<t> The reason I thought that Orks and Nids would be unbalanced was mainly because of their extremely fast growth rate, which would result in huge populations meaning lots of taxes and big money. Since orks and tyranids pay taxes and all lol. Plus their strong troops and faster colonization research ...

Yeah, the planet destroyer mysteriously blowing up definitely sounds like sabotage. It has happened to me a couple of times.

<t> I know that there was once a 40k mod for legends, but from what I read here in the forums it doesn't look like it was ever finished. I currently have a monumental amount of time on my hands, so I would like to try and do one for Shadows. I think there is a modding expansion on the way, which has ...

I believe I've seen it in ice asteroids waay before the most recent update and thought that it didn't make a whole lot of sense, but I didn't think to report it. Who knows, maybe there are space mammoths.

The retrofit prompt works fine on my game. I don't think I'm doing anything differently on mine than you are on your's.

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IF DW has implement radar system, I think small ship has an advantage to be harder to detect by radar. Small frame means stealthier. While bigger hull mean that the enemy can see you from a far-far away. <br/>

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<t> My strategy may be a little cheap, but I tend to rush after wonders once I'm done researching the hyperdrive and colonization techs. I'm quite impatient, so I really like the High Speed Shipyards wonder. The Trader's Bazaar and the three Research speed wonders in the High tech tree are also a ...

I did manage to see my spaceport activate a hyperdeny field when it attacked a smuggling ship, so I guess that is working appropriately.

<t> The construction yard components do not stack as far as I know. In order to increase construction speed, you need to research the corresponding tech. This will also allow you to build bigger bases/ships.<br/>
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On the other hand, you could play as Ackdarians, as they have a ridiculous 60 ...

<t> I know that the Distant Worlds Extended mod changes the races' pictures, but it also comes with extra races. You may be able to download it and then manually swap out the pictures without adding the rest of the mod to wherever your game is located on your computer, if that makes any sense.<br ...

I once generated a galaxy that had at least four empire home worlds in one sector.

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I always scrap those random ...

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I've noticed in my current game with the beta patch that hyperdeny components onboard my ships never activate. I haven't seen whether hyperdeny on a base works or not.
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I've noticed this too. I've also ...

<t> When you choose the option to send your ships to a specific colony to load troops, they decide to pick some up at the nearest colony instead. This didn't happened before 1.9.0.12, so I assume it's a new thing. This only happens when you right click the star system the colony is in and select it ...

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Also beware. The Devastation Moon laser has an area effect.

Oh yeah. When I blew up my first planet, half my fleet went with it.

Yes it is with Shadows.

It also seems that alcoholism runs rampant in the upper echelons of my military. I had a game where every single admiral and general were drunks.

You pretty much mentioned all the good ones. The only three I would add would be the RTS games Dawn of War 1 and 2 and Star Wars: Empire at War. I love anything Warhammer 40k, and Empire at War had a galactic conquest mode that, in my opinion, had a 4x feel to it.

<t> I tend to do things similarly, except I also go for the high speed construction yards wonder as well. Makes cranking out colony ships a lot faster.<br/>
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As for the medicomplex wonder, it really depends on what race I'm playing. For example, Securans and Gizureans make it kinda irrelevant ...

<t> I'm not sure if this is the intended effect or not, but I've noticed that when fleet admirals have the hyperjump speed skill (or whatever its called), the only ship in the fleet that is affected is the one the admiral is on. I would think that it would affect the entire fleet, hence the name ...

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I didn't know about this. Question is though, once the entire galaxy is explored and the explorers go into their "sit around and do nothing" mode, do they *still* try to gather intelligence if the option is ticked or do they just do nothing ...