I and probably others, have complained before in earlier editions, i.e. well before 0.65, about improved Life Support not improving ship range properly.

Supposedly, I have only tried it once (successfully), getting a better government by winning an election will improve ship range (I think that it might have worked).

I am having the same problem with a Control Relic  being studied by a Star Base Lab, not generating Control Points. I reported it yesterday in the sit-rep for 0.65.

More word clipping - 

Hmm, in .65 I  can't assign a Governor from the Governor screen itself.. no problem dragging an available leader, but won't attach to any available planet... it does work on the main screen by selecting the planet and hitting the Governor button though.

Is this the Manage Empire or Manage Economy screen? Where you could see all your colonies, your finances, how many trade routes used vs available, and the status of each colon on something like a spreadsheet?  Planet size, population, research, production, shipyard, etc.  I was shocked that they removed this.  Yes, bring this back.  This was great for managing your Empire.  Don't "dumb the game down."

@caboose_corsair:  They may have removed the ship role info because of no tactical combat.  Now you just zoom in and the ships just shoot and blow each other up.  Like in GC1.  Since there are no tactics, no need for the info.  Just make your biggest ships and send them in.  Don't get me wrong, I posted that I wanted them to add the tactical combat back in previously.  But without it, I don't see the need for ship roles. Again, it's dumbing down the game.

The game was going well, but now it doesn't take the turn... regrettable

I'm even afraid of starting another one, and having the same problem.

The players should have the knowledge of what missions provide culture points and if a ship is lost and where.

Culture points are a HUGE deal and its not clear on where to get them or how to get them. If you had a 'library' of quests missions in game that the player could look at which tells the players which missions grant culture points believe me this would be a game into itself.

On the left hand side divide the notifications into what they are now and 'Culture rewards' On culture rewards (the words) make it so a player can click on it to bring up a knowledge base of possible ways to get culture points.

Examples a player can pursue are:

• Destroy 15 Space Monster Bases.
• Destroy 15 Pirate Bases.
• Destroy 15 Sentinel Bases.
• Send 5 Trade routes to Major Civilizations.
• Send 3 Trade routes to Minor races.
• Build a Huge Ship.
• Discover Disrupters.
• Acquire/Mine 100 Elerium.

Please fix the screen stacking, especially when the player ships are lost while exploring on on a way to trade. Nothing is more frustrating than spending turns to get that trade ship, get it across 3 sectors only to have it 'disappear' from the player view. We need a notification and a way to click on where the ship loss happened.

Ok Just one more addendum,

I have been playing on common resources and rare habitable planets. I am getting a LARGE amount of good planets which I am not complaining about but just noting it.

I am SUPER happy with the distribution of resources and rares on  planets in general. It feels VERY good!

Mining techs to harvest these resources is 1/3rd up the way in the tech tree so by the time my colony ships 'get there' I can add a colony upgrade to get that resource. Very very cool!

Subspace Stream Movement Bug

This is in a new game with Alpha 0.65.249289.  One of my probes is in a subspace stream, but it looks like it moves outside of the stream.  It is actually still in the stream, but its icon moves into the void outside of the stream, then moves in the same direction as the actual ship.  The icon parallels the actual ship, which is invisible, as they both move.  The icon doesn’t move as far as the actual ship, maybe because the icon can’t take full advantage of faster movement in the actual stream.

The best way to see this is in the actual game, so I have a save that reproduces it.  When the save is loaded, it will be centered on my survey ship.  Zoom out to something like this.

Once you find the circled probe, zoom in some to it, then go to the next turn and watch the probe.

It will stop outside the stream, but vortex at the end of the stream and the stars in the new sector will light up.  This is because the actual location of the probe is in the vortex.  This stops all ships while they wait for new movement orders.

You can verify this by moving your cursor to the vortex and seeing the tool tip for the probe appear.  Move the screen so that the vortex is not in the center of the screen, then click on the idle ship icon at the bottom-right of the screen.  This will center the screen on the vortex where probe actually is and select the icon of the probe that is outside the stream.

After you are through experimenting and testing, select the probe and click somewhere in the new sector to continue its move.  The icon will jump to the vortex, move as far as it can then stop, the turn will continue, and everything will be back to normal.

The budget calculations have some errors too. I am only getting about 1/5th of what the math should be based on the calculations written under revenue - expense times 10%

Quoting SSStreetFighter,

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The budget calculations have some errors too. I am only getting about 1/5th of what the math should be based on the calculations written under revenue - expense times 10%

Reduced 43%

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Reduced 43%

Original 1920 x 1080

That math is actually correct. 10% tax rate means your income should be about 27, which is 10% of your gross income.  Subtract the roughly 23 in expenses and you get 4 for income, which is what the tooltip displays.

Also, I'm genuinely curious to know what settings were used to get that much nebula around your home system? I really would love to explore a map like that at some point.

could have an "extra" option to try to negotiate that the war doesn't start.