Lol. It's not an expansion. It's just a patch.

Yup. As I previously stated, Shadows is bugged as hell.
At least they're still rolling out patchs. x.12 should be coming early October I think.

NICE. Hope it gets here with lots of improvements.

<t> God I'm waiting for a next patch so anxiously as well.<br/>
Checking forums every day just for that.<br/>
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But the bugs listed by you aren't the only ones.<br/>
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The one that pisses me off the most is about the starbases that start earing your resources for no reason.<br/>
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<t> 1.They SHOULD, in theory... as they are built by that colony. When it is being built, you'll see it's in the colony's construction queue. But in practice, I don't know.<br/>
2.I don't know.<br/>
3.I saw something about this around the forums. Try searching a bit.<br/>
4.If you fire your pods ...

<t> You get increased income from the loros fruits, then you start upping your maintenance costs to the point that if you lose loros fruits, you start losing money.<br/>
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You should do something useful with the increased income while it lasts. If you build ships... use them for something ...

<t> well.. there's no actual difference between a strike force and a fleet.<br/>
The AI just names them that way so you know what he'll use them for.<br/>
Strike fleets will usually go for mines and easier stuff as they're always composed only of few ships.<br/>
And fleets are big and can go do ...

Set the stance correctly. It's in the lower left corner of the screen.
Set it on defend. And set set the defend range as low as possible.

<t> Icemania.<br/>
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As discussed in countless previous toping, the Construction Stalled poppups aren't the problem. It's the fact that your constructions get stalled even though you have enough resources and freighters. That is the problem. My idiot freighters transport things around I don't ...

<r> You most probably have too few freighters. And making money seems a priority in the pirate AI.<br/>
Stop accepting smuggling missions, and wait for the current ones to end.<br/>
You might get lucky and get 1-2 freighters assigned to take resources to that starport.<br/>
Though chances are ...

I'm beginning to think they didn't have much of a testing period on Shadows

Were the previous expansions this bugged?

<t> Well... you can certainly do it once you know the game well enough, pause constantly, and never go beyond 0.25 speed.<br/>
But it gets tedious.<br/>
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I'm still trying to find a balance between automation and micromanagement.<br/>
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As I said, redesigning all ships and bases after ...

<r> Heh.<br/>
AI's are actually pretty hard the first times you play the game.<br/>
The AI "knows" the game and can do some pretty damn quick calculations. A lot faster and more accurate than you can.<br/>
And it has implemented a strategy tested by the developers.<br/>
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The problems with ...

<t> I'm in an early game of everything on manual.<br/>
It's fun really. You start paying more attention to every little detail, and every little detail matters.<br/>
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The frustration though, comes when you realize you've went a bit without doing a research cause you forgot to select the next ...

What you are saying really doesn't make sense. You were probably making loads of cash from trading the loros fruit, and when you ran out, you stopped making cash.
Look at your expenses also and see what is eating up your revenue.

<t> Yeah, that's the problem. You can't cancel retrofitting. But, about those freighters standing around, if they don't stand TOO long, it's just due to the delay the AI has on controling freighters (I think). Sometimes is just takes a bit for it to "think" and then assigns the freighter to ...

<r> No way to trigger. I find myself in that situation sometimes as well.<br/>
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Also, are you playing as a pirate or normal empire. I seem to run into such problem mostly when playing as a pirate.<br/>
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The freighter AI seems to not prioritize retrofitting it seems. That's then the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: dostillevi<br/>
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That said, my only real remaining issue with Distant Worlds is that of information management.. there is just so much information being presented to the player in a larger game that it is very difficult to even notice when critical ...

<t> Well, Icemania, the thing with the AI suggestions is that sometimes it does the math for you. Which is tedious for any player. I like planing and stuff, but I would like a way to input my plan and the AI to calculate my chances.<br/>
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When playing of manual you sometimes need to waste ...

<r> You might need to fiddle around with the settings when creating a new game.<br/>
If you're constantly retrofitting your ships, try setting the Research Cost higher so you don't advance too quickly.<br/>
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Enable "Fleet Postures" with the button at the minimap. It will show you what ...