Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks Bingeling!

<t> Hey Icemania, I have a quick question. <br/>
Sorry if this has been addressed before, but I'm running into some weirdness with automated ship designs. When I change the techs to be focused on in the empire policy screen, the automated ship designs don't seem to take this into account. Like for ...

CivFanatics does a similar sort of thing. They give specific settings for the "game of the month"(or week, I forget) and then people post to show what they did and compare scores and stuff.

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Different percentages for other milestones would be great as well.<br/>

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I think it'd be cool to be able to set it for specific tech levels for the aforementioned reasons. On top of that it would be cool if ...

All very good points Aeson. It seems we have a fairly similar early game setup.

That's why I listed out what I tend to do first. It's all purely in the interest of being as competitive as possible in the early stages of the game.

<t> Hi all, I was wondering what everyone else tends to do in terms of research, particularly early on in the game. Since DW:U's technology and research is so open ended, there are an infinite combination of choices.<br/>
Personally I usually start off with my weapons research alternating between ...

I actually emailed them using the contact form on the main site about doing some music for the game. JDM said he'd pass along my offer to the devs. The vanilla soundtrack is far too short for something that eats so much of our time

I have the same crash, but only when loading a save. Playing with DW Extended as well.

I'm still of the opinion that a good player can take just about any race and beat just about any other race.

I find that I run out of helium most often in my games lately, so I tend to build extra mining bases at helium sources early on.

<r> It would be really cool if we had a "clear" button for the build order menu. <br/>
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I play with retrofitting automated which only seems to work when suggestions for what ships to build are turned on, but I like to design my own fleets. <br/>
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On the topic of fleets, it'd be cool if ...

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I like how this mod has come to be considered "default" for so many people.<br/>
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Especially since the base game is already so solid. I would say ...

<t> Haree, I just wanted to say that I've been playing your mod for quite a while although I only just bothered to register to the forums today. <br/>
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Easily the best DW mod out there, and makes the game quite a bit more interesting. Your approach of adding new races only so far as that they ...

<t> I always play shadows era games.<br/>
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My typical strategy is to research shields as my first energy tech and fighters as my first weapons tech. Pay the pirates off til I have my space port built. Then I cancel the protection, and smash anyone who has the balls to attack my homeworld. <br ...

<t> Quameno can be ridiculously powerful if you're good at optimizing your research paths(though because of their huge bonus in research you don't even have to be REALLY good at optimizing them).<br/>
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Gizureans would probably be my first pick for a military powerhouse.<br/>
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Humans ...