10) A improved Ship Designer with a Miniaturiztion Slide Bar that can be put on the folllowing settings: 0%, +10%, +25%, +40%, +55%, +75%, +100%, +115%, +130%, +145%, +160%, +175%, +190%, +205%

The settings that are underline from are Hyper Shrink Buildings.

Do you put your starbases in middle of that map or near your home world?

It depends on the game. I like to put it near my largest concentration of planets, so that the constructors do not have to travel very far. I always build the Spin Control Center on a planet as near to the center of the MSA as I can.

 @Sole Soul, it is just base numbers from miniaturization line in a normal game from the start 0 to the end 100% then add Hyper Shrink buildings because +115% is still last one even if you do built a Hyper Shrink before you finish the miniaturization line then rest of them are captured Hyper Shrink buildings and I forgot about the events that also raise miniaturization too.  I have never played Yor so I would never known about the extra +10%.

 It might be easier to just have a free sliding bar setting so you can slide to any number like 0 to maybe 250% or even 300%. Ahh I got it, a free sliding bar with miniaturization line bar marks and maybe a few Hyper Shrink buildings marks too then add for events or +10% for Yor  :0%, +10%, +25%, +40%, +55%, +75%, +100%, +115%, +130%, +145%, +160%, +175%, +190%, +205%.

Either way it would be better than the 0 mark setting they have now.

What do you think?

More experimenting:

This aternoon, I'll let it run 2 more years to see what happens.

 @Neilo, I was told by well-known and established player on a secondry account that I should not cause unnecessary problems and behave in any forum I am in. My negative attentoin is over and now I am trying something new,  postive attention and learning from my mistakes from the past.

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Nice one, CL!   

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I'd hate to see what you could do after a couple of single-malts!

Well, I had me a good ol' PBR (cue Dukes of Hazzard music) for the modest score increase of my experiment:

The larger purpose was to sacrifice the econ score to try and boost the society and military scores. I was able to break 300k on the military. Now that I know how to do that, it is back to the lab to try and break 300k with the society score.

A secondary purpose was to pay attention to the random events. I finally got an econ boom in Year 6. Not very many events at all for the duration of the game. I had the extreme planet slider set to rare.

Does anyone know whether "luck" has any impact on the quality of random events or anomolies?

Cute fuzzy beasties totterin down the sidewalks of doom beware, ya wee blubberin dafties, ye! I opened me bottle o' single-malt Korx, an I'm a sendin the Shathi diplomats fer yer worthless hides.

Roughly translated, that means I am playing the Korx as Neutral this time. +50 purchase-now discount!  And I've learned the ways of the long-term lease on certain items. So far it is working well. It is Nov of Year 0, and I have 111 planets, a new personal record.

i'd embed this if i could in here, but here's a good one for ya CL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dRjHsbWAUs

That is an excellent, excellent idea!!! If you have the galactic guidebook they would cost the same as a tiny blank and they would be much cheaper to upgrade to constructors/colonizers. Oh man, that is just a killer refinement. You have to put that one in the Tip of the Day section! Snork!

{edit} Actually, I can't get this out of my head. It's the single most significant new tip I think I've heard and it has to be the best new idea in quite some time. RED ALERT folks, pay attention to this one! This deserves to be paid attention to! +1 Karma doesn't do this one justice, so:

Well, scale back the red alert folks. I was wrong about being able to upgrade the tiny surveyors more cheaply. Apparently since you didn't pay for the survey module it costs the same to upgrade it as a tiny blank hull. However, I am not sure that this is at all fair since you do have to pay about 5,000 BCs for the Galactic Guide Book. Well, I'm disappointed that it didn't work the way I thought it would, but it's still a darn good idea. Cranking out 64 surveyors in one turn is still pretty amazing.

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