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Blaming the uninformed player is a popular refrain of more seasoned players on the these forums, but is a luxury most game developers cannot afford.

For whatever it's perceived success, DW2 does have only a 70% positive rating on Steam. The negative reviews tend to focus on excess complexity. An ...

Jorgen_CAB wrote: Wed Sep 24, 2025 1:47 am Probably not really enough to be honest... too many people don't read the Galactopedia and even if they do they might not even know the info is there and never search for it.

This is a bizarre approach to development. "Don't bother with documentation, no one will read in anyway!"

A good question for the devs to consider in all of this: How explicit is a lot of this information in the game's actual resources (galactopedia, manual, etc)?


I agree the documentation is badly lacking. In some cases it is from DW1 and incorrect for DW2. That would be forgivable during Early ...

The game released in March 2022 and in 3 1/2 years this could not be done ?


Small team, indie studio - excuses I was exhausted by 2 years ago. Well after my peak excitement for where modding was going to go, including my own frustrating dabbling with it.

I think at some point one just has to ...

I've also never figured it out - replying to follow any better answers.

Or, make it "Fleet 00", "Fleet 01", etc

- changed Upgrade Design button so that now selects best upgrade component for each existing component, retaining the same component family. Previously the Upgrade Design button simply selected the highest tech level component for the category. See button tooltip for more info

This is awesome ...

Agreed.

Thanks for the feedback. Just to be clear, what you're reporting is that after updating the ship design of one of your destroyers in a fleet and after giving a retrofit command, instead of retrofitting the older design to new ones the automation just builds new ones?

How many ships are supposed ...

There is! Cycle through the views in the bottom right, it's next to the nebula views.

Graphically it could be clearer. But it is a helpful view - I use it anytime I'm building a monitoring station.

rustyj wrote: Fri Nov 01, 2024 7:14 am Needs to be a view that shows what areas of the map are within sensor range

There is

I'm kind of a fan of that idea. I like explorers doing the exploring.

Distance doesn't appear to be a factor. Fleet strength is certainly not a factor. I have started a new game and will investigate in more detail.


I'm not certain, but my sense was sensors and long range sensors either come later or are not as powerful as before? That could impact fleet reaction ...

Try this

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I really appreciate your knowledge and attention to detail in this game @Nightskies.

My 2 cents - every 4X should copy the internal politics/bureaucracy model from Shadow Empire. That game does it so well.

A less well done, but still decent version of this is in Stellar Monarch 2.

Distant World's Gratuitous Space Battles...

I'd play~!


Space Empires had a sort of combat arena you could try out different designs in to see how they worked against various enemies.

Clearly not the time to work on it, but given the automated nature of the game, it might even be an ...

hurkle wrote: Thu Oct 03, 2024 6:09 am Are you really sure that you want different strategies than the rookie variants you are all using? Once you see these you cant unsee them and they will break the game for you.

I think we're referring to strategies, rather than exploits (eg multiple mining components per station).

I'm interested in this.

I'm also interested in: what strategies only work for a specific race? One of the biggest problems with this game is that as far as I can tell all strategies work for all races.