Taking over your planet seems like a bug.

Do you mean 5 pirate bases spawned in your system? If so, that's definitely a bug.

Don't disagree with you (pirates are bland and boring), but consider:

1. The pirates you are seeing might be part of your faction's storyline. Pirates don't normally take over planets. If you have storylines enabled, they will always spawn somewhere near you.

2. Pirates start with Hyperdrive ...

Do you have bombardment capable weapons? Defensive facilities are quite resistant to space weapons with small bombardment values. You need dedicated bomb components to take them out. And even then, it might be more time efficient to just straight up invade the place.

If your fleets are automated ...

You can do two things to aleviate the problem (but doesn't solve the AI issue) :

1. Manually control design of ships (leave ship design automated in the policy level, but toggle the manual/auto design setting in the designs screen for each ship). You can do this on a per ship basis too, so you can ...

Check out my cheat sheet in my signature. I have already extracted most data from the game into excel (also open source formats are provided). The only missing data are from some events here and there, which are very tedious for me to do.

The data set is not yet updated to the latest Mercantile ...

Other government forms have at least one or two serious downsides, and get big bonuses in a certain category.

Democracies and Republics have no downsides, besides being penalized for very long wars, which really is not a big problem if you prepare for it. This is their downside: They can't have a ...

Hi everyone I'm new to the game and have a couple of questions.

1. Some Weapons have "Weapon Targeting" and/or "Weapon Countermeasures".
What does this do and how does it work with countermeasures in the sensor slot?

2. How much hp do components have?

3. Do damaged components still work or do ...

I run manual as well, but resource automation and colony funding automation I feel is fine to leave to the AI. I only take control of a few key colonies. The rest I think is pretty OK to leave to the AI. Particularly since it saves on tediousness and there's too few games to justify going full ...

It is likely the other Zenox faction got the event, then because you are also Zenox you got the benefit.

Best way would be to stack recruitment rate bonuses.

Yes, generals together stack their bonuses.

Characters appear based on your actions, so clicking to recruit a bunch of troops will make a bunch of generals appear. You can abuse this by ordering the construction of troops, then cancelling ...

I think there's a few Shakturi events that relate to specific races. Do you have the event? What race are you playing and what races are near that area of space?

Very nice!

You mentioned using the editor. Did you happen to add a new star system anywhere? I've had a similar issue with freighter behaviour (trying to unload resources at an uncolonized planet and doing extremely wonky pathfinding) when adding a new star system.

I see you've done more homework than me

There's a text file in the data folder with the other xmls, I think it's called descriptions or something. You can search for the name of traits there, and usually they are accompanied by a description. But not always. And some of them are scattered all over the place.

I'm guessing they are bundled ...

Thank you for your response. I hope this list helps

You can tell which bonus applies by looking at the background colour of the tech tree (the actual background, not necessarily the colour of the tech's box). For example, you might notice that that Shields have a blue background indicating Shield Research bonus applies. However, the point defense ...

0) manually save your game to restore your empire back to this point

1) set all policies to manual, turn off advisor doing things on their own. Keep only direct colony-related taxation and spending adjustments on auto

2) for each ship design, set autoupgrade and autoretrofit to manual

3) set all ...

These are *ANNUAL* chances, so if the creature is at the location for less than a year then the chance of plague starting is relatively less. Same for plague spread chance, it's the chance *per year* while the plague is active.


OK, that's understandable. So if the chance per year is 1, then ...

Ok that's understandable. So if the chance is 1 per year, then the monthly chance should be 100%/12 = 8.3%