Mortalen never, or at least very seldom perform well as an AI empire. As you said, playing Mortalen with military dictatorship or feudalism is generally a bad experience. I've run them as republic, and then they perform better, but as you said is a bit out of character.

Great to see! I really appreciate the continued support of the game.

During my current game one of my automated fleets cleared a well guarded neboulousa system. I checked the combat and found that there were colonizers from 5 different factions bouncing in and back out (retreating due to enemies). When I defeated the enemies they raced to colonize.

Congratulations ...

In my last game I played the AI starting burning all my money after winning the pirates over. The game started autobuilding ships like mad to fill up fleets getting all the separate pirate ships.It was nearly impossible to build any high cost facilities as the game never saved enough money to do it ...

When I started playing I changed some hotkeys to my liking. I don't do that anymore, because they get reset all the time.

Started playing a game as Wekkarus. Love the design of the ship and species, great work.

Since you not provide any metric or data or specs your post literally says nothing.
If you would add system specs, game size, game stage (mid-late-ect) with some CPU use numbers/screen you would add some meaning to your statement.
Just sayin...


It was not my intention to go into technical ...

I recently upgraded my 7 year old CPU and got a modern CPU with much higher performance and a lot more cores (got new motherboard, RAM etc of course). What surprised me was how the Distant Worlds 2 just scaled up and basically used more cores still at a fairly high load. I got the game set to use ...

Great news, big improvements on many fronts. And also nice overhaul of Zenox and Boskara.

Really like the design on both the species and the ships, with similar looking appendages.

apd1004 wrote: Sun Mar 09, 2025 2:07 pm Try setting construction of new bases to "recommend" and I'll bet you'll get a prompt requesting to build the same base that it won't let you manually build.

Yep, it does that. The advisor has some secret path to the site I guess. : )

When at war with the AI, the AI often sends colonization ships to do annoynance outposts and colonies far inside your territory.

The UI is poor at telling me when these are incoming so I can stop them. I've managed to stop it sometimes, but mostly due to luck as it is hard taking notice of an enemy ...

Small version change but some really good things in the 1.2.9.5 update, thank you.

@Buio - I noticed you uploaded the save through our issue report system. I'm unable to reproduce admirals returning to a fleet with only troop transports. I see them assigned to 2 of your strongest fleets, while your generals are with the fleet with troop transports.

Do you have other examples of ...

Great news! Like the design and the new ships. Looking forward to play the Atuuk. Of course I will push the button. ; )

I'm playing 1.2.9.2 as Mortalen in my current game. No special settings or mods.

My best mortalen admiral insisted moving several times to an troop transport fleet with almost no fleet power. I moved him manually to a fleet with high fleet power, but he went back several more times to the troop ...

Sadly no, I abandoned that game and restarted. But game seemed to work as far as I got.

File links sent with the Issue Report form.

I will check if I have a save before the gift. I can create one after as the ships are still not taken in use.

In the current game I'm good friend with an Ackdarian empire, and they started a war with an Teekan empire who I'm no friend of.

I had just created a small but powerful fleet of found derelict ships. I sent them to an Ackdarian system, then disbanded the fleet and gave all ships to them. But as ...