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tl;dr - use antimatter engines and transient trait. Ok, after the first major update engines started to be different. And that's great. However, there are many things left unexplained about them in the client. Engines differ by: - speed (transient trait effectively doubles it) - speed in anomalies ...

Ok, I got it.
Transient trait basically gives your ships a free turn in travel or in combat, effectively doubling it's speed.

I'll do a writeup on engines shortly.

I don't think that's necessary. Tantiks like to expand. Har'kans can be strong oppenents if you're weak. Barsigs and Gargal have immense growth rate so if left unchecked they can threaten you by sheer numbers, but it's unlikely. Kamzak start strong and are prone to declare war on you if you don't ta...

I haven't played transient after the new combat system, but it was quite a useful trait: 1) you have an upper hand in any combat, as your mobility increases drastically 2) your ships traveled about 1.5-2x times quicker than anybody else's But no, they don't do interstellar jumps. BTW, giving knowled...

No, thanks.

I just kill them all.

Ah, so that's the race I'm attacking initiating a second combat.

Thank you.

Nah, Tantik are ok.
They are dependable.

It's the other races that irk me.
They are friendly. Then they send an invader ship to your colony. Then they invade. Then you destroy their invader ship. Then they angrily tell you to stop attacks on their ships.

Well, at the moment (current economy stats, weapons stats and AI) it is hard to have a thought-out but prolonged fleet battle. If you spend more than one or two turns achieving your goals (harass the enemy fleet, destroy it with a starbase altogher, kill the planetary defenses) you've clearly done s...

I don't know, actually. More turns would mean combat focus shifts from alpha to sustained damage-per-turn (if ships can take up all the beating). However, as we can painlessly retreat, ships with beams do't stand a chance anyway. And with instanced combat we don't really need turns to get to a skirm...

So, I've met the Kuntari. And I've met the Tantiks. ANd it would be good, but their main planets were tantalizingly out of reach: http://i.imgur.com/Ptge4zB.jpg?1 But then I made contact with Kor'tahz! Kor'tahz usually have far better equipment (level 5 all around), but, well, why not? http://i.imgu...

With the new instanced combat system quite often a possibility to run two battles in one sector arises. If: - your forces are victorious - and you have invader ships - and you've chosen to do the invasion at the end of the battle then after you see the post-battle UI and ships on the galaxy map in t...

Have you ever wondered how a race with low fertility can survive in this galaxy? I mean, we start up like an every other race, we have a decent planet, good stats, some billions of population. But then we hopelessly lag behind. Even in comparison with a normal growth rate race we're like riding a bi...

> advanced Refit window behaving abnormally and go off screen

Oh, and I was just about to report it.
Thank you!

Well, I've tested it thoroughly and the new combat system kinda breaks the game. I'm talking about the "Retreat" button which in these circumstances allows not only to withdraw certain units from the battle quickly and painlessly, but to place them on the same battlefield on the next game ...

Combat works well. I like the pre-battle UI (seeing where do you strike is great). The post-battle UI is far, far better than it was. I still have some issues with it (I'd like to know how many soldiers are left on the planet; also, mine ships survived and enemy lost are still insufficient for me). ...

Maybe it can be alleviated by a simple rule: when ships ordered to invade the planet reach it, they should invade only on the last turn in the tactical combat if at least one ship has "Bombard defenses" order on that planet.

2) At the moment heavy invading does not require any standing army at all, because troops just spawn at troop pods when the ship is built/bought. But the point here is that it is too easy to just build barracks at turn one and have whooping ~700k troops for free. I percieve both things as bad. So, ...

1) Add a button to recall an ongoing invasion. Seriously, having 75k still in orbit against 630k on planet and not having an option to withdraw is frustrating. 2) If your ships are orbiting an enemy planet, display the number of enemy troops in system overview before an attempt to invade. The player...

Advanced race mode? You can enable unlimited points for race creation by editing an .ini file. I don't think building a starbase on the first turn is a good idea. Creating a strong economy is much more important. Starbases are ok for refitting, yes, but even for mass-colonizing a system buying 4-5 ...

I don't like some stars on the edge of supply range unavailable to travel to in certain cases (when the shortest path between a ship and a star leaves supply space at some point). I'd like the ship's route to trace the edge of supply space in this case. Well, while logistics > 3 usually makes supply...