What's that? New fertility ratings? Fertility isn't just low, high, or infertile anymore? Tell us more!

(And if this means there's a further incentive to stick agriculture on gaia worlds, I am all for it; it seems appropriate.)

Yeah, given that splinter colonies are quite possibly centuries or millenia out of communication with the other members of their species, I can easily see them being strongly integrated into their host society and having few remaining connections with their distant cousins.

(That said, I can sort ...

Any news on how work is going behind the scenes on new updates? I understand things can be slow with just the two of you, but it's been a while since significant updates, and I'm hoping we get more to play around with soon. Keep up the good work, and thanks for a great game that's given me many ...

I see the changelog notes the rules for the annexation event got changed. What's different now?

I've had some thoughts about the (excellent) refugee mechanic.

1) First, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be extended to Ashdar splinter colonies as well. I'd expect they'd likewise be somewhat technologically regressed relative to the major star nations, and some time to rebuild their tech ...

I've been enjoying playing the Phidi quite a bit myself. (And, as you've likely been able to tell by my uploaded games over the development cycle, lean heavily into their 'peace-loving' theme most of the time.) If there are other players who report finding the Phidi frustrating to play against ...

Ever get a chance to check on that?

I propose that Younger Race homeworlds without established Elder Race involvement in their history (i.e. Tendao, Verrold, the Orthin homeworld) be exempted as valid targets for the random event that leads to discovery of a cache of artifacts. I know it always sort of bothers me when Tendao gets ...

So, out of curiousity, what's the something else happening that makes the numbers not match what you expected?

game_9627 uploaded.

Edit: From what you said, looks as if the line I wasn't taking into account was 'charters+=min(1,e.raw_trade_capacity/raw_trade_capacity)'. I think because my brain was reading it as 'raw trade capacity divided by raw trade capacity', and parsing it out to 1.

... checking the code against my game, I must not be following the code correctly. I, as the Phidi Combine, currently have 223 available trade routes, and have a reported bonus of 77 coins per turn from foreign trade from the 216 routes I am currently working. As I understand that, this means I have ...

I'm seeing a bit in code where Phidi empires either give a bonus to the number of trade routes they give their partners, or get a bonus in the number of routes they get from partners, and I'm not sure what applies since I'm not sure what the scope of empire.species is here. Which is it?

It's fairly clear that if you have trade treaties with multiple foreign powers, the theoretical benefit from additional trade partners is reduced. (For instance, signing a trade charter with the Ashdar Empire, which theoretically should have been worth 21 foreign trade routes, increased my actual ...

Could we get planet names in Rastaban, Fargone, and Bacabs? It's difficult for me to swallow that the Ashdar Colonials never named their world in thousands of years, and I'd imagine even the Fargone planets would get some names after long enough with Humans hanging around (which, given they've named ...

I didn't think it was done, was just responding to zolobolo I'm willing to wait quite a while to do a Stars in Shadow Let's Play again as long as I believe DLC4 is coming. And, in the interests of helping support the project, just tossed a donation to Ashdar Games.