@freyland I prefer not to steal tech because it will mean too much progression too soon and almost definitely lead to a boring game. The AI appears in my experience to base it's aggression on your potential power rather than your actual power. So even with no military to speak of, equal war fighting ...

The Remorhaz Society Chapter 2

The negotiations had been tense, and polarizing. The revelation of humanities origin, or at least of it's NOT originating on Remorhaz, had catalyzed a tenuous peace among the many nation states and ideologies on planet. Humanity was NOT united, and was likely never ...

I usually set my bombers on aggessive/aggressive/never retreat/attack role and load them with torpedoes.

Interceptors I set to neutral/neutral/never retreat/close escort role and arm them with the most accurate PD weapons I have. These guys are responsible for protecting their motherships and if ...

This AAR is inspired by the work of Captain Sachmo, a member of the Space Empires III community from near on 20 years ago. I remember playing that game on an old Intel Pentium 133hz processor. Waiting sometimes 10 minutes for the game to process turns while reading a printed version of Captain ...

Research traits are not created equal. Scientists with traits such as Foreign Spy, Lazy, Demoralizing or Corrupt are easy enough to recognize as worthy of dismissal or, in the case of demoralizing, careful assignment well away from other characters. Even corrupt or lazy scientists might be kept if ...

<t> I've enjoyed distant worlds since return of the shakturi, and escpeically all of the mods now that universe is released and they're not just cosmetic. Thank you escpecially to [&o]Eric for building such an amazing space strategy game and to [&o]icemania and [&o]blackstork for bringing a new ...