If I have to design private ship designs, then why cannot I also retrofit them manually?

I have my own designs for miners, but when I click on an existing miner (with older design) I see no button to send it for retrofitting. What am I doing wrong?

Does landscape affect how much food an agriculture asset produces?

What about planet type, does that have an overall effect on food production?

If your still on the fence about purchasing this game, its currently on sale at HB for $12.14 USD. The game is worth 4X (!) that easily.

<r> Can you run a md5 checksum on the bacon DistantWorlds.exe? <br/>
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The value should be e32fd4d18e4d6f09314816c4e7502db1 on version 1.79<br/>
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Well I'm at my wit's end. Seeing everyone else report playing with this mod makes me green with envy! <E>:)</E> I've tried everything to get the 2nd pop up to appear but without success. Attached is the result of my last attempt. Any help ...

<t> Is there a high level writeup somewhere on how you made this mod? I assume your EXE just wraps the existing DistantWorlds.exe and uses P/Invoke to interact with memory offsets and values somehow and also for keyboard interception?<br/>
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<t> I have an idea for a neat little mod, have perused the modding guide, and other mods. Everything existing seems to be related to just customizing settings or graphics, editing existing text files etc, I'm not needing to "mod" the game in that way. <br/>
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To start I want to simply popup a ...

<r> I dont get anything on the screen at all when running DistantWorlds.exe, I get a spinner for a second then nothing.<br/>
I've tried the startup.ini changes. Made sure I am running the latest AMD drivers. Tried running in Windows 7 compatibility mode, tried running as administrator. Nothing is ...

Can't express how important it is to run this game off a SSD. However, it is a shame the game requires this.

<t> -Fighters are a far too effective in 'Out of Sector' combat calculations. I have had a single construction ship with 3 fighter bays manage to hold off an entire Human fleet, so long as I kept out of sector. As soon as I zoom into sector, the construction ship is killed very quickly. <br/>
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Disclaimer: this is just a fly by theory

could have something to do with possibly cargo space being stored/calced as an Int16 value, so the cap would be 32767 (0x7FFF) maybe the algorithm is set to keep it below that #?

#1 I have actually started on this, work on it on my spare time. Needed to teach myself knockout.js so I thought what the hell.

I'll post a link here when I get something up somewhat usable.

Since there is no difference between an escort and a capital ship

Wait what? Can you please explain? (I'm still a newb and this is news to me)

I still had to try, needless to say it was pure fail. Lol, was fun min-maxing my bases though, but in the end the pirates had their way.

What determines success or failure?

+1 on the OP's requests. That would help immensely.

<t> I'm at work so can't try this out till later, how feasible would it be loading up mining and gas mining stations with to full size with weapons, shields and armor instead of building "defense" fleets? <br/>
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<t> In the game install folder there are some template files organized by race. Are these related to AI automated ship design decisions? <br/>
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<r> I really do not enjoy designing my own ships and bases. I would rather use automation, however I know I am loosing <B><s>[b]</s>a lot<e>[/b]</e></B> of potential when doing so. Leaving automation off is a bit too much micro for me. <br/>
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Is it possible to "mod"ify the designs the ...

<r> Can you please host the screen shots somewhere else besides photobucket? They are not working anymore.<br/>
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