Hey thanks much. I appreciate your thoughts on these matters.
I did have the chance to try out at least some of your suggestions, sadly it doesn't seem to have any impact on my experience (although I did not try "normal", I kept it at "hard"). I think I will try next playing a galaxy with only ONE ...

Thanks so much!
OK, then I'll stay off mods for right now, especially since you can't seem to change the color. That's too bad! Perhaps that could be wishlisted in the future, not because of aesthetic reasons, but for gameplay purposes, to differentiate between units of the same hull type.
That ...

Hello everyone, new to SiS, which I found recently on GoG, so glad I found it, love it already. I'll keep this post as short as possible:

1. I see there is a fairly active modding community. I am computer/tech illiterate, so this question is extra naive: If I download a mod from a user here, I ...

Hello everyone! I've been a gamer since I could run the text-based "adventure" game on our brand-new Zenith CPM back in the 1970s. I teach at a small university in Germany. I know nothing about coding or modding and have no computer skills beyong being a "user", sadly. Today I am not only a full ...