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Thanks Embird, I'm doing that now (cutting my needs to the bone part). It hasn't been all bad and I would do it all again because I have met many amazing people along the way. Without those bad turns, those wonderful people would not have come into my life. My life really has been a rollercoaster. I've truly walked a mile in everyone's shoes. People also took my comments too literally. It was more of an irony. Like where I grew up in rural Wisconsin another kid who is the same age

Additional notes. 1. Not sure why almost all of the stock AI races have federalist as their party. Maybe mix it up a bit? Just by the race profiles there suggests several possibilities as I have implemented in my game. 2. When the AI requests a tech exchange with the player, the AI chooses a tech the player already has. Maybe a joke? :NOTSURE:

One other suggestion is to add a checkbox to not autolaunch colony ships just like transports. Both of these ships are special in that they take away some pop from your planet. They also both have size sliders. For all other ships autolaunch is a must for me. Thanks.

[quote]Wow, it's amazing to watch this game just get better and better. I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into this game. It's funny how a lot of the game mechanics I just take for granted now, but were new to me before Galciv2 and ToA. I'd have a hard time now going back to a single tech tree for all races.A few small questions/suggestions:-I'd suggest changing Thalan's Hyperion Matrix food bonus from 8 to like 4 or 5. If you build it on he homeworld it creates morale problems lat

Sorry having multiple tech capitals for example is "gamey" to me. Either one should be allowed on every planet or just one period no matter what.

Played through a full game with the patch for a diplomacy win with 8 majors, 8 minors, immense universe and 100% stable. In my opinion, at average tech speed, the tech progression was just fine. I tend to do a lot of tech trading so if I set it to disallow tech trading, I would just increase the starting tech speed setting a bit. Nice to see the AI values medium, large and huge scale building techs now. I had to pry those techs from their cold dead hands! :CONGRAT: Even the minors

About the mining I should say all of the AI's are mining too slowly. It is midgame and most of the AI's have most of their asteroids undeveloped whereas I am +20 with all of mine. This is with them all being on the tough AI setting. Need to play more to judge the tech speed adjustments.

Thanks for the patch but I found some bugs/suggestions I would like to report which aren't listed in the patch notes. I am playing against all "tough" AI's and still whomping on them militarily. Explore OK, Expand OK, Exploit Problems, Exterminate Problems. 1. Minor bug-Eyes of the Universe galactic project. After it is built I must activate (click on) a starbase or ship or whatever for it's increased vision range to show on the map, this should be automatic. 2. Medium bug

Most of the places I have worked all of the talented people leave and all that remains is the mediocre bootlickers... lol Makes me wonder what happened to all of those talented people who left. Personally I have been laid off 8 times in 10 years from downsizes, reorganisations, corporate bankruptcies, relocations, et. al. Very frustrating. To blanket everyone with "you have hardship because you have no talent" is pretty naive in my opinion. Someone like Brad has simply matched his talent (a

4. Wheelmouse zoom to pointer like Sins. Currently moving around the map is irksome even at max scroll speed. When zoomed out it is too slow, when zoomed in it is too fast. ARGH. When zoomed out it would be nice to see the number of empty slots for starbases, perhaps a number over them. Zoom in, zoom out, zoom in, zoom out ARGH! edited for clarity and bad grammer...

1. An influence overlay! Say light green could be high influence for your empire in that sector and dark green could be low influence. This would be so helpful for those of us who persue an influence strategy. 2. Make the AI to stop producing fighter ships when I am sitting off their world with a battleship. It gets a little tiring just constantly blowing up small ships turn after turn after turn. What the AI SHOULD BE doing is conserving resources and building ships and fleets in

[B]"I've 36. I've got a beautiful wife. 3 wonderful children. Plus I've got the toys. The Porsche 911 Turbo, the boat, the lake cottage, the big house, etc. And I get to work every day with people who I really like. Not just professionally but on a personal level. Every day at Stardock is FUN. Even during crunch-time it's FUN. And why is it fun? Because every day we do what we want to do."[/B] I'm just like you Brad so why does my life suck? I'm 36, single with no family a