Honestly the whole slavery thing isn't tremendously useful after early game. It is probably easier to simply not use slaves after you depopulate your Enfi, but, as a challenge mode, full slavery can be done. The best solution is pharma bliss tech... drugged slaves don't feel pain.

Its interesting ...

You realize you can just force labor or experiment on your slaves right? Best solution is to grab a big planet like Tyr and just ship all the slaves there. Make it nice, maybe, like lot of markets, (so they don't rebel while waiting their turn) and then just systematically experiment on the slaves ...

I disagree with the underlying assumptions here because you aren't taking into account build costs and effectiveness at capture. I would say that the various races ships are, in order of combat ability:

1- Yoral: The torpedo destroyer with its absurd 14 missile capacity built in extra magazine for ...

I just think there should be counterplay.

I know this game is pretty much dead, with no hope of anything really changing, but imagine an item, system slot maybe which addresses this issue. How about"Internal Defense Turrets" which doubles the effective marine strength of the defender? A ship armed ...

THis is pretty minor, but it bugs me a bit.

Ships armed only with Pulson Launchers (the presence of PD doesn't matter) do not know their own range. Autocombat them against fixed targets like planets, they will sit outside of combat range and cause a draw. Hit the little gear icon during manual ...

For Phidi, rushing to teir 2 markets makes a fair amount of sense. I guess if you going to do that anyways, you can go ahead and put a bunch of scout labs on your scouts. Also Phidi have pretty subpar ships anyways, as they are expected to use mercenaries to fight, and their best early game ship is ...

A lot of people seem to like building labs on their scouts. IMO you really don't have enough alloys to make that practical. I just can't see budgeting for that sort of construction when you've got colony ships to build. So unless you only plan to build 1 lab on your existing scout ship, which hardly ...

My goto first research is marketplaces. This is a cheap tech that is actually pretty important. You're almost guaranteed a native species in one of the planets near you, and ploping down a marketplace or two will definitely help keep them from rioting and rebelling. It also helps with colonization ...

I don't know if this is a bug or working as intended, but any ship with shuttles has a built in boarding pod functionality. That is to say, if you equip marine shuttles, you don't have to risk them to PD, you can just bump up to any enemy ship and just try to capture it. There's no defense against ...

I think there are two basic options. You could add in a “selective bombing” type to the invasion screen, costs 2 or 3x as many bombs to use, but it has a much lower civilian population casualty rate. That way, if the AI has massive fleets it can use this against the player or another AI to capture ...

This is kind of an interesting thought for me, because it isn't immediately obvious why this is a problem.

First consider it from the point of view of the player, a player who uses bombardment to nuke worlds is at a serious disadvantage because recolonizing every world would be expensive and you ...

I'm curious as to what the hp of missiles and fighters look like. Does armor tech affect how much they have? It seems to me like anti-missile rockets are a lot more effective than lasers, is that because defense lasers need multiple hits to blow up each missile? Does the 8 damage of an antimatter ...

In the formula posted for combat strength, that should really be additive, not multiplicative.

If a superdreadnought has 500 defence and 500 attack power, it shouldn't count as being worth 25x as much as a ship with 100 defence and 100 attack power, as there is no way a superdreadnought could solo ...

The yoral torped destroyer armed with AM missiles is so incredibly broken. I love the little ship, it does suffer in late game a bit against enemies armed with a lot of lasers. The solution is always to just build more. Local point defense gets overwhelmed, especially if you close in close enough to ...

This happened to me a lot during my last game as yorals. I had a full antimatter torpedo destroyer fleet. There is nothing deadlier, honestly, yorals are OP because of that one simple ship.

That's not the problem. The problem is that whatever code the AI uses to calculate the odds of beating you ...