<t> And Canute makes a very important point which we all must learn to do and that is to pace yourself. The going is slow in the beginning and you must overcome the nagging feeling that you are leaving something undone. This leads to over expansion before your economy can handle it and sadly this is ...

+1 lol [:D]

Thanks for the info, gents. Good hunting and may the Gods of War smile on all your endeavors….

<t> Anyone have the amount of space each kind of trooper takes up when being transported on a ship? The in-game Book of Knowledge doesn't address it. Is there a method of loading less troops than the ship will hold instead of just selecting load troops button? How about determining probable success ...

<t> @feygan: "Unless things have changed in the last expansion pirates can steal your ship designs. It used to be escort/frigate classes they could build as their own. This meant if you had some 800 size frigate of death roaming around it could come back to haunt you from local pirates."<br/>
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<t> All good suggestions but I think I got had by the Random Number Generator's fickle finger of fate! [:-] No low class planets to develop either! That leaves a crash program of trying to develop terraforming tech while I just know that somewhere out there an AI is licking its chops at the prospect ...

Okay...that's what I was afraid of! I guess I'll call it a lesson learned and start over. Thanks for the help! [&o]

<t> I'm in a session where I have explored all systems within the range limit of my home world. My explorer ships have found colonizable worlds but they claim to be too far from my home world. Is there any way too overcome this problem or must I start over. Could the slider in the options panel be ...