This is pretty frustrating and would love to find out if I'm doing something wrong. My understanding is that PS automatically saves your custom ship designs. But something seems wonky here. Sometimes, some of my ship designs -- and I'm talking the most basic, starting ship designs, so not ships tha...

The key point is that you are trying to take over already heavily fortified frontier planets first before moving on. The simple solution is blitz tactics, rapid expansion of your conquest efforts towards the softer planets, before AI could fortify those. Just transfer orbital stations or leave backu...

I can't get it to work-- I'm sure it's something to do with EXACTLY how/what to add in the "Remember" file... Can you elaborate please? %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Polaris Sector\REMEMBER.CFG In the beginning of the file, change Locale "ENG" CurrentModPath "" to L...

The AI is known for cheating on fuel usage ...due to technical limitations.

It would be really nice if there could be simplified travel distance check, though - its annoying to see early corvettes attack via empty 40k HU-long pipe of empty systems.

Still, despite overall lacking tactical AI, I find fighter management part to be really good. And fighter battle mechanic in general is a highlight of this game, in my opinion. As for bigger ships, there is pretty big challenge to position them properly while moving since ships cant stack one over a...

Ufnv wrote: Right, they are not moddable because they are not templates but algorithms. And thus AI will have no problems using new buildings.

Awesome. Thank you for clarifying.

There is a bit of re-supply chore, but as far as i know, Vladimir(game author) is planning to solve this problem in future updates. You only have to order colonization or land assault of a planet and AI will do those multi-stage operations automatically. Planet automation if sensible, but you still ...

Maybe the easier way for now is to add a new building type that will unlock with some science, like the same factories, even with the same image and description, but unlocked with some tech, so it will appear as an extension of existing buildings. Then, what about AI and auto-governor policies? I b...

Is it possible to add tech-locked resource bonuses or additional building slots? I've tried to fiddle with Additional Gravitonium Rnd 5 Min 1 Max 2 "SCDEEPSCAN" Reidium Rnd 5 Min 1 Max 2 "SCDEEPSCAN" Metals Rnd 5 Min 1 Max 2 "SCDEEPSCAN" Organics Rnd 5 Min 1 Max 2 "...

Interdictor - shielded freighter with jump prohibition module, can double as an additional anti-fighter support and tanker for small fleets A pair of cheap weakly armed longrange+antifighter+interdiction satellite with 5-10 gunships (ideally only 9 heavy ion guns, MFE engines, chromoplasma reactors ...

My personal queue -Biology 100% Complex design (floating platforms) >Oceanic planets are the best for food, after all. Xenobiology (marine farm) -Physics 100% Complex design (atmospheric dome) >destroy mining facilities on terran planets once you get desert\frozen mines >If you need military power, ...

Red one does not really affect your rate of fire in battle, blue one reduces missile rate of fire by 15x.
Blue is good to supply your missile\torpedo fighters and to delve deeper into enemy territory.

If you have both, in battle launchers use red one first, then blue when red ones are empty.

You need to move 2 empty systems away to go in stealth mode again.

In my previous game I've had one small satellite + 20-40 very cheap but fast fighters in every system behind the frontlines. I made satellite relatively cheap by, but it still had heavy baryon gun to kill a few corvettes. It was useless. Turned out that what I really need is a satellite with jump in...

Yep you've got too much starting population on your home planet for food consumption penalty. I ended up using austere foodstuffs initiative from time to time to gather food stockpile.

Somehow my IR ships were often overwhelmed by 300+ fighters appearing out of nowhere
Broadside Cluster MIRVs can help only so much after they start equipping missile traps on everything.

Imagine yourself enjoying a great cruise on a passenger shuttle only to be dropped without any life support upon a lava.. err, let it be a desert planet. Now, using your last bottle of water to get by you knock upon the colony module doors only to find that it's lifesupport machinery cant handle any...

For non-ocean\earth planets with production slots <15 I order mines first and set governor to Agricultural (even before getting the hydroponics tech). For ocean\earth planets: Initiatives Extra-bonus project, Augmented Work Day, order 3 factories. Disable initiatives upon finishing. Order one orbita...

Early on - rush IR laser>Baryon gun to kite them easily. Later on - what solops said. Dont forget that you can line up your ships and command them to maintain formation. Fighters with heavy guns\torps are the most effective, though :). Personally I use light fighters with heavy ions > heavy with gra...

I'll chime in on some sort of settings for habitable planets. Every game I've played so far habitable planets are WAAAY to far from my starting system, with tons of uncolonizable worlds between them. And while my starting scout and colonizer can reach them, my combat capable ships cannot, so I have...