Do not put Diplomavy on auto !

1. Think of what you wanna achive through diplomacy. If you set the AI to befriend evryone, you will fast get a enemy, cause your frinds enemy is your enemy. Often i never ever make any treaties (Not even trade or non agressive treaties) before i get into mid-late ...

Don´t know how far you got into the game.
But an early expansion helps alot. It´s not as much the size of the enemy but there tech level that matters. I always play on hardest difficulty to get a challange and do it the same way evry time.
Get good jump drive asap. build scouts big time, i usualy ...

DW1 is great and have some really nice mods too. Deffently worth a go.
Main issue i found with it, is lag. It runs really slow when you come to late game. And don´t even think about making those carrier fleets. They are good. But destroys what left of your frame rates.

No i only did it in the end one 1 planet to tjek the race victory condition.
Had a positive cashflow throught most of the game, due to my way to good homeworld.
Also the time from taking the first planets untill the game was won was minimal. So i accepted a bad cashflow in the end.

Many thanks!


Your welcome
On a side note. If you can get tech from raiding, do make sure to put in some countermeassures, so you simply can´t make a few raiding fleets and keep raiding the same planets and reach the end of the tech tree in no time. Will make the game way to easy. Though it ...

Arhh did´t think about zipping it.

Here you go, just press 2 to get my army fleet and it´s parked right next to and independt world ready to be raided.
It can take a few attempts to get the tech boost. But should work with most techs.

18 Years with Boskara

I will say it´s hard to do it much faster, unless you do alot of save scumming or find some amazing combo of race and goverment.
But i had a really excelent start. As the 4th resource on my home planet (Took some years to discover) was Zentabia Fluid (36%) it gave me a huge ...

Same issue here

Just do any raid on a planet and have this event popup and you will be in research debt for the current tech your researching for a long time. Set my tech progress to -567%
Sadly can´t attach a saved game file, my save files are 28 MB and we are max alowed 10 MB.

New record 29 years. Won in 2783.01.05

I did it with the Gizureans.

I started with Republic to get the administartion center on my home world. It´s great for some extra pop growth and extra income in the long run.
I rushed Stable warp field and research lab. After those tech i went straight for ...

A really nice time. Now to get under 30 years.
Just did one with Gizurean. It failed misserable. The AI was to far away but i had tons on independent. But they simply give to low a score. But the galaxy and start location would have been awesome on the hardest difficulty.

Did´t do any save/reloading before battles.
But yearh my leader did get fired quite alot of times :mrgreen:
And if you wanna do this, do quell rebeliush planets, by raisning the taxes. To those that do not know what i am talking about.
When you counqor a new planet the loyality will be at 0% and ...

So after I have beaten the game with all races in base game and 2 from DLC´s on hardest difficulty i thought. Let´s make a new challange.
I know this can be manipulated and there is no way to check it. So it will be question of trust.
But how fast can you beat the game on normal difficulty ...

NightSkies. Thanks for mentioning me.
I have actually thought about updating that calculater. I knew the accuracy was off. There is alos an issue with multi shields and how they block damage. Havent figured it out though i did test it alot.
Also some weapons have been updated.
But happy to see ...

Mind if I include snips using this calculator? I don't intend to cut parts out, just image snips of the damage/range graphs.

It'll be with regard to analysis on ships in the Fleet Olympics I'm working on.

Sure i only created this so peopel can have more knoweledge and the must fun, with a ...

just curious as to how the game handles fractional damage.

IE: A missile hits for 34, with a 25% shield bypass. That resolves to 25.5 versus the shields and 8.5 to the armor. Are the 0.5's retained, rounded, or what?


From my tests and thats done with a T7 Hive missile against a T2 deflector ...

It should include decreased at range. Just checked that i did´t broke the formulars. Try adding some targeting bonus to the admiral and you will see that the damage over range will increase.
Regarding the ship damage calculator you asked for, i will try and look into it next week. Will do some ...

Something is wrong with torpedoes vs shields calculations. It appears it is adding damage somewhere, observed when there are no shields to damage. It seems other weapons appropriately do 0 damage to shields in that case. And when there are shields, they're doing a multiple more than they should ...

Now this is fun, would never have thought of this ship design. Newer used area bombs before. But my god the damage is insane for tier 2 tech. 2-3 of these frigates wipes out a destroyers in one volley and you dont even have to think about PD weapons the Intimidator surge blast will do that for you ...

Your sheet works fine for me in Chrome :D - but when I try to download it as PDF it shows 13 pages for the main-sheet, 6 pages for the guide (wich is normal/fine) and over 100 pages (!) for the data-sheet (it's the width I guess :? )
...However I can limit this a bit by manually setting the ...

Nope, still not working. But Data Sheet will be downloaded.

Check out A291:I311, but that's probably only added for some tests.

B125, ArrayFormula, I guess this is filling in the values in B126:B145, isn't compatible with Excel. Quick lookup: Array Formula: How It Differs in Google Sheets and ...