The capping of foreign trade routes based on domestic trade routes fixes a problem that's bothered me for a while, which is 'factions where 90% or more of their income comes from trade revenues from their trade pact with me'. It began straining credibility.

Having a Haduir governor image for Haduir splinter colonies would be nice. At the moment, all Ashdar splinter colonies use a Teros governor image, even if they're mono-Haduir in population.

The default behavior for retreats in systems where you have a colony can be degenerate. If you can't defend a planet and retreat, by default it puts you a turn away from the same system. In the case such as, for instance, a recent game of mine where it turns out Star Harpy reinforcements including a...

Hah, it appears I have succeeded in making at least one sale for you guys. One of my readers just reported they bought the game because of my LP.

I've done multiple Let's Plays for 4Xs, and my style is heavy on the lore. I try and make things a 'grounded, historical' narrative, while tracking what actually happens in the mechanics. Introduction to the race I'm playing is pretty standard there.

Funny thing, though, I always thought I did see dimorphism in the Phidi- at least, there's a pretty striking contrast between the bright yellow markings on Arabo and Simli and the more subdued coloration of Anysus.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3884979 Some of the people here may be interested to note that I am now starting a new Stars in Shadow Let's Play on the Something Awful forum. I'd love new readers and new participants in my LPs, and hope that my writing might prove entertai...

I personally think that Factories should have a modest bonus to planetary Coin output in the case where the planet is set to Trade. Not necessarily a huge strategic consideration, but in cases where planetary industries are set to churn out civilian commodities, you'd think that the added industrial...

game_7937: This is an annoying one. Combat at Asur III ended in a draw for no apparent reason after a single turn, before I even got all my ships in position to fire on the planetary defenses. Should be replicable by reversing one action and attacking Asur III.

I'd settle for deployments that didn't put transports in front of dedicated combat vessels.

Well, it's been two games so far; maybe the Imperials (first time I saw it) and Colonials (second time I saw it) just got lucky with tech capture. This raises the question, are there any other special behaviors with slavery factions have? (I can imagine Phidi are scripted to free slaves by default, ...

Is it a specific AI thing that Ashdar AIs like to enslave Gremak? I've noticed in a couple of games that Ashdar AIs will have everybody free... except for a slave class of Gremak from some Gremak conquests. (Also, are they capturing Slave Collars tech from the Gremak, is that what's allowing it? I'v...

OK, this stuff about the sexual biology of the different species? Pure gold. This is stuff I can definitely use when I get around to starting a Stars in Shadow Let's Play in the future.

game_7851: Requests from both Colonials and Orthin to join their wars as allies on the same turn they conclude a peace treaty with the enemies they want me to fight. (Colonials made peace with the Tinkers, and are asking me to fight the Tinkers, and Orthin made peace with the Yoral, and are asking m...

game_7832: Captured progress on 'Hidden Bases' technology after battle with Stone Hammers at Shaula; tech description indicates it should be hidden and non-discoverable.