I noticed that 'Leftover Robots' are contributing 20% to the manufacturing research of at least one of my planets.  WTF?

(Yes, it might have been an ex-Yor world and there's a small chance it was once an Iconian world.  But that phrase would not be appropriate for either of their improvements.)  No, it was a world originally colonized by me.  Might be more than one - I didn't look all that closely.

Is there a reason to prefer a Coordinator or Innovation Complex over a Research Academy?  The former (IIRC) produces 20/30% while the latter produces 40%.  Yes, I know the adjacency level boost is +2 instead of +1.  Only as a hub with at least 3 RAs?

Thulium Data Archive I believe is +1 adjacency, so is not wonderful as a hub? No, +2 or 3.

And while we're on the subject of hubs, has anyone noticed that Colony Capital, which might make a dandy hub, is always off in the corner with very few actual or potential adjacent tiles?

Do world maps wrap from side to side?  They should.

What happens to the population when the world has more population than it can feed?  Does it decline slowly?  Does Morale suffer as billions starve?

For that matter, how do I get a world with more population than it can feed?  These appear to be captured worlds.  Do some races have intrinsic fast food bonuses?

I will occasionally see what appears to be a hex-shaped tool tip over a hex displaying the distance in hexes and in turns from (presumably) the selected ship.  But I have been unable to figure out how to produce this very useful display when I want it.  How to?

 Answered below.

Notepad++ gets another vote.  XML is native.

BTW, there are warnings on the Notepad++ 64-bit edition, that it isn't ready for prime time.  But I've been using it for some time, along with the supposedly unstable Dictionary, and have had zero problems.  Other than a few basic ones, very few plug-ins are available for it yet, but if you don't need them, I'd go for it.

Figured it out.  Press <ctrl> and mouse over the hex.  If you press <ctrl> without moving the mouse it doesn't work.

Also helps to turn off the Influence display in Options (Interface page, I think) which shows the local influence in a hex on mouse-over -- a remarkably useless statistic.

notepad++

I think the leftover robots are a colonization event.

Hence the frequent suggestions for an enhancement to allow players to place their capital.

I agree.

Yes, the population slowly declines as millions starve and curse your name  

Since approval is morale divided by population, if you're not already at 100% a drop in population can actually increase your approval.

The main way I get a world with more population than it can feed is the build Brindle's Observatory, which gives you a planet with 10 population when the latest caps in Crusade have been 3 or 5.  I don't know if that has been fixed in 2.6 or not.  There have been bugs in the past where after invading a planet you end up with a huge population, I think those are either known by the devs or maybe fixed by now.  Also I haven't played as the Yor in a while, I'm not sure they have a population cap.

I amended the question, though not substantially.  Yes, it could be an event.  But I sure don't remember such a one.

I occurs to me that they'd have to re-draw them, or at least reset the grid, since the edge splits half the hexes.  Certainly not un-doable.

Hmm.  I try to leave karma and get a 500 error.

Anyway, thanks Publius.

A race is a subspecies. A faction is a group. This is about being acurate, calling them races implies that being from different worlds we are the same. 

Yep.

I have no firsthand knowledge, but I think it's safe to assume it was because people hate it.

Personally, I'm not opposed to the concept, but I think it comes in too hard and fast.  Maybe max level of 10%, with a fair range before it has any effect at all.

[base game 2.3.3]  It does in fact go negative.  Captured Horizon in the Arcea whatever.  It has a Promethium Reserve.  I don't mine any, so according to the dashboard I now produce -1 P.  The Reserve is still emitting money.

I wonder if it's intended to cover "Team" as well.

The way Team works in MP is the joining of races, factions, whatever.  So it seems to be a different concept.  It is a grouping of groups.

I think it's just sloppy terminology on Stardock's part.

left over robots is very much an event. one of the dialogue choices is something along the lines of "these are pest's and be can be treated as such. Smash them and feast on their insides" 

as for faction, well the krynn are supposed to be multiple races, so i guess that term works better there, which means it couldn't be used to describe an alliance, so team was a backup term?

what bothers me more tho is events which say productivity and then only affect manufacturing or even worse just social construction.

You need to associate XML files with another program on your computer. I personally use notepad++.  It is easy to use and supports nine zillion file formats with IDE like text-coloring based on file type.