quixotecoyote

^ That's a great idea. You should post it as a suggestion.

Correct me if I make a mistake here. It starts off with a tax (or trade routes). My citzens are taxed a certain amount based on my tax slider, times any planetary economy modifers. Then I allocate how much goes into production, and how much into reserves to pay for mantainance and whatnot. That which goes into production I can allocate between millitary production, social production, and research.<

bumped, because I want to know the answer

bump, because I can't find my post without going to 'my posts'

I'm thinking about buying the game, but I have an old second hand hard drive (rest of the parts are pretty new) and I need to know how much space it takes up, both the download file and the uncompressed space. It doesn't say on the minimum requirements, and I can't seem to locate the search function for the forum.

I remember playing the demo awhile ago and really liking it. One thing that grated on me was the yearly vote every december. There were 4 options, and votes got spread out to make wierd choices, such as 2 races voting to heavily restrict starbase modules, 1 voting on no restrictions, and another for barely any with the decision going to heavy restricions. Has this aspect of the game been improved/fixed? I remember reading thread about i