Just to let you know, the minimap repaint issue still persists with beta 3x.

*quivers with anticipation*

Wiiiii!
Looks great!

I hope you keep update 1.2 as a downloadable option.
1.3beta 3x feels like a bit different of a game to me because of the tweaks.

Thanks for fixing the invisible turn button extending over the minimap -- that one got me a lot.

I do see the tile issues that Moosetek is all frustrated with. But whatever works for the AI is fine by me and from what I've seen - I'm beatable on the suicidal difficulty now and with update 1.2 I didn't feel I was ( with the games I like playing ).

And thanks for the upgrades, the game has evolved into a very good game that I'm sure I'll enjoy for years.

What exactly do you mean about the stock markets? Are you saying to start the game by building a few of them on each of your planets vs. building factories or research centers.

he meant that if you go and research stock markets as soon as possible, your economy gets a good early boost.

Are they going to fix the starbases? it is way too cheap and easy to build/upgrade starbases. It should cost way more than 200bc to build a starbase, and the price should go up as most of the galaxy is colonized by the different civs. All upgrades should cost money not just battlestations. Correct me if im wrong. I do like most changes for 1.3 however.

It would be smarter if the AI put a farm and maybe 2-3 markets, instead of no farm and 7 markets.
The higher population will increase income a lot better than just more econ buildings. Plus it would make it much harder to invade and take planets.

Building that many econs is shooting ones own foot. Sure, you can buy ships more, but if you can't research fast enough you fall behind very quickly. And loading up the planet with econ leaves no room to buy any buildings anyway. So is the strategy now to just buy military ships in droves?
It doesn't work. By the time I get attacked my ships outclass theirs so far it is pathetic. Simple numbers won't do it if the fleets total attack is less than my single ships defenses.

And this last game they have been building too many econs as well. It didn't show up as much early in the game, but by the time the Drengin attacked me and I began to take developed planets it was obvious, although not quite as bad as that first game with this version.

This version is far less of a challenge, I think.

Moosetek: as I've mentioned, a few times, we're not seeing that. See Journals.  Every computer player has its own AI for handling planet building so it's also extremely unlikely that every player is doing this.

In v1.2 the AI will terraform planets as soon as it gets the technology, even if the planet has free tiles and no factories. Thus in v1.2 it is possible for the human player to cripple the AIs planet development by trading or gifting terraforming techs. Has this been corrected in v1.3?