Like Sven said, there is more than one dial. For example, brutal difficulty isn't particularly brutal when 'Sparse stars' option is enabled. AI fleets just can't get to your worlds if you maintain no man's land between.

Honestly, SiS factions' benefits mostly end in those listed on faction selection screen. It's just not readily visible implications of the benefits that make factions play styles more or less unique. Anyway, 2-3 playthroughs for every faction will make you quite familiar with all the implications ...

Hi, nweismuller! Glanced at LP, unexpectedly encountered pretty detailed piece with lots of screenshots and in-character writing. So will dive in it later, without rush and in appropriate mood. Thank you for the effort!


I'd be curious to hear your reactions once you get a real chance to look ...

Hi, nweismuller! Glanced at LP, unexpectedly encountered pretty detailed piece with lots of screenshots and in-character writing. So will dive in it later, without rush and in appropriate mood. Thank you for the effort!

Hail to Sven the Christmas Sorcerer! Glad about forum, and wish Sven and Arioch and all SiS admirers happy new year!

Hello! 2) There are many interesting proposals in Suggestions thread http://stars-in-shadow.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29 . To warm up, something simple could be tried, like reporting what exactly has arrived to colony by civilian transport instead of generic "Civilian transport has arrived".

Arioch wrote:I'd still like to work on the assets as I can find time. I can't speak for Sven as I believe he's kept pretty busy in his current job.

Maybe some Computer Sciences interns would be willing to participate with consultative help from Sven?

Let me pull out some old stuff... I think, all agree that boarding is slightly OP. Maybe forbid boarding until shield is depleted from the boarder's side for Boarding Pod or any side for Shuttles?

Recently, while bombing out another colony to cut enemy's range, I was pondering how to avoid this unpleasant action. Someone already proposed to make range from Fuel Depot greater than from colony. So my suggestion is following: let bare colony to not provide range at all. Colony ship (but not ...

Please, add swamp zones to paradise planets at the expense of forests, to make gremak population a bit more useful.

If, as it seems, there is fan census in progress, I'll also add a word. The material for DLC2 shown by Arioch looks really great, and (possibly) in high degree of readiness. Probably, not only me keeps hope alive to see one day a final push turning already good game to perfect.

Seen two occurrences explaining colony and nest sharing the system:
1) harpy reinforcements were underway when the system was cleared and claimed;
2) fleet containing colony ship or outpost arrives at a harpy system, and notifications to fight harpies and claim the system appear simultaneously ...

Suggestion for laughably low (down to 0) resource ultimatums: calculate them based not on victim's stockpiles, but on amounts produced. If agreed, confiscate stockpiles, then pay the rest with amounts that normally go to stockpiles.

I have two save games now that have failed to continue by a LUA error. "chibi is missing required field: race -> nil" in MoraleReports.lua, 85.

I'm on v38803 (GOG "development branch"). I never had any issues on the stable branch. I guess I need to return to it. What are the chances my saves will ...

Minor nitpick: When choosing construction, on inferno and barren worlds farm is dimmed with the explanation "Farming is not allowed". Who is that mighty authority who does not allow faming? Of course, we, players, know who he is, but maybe "is not possible" would sound better?