don't beat yourself up too much. I didn't notice the "construct" button until my third game. Was able to win without the starbases, but being able to use them is much nicer.
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even if most of them are decent and could enchance the gameplay a bit ppl must understand that stardock cant add even 10% of them ...it seems like everyone wants this game to be perfect but everyone has a diffrent view on whats perfect <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 cl
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I just finished a gigantic map game (1.1 beta 4b) set with common everything. Planet numbers varied from 0-5 and each system w/planets varied from 0-3 habitable planets.
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I mainly get to play after the wife has gone to bed. My body has started shutting down while at the keyboard. I'll wake up 2-3 hours later and continue the turn. It's gotten to be such a regular event that the dog will come and check on me around 3am. Needless to say, now that I've finally finished a gigantic map game on the current beta, it'll be a few days before I'm allowed to start a new one. This is ok because I've been waiting for
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Are you playing a game from a previous version or starting a new game with beta 4b? I never have tried playing a previous save with a new beta. This was a new game after installing 4b and was started by hitting the metaverse button on opening menu and logging in. However, this time around
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New colony ships should nearly always take up half a planets pop or 500 colonists which ever is more in my opinion to prevent the previous mentioned flaw from happening or at least being so long term crippling. First, I went back and found your first post...you did mention AI's sending 30 out on a co
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Post notes: Finished the game this morning. The message popped up that I reached the culture conquest threshold and needed to keep it for 10 turns. I had to laugh when 2 minor races showed up out of nowhere to extend the game. The last ditch effort of the AI races to resist cultural domination (news flash item) was a nice touch. I did notice the Vegans (one of the two races showing up late game) was trying to build a manufactur
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I've already posted about how the Ai's respond to influence starbases here: Link What follows is just a short list of things I found that are more glitches than anything: Shipyard Governor: Even though I had obsoleted several ships out of the main shipyard screen, every last ship was available in the shipyard governor...whether it had been obsoleted, or not.<
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One thing I haven't seen mentioned: The AI's will send colony ships with 50, instead of 500, on them. This allows them to keep most of their population for tax purposes and since you need population to have good population growth, maxes out the pop growth too. The only time this hurts them is if they find a planet near one you've had established for a while...you'll probably end up having it flip to you because there'll be enough of a po
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All of your ships within that area will recieve the bonuses that your starbase provides. You don't have to stack the ships, just stay in that blue area. From what I've read on the forums, the bonus applies to ships in orbit around planets within the area of effect as well. As mentioned, for ships to
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While I haven't had a chance to actually finish the game I do have a few screen shots that will illustrate a few things: "> Link This is the area where
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But to be sure, don't you think you should try it on tough level or higher. The AI isn't playing it's best on challenging. You have a point, but the AI should at least attempt to protect itself from an influence attack. I wouldn't be posting if the AI made a somewhat clumsy attempt at saving
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what is the point you are trying to show exactly ? I'm going to show the Ai's don't know how to use, or respond to, Influence Star Bases. The current Beta (4b) is supposed to be able to identify and respond to an agressor trying to take out the other civs 1 at a time and respond against him. They do
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While I posted an observation about the Thalan's here, Link , I wanted to make a broader comment, including all the races. Game settings: Metaverse, Challenging, everything common except abundant anomalies, tight clusters, very slow researching, gigantic galaxy, 5 random AI's (Korx, Arcean, Terran, Thalan, Altarian), blind exploration with tech victory disabled. <b
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so i wonder, i you built the same bases next to Thalians, what would they think? Actually, I've had this happen in a previous game. I think it was the Arceans who put up a couple of influence bases right next to a couple of my worlds. I "played the game" and responded with two of my own bases. Two
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The AI detects you constructing starbases close to it's territory and reacts to it so I doubt it would be very difficult to program the AI not to build bases close to you unless it's to provoke you to initiate war. Actually, I've all but ignored the Thalians the entire game. I had to create a constru
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One of the responses asked about the intelligent setting: Challenging. The map is also a gigantic map with common everything , tight clusters and abundant anomalies. I also set the research level to very slow.
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If there is no chance of your planets flipping, then just ignore them. If they later become a threat, either destroy them or deploy some influence starbases of your own. You don't HAVE to get rid of them just because they are there. I'll use the above quote because it covers a couple points:<b
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"> Link Don't quite think it's a bug, but wanted to show how the Thalians are using Influence Starbases (challenging difficulty). The picture shows a Thalian econ
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In a B4 game I recently finished I made a 1 weapon, long range, fast sniper to take out their troop transports deep in their own territory. Things were going very well until I attacked a transport and lost my TxptKiller to a transport. Zooming in I found the transport had two escorts, but in a far zoomed out view I only saw the transport icon. Still, 5 of those things running around the AI's homeworlds took care of 90% of their troop transports. By
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(Off Topic, those of you who like naval combat, (or are true grognards) the Harpoon games provide a good Operational Level Simulation that is pretty close to tactitcal combat in a Strategic sim. Link ) I forgot about Harpoon. Many balls-to-four shifts spent in the Combat Electronics office playing
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Draginol, apperently what keeps you from having generally fun in multiplayer gaming is the lack of reliable and skilled opponents that you at leatst know a bit. There is a solution for that: why don't you join a clan? There is only 1 game I'll play MP... America's Army. It's also the only first perso
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since the dread lords dont form fleets! ummm...they do. The one trip through the campaign I've made, the DL used fleets from the first DL mission. I beat them with larger fleets supported by overlapping military starbases. Still the point is the same; near the end of a long game large f
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It's just sloppy, that's all. Get a life people! Skimming through the posts, at least one person was correct: The text is the way it is on purpose. Have you ever seen a literal translation from another language? The syntax doesn't always match perfectly and a literal translation won't have perfect
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I have noticed they very seldom do a doggon thing anymore. They just sit on their single planet and wait to be taken over by someone. They are boring now. I had a few early games where they were colonizing and building up their own military. Not anymore, it seems. I'm in a game where I'm noticing the
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