Interesting, I'll test this out. Thanks for the lead!

How many colonies do you have? My understanding was that the number of freighters was related to the number of colonies, not the number of mining stations.

<r> I haven't found a correlation between the number of mining stations and cash income. Mining stations just dictate how fast you gather resources, and for the most part, my resource stockpile was fine. I would rather have a low amount of extremely strong mining stations than a lot of weak ones.<br...

<t> In my experience, the game only gives you the option to specify a save after you start a new game. If you are resuming play of a previous game by loading a save, the game auto-saves to whatever file you loaded automatically.<br/> <br/> Is that what you're seeing? Or are you not even given the op...

<t> Johan, that's a lot of ships. Wow!<br/> <br/> I think that if I use Robotic troops as planetary garrisons, and also cut down the number of planets I have, I will come close to approaching your 4:1 ratio of ship:troop costs. And reducing colonization may also help with my emigration problem with ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Retreat1970<br/> A Homeworld at 1/4 pop is a disaster. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Agreed. I'm glad you guys are giving me this feedback. I think my wimpy homeworld is the biggest problem in this particular playthrough. I'll play a game tomorrow and try to focus ...

<r> Okay, here's a shot of the planet's info before and after a regional capital is built there. I guess that's 229k worth of GDP out of thin air. Good suggestion. <E>:)</E><br/> <br/> <B><s>[b]</s>Before regional capital:<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> <br/> <IMG src="http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/gg630...

<r> Ooh! Robot troops! That's really smart - I will do that.<br/> <br/> Here's a screenie of my colony list, sorted by revenue. Is my main colony low in population? Maybe the high tax rate has caused everyone to emigrate away, reducing my State tax base? This could be compounded by the fact that I c...

This is a shot of my Empire screen on 25 December (so all resort and space port income is shown).

<r> Here's a shot of my empire summary screen. Sorry but I don't know how to attach my savegame file... <E>:(</E><br/> <br/> Shoe, I have a question - my understanding is that the private sector pays for newly-created colonies. I have found that even if I spam colony ships and set up shop on every a...

Weeeeird.... maybe my experience has been different because I don't use automation extensively. Good to know.

<t> TCBY: Let me whip up another playthrough and I'll upload it.<br/> <br/> Mensrea: Yeah I do that to keep my reserves up, but it seriously feels like cheating. Having to resort to that trick ruins the fun of the game for me. If I have to do it, I feel like I've already lost. Ideally I can figure o...

Oh, forgot to mention, after getting the High-Tech research wonder, I pivot to get the first Trade Guild wonder, which I build at my Homeworld. The top-tier trade guild wonder is usually not long after. Doesn't seem to help though.

<t> I'm getting into trying harder difficulty levels, and I find that as I enter mid-mid game, my state income level dips lower and lower until I eventually go broke. I know I am doing something really wrong, but I can't figure out what. My private sector is always flush with a large income and larg...

<r> I use star bases in three roles. There are others, but these are mine:<br/> <br/> 1) <B><s>[b]</s>As a resource mining base:<e>[/b]</e></B> Put resource collectors, a docking bay, a commerce center, and cargo storage on a star base. You will be able to build an unlimited number of them on planet...

<t> I have found that if you place a military ship in a fleet, automate that fleet, then order that ship to retrofit from the F11 screen, it will simply ignore the request.<br/> <br/> I would recommend trying one of three things:<br/> 1) Either remove the ship(s) from fleets and order them to retrof...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: szabferi<br/> <br/> With the latest update in place, is that normal that <B><s>[b]</s>DEPLOYED<e>[/b]</e></B> supply ships do not fire weapons? <br/> <br/> I built huge supply ships, which supposed to support my front line fleets, but they are unusable and requires...

Okay you're right. They do attack - sorry for my mistake.

I still hate resupply ships though.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Miravlix<br/> <br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Airpower<br/> <br/> deployed, they can't fight back, so if they get jumped, they're dead meat. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> I'm tired of seeing this falsehood. They fight just fine when deployed.<br/> <e>[/quote]<...

<t> You put troops in a resupply ship? When I tried to use them as a troop transport, I wasn't able to get the troops to invade an enemy planet. The troops simply wouldn't leave the ship when I attacked a planet.<br/> <br/> Resupply ships are bad. They can only mine up to 30100 of either type of fue...