You can leave the council, but that means you cannot have any trade routes. If you don't have any trade routes already, I'd leave the council. I'd also say that from your account of the game so far that you are playing on too low a difficulty level. Beginner is really just to practice using the interface, and it sounds like you have that down.
I might try disconecting and closing all the firewalls and anti-virus to see if it speeds up a little and stops crashing. That's what I did. It greatly reduced CTDs
just pray to God or whatever you believe in that it isnt another MMORPG Maybe it'll be a MMORTS (ie: nothing like WoW...)
Maximising the AI response could be considered a human player advantage, unless you want the AI to do the same to you. I guess it would be nice if there was a Civ4-style "make me an offer" option; not necessarily the best deal you can get, but something reasonable that at least gives you a ball-park figure.
Um, if you know it's in the range 50-99, then try 75! But who trades for influence? It's virtually worthless in the quantities you actually get.
looks like the Yor will be getting a nerf along with it What about the Thalans?
3 seconds for each movement point?! That's not right... What system are you using?
what?! I need to pay for this expansion? oh man! I just bought the game 2 months ago! dam it Well you don't have to get the expansion... Hahaha, just kidding, like anyone on this forum isn't going to!
I like the idea of slowing starbase construction. A limit of 1 or 2 modules per turn might be interesting.
When I'm planning a war with a distant foe, I find it well worthwhile to build 1 or 2 military starbases at the limit of your range (it can be a good idea to design a special long-range contructor to seed the bases, then fast contructors with no range once they're established). Really power these up; you'll be getting a lot of use out of them. If possible have them cover some of the Altarians planets. As soon as they're established use the range it/they grant you to send some scouts out to see w
Is it not possible to temporarily connect your laptop to the internet?
Ships will also gain hitpoints as their experience level increases - a level 10 Small hull will be tougher than a newly-launched medium hull (but not cost any more to maintain!) Cherish your experienced ships!
You can set the minimap to show population. it's not infalliable, but a planet with a large population will generally yield more profit. Once the trade route is set up, you will see the little minifrieghters shuttling along the trade route; these generate more money the further out they are, so you income from any given route will fluctuate periodically. You can boost the income from trade rotures by placing Economy starbases such that the route goes through their area of effec
but i'm curius what's with that 1%, do they love to pay taxes?! They'll the GalHaliburton shareholders ;o)
NEVER build a farm on a farming bonus tile. Even a +100% tile will push your population to 25 Billion. Speak for yourself; I nearly always use them, especially the 100% ones, and I'm glad to get them. I don't have any trouble with populations around the 20-billion mark as a rule. But I'm very aggressive about getting morale/economic resources an
That's great news, really looking forward to the 1.3 update. As you say, planetary development still had lots of room for improvement. Next up: tactics...
If you were a pilot for one of these ships, would you really fly a death-trap with massive firepower that has no protection? Yeah, who'd ever fly a craft like that? *hums "Top Gun" themetune* One good reason for the AI to design ships like that is if it's the only way it can pack enough weapons in to damage your sh
I thought it was that they have to be 3 or 4 spaces apart.
Well counter-invasion is a logical strategy.
Jeebus! I can easily get that high an attack, but not with 200 points of defence! Do they have 5 military resources or something?
Do you have the "Allow CPU intensive algoriths" option enabled?
I would LOVE a 3D map more than ang, but apparrantly it makes the AI MUCH more difficult to program.
All space combat I've seen and heard of has been no more than a couple of klicks away! All the space combat you have seen has been in cheesy SciFi films. If you have a mass-driver which can whack out a chunk of matter at, say, 100,000,000 metres per second (0.3c), why would you wait until you opponent was 2000m away? Well you might, but I'd star
Yeah, 1.2 made a big difference. But I think it is naive to think that all the features and improvements and fixes in 1.2 could have been incorporated in utero in a "perfect" original release: to a significant extent the game is the way it is because of the community of players who contribute to these forums. Which, you know, makes me like it all the more. It's our game...
Try with fewer AI opponents. I used to play exactly the same style maps as you, and I want long, involved challenging games too. I was surprised to find that 5 or 6 AIs are quite a bit more challenging that 9. The AI seems to do better when it has more resources. Also, be judicious when choosing your starting position. CTRL-N makes it soooo easy to just keep trying until you get an "ideal" start. Try to resist! "Ideal" rarely means challenging or interesting. For instance, starting in a
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