You obviously can have different pacts with different people (duh). You just can't have one particular type of pact with more than one player.

Lol!

My Hotkeys are very similar. Just flip carriers for heavy cruisers. And my light frigates are 8.

Using an unstacked empire tree with the hotkeyed overseers and subverters allows for some nasty microing, especially subverters.

I just wish tab worked when the empire tree was stacked ...

Need to reduce Planet Health. When that is gone so goes the Planet Population and you are free to colonize. A good way to think about it is this, Planet Health is equal to defenses while Planet Population is equal to resources.

Sorry, can anyone tell me if the information in this post here (https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/305565), namely the information in this following table,

is correct? It seems to conflict with information I got on the wiki.

Thank you very much

Thank you. If I may?

1. Trying my hand at Advent, and have gained access to that lvl 6 ability "Resurrection". Looks nice, but I have no clue as to when/how to use it. How can I target a ship if it is destroyed -- or do I need to just go around targeting all my ships before they are destroyed? I set "autocast: off", like I do on all abilities, but am unsure how this works in general. Thanks for the advice.

2. Still playing SP until I understand this game, and can see that when I load a saved game, I can change the difficulty settings. A question about that, if I may: Do the different settings just involve cheating (boni the AI gets over a human player) or are different smartness algorithms used? I am guessing on the former. If so, I wonder what the boni are -- if the same genre-typical boni are used (more economic boni, better starting conditions)? Does anyone know? Also, if I can change the settings, I could conceivably start on, say, difficult, then switch to normal, then back to difficult if it is too hard -- and there will be a difference in terms of what the AI can do from the same situation?

thank you

Thanks -- but how WOULD I use ressurection if I had to? Granted it might not be a great ability, but now I have a level 10 mothership and have this ability. I'm not sure how to use it. What do I target, and when?

I was also wondering about how switching the AI-difficulty works between saving and loading -- if I start on "normal", switch to "hard" 10 minutes later, then to "cruel" for 5 minutes, and then back to "normal", will my AI opponents vary their strength in those times accordingly, or are those switchings fairly meaningless after the original start?

One last question: I read that many people seem to find the Advent support ship Subjugator not so great. I'm not entirey sure I understand why, because those are usually the same people who claim the Vasari Subverter is great. I realize how great the Guardian is, but it just seems that the Vasari Subverter and the Advent Subjugator are not so terribly different in terms of price and robustness and supply, and the "supression" ability of the subjugator isn't all that different from the ability of the subverter that everyone seems to praise. What am I missing?

Ah ok thanks. I thought that its large range and cheap cost of the ability usage would make it just as good (I think the subjugator's ability cost is 30 with a quick cooldown (forget what), and the subverter has a much higher cost and longer cooldown; I thought the ability was single-target only, didnt realize it was AoE!!).

Because the wording in game is kind of hard for me to understand, I was wondering if anyone can tell me what pervasive economy does exactly. Does it give you money if anyone purchases something from the black market, or if anyone builds a ship, or if anyone makes anything, or is it only trade via the diplomacy screen? The wiki entry here is, I am pretty sure, not accurate. Thanks much

Also hard to tell what cultural monopolization does. What are those rebellions, how often do they occur? I've never seen it actually happen, although in one game I bought the reseaerch just to test to see what it does, but I couldnt figure it out.