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jwarrenw13 wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:54 pm Thanks for much for your guide. It has been very helpful to me, even as a DWU player with hundreds of hours. I wrote a post a couple of days ago hoping someone would step up with a guide to play on fully manual equivalent to the one Timotheus did for DWU. This is what I wrote about yours in case you missed it.

"Scott2993 has already made a good start at it with his very detailed guide, which incorporates ideas on how to set up the game to play with large parts of it on manual or suggest. It is very, very good and very, very helpful with some really good explanations of how things work. I highly recommend it and thank Scott2993 for his work."

In playing DW2 a little more and thinking about it more, it may be that something along the lines of your guide, with some parts automated, might actually work better for those of us who like to control all or most things in the game than going fully manual.

Gilmer wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 6:25 pm Thank you for this guide. It supercharged my economy. Whereas before I was just hoping I could get to 100K credits barely struggling along, I now have 350K and a lot of ships and the civilians keep building more freighters. I rarely have less than 20 civilian ships building.

And it was basically just the resort base thing. I don't remember it being this much of a game changer in DWU. But, I could be wrong.

Philoponus wrote: Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:45 am Thanks for this.

Am I the only one with a somehow "broken" layout of the guide (I use Googe Docs)?

StormingKiwi wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 10:54 am Why bombard the planet and murder the population living on it? If you aren't going to use them, what was the point?

StormingKiwi wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:27 am Great thank you, that makes sense.

Follow up questions - how long does it take to assimilate a home colony? It was -50,000 pa in support costs my last game.

Scott2933 wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:42 am

StormingKiwi wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:27 am Great thank you, that makes sense.

Follow up questions - how long does it take to assimilate a home colony? It was -50,000 pa in support costs my last game.

So it depends. In my "Turn it up to 11" video I made the wrong call and took the Boskara Empire first (which took forever to become profitable and was a huge money sink for a long long time) instead of the Ackdarian (which I assimilated quickly in comparison after I took them). I believe the more friendlier the race (in my case to humans) the less time. The Galactopedia has a chart for each race to see their natural affinity toward your race.

Erik Rutins wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 2:49 pm

Scott2933 wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:42 am

StormingKiwi wrote: Wed Mar 16, 2022 11:27 am Great thank you, that makes sense.

Follow up questions - how long does it take to assimilate a home colony? It was -50,000 pa in support costs my last game.

So it depends. In my "Turn it up to 11" video I made the wrong call and took the Boskara Empire first (which took forever to become profitable and was a huge money sink for a long long time) instead of the Ackdarian (which I assimilated quickly in comparison after I took them). I believe the more friendlier the race (in my case to humans) the less time. The Galactopedia has a chart for each race to see their natural affinity toward your race.

Each race has a certain resistance to assimilation. If you look at the stats in the race selection you can see the differences.

Chewystl wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:38 am Scott,

I'm a 57 year old USMC vet who enjoys strategy games and I'm a newbie to the Distant Worlds genre. I have found your guide extremely helpful to getting me acclimated to the basics of the game and I'm thoroughly enjoying playing it. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with the community, I personally greatly appreciate it.

Chewystl
Semper Fi

StormingKiwi wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 3:05 am I think there's a lot to be said for the player to learn to manage funding levels manually.

My rule of thumb is to set the reserved income to 0, then skew excess towards growth and gradually increase research as I can afford to.

e.g. right at the beginning, it doesn't matter what your research is because you have no research stations, so it should all be invested into growth as far as I can tell.