I think I have got the hang of it now. Here is a simple mod to give control of mining ships. It applies to democracy, republic, monarchy, technocracy, feudalism, mercantile guild and military dictatorship. I believe it will work for all the original races but not the ones in the DLCs. Here is the ...

Thanks for the help. I will get onto it as soon as I can. RL intervenes at the moment.

Yes I know that and have started a new game several times but it makes no difference: mining ships remain stubbornly independent. If making that change to one xml file is all that is needed then I must have made a mistake somewhere else, somehow.

I am fascinated by controlling mining ships and would like to use it in the vanilla game too. I have changed governments.xml to permit this for some governments but that does not seem to do the trick. Can you tell me what I am missing?

I have downloaded Return to Terra and played a little. Enjoying it so far. I am particularly delighted to be able to control mining ships.

I see you now include an increased selection of flags in DW2-XL. I am eager to get my hands on this . I see it is availabe on Steam as a separate download but I don't get along with Steam. Is there any chance you could let me have it or point to where I can get it outside Steam?

I just want to say that I had the same problem with 1083 and used the same solution.

Just want to say that having tried both 1.1 and 1.5, I prefer the way the research works in 1.1. It seems to me that it develops more naturally. That's a purely personal view, of course.

I think I will leave flags to the devs. The level of skill required to make the necesssary changes myself is way beyond my pay grade.

Have you had a chance to think about more flags? The current system is less than ideal, to put it politely. Ideally there should be lots more flags but they don't all have to be very fancy it seems to me; number is more important so that the chance of duplicates is cut down.

I have been using this mod and I think it is really excellent: a serious improvement on the original game. Any chance of giving us back the facility in DWU to create your own empire flag?