Well it's not so much that my home system didn't start with polymer as I was trying out the refugee start with 18 auto-generated empires added, so there wasn't much real-estate to pick from. Though that said, I just also up and forgot to look for polymer when settling, so that certainly didn't help ...

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This is a screenshot from my current game that I started after the Shakturi DLC released for Distant Worlds 2. Playing as a Human Empire, nomad start that finally settled seen in blue to the far galactic west. The light blue to the galactic northeast is another Human Empire ...

<t> Just wanted to drop a message reporting that I'm having some weird ship behaviors with gravity wells. I do like the feature, but I'm finding a lot of ships pathfinding is taking the long way through a gravity well, instead of bee-lining out into deep space to get into warp range asap. <br ...