Putting a maneuvering engine on any orbital (like a shipyard or fleet base) allows it to retreat from combat, which puts it out of orbit and retreats it like any other ship. This then allows the orbital to move around between systems like normal ships. :oops: That's a real oversight. Should be fixe...

When later Humans annexed Orthin, these transports have adopted stylish "Humanity red", lost buttons to unload colonists or scrap ships, and have "Go to pool" button disabled citing "Transport isn't owned by player" in popup (see Adhara star system). Thanks for uploadi...

When me and my ally are assaulting enemy colony, how the game determines who of us gets a chance at ground invasion? Or do all presenting allies attempt to invade sequentially, until the colony falls? In this case, in what order? The player who started the attack is the only one who gets ground inv...

The new inter-faction relations panel in Intelligence is a bit confusing. Seems, it doesn't show any lines besides Alliance and War. I surmise, if I understand correctly, lines represent treaties, and hence player is allowed to see only those in which he can be sure from observing individual factio...

Every time the changelog mentions "AI behavior tweaks": r38720 includes a change set partially inspired by this thread. I'm hoping I haven't overdone it -- but, as part of my testing of the latest AI change set, I did replay your game 8691 from about mid game, and the endgame felt more su...

At the level of the core game rules, a player is not obligated to commit their ships to a defensive battle unless they have 0 or 1 controlled planets in the system. Thus, technically, if you're attacked in a system where you have 2 worlds (one well defended one, and one outpost), you can decline to ...

I think we would need to add more detailed repair rules to make that work. I think there may be some provisions in the code for ships that are effectively tactically immobilized, but, which can still move around the map using their strategic drives. Specifically, I think that's a state you can curr...

Arioch is exactly right. This is the actual code that determines the resistance level for a ship: function ShipProperty.resists_shield_piercing(ship) local max_resistance = 0 for s in systems(ship) if (s.health > s.damage) and s.resists_shield_piercing max_resistance=max(max_resistance, s.resists_sh...

game_9297- Event alert 'Attacked at Kesar', if clicked on, provides no actual option to either autoretreat or resolve the battle. It seems to me to be related to the option available on the center panel instead giving the option to build an outpost at Kesar. This one should be fixed as of r38674. T...

Oh dear. I think they've started multiplying.

By any chance, is such a patch available somewhere? I don't use Galaxy, and can't manage the 3 GB download now to install 38647 from scratch. Sadly, we don't have direct control over the GoG distribution system. We can post updates to Galaxy at any time, but, it's the GoG.com guys who decide what p...

Am I missing some seeting in the files that can scale up these elements a bit too or is the game not yet inteded to run on 4k and can force it to use the normal HD resolution instead? You're not missing a setting. I've generally tried to design things in such a way that the game should run alright ...

Could you recommend an entry level resource (book, by preference, but a website will do) for learning about Lua? The Lua flavor used by sis is 5.2, but the parser is pretty heavily modded. For learning basic Lua concepts and patterns, the standard reference book would be the third edition of Progra...

Any ideas? Maybe they colonized a derelict colony that had some big science boosts in it? It's possible to get high percentage completion of high tech stuff like Railguns or Dreadstars from a derelict colony. (Those boosts might not actually benefit the Teros AI much in practice, but, they might st...

The January 17, 2019 patch notes state, in part: "Galactic council votes can now influence reputation." What are the mechanics? It's not complex (as currently implemented). You should just get a +15 rep "We appreciate your support in the Galactic Council" issue if you vote for s...