I managed to refine it a bit:

The Korx Game Tip Of The Day:

You can drop an agent on the Reeducation Center on Dec. 8th to end the game on the 22nd.

Great game Snark! I'm working on my write up now.

IIRC the irish were wearing kilts too, but it's been a long time since i've seen that movie. in any regard, the kilt is semi traditional attire in ireland as well as scotland, it's just that irish kilts don't have clan tartans (AFAIK they're usually one solid color).

Good point Dys. There are times when ignoring convention in language can be interesting/engaging/purposeful or simply powerful. There are other times when it can be distracting and bothersome. In the current world of literature there is a fellow named Charlie Huston who is cranking out some powerful novels that redefine formatting in ways that I think are an improvement over conventional usage and very effective. Cormac McCarthy also disregards convention and writes passages that are powerfully emotive withal....like a baseball bat to the head sometimes. English teachers may cringe but he is one of the most gifted writers out there.

Those of us who aren't world class gifted in language skills communicate better with us when we all work from the same set of rules. Few of us can pull off the unconventional communication and have it be anything but a disaster.

Gmoonii - sigh. Listen, I asked very politely. I don't really know who you are, where you are from, if you are a nine year old girl or just some annoying troll. If you are a child then please listen...I am a father and I have a nine year old girl. I have given you the benefit of the doubt, just in case you are a nine year old girl, and I will do so one last time. I am going to speak to you as a father. It is rude when someone asks you politely to behave in their house and you tell them to go to hell. This thread is the house that Snark and I are building and you are misbehaving in it. If you don't want to change your behaviour that is your prerogative since you are not my child. If you don't wish to behave though you won't be welcome in our house.

Look at the posts you have received from dozens of others here over the last few months. Your formatting and syntax seriously bother others and detract from their enjoyment of these forums. I waited many weeks to say anything and, when I did so, I did it as politely as possible and bothered to explain the why's and wherefore's in a way that was as kind as I could muster. In return you send a post telling me you wish to behave like North Korea, a universally despised country, and deliberately write your post in an annoying font and continue to post your banner in different colors. That is simply rude and incredibly disrespectful.

Look at what Mottikhan has to say. Mottikhan is the top predator in the MV and has more karma than most of us combined. For him to say something like he did should give you serious pause. You should respect Motti for his accomplishments and be bothered when someone that talented and so widely well-regarded has such a negative view of you.

I will ask one more time: stop posting in anything other than default fonts, stop using colors, drop the Saint Mina banner, and try to use correct grammatical structure in your posts. It has been explained to you by many people, time and again, that we find your posts distracting and annoying and that they detract from our enjoyment here. If you will heed my polite request then you will be welcome here. If you don't wish to do so then please don't play in our house anymore. Go pollute other threads but stay out of the Twilight Pub, OK? Also stay out of the Tyranny of Evil thread as well and leave the Gerontocrats alone.

Perhaps I was a bit hasty the first time. Let's just archive that comment to the ol' "View Edits" file. I still don't think your post sounds like something a 9-year old would write, however.

   I am sorry to polluted your Pub with my words, my font family, my font size, my colors and my empire banner so I changed my fonts and deleted all my banners.

   I was wrong and I give in, so in the future you should tell new members this rule that I didn't know until now, to use default font family, default font size, no colorful banners, no bold white letters and black back ground so this mistake will not happen again.

   Thank you for your time

    Saint Mina

What is Demigod?

Issue 6: fix secret police center

Issue 7: several of the colonization techs are worthless ot the AI, forget which...I think Barren world and radioactive world....yet the AI chrages out the wazoo for them and they value the other three just fine. There is coding big in there.

Issue 8: give us control of what planetary structures we keep in the "new " list and which in the "old" list...I'd much prefer this to be "preferred" and "secondary" lists.

Issue 9: when building a custom ship type give us a dozen icons to choose from to represent the ship. On the galaxy view it is not possible to tell my 2/2 fighter with speed 3 from my 456/150 fighter with speed 15. There should be more icons to represent ships so that they are visibly indentifiable by type in the galaxy view without having to click on them.

But there is need to go into it again.

I haven't been watching your every post, but it seems like a dedicated thread for envisioned improvements (the more specific the better) to the planetary governor would have the best chance of changing things.

If you intend to make that this thread, more power to you.

Agreed.  Immense needs to have more than Gigantic...I'd like to say it needs more resources, too, as I haven't noticed much if any difference there either, but I'm not entirely sold on that.

Indeed.  As I've stated previously in at least two threads, the Arcean tech tree actually works much, much better with a speed bonus rather than a speed malus.  And as long as the Arceans have been around, if they can't do engines, I'm willing to bet they'd have ways to make up for it-which their passives are insufficient for due to engine stacking.

It doesn't, and you can.  I can't seem to find the various posts...we'll see if someone beats me to posting a screenshot.  Basically, you need 6 sectors, like the upper 2/3 of a tic-tac-toe game.

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In the sectors on the outside, you place 4 starbases at the corners of where they touch the sectors on the inside, whereas you can only place half that in the sectors on the inside.

Left:
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Right:
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Not sold on this one, either, but you make a decent point.

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Would be awesome  And is therefore never going to happen.  But if/when it does, I'd ask that it be done in such a way that we can mod straight approval bonuses in, rather than morale, and rather than hardcoding it.

The AI should be considering the techs to be valuable as long as there are uncolonizable worlds of that type still available.

I like it, but I'm not sure that's feasibly addressable in GC2.

D'oh.

Disregard my earlier ASCII and try this instead.

Left:
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Right:
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They need to be vertical; I forgot, my apologies.

You've just about got it with the second one-they do indeed intersect on the sector line, not somewhere out in the middle of the sector.

If this isn't clear as mud enough, then it's screenshot time: Found the original thread, and here's your screenshot, courtesy of Mumble:

Pretty much.  It's easier to see if you select the top left and the bottom right or vice versa-one very important thing to note is that partial tiles do count...otherwise it wouldn't be possible.

I added a screen to my above post-did you see it? 

In that above above screenie your blocked by the asteroids somewhat. For a better idea on the Sweet Spots you are best selecteding the bottom left SB and the top right SB.

And turn Show Grid Lines on when you go to set up an array. It shows esactly which squares has the SB influence touching it.