Raptor2213

Easiest way to get money is to dump points into the Morale attribute (max points). Then put one happyness factor per planet. Keep the support at about 40-45%, and jack up the taxes. With my game utilizing that strategy, I'm making 1500/week while my closest competitor is 102/week. If you can do that, loans don't matter (though stay away from them as a general rule, I've done it with this build, but only because I can REALY afford it). General good strategy is to build about two o

You can also be realy sneaky and just give 'em all to another faction like I did. Or you can just upgrade them to transports/freighters.

Yes, they do too research the Ethics branch, as well as soldering. I have seen them do it. /confirmed. I never researched ethics, but I got it from a computer player (either through trade or conquest).

Update: Game refuses to save when custom portraits (gotten from this website or any others) are present in the "Portraits" dirrectory and works when custom logos are present, but not in use.

I have just recently used a custom image for a race, combined with custom icons. Since using those, the game locks up every time me or it tries to save. Only solution I've seen is un-installing, deleting both the save dirrectory and the install dirrectory, then re-installing without the patch (with the same icons). Any idea of how to get it to work with 1.1?