Max Tael - The same guy that did the weather mods for Oblivion? All your stuff is awesome man. Thanks for taking the time, definitely an improvement over stock.
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I see that there's a lot of things to the game that I've been blatantly oblivious of: 1. Hardly ever built farms. 2. Usually built all my econ structures on one planet instead of at least one on each. 3. Completely oblivious to the number in ( ) next to IP. Glad to have all of that answered now, thank you for the great advice.
I'm fairly new to GalCiv2 and would appreciate if someone would clue me in as to how Influence takeover works. I've just played my first full successful game as The Alterian Resistance vs. 5 comps on a medium sized map, all normal difficulty. I started out heavily focused in getting my research capabilities up, and then focused on the Influence/Trade tree heavily. Got up to the highest government (star democracy I think it was), held a steady 85% approval, and my influence borders quic