Just checked after reading the responses to the sticky+seems although stardock says I've got 1.8g I'm actually running 1.8e, but after refreshing my XML data in stardock as suggested+trying to get the latest update, I'm still unable to update, while I can't find the folder SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar to change my version as mentioned in one of the responses to that sticky.
I'm unable to get my fleets to move in DA (I've updated to the latest version, 1.80g) - what happens is as soon as I try and send a fleet anywhere further than it can move in 1 turn, it's speed drops to 0, and it refuses to move (unless I then click somewhere it can move to in 1 turn). I've experienced this in the campaign part of the game, in both the first mission, and the second mission so far, and it's driving me mad - is there any way I can avoid this problem?
For DL I'm finding 13 is my favoured population. Before then it had been 20bn, but then I realised I could drop my pop to 13, and convert the farm and morale buildings into stock exchanges, along with being able to maintain a tax rate of 80%, helping to maximise my income. Going on the data on the wiki page (assuming it's not out of date) there wasn't really any benefit to increasing my population+morale at the cost of stock exchanges when focusing just on income, and while a larger pop means I
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