<t> The issue is that this isn't just one game it is constant. The run of poor traits just goes on and on to the point I feel like I wish I didn't have any special characters as it becomes too frustrating to deal with them. There are a lot of ways to stop characters from becoming over powerful ...

<r> I agree with the above. Every time I succeed at something my characters become worse not better. I don't understand why there are any negative traits. These are my best of the best where best of the best obviously means drunken, weak, corrupt individuals who drag down everything they touch. If I ...

Thanks for the info - I'll look into it.

<t> I am occasionally getting an error thrown on galaxy creation where there is an XNA error thrown around loading tiny font. The game then hangs even if I push continue (not surprising really). It is not consistent and normally on a reload it vanishes. I had a bout of them last night and I had to ...

Thanks you all for the replies - it makes a lot more sense now It is just I have played dozens of games and never hit this event - maybe I was just inordinately lucky.

<r> Well, I don't often get upset at something but this one got me <E>:)</E><br/>
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I had an excellent leader for my race with happiness, population and other bonuses (and two good traits gains in a row) when I suddenly get a message informing that the leader has been ousted for incompetence ...

<t> I think the issue is (and the fix is) that when a fleet has an Order set for it manually and it then reacts to an event, it should remember the Order and go back to doing it. I also think Orders to refuel and repair / refit when issued should also remember the last Order the fleet had and return ...

<t> Thanks Bingeling but I already have the auto upgrade etc. turned off for the designs and it just ignores that and goes right ahead and does the refit. I have played with this a bit and it appears to happen when I have a military type tech change (weapon, shield, etc.) but not a passive one ...

<t> Hi all, thanks for the info. The way I am playing is with automatic design turned on and then using the uncheck option to stop auto design update. I also set the ships to manual update. So when looking at the design screen it is manual and manual for the design and update columns.<br/>
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<t> Hi, I have been playing the game for a few months and slowly mastering it but one thing confounds me. I want to have a few designs of each ship (military) but I don't want to have to manually do every other ship type.<br/>
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However, even though I have the designs set to manual for both ...