Ichirou989

Ah, good news! I was just going to start a new game this evening, so I'll opt in and try out these new changes.

Just a heads up, but as of the 2.2 patch, you still can't build the Arbitration Center.

I'm curious if anybody else has encountered this. In a recent game I was playing as the Dregin, I found that attacking the Arcean starbases or shipyards wasn't actually destroying those bases. The graphic would show the explosion on the main map and the base would disappear, but it would reappear unharmed next turn. Also the ships that attacked could now no longer move even though they had moves remaining. In one case when this happened, it seemed to lead to the infinite waiting bug at turn e

Yes, Approval is really something you need to monitor and work at. At first I was overbuilding cities since I missed that they now give 16 base pop each instead of 8.

It would seem that the reason they don't want you modding the bin files is due to multiplayer as well. [e digicons]|-)[/e] But it looks like you will be able to do what you want for you and your friends, it'll just be a bit more work.

I have found that at least for me if I zoom way in to some out of the way area with no traffic of any kind before I hit next turn, that the turns go by faster in the later game. Dunno if this will help you or not, but you might try it and see if it does. Hopefully a more permanent fix or official suggestion is forwarded.

Thulium is used for some kinetic weapon upgrades, but some of the kinetic upgrades cost a ton of Durantium. But yes, with the 2.14 opt-in I'm seeing quite a lack of Durantium in my stocks now even though I have decent amounts of everything else around mid-game. I imagine that this must be intended, but I think it may need some adjusting to bring your Durantium use a little closer in line with the other element use. It's definitely making me less inclined to develop kinetic weapons. Need to do

To the OP, it's getting to the point these days that asking if a new game will run without Steam is like asking if your new car can run without gasoline. Of course, if you spend a whole 5 minutes doing a Google on your question that's been asked for the last 10 years, than yep, there are some games that will run without Steam, usually older games. And the method for doing so has already been answered here, for your convenience. Not too sure that the part about saying that S