"Tiny worlds were added to reduce the number of colonizable worlds." (emphasis added)
They wouldn't serve that function if you could colonize them or replace them, I guess

You can turn an tiny planet into a medium planet if you can get one of your enemies to colonize it once you have Stellar Surge Beam tech :lol: :lol:

I think one of my favorite things about Artificial Planet construction is that you can mine the planets you make in empty spots. So you had nigh ...

Apologies for only playing the latest non-development release, 21183, so maybe this has been reported and/or fixed already:

Queue up production on a planet. Save the game. Exit the program. Start the game, load the game, go the planet. No queue is shown.
Try to queue up an item, the queue was ...

I fully admit this "problem" is probably in my understanding of the documentation and on-screen cues rather than in the code.

I cannot delete any save games from the 'load game' menu. I get a LUA error on a missing sound (I pressed "send bug report" on that a couple times, but redundantly posting here) and 'ignore' doesn't make the save game delete.

Peaceful victories are pretty easy at the moment with the Phidi (or, with anyone, really), but as we add more detail to the diplomacy system, it should get a little more complicated. But hopefully no less fun.
I love the Phidi. They're my favorite. They probably do need a bit of a nerf, but too ...

O Hai! Thanks for meeting with me. That gives me a new mercenary contact. Fun! Let me just buy a fleet twice as big and powerful as yours. Now you won't attack me. Goody!

And I have all these spare diplomacy points lying around. What a bother. Oh, I know! I can use them to make you agree to trade ...

Thanks for your quick responses. The "molasses UI" was, indeed, caused by my computer not bothering to let your game use the good graphics card (which isn't really a driver issue to my weak understanding of Windows, but whatever). It's all good now! I was able to turn off "simplified graphics," too ...

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M , but maybe tomorrow's patch will help, anyway.
I'm a web developer (not even really a sysadmin) on LAMP systems, and not really all that windows savvy.

EDIT: It does work with "simplified graphics" on, though the interface is just this side of unplayably slow.
Now that I ...

I can start the game, select "new game", select a race, select advanced settings, but when I hit "start game" it tells "DBGHELP.DLL is too old" and then dies. It's on Steam autopatch and I did an integrity check and the game is all up to date. I found DBGHELP.DLL in c:\windows\system32 and it's from ...