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Something to remember, especially with the new pop growth rules; Troop ships aren't just for invasions, that are also great for causing a forced planetary migration. I try to keep my troop ships cheap couse they are disposable, but I always have one with a capacity of 2500 troops and all the engines it can handle, I use that ship to transport ppl from my full planets to the low pop planets. just fill it, send it, the send it back for more carrying o

planet population increases you Tax base, more ppl=more taxes, but it is not linear(10 billion ppl is only like 1.8 times the tax of 5 bil) farms increase the population cap on your planets. 1 ton/week of food = 1 bil population civ capitol pruduced 10t food, colony capitol pruduces 5 ton/week. if you build farms you get more ppl, more ppl pay more taxes, however more ppl are harder to keep happy, so you have to build recreation facilit

The one improvement that I'd most Like to see (for now anyway) would be a revamp of the building queue, I would like it to have a list of categories, say; industry, research, economy, influence, agriculture, and special. In each catergory you would have all the buildings of that type so that you could choose a lesser form for construction. I know that when I get a planet late in the game I often have to choose from investing a stagering 5,000 bc to bu

The one improvement that I'd most Like to see (for now anyway) would be a revamp of the building queue, I would like it to have a list of categories, say; industry, research, economy, influence, agriculture, and special. In each catergory you would have all the buildings of that type so that you could choose a lesser form for construction. I know that when I get a planet late in the game I often have to choose from investing a stagering 5,000 bc to b

as a player race the yor are more powerful than any other... as a player race any race is more powerfull than any other. I found an exploit in the game (I'll not tell you how, it would ruin the game for anyone without selfcontrol) that allowed me to create a custom race with a miniturization as high as I like, the highest I've tried is 100,000%. what most of you don't realize is that every item you can add to ship, with the exception of '

I think that most of you who complain about the AI are doing so mostly becouse you found holes, otherwize known as exploits, in the AI and find the game to ez becouse of it. If you like the idea of the AI playing as it's race, then play it at 'Inteligent' AND play you race IN CHARACTER. If you prefer the AI to go for the win, then play on highest difficulty, and do whatever it takes to win. All of you who think the AI should be forced to play as it's race should, I see your point, bu

all I have to say is; you are all a bunch of wusses, max out the ai, use all the rases(except whoever you are playing as(otherwize I get confused) and play on a large or bigger map. after you've been backstabbed by an ally twice, and destroyed by that race in the corner you hadn't notice 3 times, been half way up your weapon tree to find you nemisis surrender to somone with defence against you everytime, then come back and bitch, but all you posers ts

if you are talking bout defence, you just need the first lvl weapon, the first level defence (I say weapon/defence couse you can pick your favorite, I use beam/armor couse they are CHEAP) and then get the first level of starbase attack and defence. once you have these basic techs, and about 6 constructors to max a military starbase, you can hold off an invasion fleet, I have a stardard ship I use alot, at1/deff1/hp6/move3, named the Cheap0. in the c

I just thought I'd add a comment for anyone still scared of precursur ships. They can't take a planet, and if they fleet with a troop carrier, you just sacrifice a cheap fighter to take out the troop ship. Avoid the Gun Cows, let em fly around where ever they want. the last game I played where the enemy had 2 of em, I just avoided em, and destroyed the empire they belonged to, they managed to take out a couple stations, and maybe they scared my popul