Apparently the dropbox is down because of traffic.

From what I have seen on Das lets play some great additions to the mod.

I always thought it was odd the way the redid canon to put the Romulans and the Klingons in the beta quartent.

I figured as much given how dealing with races works in the vanilla game. I have to say love the mod. I have been wanting a 4x Star Trek game every since I played Birth of the Federation many years ago.

I know the likely answer is no but I will ask anyway. Do the Borg assimilate other races into borg in 2.0?

I have to agree even if it was slow I wish you could improve the quality of colonies. I have had several games where ruins like the fortress of turak is on a low quality world.

<t> 1. As far as I know no.<br/>
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2. Sadly, no. Terraforming will help a planet recover from a negative random event but not improve. <br/>
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5. You can select the planet as it is considered a construction yard in the ship select menu.<br/>
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6. The number depends on the size of ...

Yeah the misspelling is most likely for copyright purposes so they don't get the butts sued by Lucas or now Disney.

You should be able to turn off automation on newly built ships.

I watched some lets play and it convinced me but a demo would be nice.

This is assuming you have the planet explored.

I find it best to keep taxes at zero till a planet is maxed out.

The expansion planner is hugely important if you are shortages its best to check it out as it will tell you how many of each resource you have currently as well as where sources can be found.

Wont this be better placed in the mod section?

Pirates are actually quite useful both to improve your reputation so other empires like you, to use to attack your enemies, and running smuggling missions for certain resources.

<t> 1. 2 infantry are fine for worlds that are likely to see pirate raids etc unless for some reason the pirates have gotten huge.<br/>
2. 2 infantry and 1 armor is the ratio I usually go with as armored breakthroughs help speed up capturing planets quite a bit<br/>
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yeah unless you want to roleplay them, I would suggest not enslaving any other races till you are close to victory as enslavement causes population growth to be zero.

The best tax policy is zero till the population caps on a world.

A mission like patrol I am pretty sure will be maintained until you give it another order like to refit. Automating it will cause it to be given other orders.

I highly recommend the extended mod for extra races. I don't totally agree with the idea of the OP as the issue of balances that come into play with those types of bonuses.