epicanthics

I've been playing for a couple of days, and it seems I have a good production model down (use econ bonuses to fuel industrial growth, more money=higher slider), but the bottleneck appears to be approval rate. After a certain level, despite having set up appropriate an morale booster (network/multi/arena/etc) on each world, morale nevertheless constantly drops. My questions are this: 1. Are there other factors besides tax rate an

Strange, probably one-in-a-million occurence. Was playing a 10-player standard game (me as custom) on a medium sized map. I had a class 26(!) planet spawn in a star system right next to me. A little further into the game, I click the turn button, BOOM. The entire map turns red (my influence color), and I suddenly get notified that my class 26 and only my class 26 is rebelling in favor of the Drengins (the had no starbase or any other lead in influe

Ship textures aren't showing up, regardless of whether the option to disable them is toggled or not. I get nice little fleets of plastic ships to play with. No other graphical problems. Tried toggling ship textures and some other graphics settings, with no avail. I'm running a laptop with a Geforce 4 440 Go.