Summary: Dormant construct bonus apparently being applied to local research.


I did a non-Sol start by making a new system with the "Create Habitable" button, and making a race on the generated homeworld with the "Create Race" button.

The HW has a dormant construct. I have not yet developed the technology to investigate it.

However, the Research tab seems to be including a 40% bonus for Ground Combat research projects.

I'd love a "create path to system" command for stabilization ships that works the same way as autoroute by system - you pick a system from your full list of discovered systems, then your ship travels to it along a shortest-length path, stabilizing both sides of any JPs it comes across along the way.

(This came to mind when looking at my Survey Sites tab, noting that I couldn't reach some of the sites with my transports, then having to pull up the galactic map and figure out where the heck those systems were.)

Pulled from DB v2.5.1 and formatted, should be correct.

Star swarms don't just have FACs, you probably encountered their cruisers and escort destroyer equivalent. And yes, they are pretty terryfying to face head on.
This is normal, not all star swarm fleets will have hive ships and FACs, that makes full combined swarm fleets pretty tricky to deal with.

While it is obvious that in reality you always try to match the weapon system at the proper target, such as firing an ATGM at a tank and not at a guy with a rifle. But in reality every type of equipment and unit type will have their advantages and disadvantages and uses in different environments. You can never win a war without infantry for example, no matter how much you try you will never win without having boots on the ground. Everything else just increase the likely hood that you can win in different ways.

The game does not model how different platforms function, the mechanics are just not tactical in nature at all so it has to be very simple. If you add the possibility to weight the targeting you will as explained get rather unwanted artefacts. The pure random is under the current model the simplest way with the least unwanted artefacts. Not to say that the system could somehow be improved in the future if Steve think it is worth the time.

The only really bad implementation currently in my opinion are air units, they are awkward and not very fun to work with and I basically ignore that part of the game.