After having played it for a while I noticed that the extra tier needed for expanding to all near worlds, yes also the new planet types, did slow my expansion. Not very much but it sure did. So at the start during the initial quick expansion phase I dare say the economy got slower.

Also is it my imagination or are the worlds better defended by neutrals? It feels like I'm having to build more research than before to expand as fast as I'm used to both with Civic and Military. Which of course makes me expand slower.

?- how?

You must have some different options than me. I don't see any way to disable a DLC once purchased. 

Doesn't bode well for the DLC if people wish to disable it same day it came out. I'm sure it's not that bad though, you just need to get used to the changes.

It's not the DLC itself, it just might have some potential mod issues. Not sure if mods for people without the DLC will work for those that do.

I know multiplayer works regardless if the players have the DLC or not.

There are supposed to be 40 new planet bonuses, and I've seen some do things they haven't done before, like increase the starbase limit at a planet.   Not sure if any are unique to the new planet types but I wouldn't be surprised.

I'm still alive, and coincidentally became interested in playing Sins again like 2 days before the DLC came out. Anyway I do actually like the DLC, it adds some depth to planet development that was not there before. The values listed for population figures do not seem to be accurate though, I was very excited to get my homeworld close to 1k population, though at full social specialization it was more like 700, despite what the tooltip said.

The new planet types aren't all that interesting, although they definitely do spice things up a bit. I don't possibly see how they could make the game slower, though, considering the planets they are most likely to spawn in place of are asteroids and dwarf planets. I think it'll also be interesting to see how players decide to use the different planet specializations with different factions. I.E. a TEC player with Industrial Juggernaut and a full industry specced ferrous planet or Advent with full social spec planets.

I suppose it's possible they could potentially slow your expansion if you happened to get a bunch of oceanic planets near your homeworld, since they seem to have similar militia fleets to Terran planets, though the same thing could happen if they were Terran or desert planets. Plus, it's still better than spawning with a bunch of magnetic clouds connected to a pirate base around your homeworld .

Yes.... you know... other companies sell such content at full price..... just without the awesome support and patching Stardock does. 

Support the developers who deserve it, best way to get more awesome games instead of EA shit. 

Lol...hopefully bonuses only use negative values for that...last thing we need is more mines...

Guys, many of the new planet bonuses (and yes, there really are 40 new ones) require planet exploration (not all - many are detectable from orbit). In fact, any of the really good ones most definitely do.  The cost to explore a planet was substantially reduced and the odds of finding something greatly increased to boot. 

My personal favorite is Fortress World - which adds the ability to field another starbase to the gravity well (plus a lot of other stuff). 

Hopefully its a small gravity well too, lol