<t> It is something you can do when you chose the other empires one of the final screens before you generate a new game. Instead of telling the AI to decide for itself which quantity of random empires it wants...you opt to decide those things manually this allows you to tweak various things for each...

<t> My colony ships don't linger and therefore never need refueling, they exist for the shortest amount of time they have to. When made they always have exactly what they need in order to quickly and safely reach their intended destination, the longer they exist the more you spend on them via mainte...

<t> When you select who/ what and how many rivals you have you can also opt to have them try to be placed in or as close to specific sectors as possible. If you tell rival empire 1 to start in A1 they'll try to be as close to A1 as they can, usually they are one or two sectors away from it though on...

I've never had a colony ship swing back to a colony ever, construction ships do in-between jobs to collect the materials they need for the next job.

<t> They have luxury extractors because gas mines are intended to also be used on Ice worlds and Ice worlds have Tyderios (a gas) and things like Vodkol, Ivory and Terallion which are luxury materials. Mines have an inventory of assorted materials which as I recall is probably meant for them to hold...

<t> Coups, Elections, Replacements are all just leader change events. The only real reason for the 3 distinctions is a combination of RP/ Thematic and temporary impact, in the game elections are typically marked by periods of bonus and growth, replacements are sort of indifferent and Coups are follo...

<t> Some governments draw from existing character pools. Technocrats elect scientists, Monarchies draw from Governors, Dictatorships draw from Generals/ Admirals. Some governments don't draw from an existing pool but effectively replace an existing leader with a character that didn't exist until it ...

<t> Certainly a possibility though it would be something that would need testing, just on the off-chance that the pods end up being launched regardless by ships sat on top of enemy ships, let me know what you discover from this experiment please. That said if it doesn't work out then maybe consider ...

Maybe to do with Media player/ Internet Explorer (or lack there-of)?, this as been a perceived issue since quite a few Windows 10 packages do not include one or both while other methods include them.

<t> In my experience the AI seems to strongly favour governments with strong military/ war related benefits even if it comes at the cost of population, stability, research...etc, other than that the races with special government allowance will almost always start out with that government because the...

<t> That would be more along the lines of a neutral/ aloof decision as you are potentially pre-empting a conflict in order to re-assert yourself as the dominant power (Yes I am aware that a war will no doubt occur anyway eventually as they likely covet your things). Regarding what happened my guess ...

<t> Even less favoured planet types shouldn't be causing this level of issue, the only time I've ever seen migration issues (migration as opposed to population in general) is when the place was literally at the other end of the universe (taken during war) and migration to it was extremely rare. Look...

<t> I don't see the point in adding to a system or aspect that as had most of it's purpose made more dynamic and distributed among other things as it defeats the purpose of being distributed. Also remembered how? negatively or positively and by who? I somehow doubt "alliance" empires like Kaiden, Hu...

<t> All colonies (colonies themselves that is) need access to steel, hydrogen, caslon, lead, silicon, polymer and I think carbon fibre to maintain a large amount of colony development it's not much compared to what you'd spend fueling ships or building things but they need them. If you pick good sit...

<t> There are possibly two things at play here, one destroy base and the other sabotage construction. Destroy base = destroyed and if you upset a handful of groups (both pirate and empire) then if you have any small stations they'll get targeted first and blown up eventually (even if you have good c...

<t> At a guess, Tourism priority either helps determine how many passenger ships get pressed into service or it changes the ships behaviour to do more or less tourism (meaning less or more time for migration jobs) without needing you to outright turn of tourism using your own ships in order to get s...

Its been a while but I think that was the ruin that gave a significant boost to Industrial research.

I see reputation as more of a relic system, one that was largely dropped in favour of race, government and species family bias ratings but only kept around for a few vestigial things like domestic and foreign opinions.

<t> If you mouse over the research project (completed or not) in the research window for the various fighter projects will tell you the stats for that the project does. They have their own statistics and basically all of their statistics gets improved fairly efficiently. So say you have a project th...

<t> What I meant by the station staging point, I meant look for a point closer to the 2 planets that doesn't have anyone's station on it and send a construction ship to go build there, the constructor can just refuel from that station and go home afterwards or be scuttled intentionally. Are you sure...