I just played my second game as a human. I steamrolled everyone like they were mired in sand, so I thought I'd beeline to a win. I had two or three continental colonies at the time, so I figured the fasted way to the win would be to take over all of the continental colonies. Since there is no easy ...

Not scuttling the Small Freighters didn't have an effect. The AI still waited until it could purchase 120 Large Freighters before it bought any.

I think I can safely say that your existing freight capacity plays no role in the decision to purchase or upgrade freighters. It also doesn't look like ...

I was trying to upgrade from small freighters to medium and then large freighters too, so I tried scuttling every single small freighter. That triggered nothing. My empire ran without freighters for a long time.

Not sure the exact numbers, and it might have something to do with how many colonies ...

I just ran a test. I scuttled every single small freighter in my empire. I then deleted every single freighter ship blueprint. Then I created a single Large Freighter and didn't change anything. Just the auto-build. Finally I just ran the game on 4x speed and let things go.

Eventually/Finally, once ...

As a human race empire, I'm thinking of farming Greer for easy/fast stolen science. They have so much science tech and zero counter-intelligence. I can actually steal decent tech in 3 months! Hello spy skill boosts!

Conquering them would yield only a small fraction of that massive tech right in the ...

I've tried deleting my Medium Freighter design and recreating it. I've tried an automatically created design verses a custom design. I've tried obsoleting the Small Freighter so only the Medium is active. I have plenty of resources and the private economy has plenty of cash. No Medium Freighters are ...

I have a similar problem. Medium Freighters are not being ordered by the private sector, but Passenger Ships are.

Have you heard anything back?