Argh. It figures they'd be in German. I'm your typical ignorant American who only reads English. I am not sure, but I doubt the "second empire" books were ever published in English. The highest number I ever read was something like #88 in the Ace editions. Let me check the list on perrype...

Just remembered another old game - Perry Rhodan: Operation Eastside. Gas Giants there could not be settled - but they had moons, and the moons were treated exactly like planets. No chit? Somebody made a Perry Rhodan game? Man I remember reading those books as a kid. Can I blink on "tell me mor...

We want to avoid the situation where you can always place colonies on all four orbital slots. This is partly for the flavor of the game -- good colony sites should be rare enough that factions may get into conflict over the best ones -- and partly for mechanical considerations, as increasing the nu...

Just remembered another old game - Perry Rhodan: Operation Eastside.
Gas Giants there could not be settled - but they had moons, and the moons were treated exactly like planets.

DanTheTerrible wrote:How does one open a .7z file? I don't seem to have an application to unpack it with, do I have to download something?

With 7-zip:
https://www.7-zip.org/

Basically you just unpack the mod into the "Mods" directory.

So using PopReport as an example, you would end up with
\steamapps\common\Stars in Shadow\Mods\PopReport\

And that contains the subfolders Drawers and GUI

Arioch wrote:But I'm also not sure how useful that information would be. The max pop calculation doesn't penalize you for having sub-optimal races in the mix.

One of my pops unexpectedly suffering from overcrowding seems like enough of a penalty to me.

Arioch wrote:Max population is subjective to population type, so any display of max population by definition has to take this into account.

But the maximum for one pop type can go down, even if the overall maximum goes up - having a more detailed preview than currently would be useful.

The Glacier type is not closely related to the Ocean and Iceball types. A Glacier is essentially just a colder Garden. An Ocean world is distinctly different from an Island world; an Island world is essentially a warmer Garden world with deeper oceans but still a relatively thin layer of surface wa...

viscid spore torpedo That's the evilest thing I can possibly imagine. :twisted: A 'moderately' successful containment via pop drop. https://i.imgur.com/h6CdroS.png It's the only way I've found so far of not being overrun: Ignore it until you can flood the place with your own pops. The most effectiv...

-when an enemy fleet arrives at one of my planets though, is when things get weird: I have a planet with planetary defenses and a star base (the armed and armored space station). I also have moved my own fleet so that it arrives at the attacked system the same turn that the enemy does. The message ...

gaerzi wrote:I think I managed to get smaller population number than that but from capturing a planet after some bombings. Might be misremembering, though.

I've seen that as well.

As a side note, the assault shuttles that the "command cruisers" come with are awesome... or would be, if they didn't constantly get shot down immediately by PD (even at "ramming" distance). Sounds like you're not getting quite close enough - when you're actually in contact with...

I noticed that LR and FL mods appear not to do anything when applied to PD weapons (other than increase cost and power use).
Am I seeing things, or is there a bug there?

As for the name, "Ephelos" is the name of one of the varieties of helichrysum , aka "everlasting" flowers. Yes, but what does it actually mean? After some digging, it appears to mean "freckled", from Greek ἔφηλις (Ephelis), which is itself derived from ἐπί (epi) and, i...