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%

Thank you very much for your time and answers Eliot!



This is the annual chance of starting a plague when nearby a colony. So when a Rift Strider is at a colony location for a month then it will usually start a plague at the colony unless there are other mitigating factors (12/1 chance per year ...

Thank you!

Hi, as I was compiling the DW2 Cheat Sheet, I've found a few issues in the data files and made a list:

GENERAL ISSUES:

HyperJumpSpeed vs HyperjumpSpeed:

These 2 variables exist in XML files with very similar names, but one letter capitalization difference.
HyperjumpSpeed appears in various ...

Hey everyone, you can find the new version of the DW2 Cheat Sheet over at the Design & Modding forum, in the pinned section: https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopi ... 8#p5089658

The Google sheet has also been updated.

Enjoy

UPDATE 7 - July 25, 2025

I have added:

List of all Space Monsters (titled Creatures) : with all their stats, reproduction rates, resources dropped on death and prevalence in the galaxy

List of all Diseases and Plagues : with all their effects on colonies, chance to happen, chance to spread ...

Any answer?