If I upgrade one of more designs manually, they are marked in orage.

Will any new build order then automatically be made in the new design, instead of the old?

thx for the tip, gonna try that!

<t> The situation is this:<br/>
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I'm still early in the game, the pirates (or beats) keep attacking my mining ships, I send my fleet after them, and like like 40% of the situations they arrive in time and deal with it.<br/>
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But I can't manage to defend all my mining facilities..<br ...

so basicly its best to manually really explore with your ships, and see what's around

is there a way to make the game pause after they finished their mission?

do the exploration ships also look for ancient ships when you tell them to 'explore a vertain system' ?

or do they stop when they have visited all planets?

<r> thanks, that's a superb list <E>:)</E><br/>
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do have 1 question about exploring, if you tell an exploration ship to 'explore a system', will it also look for the ancient ships, or only explore planets?<br/>
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also, is there a way to make the game pause when for example an ...

<t> I've been reading a lot on the forums, and getting increasingly puzzled to what to do first when I start a new empire.<br/>
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Automation off, redesign ships immediately or not? manually explore, ...<br/>
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So my question is simple, for all the more experienced players:<br/>
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Thanks a lot for the replies, this will help a lot.

I was playing as humans, so that might explain the remote planets.

Also i had lots of exploration ships, but all on automation.. Gonna change that as well

from what i've seen you can automate as much or little as you want, so basically its your own decision

<t> From what Ive seen, the AI seems to colonize a lot of planets near their home planet, but for myself, my exploration ships took very long to find planets, and when they did, it was almost always pretty remote, giving me a hard time protecting everything..<br/>
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Am I doing something wrong ...

thanks a lot, installing right away tonight!!

thx, gonna try that!

I was in my first game, and after half a day of play, I think I overdid a bit on the vastness of the game, gonna restart and make a smaller game to get the hang of it

I've found what seems to be an old fleet, so I assigned 2 contructions ships to repair the ships.

Both have been repairing a ship for several years now, I gues this isn't normal?

What can I do to speed up?

Thanks!

<t> Seems like I managed to get it working after 1.5h of messing around.<br/>
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My system is Win 7, 64 bits<br/>
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- uninstall DW and expansions<br/>
- remove all DW related entries from your registry<br/>
- go to control panel, windows features<br/>
- turn off IE9, Windows media ...

seems I managed to install it, I'll open a thread, maybe the mods can add it in the FAQ?

seems the issue I(m having is quite common, with no real fix atm?

spent 50€ for a game that doesn't work on my pc, great ...

I've tried to uninstall everything, run the cleanup tool, reinstall again, still the same problem

can't find anything else to do, can someone help me?

I just bought the game with all expansions, installed & updated, and I have the same problem

also on win 7 64bits

any thoughts?