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Can some good soul please spell this one out for me, please? I genuinely have no idea how far I can push my MC spend without triggering retaliation - I understand 90 seems to be the magic number, but have absolutely zero clue if this scales or not. I guess there is only one real way to find out and ...

UI Irritation: The game pause/unpause mechanic can cause an irritating event. In particular if I try to pause the game manually just as an event pops up, instead it unpauses the game instead (which can lead to enemy fleets bombarding before you react to them). My suggestion is to make the "pau...

Perhaps it would be better if you imagine what you do when stealing it. These are engineering projects - just consider stealing Gibraltar Crossing and you should see it. Project means in this context plans for doing an engineering undertaking. By stealing/unlocking you acquire plans, by researching...

If the Nordic Federation has no claim on the capital of the EU (and they usually don't) then they have no option to unify the EU (but the EU could unify them because they have or they could have claim on the capital of NF) even though you can federate the EU as the NF. Click on the Executive Author...

For me, the whole point of building a colony ship is that it can keep right on going, as long as your first base or (preferably) orbital also has a depot for refuelling/restocking. My main point is that nobody at all would put expensive engines & drives on a probe. Period. But of course that is ...

I am in control of the Nordic Federation, and it would seem that I have a claim on the EU. The EU is however controlled by The Academy. What happens if I federate with the EU? Would this give me any control over the EU in the long run if I hang on until I can actually Unify, or would it work differe...

It's got to the point where I am really feeling the lack of characters in game save names.
Is it possible to allow these to be longer, please as I try to make a save specific to the circumstances & right now this is very difficult as it seems there is a very small number of characters allowed.

OK, thank you. I can understand this as a game mechanic now, makes it easier to program it that way, but it is still BS when I apply real world logic Agreed completely. After Unification, perhaps there could be an event roll to decide if the Nuclear Scientists & Engineers transfer with the newl...

Some really good points here, Ian.
I like the Space Programme thought - but something is bothering me and I need some time to work out quite what it is.
More later

Many thanks for those tips - I will take a look at these shortly & post back with what happened. I had (rather stupidly) not checked the intel page but will do so very soon, and the 'P' tip could prove to be a serious time saver. Much appreciated EDIT P works really nicely. P in Solar System mod...

I think part of the problem is the relative costs of controlling small, poor countries as versus rich, immediately useful ones. If Africa was cheap to grab, and you could effectively stabilise it so it was useful for the move into space (and Im thinking of the costs of direct investment as well as ...

Okey Dokey - if that is how it works then that is how it works.
Can we please rename the mission then, as 'steal project' should mean just that, and not just steal a reference to it.

Sorry but reducing mission phases to once a month would just not work for me at all. When you have a heap of places & orbitals to defend against hostiles or when you need to go kill off opposition councillors, a monthly option really isn't nearly often enough - especially with orbitals as each d...

These are some really well thought out ideas to my mind & I am in almost full agreement with each & every one of them. The only one I would change is the Probes - yes, manually setting a tag on interesting asteroids is cool but even better would be a separate page somewhere that tells me not...

Stealing it only means the project is available for you to research - this is not a bug. I see. Info much appreciated - this really could be made clearer though, as the mission is 'Steal Project' and it is not the same thing as 'make this available for research' by a long, long way & If this is...

Already filed a proper bug report on this one, but thought I would see if anyone else has also noticed this. Build 0.3.39 I stole 'Solar Arrays' from The Protectorate, but the array was simply not available to build in orbit so I assumed this was because the Tier 2 hab hub had not yet completed. How...

I like these ideas a lot, and a future expansion pack could add some extremely interesting factions. I particularly like the hybridize idea and this could be mixed with a cyborg type concept as well. Some very good ideas here, and I can already tell that Mod designers are going to have a lot of fun....

It is simply illogical, when you have fast ships, with 1.5+kps but you can`t build fast probes. My colonial ship will reach Pluto in ~0.5 year, and prospector probe will take 9k days or 25+ in game years(both start from Mars). No it isn't. There are still probes being launched now using old tech - ...

It seems to me they the constant propaganda spam you get seems to come mostly from factions which have okay relations (tolerance) with you? It seems that "war" curtails this but when I wasted a lot of resources to make nice with Academy, they responded by spamming propaganda on EU/US. Thi...

I just read on Steam Community that it is possible to first turn a councillor (which we knew about) but then you can get a turned councillor to resign from his/her current faction & then hire them yourself.

Is this deliberate or accidental, and can the AI also do this?

Great catch there!
That is absolutely an exploit that needs squashing

Just because we don't know how to make a controlled fusion powerplant (let alone a spaceship drive with it) doesn't mean we couldn't recognize the performance of one breaking into orbit of our planet. As the ship arrives into orbit, we could get a rough idea of size via radar, and quickly work out ...

Probably, but you have the deeper issue that this is the age of the Internet, and every player who wants to know will have a guide open in another window. Doubtless they will (I know I certainly do) but the fact remains that the game is giving us information here that we simply should not have or k...

Gotcha - I understand what you mean now - clarification much appreciated.
I think you may well be onto something here - let me think before replying in detail though but I like the general idea - it is currently too easy to set up extremely unlikely numbers of 'Allies'

You should be able to pick your own starting councilors... I tend to find the random ones suck or allow us to Generate our own with the knowledge that you need one able to investigate alien crash sites at the beginning and one that allows you to control nations. I'm not at all sure about this idea ...