The reason I was orginally asking because like some of you I have never seen the AI with an improved world. While I havent played the latest big patch one thing I noticed was that my core worlds were outperforming the AIs significantly economically even when adjusting for population and other ...

As of the current build does the AI ever terraform there worlds?

The rule I follow after losing ALOT of troops, is how many troops you think you'll need, bring double.

Is this even a problem? Some colonies are going to have more reliable supply of specific luxury resources over others just for the fact of their location. Is it reasonable to expect close to perfect equal resource distribution throughout an entire galaxy? Probably also makes colonising marginal ...

All working as intended. Obviously if you have a large neighbour with a similar political outlook or core philosophical values, you'll instinctively grow to hate them and want to fight their vastly more powerful empire. That's REALISM!

Imagine if there was a real world power that was ...

Thanks for the game fellas, truly compelling!

Ah this is excellent thank you, my only REAL issue with the current implementation of the espionage system is tech stealing. Looking forward to starting a new game with trading and stealing turned off.

Removing asteroids around planets is something you can mod yourself rather easily in Orbtypes.xml. SPACE AGE will have those removed and only have asteroid belts (or isolated abstractions of the whole belt anyway).


Nice to know.

in my oppinion planetary belts should be reserved for ...

First thing I do in any game like this is replace the weird star names with "realistic" names. To that end, I'm sharing my SystemNames.txt file containing 1385 "real" star names. I usually play with 1000 systems max so it's more than enough for me; if there's demand, I'll try to close the gap and ...

Okay started anew game with 1.0.2.0
AND MY MOD

Oh I should have used a higher counterespionage buff ...

I AM STILL STEALING TECH LIKE CRAZY , from around 50 tries, I am only being caught around 5 times ...
and my mod is enabled !!!!!!!!!!!! so all have 10% higher counterespionage ...

Because you can use them as refuelling points.

Okay started anew game with 1.0.2.0
AND MY MOD

Oh I should have used a higher counterespionage buff ...

I AM STILL STEALING TECH LIKE CRAZY , from around 50 tries, I am only being caught around 5 times ...
and my mod is enabled !!!!!!!!!!!! so all have 10% higher counterespionage ...

Just bin the tech trading totally, and instead have a series of research agreements similar to trade agreements. Each one brings you a research bonus amount equal to a % of the other empires research income. Spread it out over maybe 5 or so levels and you have an actual reason to develop good ...

I'm guessing stealth is going to be primarily useful for lowering the enemies response window when using small attack/raid fleets to perform specific objectives or leaving juicy key systems lightly defended but with stealth detachments waiting nearby to bait an enemy fleet into attacking giving your ...

I had a situation where the new colony was lacking a common resource and had only been delivered a tiny amount. I took manual control of the planets resource stockpile, made the stock allocation for that resource max and within a short amount of time a freighter came and delivered enough to start ...

Is there a way to auto-accept but disable notifications independent colonies wanting to join your empire? Made the mistake of playing on the largest size galazy with max number of independent colonies, and lategame im just being spammed by these notifications. Even repeated ones from colonies ...

Is running just shields or just armour a viable method of ship design or should I be putting both on?

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3) Finally, this may be a controversial opinion, but I only have fun in Shadow Empire when things aren't going well. Overcoming a disadvantage is the most interesting part of this game. Developing a wide array of high-quality models will ...

Vic sorry to hear you caught covid, hope you have a quick and clear recovery mate.

On starts more difficult than regular, your opening move should be to nationalize the scavenging asset over the truck depot. This will give you a much needed metal boost and let you sell the rare metals to keep your cash flow somewhat fluid.