I'm with above who advised you to build up your fleet strength. Peace through strength. Also, getting others to DOW on bugs will also help. How do your covert assets compare to the bugs?

Very satisfied. Very, very satisfied. Oh and did I mention I am satisfied with DWU?

<t> One very frustrating thing about the resource planner is that moons are NOT listed with their parent planet. This means you can't select by name, hoping to see what’s in a specific system and make plans. All you see are the planets, (good so far) with random moons interspersed (not so good). If ...

<t> One very frustrating thing about the resource planner is that moons are NOT listed with their parent planet. This means you can't select by name, hoping to see what’s in a specific system and make plans. All you see are the planets, (good so far) with random moons interspersed (not so good). If ...

I started one game (prewarp) where my home system did not have enough planets/moons/asteroids to mine just to get constructors to mine.. deaad end. Happen sometimes. Mostly - the starts are viable but challenging. i like ti that way.

<r> One very frustrating thing about the resource planner is that <I><s>[i]</s><B><s>[b]</s>moons are NOT listed with their parent pla</B><e>[/i]</e></I><B>net<e>[/b]</e></B>. This means you <I><s>[i]</s>can't select by name, hoping to see what’s in a specific system and make plans<e>[/i]</e></I ...

I find Eric's comment about the two government types interesting. Upon being discovered, any faction can use them. Does this mean the newly discovered government type is now available to all factions? or to whatever faction discovers the ruin? Used to be the latter. Is changed in Universe?

It is 'unlocked' via an event is it not?

<t> For me the 'worst thing' is the buggy-ness of some 'features.' Attack button greyed out. In two games I experienced a situation where my troops on a planet I owned and controlled were not allowed to attack the pirate base. I owned the colony, I had many troops there, and a mil leader, and I was ...

Thanks OzoneGrif for dark energy help - I was confused. Thank you ... about the '100% tax" item: I don't think of it as 100% of all the money in that colony - but rather as 100% (the max) of tax settings allowable / permitted by species + government type.

Well done Elliot! Well done indeed.

<t> >Yes, I went thru the uber pirate spam. What a waste, agree.<br/>
>About ship sizes: you are correct. If only they added a 'to hit' and/or 'change course modification: reasoning? An engine component, or a directional thruster component coasts the same whether installed in a tiny frigate, or a ...

What is the "dense energy bank' that you get when you send a ship into be reverse engineered, (scrap at a yard)?

No, I won't. True, there is no DRM for DW on steam. However, steam does add some load to your PC while playing a game thru steam. So, no thank you.

Yes, in DW, there is an ancient derelict ship that looks like the death star of star wars fame. When repaired, it can destroy an entire planet.

@ You have most likely missed a Beacon or you need only 1 tech line at level 5 or 6.
I think they arrive at the good time.The ancients save your ass.
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what if you have conquered the ancients?

MS has a tradition: every other widows version bits the big one. The alternating releases are very good. So, if I really needed to upgrade from win 7 (I'm very happy with it), I would wait for win 9. ANd hope.

you cannot change the names of moons. This makes the display in the expansion planner very frustrating as moons don't list with the planets in the same solar system. ARRGGG

<t> Go to the ship design screen, load in the ship design in question. Look at the readouts... like maximum warp, etc. Most early ship designs need at least two fission generators to get max warp speed. Warping = OK? Then look at sprint speed power consumption (higher than cruse speed), add this to ...

Also, in the early game, armor is essential for taking on kaltors, etc. as they eat your ship (literally) and shields seem to be ignored by by the dining monsters. Armor is effective stall so kaltor doesn't eat your weapons and they can keep attacking the kaltor.