Shouldn't inactivity also be tied with helping positive traits based off the government type and corruption? If your empire has low corruption and a more military themed government then the officer corp should be similarly merit oriented and filling that inactive time between wars training and learn...

Yep definitely got a coat or two of polish this last patch. Hopefully the need to squash bugs and find optimizations slow down so they can concentrate more on the actual game and not just the engine it runs on.

Started a fresh game on a 1000 star small map with one of each race seeded and so far smooth as butter even late game. Haven't noticed any irregularities in gameplay but nebula are still a performance hog making my 3080 spin up to full load when I zoom into one. AI empires were given a tech 1 boost ...

UI IMPROVEMENTS - updated Design List screen to more clearly indicate toggling for some items (underlines for Role Design, Auto Retrofit, Is Active columns) Nice. I was stumped over how to set a custom design to not automatically retrofit because I thought the entry was just static text and it neve...

3. Against. Because dumb AI. The AI for the player is actually quite good though its taking a bit to smooth out some of the snags of a brand new from the top down engine. Its the empire AI that is lacking a bit but that seems by design for balance reasons but it should also improve over time. Moddi...

I think the reasoning is that it screws up the galaxy view as its more or less a flat 2d image that rotates instead of a volumetric effect that can be rotated around. Maybe limit full camera rotation to when you scroll in a certain distance and the galaxy view is gone.

Every patch so far has been useful for making the game better? I haven't seen anything remotely resembling dlc glut where they make you pay for features that should have been in the base game? This seems pretty unfair to the good work they are doing..

They are following the DW formula again. Release a basic game with basic features then flesh it out over time. The good news is that we get 80% of the old DWU in DW2 once all the bugs and performance issues are fixed. Once the game is nice and solid and optimized then Elliot and crew will start to w...

Hope this helps. Hah. I thought the entire line was static info and I was puzzled as to where the setting to change it would be. Never occurred to me to click the name itself. These are the little ui snaggles we had to learn in dwu. :D Thanks! During beta I was told the same thing - and I couldn't ...

SamuraiProgrmmr wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 12:40 am Hope this helps.

Hah. I thought the entire line was static info and I was puzzled as to where the setting to change it would be. Never occurred to me to click the name itself. These are the little ui snaggles we had to learn in dwu.

Thanks!

Just updated the original post to reflect the 1.0.4.8 beta update, which we have just released, to correct a maintenance cost issue with manual ship designs in 1.0.4.7. Concerning manual ship designs. I might simply be dense and missed it but is there a way to mark a specific manual design to not b...

I've noticed that sometimes after a key tech finished it takes a bit for it to be applied to any new designs. Also if the places that will do the refit don't have the required materials to do it then the refit button will be disabled. How long has it been in game years since the tech finished?

The game setup screen allows for near endless combinations of conditions so its really up to what you want to do as the next scenario. An easy way to ramp up the difficulty especially with the current state of the AI is to buff their starting systems and grant them a +2 tech advantage with a few sta...

I've noticed that I don't regularly get the tech breakthrough message either but it still grants the tech bonus after disassembly. I'm sure there are other things I'm missing but overall the game seems to be running just fine now on all fronts past anemic AI expansion if you don't give them enough o...

Ok after getting to late game on a fresh start I can say performance is great now and it barely stresses my gpu when it was getting up to 90% utilization before and this is a pretty beefy gpu. AI is still very weak on early expansion unless you give them some starting game buffs like a few additiona...

The best games are the ones where they start with 2 - 4 colonies (forget the name of setting - expanding or something?) and I give them a +2 level tech boost. With all of the other difficulty settings you mention. Depending upon my start, that is a good game. I've been recommending those settings t...

Nice. Was just going to start a new game too so perfect timing.

With the current games state I have to give the AI a pretty stout head start if I want a good challenge mid to late game. I typically give them an excellent starting system with young expansion and tier 2 or 3 tech depending on which races I put in. By the time you meet them they will have well esta...

No worries. I waited nearly a decade for og DW to eventually morph into DWU and it was worth the wait.

The point at which ships are asking for fuel is way too high it seems to me. I'll have a fleet top off then send it to patrol an area and with only a sliver of fuel use has it wanting to refuel again. Same with that tanker it has plenty of fuel in the tanks so why is it waiting to refuel? Reduce the...