Playing as Tinkers, the first planet I colonized had scavengers on them. After a few turns, before the first machine altar was built, the planet rebelled. I sent a few troop carriers to conquer it back, and when I did, I got the 'ZOMG! We found alien tinkers' event. Not sure if that is intended ...

:A Journey's Thousand Steps:
"When all worlds are small, management becomes critical."
At galaxy generation, this overrides planet size. The distribution for all worlds is 30% Medium, 50% Small, and 20% Tiny. Large terrestrial worlds are not generated. The exceptions are gas giants, planets ...

Bring some troops in transport ships along with your colony ship?

The planetary pop indicator on top of the planet symbol seem off:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/350a3gsi9f1d5zi/Planet%20pop%20indicator.JPG?dl=0

Noticed this a couple of times but seems apparent in this scenario:
1. My ships are blockading the planet, and pop is starving, sill the light blue ...

Not sure if these are bugs or intentional...

When you colonize a planet with the Tarib species, and they revolt, the icon for the revolting pops is the same as the normal one, unlike the other species.

http://i.imgur.com/iBRGPiM.png

I understand that they are probably silicon-based life forms ...

In the StarsInShadowManual.pdf, on page 4 under 'Starting a new game - Faction Selection' the Human faction is not mentioned at all.

Not sure if it is a bug exactly, or if anything can be done about it from the developer side...

When I play the game on my laptop that has integrated intel HD graphics and a geforce, the game runs on the intel HD by default. I need to manually change the preferences and force the game to run on the ...

Haven't played humans for some time, so I'm sorry if I missed a notification somewhere but is the starting human Heavy cruiser supposed to be fitted with only defense turbolasers now?

Well, I have to say this was a nice surprise...

Arioch wrote:Just be glad your system doesn't have Star Harpies.

And yes, it does have Harpies.

Captainspire wrote: Speaking of range, their range seems lower on planet mounts than on ship ones.

But don't change them

Well, it's always easier to cast slugs DOWN a gravity well than it is to throw them UP one...

When you introduce a new race to a planet that has a higher habitability rating for that planet's biomes than the current population, this increases the pop cap of the planet -- for all inhabitants. This might seem illogical, but it's to avoid the micromanagement of having to remove sub-optimal ...

One thing I am not clear on regarding biomes and population:

I have an arid world colonized by humans. The maximum population is 7 million and there is 7 million humans there. The population is not growing. I assume that means that they have inhabited all areas they find tolerable. Then, I move a ...

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Based on the numerical data placed in this element, "18/35", a player would expect that shading to indicate a percentage of the population capacity used. As far as I could tell, that is not what it represents. If it does, excuse me.

I think graphical indicators should ...

Currently, the icon for mineral rich worlds (which increases metal yield from mines) is a diamond, while the icon for precious metals (which give money generation bonuses) is a lump of metal or coal or something? Wouldn't it make more sense if the icons were reversed? Especially since the mineral ...

Just remembered - same playtgrough as above. I had a fleet that included about 30 or so transports with military units. As I went around conquering and losing ground units, the transports would revert to regular trading ships. I wanted to clean them up so I started sending the empty ones to the ...