DreadArchon

I'd also suggest some sort of sense of time. If I have a military that looks good on paper for some reason--say it's sitting next to a bunch of starbases near my homeworlds--the AI is impressed. Never mind that I have 10 tiny fighters and they have 10 battleships and 40 cruisers. On the other hand, I can take over literally two dozen or more planets in one week with only 6 Huge ships and a lot of transports, and the AI will mock me for my lack of a military. And then they lose the rest of th

He probably had defenses.

Oh yes. I once had my allies, the good Iconians, surrender to the evil Drengin. They weren't at war with the Drengin, nor were they allies with the Drengin, and they (Iconians) had been my allies for many in-game years. The funny thing is, they (well, we) were totally winning our current war. I can't even figure out why they surrendered at all, much less to the Drengin. But if you want them to surrender to you, you'll have to play Good and build the improvement for it. Otherwise, the

Well, the government holiday is, unfortunately, deliberate. I don't see why they can't disable ship movement too in that time, but meh. I don't have the other problems, but I DO lose all my Rally Points (I have to set them again for all my colonies, it's a major pain).

Yeah, they broke the forums somehow recently. They only work on IE for many (but not all) people. It only applied to new posts a few days ago, but now it seems to often apply to replys. Bad news for someone using Linux to browse the internet.

Well, NONE of this would help with Metaverse, so I think I small quick patch is in order (especially as a good solution seems to be at hand). Until then, is there a definitive level of miniaturization that people who play on the Metaverse ought to stop at? I mean, if we go to Expert (or whatever the one before Ultimate and Supreme is called) with no shrinker and not Yor or Thalan, will ALL ships hold more components, or only a few? If we go all the way to Supreme with a shrinker, will we so

You need good relations to get the option to form alliances, which means "Friendly" or "Close." This can be done by bribery, but high military strength does help. As for the Drengi: If it doesn't work to simply influence them, try a mass surprise attack on their colonies. It's often feasible to crush planetary garrisons & invade the worlds in the same turn, which prevents the AI from responding with its fleets. (I suggest maxing out your engine techs before you try a rush attack, though.

I can't start new threads in Firefox and Opera, or IE. That's been going on for a couple weeks, and I'm definitely not the only one having that problem. Now, however, I can't even REPLY to threads in Firefox and Opera, which is new since yesterday. But I suddenly have the ability to reply in IE, so I'm trying this new thread in IE to see it has recently started working. Also, why can't the AI tell when it declares war on my allies? They keep prattling on about "We may be losing, b

I have no idea. But that said, why do you need sound in space? That's one of the first things I turned off (after Music and Starbase Upgrade Confirmation). Then again, I play Wing Commander with my speakers off too, maybe I'm just weird like that.

Testing, 1 2... I can't start new threads, and that's nothing new. But now I can't reply, either, at least in Firefox or Opera. I'm trying IE now. Edit: Well hey, it worked!

My guess is that Diplomatic voters would mostly go Political, and vice-versa. (My first was Diplomacy, my second would be Politics, my third would be ship design, after that I'm not sure. Tactical Combat is last, though.)

I'll add my praise. The AI in my current game (they're on "Intelligent") is much better. They're doing all kinds of complex political maneuvering. Right now, it's my Thalan-Dratha alliance against the Arcean-Iconian-Torian axis and the Arcean-Drengin-Korx compact. Fun times.

Hmmm, interesting. Last one of these that came up, I suggested installing the game while in safe mode (which is what I did when I had this problem, and it worked). But you say that's not helping you? Bleh. No idea. Good luck. (Though naturally you could just download it if you have the internet availability to do any more than some simple forum use.)

I don't know about that. I once took over the galaxy with seven huge ships with Doom Rays and Zero-Point Armor. My enemies mocked me literally until their final turns. (Edit: Well, obviously I had a lot of troop transports, but they weren't armed or armored at all, so never mind them.) Korx: How does it feel to be on the losing end of such a young war? Me: Um, are you aware that I just sacked 16 planets in two turns, and that you've only got 3 left? Silly AI. <

Yeah, you'd get hammered to bits by Disruptors if you tried that in my current game.

Well, I'm playing as the Drath (who, in their story, are good at manipulating politics to play other races against each other). I have maxed diplomacy (in fact, I have the highest Diplomacy possible without cheating or getting lots of special anomalies). I have a much higher espionage than any other race normally does, including some anomaly bonuses, and I have "Advanced" espionage on all other races. I have a Galactic Bazaar. Now, I'm trying to pay the evil Korx (galactic mercenaries, who e

that is the oddest bit of logic i have ever heard. Actually, he might have a point. If they ran a poll with "What feature would you LEAST like added?" I don't think I'd be the only one to answer "Tactical Combat."

Put a capitol on planet and you DOUBLE the bonus. Just not on the bonus tile. An extra 100% of 700% bonus? Yeah, I'll take that... And another 96% from 4 economic starbases in-system (plus more if the planet is near a sector boundary), and another 20% for technologists, and another 20% for advanced research, and another 20% for an omega resear

Indeed. The stargates basically made a weak hyperdrive bubble between worlds. Humans made it stronger and put it on ships.

If by "Up the chance" you mean "made it possible," I'd say you're right. I got one yesterday in Epic. Link

I was going to say "Heck, the way tiny ships without defenses work right now, they're basically missiles already!" Really though, one should be able to build missiles at a military starbase or huge ship, which you can't do with tiny ships. So yes, I too would like to see mega-missiles. Then again, I'd also like to be able to raze improvements from orbit with my capital ships' turrets, and I'd also like planetary improvements that make planets fight like starbases, where a transport

"Everyone?" Those primarily wanting tactical battles make up a little less than half of the poll results. Granted it's a lot higher than multiplayer, but meh... Anyway, I think it would be cool if we had a more expanded metaverse campaign as an intermediate sort of multiplayer. Your performance in a game would contribute to progressive stats for your race, and we could have events. (Like "X Race is really kicking it out of Y race this month, so Y race will need a couple major vict

Meklar: Probably. Features: 1) Something to adjust resource frequency might be nice. 2) I too would like to be able to demolish capitals, wonders, etc. 3) I want some way to scan the map for resources without building ships to do it. 4) I want it to be much easier to pay civs to declare war on each other.

...but it's a good place to complain about the bug that prevents people from starting new threads! *poke poke*

Er, I have no idea. To compensate, I'll bump your thread for you. In other news, the bug that keeps a few of us from starting new threads is still in effect. And in OTHER news, they fixed Precursor Libraries in 1.2! I didn't see it in the patch notes, but I just loaded a game in the Epic galaxy and there it was! <a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v351/Drea