Hi All -

Again - if this is a repeated post, my apologies.

I tend to start more games than I finish or conclude. This gives me a chance to understand the variables, which alien tech to trade for, and of course to design new ships.

When I start a new game, and as tech develops, old ship designs show up as being available. Nice feature from the original game. When my designs show up, some of the jewelry or weapon/addition boxes appear as empty. If I see this - I know I will crash the game.

I can remove these boxes. I can save the model. Any attempt to add anything will then crash the entire game. The way around it is that I delete the model, and the game continues. An annoying bug, because some of my custom ships I'd like to reuse.


Second - and this may not be a bug:

When I set my races to random, many of my 'custom races' appear as opponents. Was this intentional? If so, there should be a way or option to leave custom races out of the mix. Just a thought.

Lastly a comment.

In the upgrade comments, apparently the independent races will do more now than just spam constructors. So far, nothing has happened, and very few ever build colonies. They still spam constructors. Here's my thought: ramp up the colonization efforts, and make ships and bases of smaller races tradeable.