From what I've played, turn off Return of the Shakturi. You can have disasters and race events though.

This could definitely contribute to the steamrolling I see. I only play pre-warp start and it took me a while to figure it out.

ComJak

<t> I guess I'm thinking more old-fashioned RTS where all factions are carefully balanced. In reality, the differences between the races are really a great unique feature. I will do more testing to see what kind of correlation there is to the factions. Perhaps some factions do need a nerf but since ...

<t> You guys make good points. I agree with the thought that if all factions had the same colonies, it wouldn't really be a fun game. However, it seems to me that the continental natives are the ones that do the best in my games. I may also have to tweak the galaxy settings for a more balanced start ...

<t> So I've been running a few tests over the last week or so with AI on different maps and my empire on full automation. All settings are identical in terms of empire settings. When I let these games run for a few hours on 4x speed, I notice that very quickly, about 1/4th of the empires randomly ...

<t> Hey,<br/>
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So I play on 1600x800 windowed mode. On the right hand side is the minimap and above it are occasional messages that form 2 groups. The first is the treaty/trade/ and other request notifications. They are fine. However, the larger notifications such as "XXX Agent has evaded ...

Corruption?

<t> I first saw SD a few years back but forgot about it until it popped up on steam. I bought it at a pretty discounted price of 3 dollars. In the end, everything mentioned by the negative reviews and forum posts were true. Missing features, broken features, blah blah the whole shebang.<br/>
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^ MANY MANY thanks!

<t> Ok, so in the design screen, you can set the scale of the ship image as a scale of the default based on design.<br/>
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However, I want something that works like this:<br/>
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For all escorts, min scale is 0.75, max scale is 1.5. Then when you make them different sizes in terms of ...

<t> Hey,<br/>
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I would like for the ship and research screens to remember the page you were looking at so that you could easily access the things you wanted while being able to quit out of the screen momentarily to, for instance, check on something else.<br/>
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IE: <br/>
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Open ...

Ah okay. That was my next plan. So it appears you can only shrink ships then I guess?

ComJak

<t> Hello,<br/>
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I'm trying to make ships different sizes in terms of their onscreen graphics. Naturally I went into the ship folders and enalarged the image in photoshop. However, when I build them ingame, they turn out smaller than before.<br/>
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Is there some system I need to follow ...