Hey thanks. Perhaps the AI does do these things (I cannot tell what a foreign planet produces, so I'll have to take your word for it that they use city planning; I don't really see them shuffling their populations around enough, but perhaps I'm not paying enough attention), but be that as it may, I ...

OK, good to know, thanks! No, I have not tried playing humans because they would seem to exacerbate the problem I have: difficulty such that surviving the early-game still gives late-game interest. The humans seem to have an early-game disadvantage, I don't need any more of those. To try to say it d...

I like the idea of diplomacy points in principle, even if I do not use diplomacy in its current state, but am wondering about one small aspect of it: spending diplomacy points to end wars. In other 4X games I know, bargaining for peace usually entails signing a treaty which prevents hostilities for ...

At the top of your website here ( http://stars-in-shadow.com/about.html ) has a link to "news" that is broken, and the second link leads to a three-year-old post. There is quite a number of content on the website seems to be unaltered since shortly before the game was released and now feel...

OK thanks, so conceivably I could alter those manually (I'm scared of fiddling with important files because I can do something wrong). I play on the hardest difficulty, anything lower just doesn't seem quite right. I tried a smallish galaxy with only one opponent in the hopes that he would build up ...

Thanks for those replies. The AI doesn't use exactly the same rules as the player does regarding all resources; in particular, they deal with metals in a very different way, and so an AI empire will very rarely have stored metal. So it's not that useful to look at the AI's resource balances to judge...

Sounds great! You mentioned here: 7. Game Speed setting: "Epic" only affects Research rate by changing the multiplier to 1.5 and does not yet affect production. You can check the setting and change it if you like in file: new_galaxy.lua that game speed settings change only research, when I...

I've let a game run on for as long as possible, and I've noticed that NONE of the AI factions ever, ever has any metal and ever, ever has any use for its tons of superfluous money. Even the poorest AI factions on the brink of extinction have huge sums of cash and, apparently, cannot figure out how t...

Love this game very much, I think it would benefit so much from an additional UI interface which for lack of a better term I would call the population screen. This would allow the player to keep track of units and planet management much better. The screen could let the player have an overview of whi...

Thanks! I dont think the AI can capture Stargates; if you have any missiles after you have researched auto-retargeting then those stargates die quickly. Those UI options I had found, but on large maps it's still too much of a hassle to find out which planets have which populations that need to move ...

I see, thanks. I found that usually just a market or so solves all of those problems (I never use slaves however). Would love to see more interesting mechanics, such as asymptotical bonuses or penalties to production and effects towards voting in the council. It seems too easy to me to have morale o...

OK thanks! Keeping this short and about easy newbie questions : - is there a point to morale (above 0)? I mean, are there some production bonuses or other things I am missing for morale above say 10 or whatever? (I realize there are chances of dissention below 0) - seems like having very high morale...

Thanks much! So I take it "going on the DEV branch" means playing Beta, and this is only distributed via steam. Hmmmm.... Looks promising. I hope they also address "interventions", I just found out by accident that if you "intervene" when a faction attacks another facti...

Hey thanks much. Possibly we have different conceptions of what early- and lategame mean, and probably also what constitutes fun, but that's all good. I've found letting the AI entrench itself and build up serious defenses for its planets does the AI no good whatsoever. It spends all of it's resourc...

I do really love this little gem of a game, I love the fact that you focus on excellent gameplay and do not get bogged down with the often poorly understood doctrine "more is better" -- a doctrine that is quite frequently quite false. Be that as it may: Currently, I have to work very hard ...