<r> Oh, I just spotted the difference between STARBASE and SPACEPORT in our discussions. <br/>
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So I defer to everyone suggesting it is pointless to build spaceports over every planet - because if I understand right, if I build STARBASES over the planets, I will still get my defence ...

<r> Thanks for observations, its good to talk about this aspect of the game. <br/>
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Regarding 2: My overall approach to private sector is <B><s>[b]</s>MILKING<e>[/b]</e></B>. They always swim in the money so why not? <br/>
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A. I used to redesign the civilian sector ships/bases to have ...

<t> Isn't the world heavily populated already? <br/>
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No numerical evidence at my hand right now, but my impresson is that in case of smaller colonies the percentage difference is much higher, but as the colony grows, the growth percentage is decreasing. Because of this, the strategy "keep ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Do you manually upgrade your mines to have more defences or do you just use default <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Yes, as the AI designed mines are not powerful enough.... no rocket sience tough, just adding couple shield modules, armor, figjhter bays (if available) and ...

<t> My strategy is the following:<br/>
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1. I defend every colonized (!) star system with a small FLEET of ships. At the beginning the fleet consist 3-5 ships of the biggest one I can build - I assign more and more ships as the game grows. <br/>
The fleet homebase is the colony of the system ...

<r> Yesterday I accidentally noticed the possibilty to set the Tax rate to 100%... several of planet had +60ish happiness at 40% tax with MAX pop, so I gradually increased the tax. <br/>
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While it is possible to increase the tax to 100% and it has a ...

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Okay you're right. They do attack - sorry for my mistake.<br/>
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I still hate resupply ships though. <E>:)</E>
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Do they? I saw in another topic as well you had the same problem as me (deployed ...

<r> With the latest update in place, is that normal that <B><s>[b]</s>DEPLOYED<e>[/b]</e></B> supply ships do not fire weapons? <br/>
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I built huge supply ships, which supposed to support my front line fleets, but they are unusable and requires too much micro as they cant protect themselves ...

If I saw well, in case of natural disasters, the terraforming facility eliminates any reduction IMMEDIATELY (I had one disaster hitting my homeworld, so I was very upset, but I was not far away from the research of the necessary tech...)

Hold on: so terraforming facility restores the planet quality after bombardment?

<t> IMO bombardment in it's current form is completely useless and must be avoided. You just make your prize you are fighting for (the colony) completely useless if you bombard it. I would like to see the possibility to prioritize the bombardment's target (eg: population, army, infrastructure etc ...

<t> Well... I cant really agree, I really miss the possibility to assign more than 1 constructor for building projects. Or the possibility to build advanced constructors to be able to build faster. <br/>
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IRL this would mean you can't hire more constructon workers when u build your house. Its ...

Thats why my policy is: if it is not broken, don't try to fix it

Let me guess... are you a developer IRL ?

Cause they used to fix things which they are not sure at all if broken [;)] but always claim this could cause an issue. And when I ask (as a testlead) that what should I look for/how to test the fix, they can't come up with anything....

<t> Afaik, if u have the proper sensor on your ship, u can see how many damaged components are on the WD, and u can see it is slowly decreasing as your ship repairs it. <br/>
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For me it used to take 1+ hours in real time (1x speed) until the WD is repaired... so I dare to say it is couple 10 ...

<r> Keep us informed.... or even better: how about attaching the savegame and lets see who could make the best from this starting setup in the shortest time (gametime I mean). It's like a home-cup <E>:)</E><br/>
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I also tought about invasion/bombing to solve it as quickly as possible. The ...

<t> In another topic we discussed the math behind the magic (cant post the link for a reason, the topic name is Research screen - please help me understand the numbers )<br/>
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In the 6th comment I created a little spreadsheet... that may make the whole research calculation clear:<br/>
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Ok, I misread the question. Happens But Bleek, at least try to be useful next time (like Darkspire).

As far as I know, the roles are strictly used by the automation, if you let the AI control your ship. The AI will assign the tasks to a specific ship based on it's role.

Well... I tend to agree with Sithuk regarding troop handling. Even just minor UI things could improve a lot the troop handling part (I raised a topic on actual bugs in the bug report forum), so land battles something which could be considered after it .