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Second, do you understand the difference between a 32 bit and 64 bit application? This game will never use more than 1 core because it's not written to utilize 64bit.
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Multithreading and multicores are entirely different things. A 32-bit ...

This sounds like the patch I was waiting for.

Now This is the patch I was waiting for.

Start a game using custom settings, and you can set pirates to none there.

960K. A nice, even multiplier on the base cost.

Was hoping there would be more pirate bug fixes...

<t> IMO, Multiplayer and 4X mix about as well as oil and water. As for building pirate fortresses, they could be made legal based on agreements between the pirate and the empire. After all, an Empire can easily decide that extra corruption at a few fringe planets might be worth having a reliable ...

Already covered by pirates. If you look at the randomly generated pirate names, the Smuggler ones tend to have corporate-themed names. Now, pirate diplomacy really badly needs an overhaul, especially its underlying assumption that every pirate will be of the raider variety.

<t> I like the idea of space station/ship based populations... but I actually like DW's uncolonizable barren worlds and no terraforming. Its kind of refreshing to actually stroll around a developed galaxy and see uncolonized planets, unlike most 4Xes where you end up colonizing, and later ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PsyKoSnake<br/>
We are not in X3 Reunionm there is no OOS zone in DWU
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Believe it or not, there is. Whenever you are not directly looking at a battle, it handles battle calculations very differently. I would have never even known ...

Fighters are fine in normal combat, but obscenely overpowered in OOS (Out of Sector) combat which is calculated differently. I have had lone construction ships armed with 3 bays hold off entire fleets in OOS.

Paradox demonstrated that you can have decent diplomacy in a 4X game, so theres really no reason to not have it.

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Yes it will take damage from the "first strike" of the Slug, <br/>
but it should survive to mine another day.
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Note that space monsters pierce both armor and shields and do direct damage to components. Not exactly a viable long-term ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bingeling<br/>
This is not true.
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Not exactly. I ran a test by having two colonized planets close by with one having a spaceport, and the planet without the spaceport had never exported any resources whatsoever even if the spaceport ...

<r> One of the big problems is that the AI Advisor recommends a far larger number of ships than you actually need. On top of this spaceports tend to have a lot of extra frills and such you do not actually need.<br/>

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One Spaceport should be enough for 7 colonies.
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ehsumrell1<br/>
Respectfully speaking, if a game logic or reasoning is not fully understood, <B><s>[b]</s>it doesn't automatically<br/>
make it a bug.<e>[/b]</e></B> In this case, Elliot has just made it a 'surprise' challenge in the game. Until you can<br ...

This sounds like a Windows 8/8.1 compatability issue, my hardware is almost identical to yours with exception of running windows 7 and it runs perfectly fine without Steam. Have you tried running it in compatability mode?

Nope. It is a bug unforutnately.

That screenshot looks curious, it seems to indicate that pirates can gain the benefits of wonders even though they cannot discover them...

Might also need to do more testing to see if research wonders really work for pirates or not.

Generic ruins you can change in the game editor. Special ruins are not moddable.