I use DW mod editor for edit txt.
In race, Character there is the Chance of Spy's spawn rate.

For the rest I don't know, sorry.

Totally agree with your statement, nothing to add.

I don't think, I already lost an exploration ship, in a galactic storm ever.
Normally the exploration ship warps in and out immediately, so damage are mitigated.

Are you sure they are not sucked with a black hole or another oddity like that?

If you go in your fleet menu at the top right you can organize constructions ships by idle or not idle.

Normally you have an option for make the automation back and I think it can work with a multiple select in this menu.

Ascendancy, I loved this game, also the bande originale was immersive. When playing that game I felt in another universe.
Also I loved how our colonies were buildable, or also the research tree.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Where are they?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
It's big clouds on the galaxy's map with sometime lightning. When zoom in, it look like flashing red/yellow.
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> why is this happening?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
It's random from the map generation.
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Totally agree with that, an AI with different rules and cheating have nothing to enjoyable, and I prefer an AI stupid.

<t> At the contrary, I want they take their time, as much they need for fixing all bugs and problems that could occur, before the release.<br/>
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Currently, in the game industry, all go too fast, and games are released far before their optimal stat. It results to games with a lot of bugs and ...

I confirm Snake0437 is right.

Thanks you for this accurate answer!

Black Hole construction's placement is always something I struggled with.

I tried Blender, but getting to the texture part, it becomes suddenly over complex.

In fact if we follow the logic, the bases themselves would be upgraded with the help of constructors.

It's a very good job, I haven't such as skill in 3D !

<r> About pirates I would prefer if this expansion includes in the gameplay of empires and not separating pirates and empires gameplay.<br/>
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All options of piracy could be done with empires, in fact. I don't know why an empire couldn't act like a pirate, that is to say:<br/>
-racketeering ...

<r>
<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Rising-Sun<br/>
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That remind me of whales, find stuffs on the beach that smelled terrible. They make perfumes and other stuffs from it.
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Hahaha ! I love this idea, make highly sougth luxury parfum, from space whale poop !<br ...

<r> The food production is already include in the DWU 1, it's simply the quality of the planet. It change significantly the population maximal.<br/>
A low quality planet but with critical ressources will be a great place to make a mine station.<br/>
A low quality planet but with ruins will be ...

<t> All the talk about the food is very interesting, but it will complexify a lot things and finally limit our possibilities of race customization:<br/>
-What about organic but not carbohydrate based life?<br/>
-What about synthetic races?<br/>
-What about predator races that feed or breed on ...

<t> Random technologies trees but also random prerequisites can be funny !<br/>
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Imaging if when you just unlocked the thruster technology you see in the following research another path for increase missiles speed and precision, this path shared with the missile path.<br/>
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Or the next ...

<r> Yes I liked this system, making empires seeking strongly for these specials ressources, but an empire with a shortage of them can still build things, just less powerful/effective.<br/>
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In DWU I had very common problem at every of my games, that is to say a shortage of <B><s>[b]</s>Carbon ...

It was in Bacon Mode? I not noticed that but that's an awesome adding !