I am not sure I get the idea behind the different factions. I am quite familiar with guilds from other online games though, being an MMORPG player. Do you guys have your own websites as well where you post on to get to know each other like guilds? [Message Edited]
By the way, the + diplomacy is REALLY powerful.
I decided to try out masochistic and won. :) Wanted to share the approach I took. I went with a small map, uncommon habital planets, tight clusters, +60 Diplomacy, +30 economics, populist. I started in a sector with 2 minors. My normal strategy woul be to trade up a storm. But they worth both sitting on base PQ 20 worlds on a map where good planets are few. So instead, I never built a single colonizer. My starting colonizer never even found anything to colonize in t
I don't care what you do to a minor, if I am ahead on tech level by quite a bit and suddenly a new race appears with all my tech, I am going to come down on them like a ton of bricks. I really hate that. This last game I played, I was way ahead on tech. A minor popped very late game. Naturally, I took it out quickly. Giving it a couple avatars would merely delay by a couple turns the inevitable when I sit on 3 military resources. I just plain cannot afford to let them live as it is. <b
Sure is a frequent bug. I'll bring up a save game and reload. I don't remember the late war ships ever not being invisible in my games.
Maybe this has been answered before, but I am kind of new. Is it my system, or are the late game ships invisible on other peoples system as well? Its great that ships are stealthy and all, but the ability to find and click on them in empty space would be handy.
Interesting. I thought the score I turned in yesterday of 18k and change on painful was really good. Then i saw the averages there. Farther to go I see. [Message Edited]
What exactluy is the point of these alliances? Do they just chat like guilds or something?
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