Thanks for posting, Ice!

-Maybe or maybe not the person who wrote that review

Oh yeah, stealing the ops map is a really good idea. Thanks!

<t> I'm currently running a game on a small (400 systems I think) galaxy with Legends events enabled. I just had two legendary pirate factions spawn at once, and while it seems like I've moved in enough warships to keep them away from my territory, I'm at a loss for tracking them down. I've explored ...

This looks great! And I'm all for mods that incorporate Icemania's AI mod! (If only we could get the higher-ups to make it baseline! [:'(])

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How to see if they trade a lot abroad? Zoom "suitably" far enough out to see both a good portion of the galaxy and the civilian ships. If you see a stream of civilians returning from foreign lands, it is a hint that they trade a lot. <br ...

Nice to know that's a vestigial element. I was thinking the UI was criticizing my design. :p

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It sounds a bit excessive. How is your population compared to the home planet of the others? I believe the Mortalen may have a low reproduction rate, and that hurts in the early game.
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Very good question! Let ...

<r> Hey folks! I haven't played much DW, but I recently started an Extended mod game as the Ikkuro which I won with no problem whatsoever (TYVM Timotheus for the excellent newbie guide!) So for my next game I grabbed v. 1.05 of Icemania's AI mod, bumped it up to Very Hard as per his recommendations ...

<t> Hey Ice,<br/>
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Great work on this mod! I was on the forums time to time when you were just laying the theoretical framework of the mod, so it's great to come back and see you've done so much great stuff with it!<br/>
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I'm probably just misunderstanding this, but it seems to me like ...

<t> We should also consider that one way of going about it would be to bring 0% tax's growth rate down somewhat, and then reduce the growth penalty for taxes to an extent to bridge the rest of the gap.<br/>
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If what Spidey says is true, and the game would really be that hamstrung by nerfing 0 ...

<r> OK, so granted I'm totally new to the forums and have only put about 10 hours into DW, but I really really feel like there's a big issue here that's going unaddressed. That is: while there are obviously flaws (big ones) in the AI, I don't think that overhauling the AI is necessarily the path of ...