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Hi there,

Ive been playing distant worlds for a while and just recently got around to going from rots to shadows. I noticed something tho that is aggravating me. I play in a semi automated fashion. ie..auto taxes, auto ship design, manually controlling specific fleets and pretty much the rest on suggest settings so i can sit back and listen to my lesser peons inform me what they believe is the right course of action and then i can agree or disagree. This suits me fine.

I have just noticed in my first game of shadows playing a pre warp game that my empire construction ships are automatically building mining stations in my first non warp system. This is bugging the hell out of me. I also noticed that my stations are now auto upgrading in size which is also semi annoying. ( i managed to find on the forums that this is a part of retrofitting behaviour now) Can anyone tell me which setting will control this behaviour if its possible as i cant see it.

So basically what setting is allowing my empire to use their free will and build mining stations ( once an explorer has explored a planet/asteroid etc..) i did not approve of? thus clogging up the build queue on my constructors?

Thanks.

Kherny.

As for the automatically built mining stations: I believe that this is caused by automating your construction ships. Disable the automation on the construction ships and they won't automatically build mining stations.

As for the automatically upsized space stations: go to either the Empire Policy screen or the Ship Design screen. If in Empire Policy, go down to the Research and Ship Design section and either change the retrofit setting or uncheck the autodesign checkbox for your space stations. If in the the Ship Design screen, use the State Bases filter to show your state space stations, and change either (or both) the retrofit or the design setting to manual. If the designs are manual, the ships will not automatically retrofit even if the retrofit stance is set to automatic, according to a note in one of the tooltips.