I can deal with this problem EXCEPT when it comes time to build a new navy in a huge empire - what a hassle! The only way to avoid waste is to build constructors everywhere I'm not building navy ships, and quite frankly that's too annoying. Great game, but the endgame can really turn into civ2, ie flicking through 900 planetary production screens before you can move the legions of terror around.
I'm trying Fleabit's strategy on my first real game, and it seems to be working out fairly well thus far. I normally don't like "maxing out one bar" - is there a diminishing returns effect in this like some other games, where maxing a bar out is very wasteful? But I liked the idea of what I could get, when, and I got all four of those trade-goods. The AIs got a bit of a pop lead on me during the course of all this, but I've taken the lead in everything else and pop is coming along.<
I know this has come up before, but I noticed there weren't any public replied to the people who had this problem. My valid Canadian visa card is declined by the stardock store each time I try to purchase with it. A few other non-American customers posted about similar difficulties, but the threads stayed idle after that, perhaps because customer support got to them. I don't want to jump the lineup on customer support, but I thought perhaps some thread acknowledging this problem, if t
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