It still seems pretty random to me too. However, whenever I begin a game with the accelerated start option there is never bonus tiles on my starting homeworld, though they are present on other planets in the galaxy. I assume that's a new DA feature.
Yup, the dual core issue is likely the problem. Here's the link again if you haven't already found it. WWW Link Running the AMD optimizer fixed my X2. Good luck.
I'm seeing this a lot as well--especially with the Dregnin, they rarely expand at all! Plus the intelligence settings for the AI are constantly incorrect. I like to play at Tough or painful, but whenever I contact other races I check the stats and see that their intelligence is 'sub-normal.' Very annoying! Moosetek13, How do you set the intelligence levels manually? <b
Has anyone noticed any changes in the general makeup of galaxies post 1.11? I ask because since updating to 1.11, I've noticed some differences in how galaxies tend to be generated now as opposed to what I had become accustomed to seeing in 1.1. Before the update to 1.11, I generally played huge galaxies and left the planet and star settings at the defaults. Typically, I would see a pretty decent amount of variation in how my galaxies were generated (civ starting location,
