tickhromeroi

I don't know if this is a bug or just an undocumented design feature. But, as far as I can see, espionage is useless. Theoretically, with the highest level of espionage you're supposed to "steal" a technology every so often. But, over several weeks of play, I think I've gotten one or two technologies that way. For instance, in the last game I played, I pumped huge amounts of money into spying on the Torians (who usually out research me -- and did s

I've been seeing the opposite (sort of). A world defects to me and it has a Starport. But, I can't build ships from it. If I enter it, I can tell it to build a ship. But, when I go away, it doesn't build it. Also, even though the Starport shows up on planet, under the global planet status screen, it shows "No Starport."