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ORIGINAL: Numdydar

My question is why can't games like this do a better job of dispalying resoure information in a table format?

Where the Rows are locations and the columns are % available and Amount being mined (obviously 0 if no miner or colony present)

You could have another table where the rows were the Resources where the columns would be Amount being mined, Amount in transant, Amount used, +/- (shortage/gain), and Projected on hand for each resorce. Maybe add the current price at the end too so you could make sure you are actually mining the right stuff :)

Is there some adversion to using simple tables in these games? As this is not the only one with this issue

This way you could easily see where any shortages were and where you could go to improve the supply. If we have all this technology in the game, the governments should have a easy way to figure out what the hell they need and where to get it

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun
I have played without freighters, its pain but i alot better handle resources and of course its not as fast as freighters handle their jobs.

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ORIGINAL: Plant

That's strange, I've never had your private sector fuel problem. And I build exploration and military ships nearly constantly at the start of the game. As for the tech tree, what do you mean by needing much bigger tech trees?

Numdydar, if you open the Expansion Planner (F3) you can see your overall stocks and demand, as well as galactic stocks and demand, as well as the current price.

There is also Resource Targets by Your Empire Priorty where you canchoose the resource you want to look at and can queue nearest construction ship to build a mine there, and Your Empire resource Locations for those with your own mine or colonised world.

There is also the Galaxy Map Screen (G) where you change the view to known resources.

If you open up colonies or base screen, you can see how much resources are contained within as well.
Though since you seem to have a hard time finding these screens perhaps better documentation and presentation is required.

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun
I have played without freighters, its pain but i alot better handle resources and of course its not as fast as freighters handle their jobs.

This sentence makes no sense.

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ORIGINAL: Mansen

I'd also love to see Matrix take some pointers from Stardrive. The combination of ship design (with module placement) and the subtle animations would look great in DW.

It wouldn't be enough to warrant an expansion alone though. :(

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun

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ORIGINAL: Plant

That's strange, I've never had your private sector fuel problem. And I build exploration and military ships nearly constantly at the start of the game. As for the tech tree, what do you mean by needing much bigger tech trees?

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun
I have played without freighters, its pain but i alot better handle resources and of course its not as fast as freighters handle their jobs.

This sentence makes no sense.

If you know how to set it up. I can make a ten year explorer vessel without having to refuel again while exploring in a huge galaxy. Playing on a single planet is no problem with the private sectors, once you expand, you will start having problems regardless. Again sometimes the constructors doesnt do their job, they sit there do nothing. So i cancel their mission and try again, sometimes it still doesnt do it. So i scrap the base and redo it, it finally worked. I did checked to make sure the constructors had enough resources what they are building. The game still have problems though.

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ORIGINAL: Plant

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun

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ORIGINAL: Plant

That's strange, I've never had your private sector fuel problem. And I build exploration and military ships nearly constantly at the start of the game. As for the tech tree, what do you mean by needing much bigger tech trees?

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun
I have played without freighters, its pain but i alot better handle resources and of course its not as fast as freighters handle their jobs.

This sentence makes no sense.

If you know how to set it up. I can make a ten year explorer vessel without having to refuel again while exploring in a huge galaxy. Playing on a single planet is no problem with the private sectors, once you expand, you will start having problems regardless. Again sometimes the constructors doesnt do their job, they sit there do nothing. So i cancel their mission and try again, sometimes it still doesnt do it. So i scrap the base and redo it, it finally worked. I did checked to make sure the constructors had enough resources what they are building. The game still have problems though.

Your sentence still makes no sense. Why bother quoting it, if you aren't going to explain it?

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If I know how to set what up?
Ten year explorer vessel exploring in a huge galaxy, you just written. Not sure why. Bears no connection to anything I have written. Explains why you run out of fuel though, since that one ship will require the fuel of thousands of freighter trips. Not sure how you have enough fuel tanks on a 230 size ship for ten years though. Not sure why you insist on my having problems with fuel. Like I said before, I don't have fuel problems, and I grab every colony as soon as I can find one, and research the colonisation techs as quickly as possible.

Never seen constructors not doing their jobs and having to cancel their mission and scrap base to try again, then it works, at least not since unpatched original Distant Worlds.

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ORIGINAL: Mansen

I'd also love to see Matrix take some pointers from Stardrive. The combination of ship design (with module placement) and the subtle animations would look great in DW.

It wouldn't be enough to warrant an expansion alone though. :(

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ORIGINAL: ceyan

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ORIGINAL: Mansen

I'd also love to see Matrix take some pointers from Stardrive. The combination of ship design (with module placement) and the subtle animations would look great in DW.

It wouldn't be enough to warrant an expansion alone though. :(

How much have you played Stardrive? The ship customization mechanic gets real old when you're designing the top 2 or 3 tiers of ships unless you always stick with a single weapon system and concept every game (and thus can save designs from one empire to the next). And then it gets even worse when you start playing another race and have to start from scratch.

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ORIGINAL: Mansen

Well thankfully it is optional so you don't have to "become bored" if you don't want to. And by the time you've played a few games you've got a few specific designs you can easily retrofit for your combat style.

And if you don't want to design at all the game offers an extensive library of designs as is.

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

In DW you actually need ships.In stardrive troop spam will win you an empire.

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ORIGINAL: Mansen

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ORIGINAL: ASHBERY76

In DW you actually need ships.In stardrive troop spam will win you an empire.

I'd argue that Das has shown otherwise repeatedly - ignoring orbital defenses in favour of rushing in ground troops and taking over colonies quickly seems to be his forte.

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun

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ORIGINAL: Plant

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun

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ORIGINAL: Plant

That's strange, I've never had your private sector fuel problem. And I build exploration and military ships nearly constantly at the start of the game. As for the tech tree, what do you mean by needing much bigger tech trees?

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ORIGINAL: RisingSun
I have played without freighters, its pain but i alot better handle resources and of course its not as fast as freighters handle their jobs.

This sentence makes no sense.

If you know how to set it up. I can make a ten year explorer vessel without having to refuel again while exploring in a huge galaxy. Playing on a single planet is no problem with the private sectors, once you expand, you will start having problems regardless. Again sometimes the constructors doesnt do their job, they sit there do nothing. So i cancel their mission and try again, sometimes it still doesnt do it. So i scrap the base and redo it, it finally worked. I did checked to make sure the constructors had enough resources what they are building. The game still have problems though.

Your sentence still makes no sense. Why bother quoting it, if you aren't going to explain it?

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If I know how to set what up?
Ten year explorer vessel exploring in a huge galaxy, you just written. Not sure why. Bears no connection to anything I have written. Explains why you run out of fuel though, since that one ship will require the fuel of thousands of freighter trips. Not sure how you have enough fuel tanks on a 230 size ship for ten years though. Not sure why you insist on my having problems with fuel. Like I said before, I don't have fuel problems, and I grab every colony as soon as I can find one, and research the colonisation techs as quickly as possible.

Never seen constructors not doing their jobs and having to cancel their mission and scrap base to try again, then it works, at least not since unpatched original Distant Worlds.

Well Plant, i dont really appreciate what you doing, esp flaming my thread. For one thing you dont seem to be vetern player here. If you have been around since first DW and reading most topics from veteran players, you may understand what i am talking about. Not sure where you are from, some countries have problems understand others. I am not trying to be rude and getting confusing between us.

Anyway for the ten years explorer ship (custom made), make a resupply ship and put couple gas mining engines along with 3-5k cargo holds. Once it complete look for a planet have decent fuel that matches your engines. Note dont mine off gas planet that have carsons and Hydrogen (not sure if i spell that right), the reasons it will mix it up and take up cargo holds. So if you stick with carsons that your ship is using carson engine, every time the fuel get low it will refuel it up automatically and you can keep exploring for very long time. Now in some points, sometimes when the fuels get low and your ship in orbit, it can reroute to nearest fuel station to refuel, so you have to pay attention. One more thing, make sure to add explorer probe device on that ship so you can read the details on those uncharted planets.

Commander Data, are you around, can you back me up here. This player doesnt understand what we do incase the private sector doesnt do their jobs well. I noticed you mention making a cruiser with mining engines to mine off important resources that needed most. I couldnt find that thread you mention. Any other feedbacks will be helpful and for other players as well.