<r> I'm pretty sure rebelling when changing governments is hard-coded. I wanted to change from democracy to way of darkness and out of my 50 colonies 7-10 were rebelling at all tries. I manually set all taxes to 0 and had like 150-250 happiness on all planets then changed - same rebelling effect.<br...

"DELETE all obsolete unused (with 0 build) designs" button
At the end-game there can be hundreds or even thousand obsolete designs that just slow down loading of designs window (yes, w/o showing those designs)

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Fishman<br/> <br/> The way the Research bonus works for governments and races should be changed from being applied before the cap (worthless) to being applied after the cap, in the same way the Ruins bonus is applied (awesome). As it stands right now, all the resea...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Sliverine<br/> <br/> i dont think u can build starports without any cargo component for that matter.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> You can - I do build them like that. <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>even the smallest starport with med and recreational facilities will cost 1.5...

Just click the mouse button&nbsp;[:)]

wave blasters.

Just don't give them those [:'(]

@sbach2o: A lot of times I'm finding that I need to re-give the invade order for my ship - especially after it jumps into the system and there are enemies/bases near the planet. Also 'invade/land immediately' is a must.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Don't do that with escorts. That pirate thing will murder you. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> I actually only use capitals with 200 size at the beginning. <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I set them to fight to the death, otherwise we'll never get those old crappy versions scrapped. Plus, if y...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Did you know that...<br/> <e>[/b]</e></B><B><s>[b]</s>1.<e>[/b]</e></B> Your escort ships can be much bigger than capitals. That way you can stick with only one class for your main military ship from the beginning of the game and just retrofit to later and bigger designs. You can st...

As Im building only capital ships I didn't encounter this problem and as I read somewhere pirates don't copy capital ship designs

<r> 1. Ability to sort items in windows (expansion planner, designs, etc) by default. Now you have to restart the game to have default sorting back.<br/> <br/> 2. (Already mentioned) Grouping items in ship design. Example: 10x shields<br/> <br/> 3. Ability for construction ships to scrap, retrofit (...

About private ships - they actually don't need any weapons - just give them good speed and they will simply run away from anything. I'm using that tactic (good speed, no weapons, a bit of shields and armor) and it's working.

<t> Quality > Quantity in this game<br/> For example ship with 1000 shields and 200 firepower is better than 2 ships with 500 shields and 100 firepower each and also better than 10 ships with 100 shields and 20 firepower each ans so on.<br/> Why? Because that ship can win vs the other and also cost ...