Interstellar

Where's the best place to put your technology capital? 1) I have my home world, which produces about 29 tech currently. It has the highest population obviously. 2) Then I have a class 18 planet which produces about 15 tech, I guess because the population is low as a result of a -19% planet morale penalty from a colonization event. It has potential because of so many spaces to build improvements though. In fact it's the only planet that still has spaces left to build on. <br

Doesn't anyone use scouts to find worlds to colonize? Or do you use your survey vessel instead of investigating anomalies? My first turn I buy a factory and a *scout*. Because a scout is a lot cheaper than a colony ship, makes the money last longer, and after the factory I can pump out a colony ship every 3 turns anyway. I send the first colony ship in one direction, and the scout goes in the other direction. Whe

I thought it was a fun game overall. I played it for about 6 months. But it can be really unforgiving. One day, I lost 3 of my best ships in a war due to a game bug. This amounted to about 90% of everything I had gained up to that point in the game. I was looking at either starting over from square one, begging corpmates to help me recover, or just quit. So I quit. It is extremely unforgiving. There is no xp or levels to cushion your fall. Only your bank balance and total time invested

Thanks. I never even noticed the little arrows there. Perfect time to start a new game!

1) An option to turn off re-centering the screen on a ship when you use the arrow keys to move it. Or, move the camera slowly to follow the ship as it moves, (rather than re-centering the screen where the unit used to be, then moving the ship.) 2) On the planet screen when you select an improvement in the queue and it shows the details, it should also show the cost. (Not in turns but in units as well.) 3) On the F6 screen, make that more useful with more tooltips and the abilit

Is there a way to just mod the Terran Alliance to use a custom symbol graphic instead of the default Terran Alliance symbol? I tried a custom race and picked everything the same as humans but with a new symbol, but then I got a sun named "Earth" and no Mars, Jupiter or Saturn. I tried naming the homeworld "Sol" figuring I could rename my home planet to "Earth" but then I still don't get Mercury, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. (They get named "Sol II", "Sol III" and so forth.) I also got a di

This time I uninstalled everything, reinstalled the game and played straight off the CD version with no patching. Playing Friday night, Saturday and this morning, I have only gotten one crash. (Yes that is one more than I should, but still an improvement.) I would say that it is back in the "playable" range now. I even had a warning of sorts that a crash was coming. In the Research Screen, the sounds you get when you click on a technology suddenly changed. They were better sounds than t

The Drengin have set up an influence starbase about 4 squares/parsecs from a morale resource, which makes the morale resource now located inside their influence but nobody has claimed it. It's pretty far from my space but I have a constructor nearby. If I try to claim it: 1) Is it ok to set up a resource starbase within 4 parsecs of an enemy influence starbase? 2) Is it ok to set up a starbase inside enemy "territory"? 3) If so, could my starbase be vulnerable to "flipping" over

I just uninstalled everything including Stardock Central and reinstalled. I turned off the "Show prerelease versions" (which is on by default) but it still says 1.59.078 is the only one available to upgrade to. The installed version says 1.50 now. How do I get to 1.58.072?

I just bought this game a couple of days ago. It's Dark Avatar 1.59.078. This is the first game I've played on this machine that crashes. It crashes on small or medium-sized galaxies. I haven't tried other sizes. It crashes after you load the game, move some units around, manage planets, etc.. I tried playing with some settings and turning down BackgroundStars but nothing seems to help. If I start a new game, that eventually crashes as well. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later. If there's