting some feedback on Steam I found that my problem was a negative private cash on hand number. However I did see a new bug as I could still build resort stations with negative private cash on hand which is wrong since resort stations are built with private cash.

I ...

Released too soon with some new bugs like not being able to build mining stations with my construction ships and from what I read on Steam facility costs are screwed up. The update was rushed out with great fanfare yet too little beta testing. I have to halt play until I can build mining stations ...

I'm really miffed that this new 1.3.1.1 anniversary update has brought my play to a screeching halt. I can no longer build mining stations with my manually controlled construction ships. I can build monitoring, research or resort stations fine. I have 91 mining locations, including 23 colonies. I ...

I have the new anniversary update and now I find that I can no longer build mining stations with my construction ships. I have 91 mining locations including 23 colonies. I never heard of a mining station build limit in the original DW so I'm thinking that this has to be a new bug just introduced ...

I went into the game editor and found that I could edit my empire color to a nice bright lime green color. Now the ship and base names pop out so easy to read. I'll have to see if I can choose empire color in the game selection screens next time.

The more I'm playing this game again the more worthless pirates are to me. Now that I have the Shakturi DLC I found that saying yes to the initial pirate contact which offers to join our side for 20-25K is actually a good bet as it gives us some early ships as well as the artifact that unlocks in ...

I'm playing the Humans and their faction color is purple so that's where the ignorant purple color is coming from for ship and base names in the tooltip boxes. I remember in some space game I was able to choose faction color when setting up a new game, even choose which ship style to use. It would ...

I got this idiotic Trojan Horse Poison Pill nonsense again yesterday while playing, not just once but twice in less than an hour of play. This time I made sure to use the Game Editor to erase those Ignorantly placed lost colonies plus out-of-fuel scouts as soon as they appeared.

This is the most ...

As an accountant of over 40 years when I look at the financial statement page I see one big glaring error. The Cash Flow total box is placed under the Projected column only. The most important place to put the Cash Flow total box is under the Current column so that players can see if their current ...

Better to manually control tax rates and ship construction. The pathetic automation just does such a poor job of running the economics. A shame the devs won't invest time in improving the pathetic automation instead of wasting time with meaningless pirate garbage.

I'm having difficulty reading ship names in the ship tool tip info box. Incredibly lame to place a name in purple on a dark background, especially so since purple is used as a galaxy background color.

Always use light lettering on dark backgrounds and vice versa! Please use a smarter color than ...

I finally figured out the problem I think. I had created a planet with the Game Editor but was clumsy and actually created two, one on top of the other. I did find 2 of the 5 by moving the fleet away from the planet. After I removed the first planet, with my colony, I saw that the other 3 ...