<t> Hello Everyone,<br/>
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I've been running into this issue in my last two games, where come mid game (once I have discovered most other empires) my colony growth just completely stagnates because all of my civilian Passenger ships are busy shipping tourists around instead of transporting ...

If you are building a large private economy, you want to make sure to research fusion reactors at a decent time and switch all private ships to it, so they use Hydrogen, allowing your military to use caslon. Without that split you will quickly run out of fuel for your military.

<t> About 20. You have more than me but a significantly lower amount of ships. The Keskudon empire shown here also has around the same amount of mining stations as I do and a fairly similar amount of private ships, tho he has about 4-5 times the amount of colonies I have.<br/>
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I'm assuming ...

I just checked my game, I have around 250 mining stations (combined) and over 1.5k private ships in freighters alone. That's a gigantic difference to your numbers.

<t> To defend against pirates, I pretty much station fleets at my colony systems (usually 5-10 max size), making sure that they have hyperjump inhibitors, so that those pesky pirates actually lose ships, which will (in my experience) slowly weaken them, especially if you blow up some of their space ...

<t> From what I noticed the more mining stations you build the more freighters are build to pick up/transport the resources. Your private sector also pays for the mining stations, so if they have tons of money there is no reason not to build any more mining stations. Having lots of mining stations ...

<t> It's 1400 stars, 37 (max) empires, normal pirates.<br/>
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My other gripe is the exploration event "ship discovered at XYX system", with that many stars, once you find the system and place 1 exploration ship there you can get free colonization ships + escorts or capital ships for free all ...

<t> For the large amount of colonies you have you have a ridiculously low amount of mining and gas mining station. AFAIK more of those means more private ships being build, meaning more money for you + more trade and GDP to tax. How you are not running out of resources everywhere is a mystery to me ...

<t> The first AI started colonizing around 2034ish, it's 2038 now and about 1/3-1/2 of them have started.<br/>
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I'm playing on the slowest default speed so (480k)science. My minority populations are in some cases getting close to equal to their respective empires due to migration. <br/>
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<t> Update:<br/>
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All difficulties set to default (normal) with all events on.<br/>
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My max population homeworld is bringing in 300k cash flow, I managed to sign 1 FTA before the -18 jealousy turned everyone to Angry. People are on and off embargoing me, but no-one has declared war yet ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Shark7<br/>
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Well, they may be jealous, but they are also very unlikely to start a war with you. Congratulations, you are the sole super-power in your game...the whole universe hates you. [:'(]
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Well it's nice if they aren't ...

<t> I'm playing my first game in Universe with the most current patch, I'm still growing my home planet, but so far I'm not having any significant cash flow problems with 8% taxes (13% growth). <br/>
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This modifier is probably the one thing I would mod out of the game or change it's scaling ...

<t> The thing is that if you start in the age of shadows with slow research, by the time you have decent warp tech (without tech stealing; honestly I think you shouldn't be allowed to steal research from pirates before warp drives. How do they get to somewhere to steal the research?!) your home ...

<t> Hey guys,<br/>
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I haven't played this in a while, but in shadows it always bugged the hell out of me that every empire I meet is always immediately (even my very first contacts) hostile because "we are jealous of your colossal might or whaterver", making diplomacy very difficult.<br ...