<t> I love this game, but this cursor bug is making it almost impossible to play. Running Vista, Legends fully patched. Disabled autosave, but the cursor sooner or later just scrolls to the upper left and can't be budged. Reloading helps every now and then; alt-tabbing doesn't seem to have any posit...

I just tried the "patrol system" command. Fleet jumped to system edge near a mine. A pirate attacked a mine near the star and one of the patrol ships zoomed over and blasted him to space pebbles, then zoomed back to the fleet.

The new empire/game setup is waaaaaay nicer. Thanks, guys.

"DW at that level would let you buy low-G, low-flush toilets for your ships (for a boost in water carrying capacilty)."

At several hundred ic (intergalactic credits) per toilet seat -- just like Lockheed Martin, Mattel and all the other irl contractors!

There are insufficient armament variables to make shape design particularly interesting/diverse. Fingers crossed an expansion will address this. Right now, for fighting ships it's pile on engines, reactors, blasters and shields.

Count me as a yea vote for chassis templating.

Adding a menu of pre-invasion options would be cool.

Galciv has a tile system -- very watered down, but better than nothing. I hold out hope that Galciv 3 will offer more rpg elements. Their current fantasy title is incorporating dynasties, heroes with personality traits, retinues, etc. Maybe that system will be carried over to G3.

Someone upstream mentioned a desire to rescale the ships v planets. That would be a nice -- either manually or just a hardcoded shrinking. Right now, they are a pretty obnoxious cluster around planets and in battles.

Baleur, perhaps your bit of trolling is just what that one-man development team needs to light a fire under his buttocks. I wish I would've thought of that. Thanks!

<t> If pirates are going to autospawn our latest ship designs, let's at least make it interesting. Maybe they only grab the design after <br/> <br/> 1) capturing a vessel in battle <br/> <br/> 2) capturing a scientist/engineer (pirates should be able to spy just as other empires do) <br/> <br/> 3) t...

<t> If pirates are going to autospawn our latest ship designs, let's at least make it interesting. Maybe they only grab the design after<br/> <br/> 1) capturing a vessel in battle<br/> <br/> 2) capturing a scientist/engineer (pirates should be able to spy just as other empires do)<br/> <br/> 3) the ...

Yeah, too bad the ai is sending repair ships despite fuel shortages. I like the idea of fuel as a strategic resource, but the current implementation is more of a headache than any kind of fun. Hopefully this will get sorted out in future patches.

"I select them all, assign them a fleet and send them into the next nearest black hole. "

Lol! I feel guilty about all of the overloaded colony ships I scuttled in deep space in Galciv....

Belay that -- I downloaded and got EFS running.

I just discovered EFS recently, but can't get the demo to run. Considering the popularity of EU and how easily its premise could be transferred to space, I'm kind of surprised nobody's really done anything on that scale.

<t> DW is a great game and I'm sure the expansions will improve it. However, its comparisons to EU got me thinking. That's really a game I suspect many of us would love to see -- a 4x space opera with actual named characters, noble houses, dynasties, diplomats, and heroes; spheres of influence, laws...

Hey, thanks, Mal! I was playing at oh-my-god-thirty the other morning and thought the sound was down further when I loaded the game. The klaxon O doom sounded, much to my wife's joy.

Yeah, the shrill klaxon and big sliding popup is distracting. I'd prefer a toned down alarm and a ticker in the corner of the screen.

Fishman, I could quibble with your points, but given the game mechanics, they're persuasive. From a gaming stance, I don't want a merchant fleet to obsolete the need for a standing navy, but a more robust diplomatic ai routine might be a solution.