on test, today's another large one ongoing

12 races, 500 stars


54 seconds to create and get into first universe picture, 400 mb used in game, very stable on my turn plus AI's turns with little difference in cpu or memory use per turn

1608 uploaded

1609 uploaded, 3/4 done

my first encounter with these so far

The Phidi Mercenary Exchange just went live. Non-Phidi factions get access to the exchange if they are allied with the Phidi.

Arioch wrote:The Phidi Mercenary Exchange just went live. Non-Phidi factions get access to the exchange if they are allied with the Phidi.

I was able to hire mercenaries (two Dread Stars 1500 each - quite cheap) through the dialog with Marauders. BTW, how is their technology level determined?

Arioch wrote:The Phidi Mercenary Exchange just went live. Non-Phidi factions get access to the exchange if they are allied with the Phidi.

thanks, will test this more today and on this size map it's taken a while to do it

late game testing my ships now don't seem able or some of them anyway to take planets any more?


with plenty of free worlds left, i go to new uncovered worlds but no longer get the option to take them

uploaded 1610

also now seen a new button as well, thanks


i'm sure it will help others no end

ah seems i'm sending them out empty, didn't know i had to fill them, lol that's a first also


ah well my bad, seems i maybe building them where there's not enough to fill it, so i need to refill elsewhere before embarking, my mistake, but tbh didn't know i could even do that either, maybe a warning message needed as it's a empty ship

seems it does give a message, i'm just to daft to understand what it meant, my bad, im old, this is my excuse

Ideally the colony ship should not be buildable if there is no eligible population, so this probably needs to be changed even if it's not technically a bug.

also when i send them to a planet where they is more population, i don't also seem able to load any more, as there's an option to embark, but as there's nothing to drop off, there's doesn't seem to be one that says load etc, or not that i can find, the embark button just says 0 and shows a picture of the race to drop off but as there's nothing in it, will try and see if i can find a different way of loading them back on, as atm all i do with empty ones is destroy and cancel the next repeat builds on the same planet, must admit an hour test on this can leave me with a 3 or 4 hour game later on as i look at the time

yes it's one of those great ones you loose track of time in, the merc guild works well, just i have better ships than what they offer so as yet only tested it, but not really gone to town and used it much, as yet testing going very well and very stable on the massive map, with very little MM (micro management needed) new button works a treat

Click embark and then click on the planet you want to load population from.

thanks, while i thought i'd tried that, i maybe wrong, as it said 0 to embark, and didn't seems to load any, but thanks anyway will try it again now