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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76<br/>
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I am surprised this thing that most players do not have an issue apart from one poor player is fixed but longstanding issues with things like the A.I being so easily exploitable in diplomacy and many others in tech support is ignored.<br ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: dunn0r<br/>
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VASIMR is just a type of ion engine, not really new tech and still needs a propellant.<br/>
Those engines have high specific impulse (i.e. they consume little prop) but have very little thrust.<br/>
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The revolutionary thing about a ...

<t> The energy output is a little higher in the fission-based design. 'Research Priority' in the Empire Settings screen can impact how the AI designs ships, and if you have Raw Power selected that may be prompting it to select the reactor with the higher output even if it's inferior in other ways ...

Shogun 2 is that good? I have it, but I got halfway through the tutorial and just sorta got bored. I guess I had been playing too much R:TW while waiting for it to be released, heh.

<t> Well, I don't "think" anything, I just know what I've observed the ship designer actually do. Research priority definitely affects ship design for beams, phasers, and guns. And tech level is a factor for them as well, along with torpedoes and missiles. If you don't believe it, you can check for ...

<t> After a bit more testing I think the AI doesn't look at research priorities when selecting between missiles and torpedoes. Only tech level seems to matter with those. However everything I've said about beams, phasers, and guns is true: if the tech levels are within one tier of each other, the AI ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bingeling<br/>
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If you look in the design templates folder, you can find that the human destroyer design includes:<br/>
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WeaponBeam ;6<br/>
WeaponMissile ;3<br/>
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So the human AI designs (in default setup) will always use 6 beam and 3 missile ...

<t> Actually, it seems like the AI will look at the research priorities when deciding how to outfit ships. I had an early game as the humans, who are beams and missiles by default so the starting destroyer design is with those two weapon types, i.e. pulse blaster and seeking missile. I turned off ...

Does changing research priorities in the empire settings screen change how the AI will design ships as well? So for example I switch the research priority from beams to rail gun, and subsequent designs will prefer rail guns to beam weapons.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Shark7<br/>
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Sounds like a pirate group lost its starport and joined you. IF a more powerful empire managed to destroy their space ports and constructors, they'll 'surrender' and join nearby empires.
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Oh that's interesting. I think ...

<t> This was not a frigate or an escort, it was a capital ship with gravitic weapons and a hyperdrive. And I did not find it, rather it jumped from another system (which is when I got the message and the kaltors appeared) and then shortly later appeared in mine.<br/>
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I know about the ...

<t> Just got back in DW after a rather long hiatus:<br/>
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So I've started a new game, pre-warp civ, built a spaceport and a few explorer ships. Went out and grabbed the functioning derelict ship in my home system, heading now to the broken one, pirates show up, demand payment. Pretty bog ...

So, the latest beta patch still isn't on Steam and no one has heard from the devs for nearly a month. What's going on here? Did Matrix stop handing out paychecks or what?

Also a newbie here. I've found the key to this game for me is knowing, as you progress, what to micromanage, and when hand it over the AI. You can do everything in pre-warp times if you want, but after that it very quickly becomes unworkable.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Tcby<br/>
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As I mentioned in the tech support thread, after updating to the .5.5 release today the issue appears to be resolved.
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Yeah I can confirm that. As you can tell from my previous post, I didn't expect that the Steam ...

Perhaps the target's counter-intelligence is just very high, then. I lost 3 agents after updating (on Steam, so I assume it's not the beta?). The missions were given >90% chance of success.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Tcby<br/>
Point is, Tek is crazy good and he is constantly getting captured during 90%+ success chance missions. Possibly not working as intended?
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Definitely broken and I'm seeing similar results. At least, you'd expect the success ...