I agree with Thrake, high-tech components are rare but you barely use them till late game, and for early game, you can mine or purchase what you need to set up Heavy Industry, afterwards its just a matter of money or expanding further into the ruins.

I'm not going to give concrete values as it would need in game testing, but I think there are several problems with artillery currently in game:

Artillery

Pros:

Goes up to 300mm
Good defensive values, great for defending against infantry in hard terrain (woods, hills, etc.)
Helpful in early ...

It is because the armor design roll its improving, you can see than the gun/attack roll stayed the same (firepower didn't change) but the armor roll did, and so the HP increased, there is no bug here.

Spaceports need several cargo bays in order to store goods, either to make the trade between the planet/colony and the spaceships faster/easier or to have enough materials stockpile to produce new ships.

Defensive bases also require a bit of cargo bays in order to have an stockpile to keep ...

Unless you can win a battle by attrition, your best option would be to keep pushing with armor units. Unless we get electronic warfare and HARM missiles, there won't be any hard counters to SAMs

Thank you so much Erik for the update! I really like how much work you guys have put into Distant Worlds and accepted criticism from the initial release, it shows us than just as us, you guys really love the game and want it to be the best possible

Thanks for the update Vic! Will try a new game this weekend to see if anything weird happens behind scenes.

It depends on the amount of heavy metals in the atmosphere, look for high concentrations of Argon/Xeon

At the reports tab I got the message than I discovered a tech group, but no techs were discovered from that group.
Sent savegame by email.

It basically was a TLDR on what they worked on this year and said new races are gonna show up next year

It has been happening since release and its completely RNG, I believe than it shouldn't be changed as it punishes the player for being reckless with their offensives and for not planning well enough their defense strategy (after all, a good offense its the best defense). Also, we don't know if your ...

I have seen the AI use the GR Hellraiser unit, but I have never seen it using nuclear weapons since usually the game ends before they unlock it (they must first unlock nuclear plant, which usually isn't a priority for AI, given spy reports)

I also started a new game to test the new beta and my design rolls were always over 100, I don't know if Vic overall increased the odds of getting good rolls or what, hopefully other players can comment their experiences

Turboprop aircraft have a speed limit based on the speed of sound, while jet-type engines do not suffer this limitation, and should thus be able to reach higher dogfight scores. Although evaluating the practical impact this has on dogfight score would require in-game testing.

I haven't used VTOLs ...

TLDR: Jet, turbo jet and VTOL engines aren't worth using at all since instead of being an upgrade, their stats are a downgrade overall, and having thopthers doesn't help in the mix.

While I believe than air forces could get some work (mostly with the model design screen), I think than the biggest ...

Bringing up a 'dead' thread...

It has been about a year since I played this (participated in the Beta test 2 years ago), I had time to play again so I went through two 100 round games.

Regarding the 'Hold the Line' posture... the AI player DOES NOT experience 80 percent retreat losses - it ...

While I'm very thankful for this update on the roadmap and the hard work than the team has been putting on since release, I would like to see in the future some improvements to the UI, mostly the expansion planner for mining stations, we need options to filter the resources so we can tweak options ...

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What the hell is this Vic? Why are you only able to make things either really niche or overpowered?

The only rework AT guns needed were reducing the standard independent battalion size from 8 subunits to 5, reducing the cost of their construction, and allowing ...

Looks really cool! I wonder if someday we will get a map editor...

Thanks for the answers! I'll stay tuned then