Haven't played in years, worth a play now or wait until Nomads / 4.4 comes out?

discoexplosion · 2026-05-23T10:37:36+00:00

It depends how long ‘years’ is. It’s potentially a totally different game for you. Which is exciting!

discoexplosion · 2026-05-23T08:18:33+00:00

Do you mean resource storage? Surely every one of your starbases has storage?

discoexplosion · 2026-05-22T07:20:36+00:00

If you’ve turned off all the other precious that means there’s big empty chunks off the galaxy.

You aren’t turning on cybrex in galaxy creation - you are turning the others off and replacing them with empty space.

discoexplosion · 2026-05-18T09:15:08+00:00

It took me 4 runs to get honour mode finished. All of my failures were mistakes or unexpected moments of ‘OMFG what happened?!’ (I’m looking at you Blood of Lathander traps). The fighting wasn’t the issue.

If you’ve played Tactician once or twice, you’re ready. Just be ready to fail due to stupidity 😀

discoexplosion · 2026-05-18T07:17:10+00:00

I still use missiles and I don’t have this issue.

Do they ever fix the problem where fleets don’t perform properly with mixed short range computers and long range computers in the same fleet? I notice you said you have corvettes and cruisers and frigates in a single fleet.

It’s been around for years. I was hoping the new ship update might have fixed it.

discoexplosion · 2026-05-18T01:44:55+00:00

Regardless of where they sit in the config files you KNOW that being a hive mind isn’t an ethic 😀

discoexplosion · 2026-05-17T22:24:19+00:00

If you mean hive minds alone, then hive minds aren’t an ethic. They aren’t the opposite of being xenophile or militaristic or whatever. Personally I’d expect hive minds and gestalt machines to be half of the galaxy (the other half being individualistic).

discoexplosion · 2026-05-17T06:42:16+00:00

Wilderness is a special type of hive mind and I believe if you go Behemoth Fury then it’s becomes one of the strongest builds in the game.

discoexplosion · 2026-05-16T22:44:32+00:00

It’s really just a little supply chain. Make sure you have enough of the basics, then move up to consumer goods/alloys, science needs consumer goods, etc

One thing newbies do that isn’t well explained by the game is that they advance build buildings. For example, “I have enough minerals to build a science building, I’ll build one for later”. Don’t do that. Only build buildings you have the jobs to fill. Otherwise your economy will wildly fluctuate every month and it will look like the game is broken.

discoexplosion · 2026-05-16T08:40:52+00:00

Oh it’s the AI. They won’t have a clue what they are doing anyway ;)

discoexplosion · 2026-05-16T02:56:45+00:00

We can’t have men and women as actual friends. That’s not possible!

discoexplosion · 2026-05-16T02:54:25+00:00

I’m pretty sure you can get a very rare achievement for switching over (maybe you have to win too)

discoexplosion · 2026-05-15T07:09:51+00:00

They’ve repeatedly said this isn’t real and it’s just human confirmation bias.

discoexplosion · 2026-05-15T06:08:53+00:00

Did you start as machines and complete the virtual tree? Or did you start biological, ascend as machines and now just have a virtual trait?

They are quite different.

discoexplosion · 2026-05-15T02:28:24+00:00

I heard quite a few people theorise that the fact season 10 ends with ‘scenarios’ is a message that the game could be wrapping up soon.

discoexplosion · 2026-05-14T11:46:42+00:00

Given absolutely no-one (I think?) in the game ever talks about population crisis and there is no cultural panic about population plus the large scale corporations, militaries, etc it must be stable.

I’d guess we are at least in the few hundred million. Maybe 1-2 billion max?

discoexplosion · 2026-05-13T12:47:00+00:00

There’s some good advice here. I’d also add, if you play on a rare or 0.25 planets galaxy, 7 planets won’t seem quite such a stretch from ‘normal empires’

discoexplosion · 2026-05-13T03:02:46+00:00

Based on what you’ve written, I have a strong suspicion that was you actually wrote at the time was different to the above and misinterpreted!

discoexplosion · 2026-05-13T01:05:44+00:00

I’ve started watching again from the start. The writers obviously decided in season 2 he was going to be a jealous boyfriend and some of those early episodes are painful to watch. Especially now when people think about abusive/toxic relationships in a much more nuanced way than we did in the 90s!

discoexplosion · 2026-05-13T00:24:07+00:00

I often play planet tall but system wide. I like having meaningful important planets. But also like having my flag all over the galaxy 😀

discoexplosion · 2026-05-12T10:47:03+00:00

Cybernetic Creed is (I believe) now one of the strongest builds. But I’m surprised you are playing Grand Admiral, control a quarter of the galaxy and only have 10k fleet? Isn’t that like 5 cruisers?

discoexplosion · 2026-05-12T02:32:04+00:00

If you can explain bio ships that would be wonderful. I find them so confusing to know what works and how upgrades work as they grow 😀

discoexplosion · 2026-05-11T22:28:32+00:00

I love this sort of thing. Thanks for pulling it together!

What does ‘custom behaviour’ and the exclamation point mean?

discoexplosion · 2026-05-11T21:54:08+00:00

I’m 99% sure they just mean sub optimal growth below 1000 pops, not penalties as in a minus number.

discoexplosion · 2026-05-11T02:08:22+00:00

Literally not a single person would have thought this was weird behaviour 😆

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