precursor librarys found!!!

If by "Up the chance" you mean "made it possible," I'd say you're right. I got one yesterday in Epic.

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Damn i have still not had one of those!! Got a nice shinny 700% Precursor Mine on one of my planets but not the hallowed Precursor Library

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What is it? Found in random maps?

Precursor Library gives 700% research bonus. It was not in the game until 1.2, as of 1.2 yes it is found in random maps.

I had 2 in my home system in my last game.

That was...
special.

Is it better to put a tech capitol on the library or a normal research lab?

Don't put Capitols on any bonus squares!!! They do not work the same way as the normal ones and you will waste the bonus...

They only work for research buildings, not for the Tech Capital.

oh great lol... well I wont be making that mistake in the future

Put a capitol on planet and you DOUBLE the bonus. Just not on the bonus tile. An extra 100% of 700% bonus? Yeah, I'll take that...

this sounds awesome... haven't had the opportunity to upgrade my game yet, but i will as soon as possible... a minor question here...

how many of you guys (and girls if any) are still playing Moo2??

Psilon_DK

Put a capitol on planet and you DOUBLE the bonus. Just not on the bonus tile. An extra 100% of 700% bonus? Yeah, I'll take that...

And another 96% from 4 economic starbases in-system (plus more if the planet is near a sector boundary), and another 20% for technologists, and another 20% for advanced research, and another 20% for an omega research center, and maybe some resource bases and anomaly bonuses and hyper computers...

And then I got the event where a "thinking machine" doubles everyone's reasearch. Yeah, that game was wild.

Now they just need "Precursor Gardens" so we can get 700% food bonus, "Precursor Mint" so we can get 700% economic bonuses, "Precursor Cultural Ruins" so we can get 700% influence bonuses, and "Precursor Arenas" so we can get 700% morale bonuses.

The Omega Research center is a 50% bonus on the planet it is on, not 20%.
Combine it with the Hyper Computers (20% overall bonus) and NLC's and the Tech Capital and the research really soars. My current home planet has a 700% and (2) 300% research bonus tiles. Needless to say, it is loaded up with NLC's. I already have Doom Rays and everyone else is hardly up to 10 in offense in anything.

Just waiting, waiting, waiting to be called out by the Drengin or Yor now.

Just waiting, waiting, waiting to be called out by the Drengin or Yor now.

Aint gonna happen my friend Not with a military rating that high. Hell even with one defender with a doom ray you will beat the nuts out of the AI's

I don't know about that. I once took over the galaxy with seven huge ships with Doom Rays and Zero-Point Armor. My enemies mocked me literally until their final turns. (Edit: Well, obviously I had a lot of troop transports, but they weren't armed or armored at all, so never mind them.)

Korx: How does it feel to be on the losing end of such a young war?
Me: Um, are you aware that I just sacked 16 planets in two turns, and that you've only got 3 left?

Silly AI.

I'm reasonably sure that the Omega Research Center boosts your entire civilization, though I may have been wrong on the numbers. (Also, it might just say it's a whole-civ bonus, while actually being a single-planet. I'll have to test that to be sure, but I'm pretty sure my reasearch jumped up on the graph when I built one of those, even though it was on a planet without any of my NLC's.)

Omega research only effects one planet. I had to find that out the hard way once.

I had two of those libraries in my first game after updating. It was rough on the treasury for a while but damn it was nice.

Now they just need "Precursor Gardens" so we can get 700% food bonus, "Precursor Mint" so we can get 700% economic bonuses, "Precursor Cultural Ruins" so we can get 700% influence bonuses, and "Precursor Arenas" so we can get 700% morale bonuses.

These would be either awful or unbalancing. A 700% food bonus would cripple many planets, 700% economic bonus is VERY powerful, ditto morale, and 700% influence would be worthless on many worlds.

The original Precursor libraries were removed for being overpowered by one of the original coders, and the rest of Stardock didn't realise until we proved it was in the game, but never showed naturally. So I guess they wanted them back, and enabled them again.

Here korxy korxy korxy, come say hello to my uber fleet of d00m....

Aint gonna happen my friend Not with a military rating that high. Hell even with one defender with a doom ray you will beat the nuts out of the AI's

I said I had researched the Doomray, not that I had built ships with it.

I never have any military until I actually need it. Saves a lot of maintainence costs. I build warships until they have one week to complete, then halt production. When war is declared on me I finish them on that next turn. Also, that way if there are different weapons being used by different enemies I can be sure to have ships with the correct defense. I just make versions that specialize in each defense, build one version to almost completion, then choose which version to complete when the need arises.

Even better if I have researched more than one weapons branch by then, because then I can also be sure to build weapons that my enemy has no defense for.

Interesting idea, but it seems as if you are inviting a military attack by the AI. Don't they base their assumptions on strength of your in service ships? If you have no ships, they may assume that you'll be easy to conquer.

Six of one, half dozen of the other. They are just as likely to declare war if you have a military that is rated slightly weaker than theirs, too.

It was funny in my last game. Very early in the game, the Drengin declared war on me. I had as yet researched no weapons. So I began to research beam weapons.
They were half a huge map away, and had no ships even near me when they declared war. So I just continued my research, waiting to see ships being sent in.
They never sent a single ship. After probably a dozen or so turns they contacted me and said the war was simply to expensive, and they asked for peace.
I gave it to them, without asking for anything in return.

Much later in the game, and after they had taken out the Iconians, they declared war on me again. So I built my ships, finally, and this time I wiped them out.


And yes, I sucker them in. I do not declare war, ever. But I will finish one that is declared on me.