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the mechanics of sending colony ships to colonizable planets is pretty bad. In another space 4X game, they had it done really well -- you could do it one of two ways -- There was a screen that displayed all known planets. That display had a toggle for whether to only display the colonizable ones. It also showed you how many idle colony ships were floating around your empire, and which planets already had colony ships en route. You could sort the list by plane

Strongly agree that military starbases are nearly useless. They become *much* more useful (and I don't think this is imbalancing, either), if they can be set to automatically engage enemy ships that enter their ZOC. You can build a defensive line with them that way. Otherwise (as has been noted), they can simply be ignored, which is ludicrous. - They should be able to engage ships within their ZOC - They should have improvements available that expand t

I recently had a save game fail silently when the disk filled up. I saved the game as always, got no error, and exited the game. When I came back to play again, I got a "save game file is not compatible with this version of the game" error. Turns out that the disk filled up (the save game file was significantly shorter than the previous saves). Some changes to behavior would be desirable: - Proper error checking when writing save files, and displayi