If you are paying the pirates protection money you will be at peace with them and no fighting will occur. Manual only means the fleet wont move or relocate to another system. It will still engage targets within the fleet engagement range (default is system wide for manual fleets if i recall). You ca...

I play a campaign every few months. Still love this game and appreciate the work on it. Queue management is one of the three major issues that frustrates me. The others being Troop/Garrison management and the private economy (resource distribution). I dont necessarily want to be able to give ships i...

What strategies do you use to manage planet side garrisons? I find that if i leave it on auto the AI bankrupts me, but if put it on manual with some automated troopships the troops are spread over planets but not to the levels i would like, or on the planets i want. Ideally i would like to specify g...

I too like to use different designs for different roles. I usually keep them in separate fleets so I can manage them via templates, but being able to have multiple designs in the same template would be nice. Hardly critical or game breaking though.

You can only build the latest one. Downgrading is not an option.

Agreed on all points. It is a pain. It is however less of a pain if you use the Colony > Infrastructure list. It's easy to filter to 'administrative facilities' and all the planets are grouped and sorted nicely. The biggest pain is that you lose the benefit of the current facility while it's being u...

Being able to drag and drop waypoints or designate a role such as 'refuelling stop' or 'assembly point' would be nice (short of the game getting better at automation). A suggestion I posted a while back was for the construct tab to have a 'to fleet' option. So you could select an existing fleet, the...

Makes no sense for tankers to stay close to the home port? The fleet can then just refeul at the space station. No need for tankers. The entire point of tankers is to provide mobility and extended operating range. As to the original question, fleet tankers should always be 'automated' even in manual...

Personally I don't mind doing the terraforming game. I pretty much always choose very rare colonisable planets in a very large galaxy. So I have no problem with lower quality planets. By mid-late game you have a gazillion decent colonies anyway. A decent way to do it might be to change the formula f...

I do find tanker behavior extremely frustrating whether using manual or automated fleets. I tend to use a number of small automated fleets for defense and raiding, and a handful of large manual fleets for assaulting planets. In either case, the tankers never stay with the fleets (expected behavior) ...

+1

Or at the very least, if you cant reduce the number of generated planets, keep the upper bound for quality, and reduce the lower bound. On the rarest settings all planets just suck, rather than having a few nice ones.

In general, automated ship designs are updated immediately when a tech is achieved. However if the new design is not viable, it probably wont update. Your best options are to check ship designs, and then to ensure that you have the required resources. It's happened to me once or twice that I over in...

Yeah, I've seen that suggested, but thought it would be too ambitious. I like a challenge, but I'm not a masochist. 😁 Btw. Loved your vid explaining colonization. Started off a bit slow, but some excellent detail as you got into it. I knew there was a link between quality and max pop, but you explai...

My last game: Galaxy: 10x10 with 1000 stars, few colonisable planets, rare independents. 12 opponents. Wanted a galaxy that wasn't crowded with planets, where distance and travel time was a bigger factor. Space is after all, vast. Difficulty: Extreme, Chaotic. Slow research, Human. Hoping for a chal...

You're right. There are a lot of line items missing, or probably in the wrong place. THE PROBLEMS - No line item for queuing research. - No line item for rushing research - Various other items like troop recruitment. - Ship building and maintenance apparently rolled into one. - Retrofit costs? - Lik...

Have unexplored bodies in a LIST, so you can prioritise which to explore. Its how the whole game works. List can be sorted by distance, type, etc. << show only star systems>> <<show only (named) system>> <<show only (type) systems>> etc. A nice explorer automation option would be to prioritise areas...

I love the apply tactical settings buttons.

Also the change from role to position is great for formations.

Troop maintenance is fine. I do NOT want it reduced. Cheap garrisons will just lead to more garrison spam and longer bombardments without adding anything. I would rather buff militia (they cost nothing) and will serve to make invasions harder. This will reduce the need to put in place large expensiv...

One of the aspects of the game I've noticed in my playthroughs are that fleet battles are relatively rare. It's usually my fleets versus 1 or 2 or 3 ships, or my fleet besieging a planet with 6 to 8 defense bases. I have seen two full on fleet battles only, both in early game. Late game it's usually...

Nuance is a funny way to spell bug. :D :D :D I kinda figured eventually that he probably manually retrofitted a ship (or gave it an individual order) and forgot to set it back to auto. Something that I've never needed to do. You're right. It also shouldn't be a roadblock to subsequent fleet behavior.