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by Omnius
Thu Aug 28, 2025 4:19 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Absolute Ignorance!
Replies: 12
Views: 1397

Re: Absolute Ignorance!


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 ...
by Omnius
Thu Aug 28, 2025 4:12 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Absolute Ignorance!
Replies: 12
Views: 1397

Re: Absolute Ignorance!


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 ...
by Omnius
Tue Aug 19, 2025 2:10 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Absolute Ignorance!
Replies: 12
Views: 1397

Re: Absolute Ignorance!

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 ...
by Omnius
Fri Aug 08, 2025 6:31 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2: Tech Support
Topic: 1.3.1.1 Mining Station Build Limit or Bug?
Replies: 1
Views: 3558

Re: 1.3.1.1 Mining Station Build Limit or Bug?

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 ...
by Omnius
Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:07 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Anniversary Update and Livestream
Replies: 4
Views: 1612

Re: Anniversary Update and Livestream

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 ...
by Omnius
Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:02 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Bad Anniversary Update
Replies: 1
Views: 2903

Bad Anniversary Update

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 ...
by Omnius
Fri Aug 08, 2025 1:05 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2: Tech Support
Topic: 1.3.1.1 Mining Station Build Limit or Bug?
Replies: 1
Views: 3558

1.3.1.1 Mining Station Build Limit or Bug?

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 ...
by Omnius
Wed Aug 06, 2025 1:29 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: What's The Name of That Ship?
Replies: 2
Views: 162

Re: What's The Name of That Ship?

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.
by Omnius
Wed Aug 06, 2025 1:17 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Just Say No to Pirates!
Replies: 1
Views: 3499

Just Say No to Pirates!

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 ...
by Omnius
Wed Aug 06, 2025 1:07 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: What's The Name of That Ship?
Replies: 2
Views: 162

Re: What's The Name of That Ship?

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 ...
by Omnius
Wed Aug 06, 2025 1:04 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Absolute Ignorance!
Replies: 12
Views: 1397

Re: Absolute Ignorance!

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 ...
by Omnius
Tue Aug 05, 2025 1:19 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Incorrect Cash Flow Bottom Line
Replies: 0
Views: 3911

Incorrect Cash Flow Bottom Line

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 ...
by Omnius
Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:22 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Where is all my money going?
Replies: 11
Views: 773

Re: Where is all my money going?

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.
by Omnius
Mon Aug 04, 2025 1:19 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: What's The Name of That Ship?
Replies: 2
Views: 162

What's The Name of That Ship?

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 ...
by Omnius
Sun Aug 03, 2025 12:49 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2: Tech Support
Topic: Invisible Ships
Replies: 1
Views: 2959

Re: Invisible Ships

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 ...
by Omnius
Fri Aug 01, 2025 1:24 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2: Tech Support
Topic: Invisible Ships
Replies: 1
Views: 2959

Invisible Ships

I have one fleet of 5 ships that has gone invisible on me. When zoomed in I can access the fleet and see where all 5 ships are placed from their circles but the actual ship is invisible. I did try removing the fleet but the ships still stayed invisible. I tried moving one ship around and I could ...
by Omnius
Fri Aug 01, 2025 1:20 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Absolute Ignorance!
Replies: 12
Views: 1397

Re: Absolute Ignorance!

I forgot to mention that I'm playing in a large 10x10 spiral galaxy so the distances involved were considerable.

After removing the ignorantly placed colony I'm moving along in my game and now know how to deal with this unfortunate situation in the future. I hope this will serve as a warning to ...
by Omnius
Thu Jul 31, 2025 2:30 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2: Tech Support
Topic: Automated Scout Ship Bug
Replies: 6
Views: 7522

Re: Automated Scout Ship Bug

Sadly I don't have a saved game file. I'm a paying customer, not a beta tester.
by Omnius
Thu Jul 31, 2025 2:28 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2
Topic: Absolute Ignorance!
Replies: 12
Views: 1397

Absolute Ignorance!

I'm playing on version 1.3.0.3 with 4 DLC's installed and no mods. I ran into an incredible set of truly ignorant events that make me wonder if I should have ever bought this game in the first place. I'm a big fan of the original DW, sans the U. I've been waiting like ten years to finally meet and ...
by Omnius
Mon Jul 28, 2025 2:12 pm
Forum: Distant Worlds 2: Tech Support
Topic: Duplicate System Names
Replies: 2
Views: 4881

Duplicate System Names

In my first new game in a year, now in version 1.3.0.3, my home system is Durvalla. Not far away is another system named Durvalla. Not far from them there is another pair of duplicate system names. Considering how long this game has been out now this is really sloppy work leaving something as basic ...

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