<r> I had the same issue - Launcher starts, you click "Play Distant Worlds", then nothing happens. No error message. Just nothing. Since I hadn't played DW on my current PC, this was the first time I'd tried it in at least a year, maybe two.<br/>
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First give this a read:<br/>
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No disaster or bombardment. This was my home world. Both before and after, the planet quality was 100.

<t> Ok, I found a save approx 10 minutes before the issue and replayed up until the maxing out of the population.<br/>
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Most probably, the bug was the high initial population. When I reloaded the game, this time the population maxed out at ~28 billion. Then I applied the 65% rate rate and it ...

<t> I have huge issues with the AI of fixed installations.<br/>
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I normally use missiles and phasers, both weapons types have no distance penalty, so this issue wasn't as noticeable to me before. Anyway I decided to try plasma weapons this game with a 2pt per 100 range drop in power. Boy was ...

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Do you have a save file for this that you could upload?

Only one from 30 minutes or so after it happened. Any use?

<t> So my homeworld is a Q100 Planet. I built a lot of wonders on it (development level 175) and dropped the tax rate to 0. I wanted to know what the best-case max population of the planet was.<br/>
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After about 15 years of a 30% growth rate, I finally hit max population ~35billion. Great ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Spidey<br/>
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If you're up for a little test then design a simple ship with plenty of armor, no shields, no ion defense, and use the game editor to give the pirates one of those close to your base. It will attack your base and the ion pulse thing should fire ...

ORIGINAL: Pappy

I had the same problem. What was the intended purpose of this option?

It might as well be renamed to:


[x] Make game unplayable.

<t> I've installed Ion Pulses (area effect weapons - 10x each) on my mining bases. When they fire the effect is centred on the attacking ship, not my base. Ie the "wave" is centred on the enemy and radiates out from them, not me.<br/>
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It also appears than the ion damage has no effect on the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Spidey<br/>
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Check if your game has "clean galaxy map" activated. It's at the bottom of the window that pops up when you click on "advanced settings" in options.<br/>
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Edit: It's only available when you access options from the main menu, by the way ...

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<t> Since steam auto-updated me to 1.9.5.2, I can no longer see Ships (even my own), Fleets, Pirate Bases, Empire Influence, or Travel Vectors on the galaxy map. Thus making the game unplayable.<br/>
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1.9.5.1 did not have this issue. The ONLY thing that changed on my system was steam's ...

<t> Ok, so I started a new game with the latest 1.9.0.6 patch, just to be sure. It's about 24 years in, I'm the blue guy in the bottom left on the map. I've got 11 colonies, 10 (+1 building) with small star ports, each with 100 standard cargo bays and 10 docks.<br/>
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I'm getting warnings ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bingeling<br/>
Why would you have that? I see the AI built a heap (like 10+) and wonder why my medium empire sit with 4 mostly idle ones...
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I run out of resource X and all the current construction ships are busy so I build another two ...

<t> Wow that sound really time consuming. I usually have 80+ construction ships by mid game. Baby sitting them like that would be a PITA, not to mention a test of memory.<br/>
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As it now, I can't play the game in real time (1:1), having to pause every few seconds to issue new commands. <br ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Fishers of Men<br/>
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Could it be that our construction ships are stalling more when building things, or does it just seem that way because the Shadows expansion gives us the ability to know about the stalled construction?
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Astax<br/>
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Yes this can happen, and has happened to me. I would stop building manually and tell the constructor to repair instead. This sent it on a mission to pick up more materials.
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Thanks. I'll give this a go and see how it ...

<t> It seems to me that resources and resource movement in Shadows is dramatically different from Legends, or possibly bugged?<br/>
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In Legends I had everything under control. At least 5x sources for all luxuries, 20x sources for all strategic resources and the civilian economy moved ...

<r> Here's some suggestions I'd like to see from playing a hundred hours or so of DW + all expansions and 20 years of playing 4x space games in general.<br/>
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<B><s>[b]</s>1. Make an option where I'm told the "class" of ship under attack, rather than the "name".<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
It's much ...