UristMcKerman

Instead of approval improvements you can build just more specialized improvements or farms and get great adjacency bonuses. Growth penalty is negated with adjanced food distributors and hospitals surrounded with farms. That's my point. You should just try make high approval forge world and compare its effectiveness to low approval one. As I see defensive modules are useless in early game - you will sacrifice half of firepower to gain additional 20% HP against one type of

Are defensive modules worth it? Are approval improvements worth wasting hexes?

The game is for multiplayer, so isn't AI just for filling seats between players?

I remember Aurora, where you can design every single component like tracking combuter for beam weapon, beam weapon itself, turret for it and power supply, or another example: magazine for missiles, launcher, targeting computer, missile engine, probably second stage (which can be staged too) for staged missile and missile itself. Good old times... Actually I can't find any way to make weapons of different range, accuracy or rate of fire through xml modifying.

Started new game on little map with 9 factions. At first 50 turns (while I've been minmaxing colony and pushing towards research) all mining resourses and relics have been claimed by AI, which is not great. But what is not so great that AI tends (better to say 'devotes itself') to spam starbases. It's just a sort of starbase crusade. On top of that they shamelessly build bases even in your area of influence. And later they wonder, 'Your military buildup concers us&

During colonization stage AI knows perfectly where which planet is. They don't need to scout at all for colonization. I will try to collect more data, but it seems they even know where all your ships are (somehow they manage to intercept my fleet before I enter their sensor range). I've seen it in GC2, and now it is in GC3 beta. Is it intentional game desing decision or just bug which will (or not) be fixed some day? Seriously I have to save scum or counter-cheat to reveal mos