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Don't sadly zealot charge doesn't work well at pushing them.  Surprisingly, simply pushing them works well, even mid jump.  (Same deal for dogs.  Feels much more forgiving/easy then pushing sneakrat/gasrat in V2.) 

To be fair, B12’s first post on this is 10 years ago.

Is definitely before steam really opened the floodgates into early access, probably even kickstarted.  (Not looking it up.)

Oh, one more:

You don't need iron to build woodcutters or coal/ore mines. The iron mentioned in their somewhat misleading tooltip is only required for the auxiliaries.
You can build them without auxiliaries, they will work at 40% efficiency. Then, when you acquire some iron, you can always add auxiliaries to them to get their production up to 100%.

Alternatively, sell things to fund import of metal early on.  Grain is a good starter, since it is inedible till processed and you’ll find plenty from gathering.  Food decays relatively quickly, so selling excess of that early on works and if you have even 1 hunter, meat and leather sales are a good staple for much of early game.

So I picked up Star Dynasties, CK in space.  Definitely a much more limited scope.  New games are generated entirely randomly, other then your first leader, but you can random generate them too.  Whole family is also generated, with kids and all.  So you can start out stuck in a pretty bad place.

You’ll always be a duke with at least 3 subjects/barons.  Sometimes under another duke, but called an archon instead.

Now the dynasty.  Is kinda weird.  Is more a clan rather then a dynasty.  Anyone married into the family and random people you pick up, they are now considered ‘family’.  So if your daughter marries guy, with guy moving to your house, they are rated as close kin and are now yours.  If daughter dies before guy, you can have guy remarry.  Whoever guy marries is now also part of your house and considered close kin too. (Or you can marry guy out of the family, but usually you need the manpower and/or particular skill sets.)

Succession is always the first born.  Followed by the first born of the first born and so on.  Can’t change that without some violence.

There is no way to add more people to your house except via random events and marrying people in.  There are no commoners, only noble houses.  So the marriage pool is pretty threadbare.  Haven’t really seen new noble houses get created mid game, except maybe from a rebellion where there are no other local houses. 
This means if you give your other children/grandchildren a planet… it’ll only be them, their spouse and useless children running the planet.  It looks like they can adopt 1 free random though.  They’ll start out megagimped and not be able to properly handle themselves with only 2 characters able to do tasks.  The spouse and the free random.  The head of house does not do any tasks.

Depending on the layout, expansion can be really hard.  Rebellions, even those outside your borders will grind you down, cause your subjects can be asked to help either side of the conflict.  They will commit if they like either one or get bribed to do so.  Well, it is the same for your enemies. 
Another factor is distance, force projection.  Areas outside your capital’s range, you end up relying on your subjects to bring the fleets up for a fight. (I haven’t paid enough attention, but it feels like you entirely lose the ships that don’t make into into the battle cause of the distance penalty.)

Well, in short, I think this game could use more features and probably some polishing.  Definitely would like more ways to pick up house members other then the rabbit breeding program and rngesus.  Same for the AI really.

Looks like game might be moddable outside of the event mod tool it came with, so I’ll tinker with that first.

EDIT: Only a few things are moddable or at least not apparent, a fix came in for the crazyness of tagging most of the in-laws as close kin.

Madmen don't need motives.

To shoot a 3 year old toddler one needs to be really far gone into coockoo land.

Madness has a source.  It is made in a toxic soup of emotions and thoughts.  Figuring out the ingredients... and how to prevent the concoction from being brewed with said ingredients is how you prevent further madness from propagating. 

Mental health is an issue we often times ignore, because suck it up, you shouldn't show weakness and everything will work out.

*deep inhale, followed by very loud scream* Why have facts and reality fallen into gray? How could we let this happen??!!

Free speech, education, and the interwebs. 

People use free speech as cover to say whatever they want, including outright lie, except for very specific things that have to do with national security and the threat of being sued for libel.  There is little to no gov't skin on this, it has largely been left to society/businesses to police people.  (But, now that we have businesses who's main revenue is from showcasing the lies and extreme opinions of average people for the last decade... )

Education in public schools have been neglected for decades.  Lowest common denominator.  Critical thinking is not a focus of education either.

The interweb allows people with fringe/extreme opinions/ideas to get together and voice such things.  The interweb lately has given them a platform to voice such things.

Special mention for Fox being classified as an 'entertainment' outlet, not a news outlet, so they essentially get a free pass to say whatever they want.

• Being led to the slaughter by a judas goat. Strongly agree. We are all capable of being led to our own destruction by people we really ought not to trust, even when all of our senses are instinctively warning us we are being led to our demise. The big difference however between the sheep and humans is that humans can recognise when they are being led astray but still be powerless to avert disaster because they made the Judas Goat the supreme overlord

Another big difference is that they can reason themselves to following along despite all the warning bells ringing.  Afterwards, further reasoning to themselves that it was good and right, suppressing those warning bells for when they follow deeper in.

People can't be experts or well-informed about everything on their own.
And hey, in this modern world, we have people giving/arriving at different opinionsfacts. 
People are still sheep, but they have the freedumb to pick whichever fact they like more.