Fallen spire progression

[Fleet]

I wanted to check in and make sure I'm doing everything right. Built my first hub, along with a shard reactor, shipyard, and habitation center. No more messages though...I was expecting a notification, or timer, or something...Here is a save.

[keith.lamothe]

Did you clear the AI off the adjacent planets?

[Fleet]

No, the planet with the hub is next to an allied planet, and two enemy planets. If it was required to be clear of enemy wormholes, I missed that part in the tooltips/journals (although I thought I saw it at some point...)

Is it only warp gates, or also command stations? (neutral is OK right? or must it be ally)

[keith.lamothe]

I thought I had it in the journal entry but I might have not been clear.

Anyway, I think you have to destroy the AI command station, it doesn't care about "auxilary" warp gates like AI eyes.  Neutral is ok, though colonizing it allows for more defense-in-depth tactics.

[Fleet]

I went back and read. There is a note that building habitation centers allows the city to grow beyond the hub, but this only works if the adjacent AI planets are cleansed. I guess it was not clear that this was necessary, since cleansing the adjacent AI planets is attached to the seemingly optional choice of building a habitation center and expanding the city.

Thanks, I'll get to work clearing the adjacent planets.