<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76<br/> Errr no.GC2 was never even better than Moo2. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Agreed. I hated GalCiv and GalCiv2. Especially the ship design system and combat mechanics. But my favorite 4X game, mechanics-wise, is Aurora 4X so maybe my standards are a l...

Linux compatibility please. I no longer run Windows but still love 4X games. For now I'm stuck playing FreeOrion. I'd pre-order/Early Access DW2 on Steam if Linux is supported.

ORIGINAL: Shark7
This is the one wonder I race to get in game, extremely useful.

x2. It's essential for spamming colony and construction ships, enabling you to very rapidly expand your empire.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> I keep tweaking the design files, but most times the auto-designed ships are coming up way too early - e.g. a 400 sized Capital ship. Just silly (no valid distinction from a DD). <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> They are just titles to explain their tactical usage. They have n...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Matti Kuokkanen<br/> <br/> Heh. I'm past 30 and still unmarried. Should I be celebrating too... <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Absolutely. It's the best mix of maturity, experience, but still enough youth to capitalize on it all. If you apply yourself properly, the ...

I'll try that before my next game, thanks! Much better than the solution I went with: taking some of the Fed's huge income and crash-researching the relevant construction tech.

<t> First great work, very detailed mod. Thanks.<br/> <br/> I started one game as the Federation with the included Galaxy, and a 2nd custom game, also as the Fed, random Spiral galaxy. In each case I started with no Gas Mining Stations, and couldn't build any either. The default GMS-1 station is too...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: VPaulus<br/> <br/> <B><s>[b]</s>@<I><s>[i]</s>SimonSlater<e>[/i]</e></I><e>[/b]</e></B> and <B><s>[b]</s>@<I><s>[i]</s>roffmo515<e>[/i]</e></I><e>[/b]</e></B><br/> <br/> <br/> You are missing either Internet Explorer or Windows Media Player. These must be installed...

Real Life has kept me a bit behind on DWU's release, but I still got a $40 discount. $9.99 for the ability to mod DW properly? That's a fair trade. Thanks guys!

<t> GalCiv 1 and 2 are some of my least favorite 4X games. The ship design/combat mechanics were just never to my taste.<br/> <br/> To compound that, I'm another gamer burned by the Elemental fiasco (bought it on release day) and even Fallen Enchantress failed to live up to my expectations for the o...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Icemania<br/> Although I don't understand why so many want physical copies! <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Likewise. I've got enough stuff cluttering my apartment already. I've been digitizing documents and magazine articles and tossing the hard copies left and righ...

<t> I use a lot of frigates/destroyers for defense, un-fleeted, on AI control. I usually have such a large income that if my defenses seem sub-bar I'll just queue up the production of several dozen additional frigates and then ignore them. For big incursions I'll just re-task one of my manually-cont...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76<br/> <br/> Dude shoud play SW Rebellion.If you can handle high micro,crappy UI the game is the ultimate Starwars simulation. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> I used to play it for years, then tried my hand at modding it...which was a nightmare. Some of the g...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ares106<br/> <br/> if you wish to see some impressive modding, you should check out the civilizations series, total war series, and mount&lade. <br/> <br/> I personally think Distant worlds is the perfect platform for a comprehensive Star wars mod, that's proba...

<t> Another long-time 4X player (since Space Empires II and MoO2) and DW player since release. I made maybe 2-3 attempts at pirate games, pre-warp starts never caught my interest. Pretty much the new ground combat features were the selling point for me. <br/> <br/> That said, I've been playing Auror...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bingeling<br/> <br/> I don't usually leave any military ship under AI control.<br/> <br/> Turning off "newly built ships are automated" is nice, but maybe not so nice if you enjoy having automated smaller ships fly around. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> With a suffi...

<t> I always play with space monsters turned off.<br/> <br/> In my current Shadows game, I've got a colony on a planet with Korabbian Spice. Every time I turn around it seems my space port is gone (presumably destroyed) and a sand slug is sitting over the world. Is this a new "feature" in Shadows? I...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Bingeling<br/> <br/> I believe the AI has a value for various mines and colonies, and the automated ships tend to get tasks according to their class. So an escort would patrol a less valuable object than a cruiser.<br/> <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Sometimes I won...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> Not in the major areas, the amount of work those require makes opening them up a lot of work. However, all new work keeps modding in mind and <B><s>[b]</s>we currently plan to make a modder-focused release after Shadows that should make some major strides forward on the mod...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Nedrear<br/> <br/> Sometimes I am glad to be part of the majority paying for every expansion because that did not happen...<br/> <br/> For the developers reading this: He is for these changes, I and some others are against. Please follow the majority who do not wan...