Another (real life) day of playing. I've built about 4 or so research academies. After a few dozen more years I still only have 1 scientist.

This is a bit too long for bad luck. Maybe my save is bugged?

With resettle, I've noticed that once populations reach 1 mil, that number stays there. It seems resettle won't completely drain an entire population and leaves at least a million on the planet.

Is there a way to drain the rest off the planet?

<t> I did the same setup in a separate game and got 3 scientists early.<br/>
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What I do at the start of a pre-warp game is redesign the small star port to carry 5 of each type of LAB, so I don't have to stack separate research stations on my home planet with the star port. I think it also ...

You mentioned adding recreational and medical centers to the star bases, but what about the commerce center?

<t> Yeah, it's just the first time playing this game that I've had a drought like this. Usually when I play humans I get 2 or 3 more scientists within my first dozen years or so. I guess I should try building more research stations but from my understanding they're useless unless a scientist ...

Does the game treat the differently sized star ports in different ways? With my current setup I've designed the "Small Starport" to just be my customized Home Colony star port that's bigger than a medium star port. I even added like 20 construction yards on it and everything.

Death by a thousand paper cuts?

<t> This pre-warp game I'm currently playing as Humans, I've only obtained one scientist from when my first space port was built.<br/>
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I'm a good couple (real life) days in this game now, and I have not gotten one new scientist since the beginning of the game, which is really hampering my ...

<t> I feel like all the pirates from my half of the galaxy aim for my stuff in particular. When pirates raid me, it's often several different pirate factions at once, as if the universal pirate AI works on the same clock or something. They're like cockroaches, they always manage to squirm away after ...

<r> So currently, the fastest way for me to check out all known Ancient Ruins in my galaxy is to open up the Galaxy map, select Ancient Ruins in the drop down menu, click on any yellow dot on the map, click the "Go to Select Ruin" button, zoom aaaaall the way in, look for the 3 dots, click on the ...

I've had raids instantly succeed on my new world as soon as the pods touch the ground, even if I have some troops loaded onto it.

<t> I'm having a different issue now.<br/>
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Got 100% control of an Empire's homeworld pre-warp. Built a pirate base and it completed. Also noted at this point is that for some strange reason I couldn't immediately build a pirate fortress afterward despite having 260k in funds. They eventually ...

<t> Apparently, if I raid a planet that also has my own hidden pirate base in it, it'll add to the defense power of the home world. If the raid succeeds, I lose my hidden pirate base and the control rating drops. Do hidden pirate bases increase control over time? I heard that population maxes out ...

I guess the only way to get rid of planets is having a bad reputation. I was getting bored of being heroic anyways though, no one ever fights me.

So I know I lose reputation for bombing colonies, but what about independent planets?

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ob1ivion<br/>
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Gift it to an ally or if it's really horrible, gift it to an enemy?
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Nice idea, although giving it to another enemy kind of defeats the purpose of taking it from an enemy from the first place. I would just ...

<t> So I'm at war with a neighboring faction. I can take their colonies fine, but I don't actually want them due to variety of reason such as quality or position.<br/>
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I know I can use bombard weapons to wipe colonies out, but are there any less forceful/more reputable ways to abandon an ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: FerretStyle<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>For some reason almost all of my researcher characters spawn as Foreign spies or get the Foreign spy trait later on. I also got hit with economic crisis twice. I am ahead in probably both research and economy so could that ...

<t> Cool, I as a result of learning how resupply ships work I learned how to use the Ships & Bases browser better.<br/>
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Still having the Fleet Retrofit problem and having to command them to retrofit manually via the Ships & Bases browser though, unfortunately. It seems in general my ...

<t> Thanks for the precise replies to my previous questions. I have a couple more.<br/>
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After continuing my game for some hours, my ships started refitting themselves into some designs that I didn't know about, nor were my latest designs. I at first thought they didn't exist, but then I ...