JesusFreak197

So, on most planets, would you recommend ignoring morale, influence, and farming bonuses? Another question I remembered: is it a good idea to trade techs early on? For example, I tried making my own race, which started with HyperDrive, New Propulsion Techniques, Xeno Communications, Universal Translator, Xeno Engineering, and Xeno Research, then I just traded Xeno Communications and/or New Propulsion Techniques to every other race in exchange for any technologies I didn't have. I ended

In order to stamp out poverty you need to be without poverty so the poulation won't increase. It is a vicious catch 22 Yeah, I was originally going to say "to stamp out poverty." That's why I changed it to "to have any chance of stamping out poverty." I don't want to be pessimistic, but frankly, I don't see any chance of getting rid of poverty.

I don't have a huge amount of experience with this game yet, but if I'm understanding the manual correctly, an influence victory requires you to have 75% of the galactic influence and sustain that amount for 10 turns. Therefore, I assume that if your influence amount drops below 75%, you won't win by influence victory unless it goes back above. So, yes, taking either Moosetek's or Mystikmind's strategies should work to stop the influence victory from happening. Or, depending on h

I don't have the time at the moment to read the entire thread, so I may be missing some information. However, I would say that it depends on how you define poor. We will never be able to make everyone's income equal except by just bringing everyone down. It's along the lines of what communism tried to do, and it didn't work. Some people think that those in the U.S. who don't have much money are badly off, but they need a bigger perspective. I know of a family that's on welfare, yet the mom bough

17 (and a quarter, if you're picky). My dad also plays, and he's 51.

I got DL two or three weeks ago, and I have a few questions on how best to play the game. I've tended to play on Gigantic galaxies with 9 opponents and gone for Military victories, since that will get me the most points. I also set everything high (abundant habitable planets, very fast technology rate, etc.). I was working my way up through the difficulties. I'd just beaten Normal without any difficulty, so I decided to move up to Challenging, and right off the bat it was much harder than Normal