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Launching a transport makes your pop. graph go down, so I don't think they pay you taxes.

Sounds a little like the Foundation stories by Isaac Asimov, Darktalon. Anyways, you should probably destroy those colonies.

I think Pherguson has a nice idea about claiming a planet's airspace. It's more realistic, it fixes the exploit, and it gives greater strategic opportunities.

Well, the initial ships have several range modules in them, but at the cost of speed.

Technician, you can install the latest drivers straight from Nvidia's site and it will work fine. You don't need the Dell branded drivers.

I always try to add a few weapons. They're cheap and prevent having a single fast fighter take out a fully loaded mining facility. If you add the higher level weapons, the AI will spend tons of ships to destroy it, for a net gain.

I played a "tough" game that showed up in-game as cakewalk. It's reported correctly on the website.

I played a "tough" game, but it showed up as "cakewalk".

I like talon012754's moral event ideas. They could add more diversity and humor to the game if done right. Maybe someone could throw together a mod?

Ugrok, play on the "Tough" level (the fair one) before commenting on the AI. Safari Joe, that's like saying that all you have to do to win is win (have a big emp with strong economy). That's kind of obvious.

There is a UP resolution that permanently adds trade routes to every civilization. In addition to what was said above, you can also start out with civ traits to add up to 3 trade routes.

It's the amount of food.

LDiCesare , in a game you have to be able to quickly see and change any value when you're tweaking it for playability. In that sense a game isn't as well defined as a normal app, so you have different needs when you code.

I think it may be worth adding the ability to mod this at some point, but I agree that it's not worth doing it yourselves. Are you still planning to have a year of free support, or are you going to go straight into other projects/expansions? If you do have the year of support, maybe you can add that ability after release.

There's no limit on resolution for the game. Maybe it's time to upgrade your monitor

triple post! But yeah, it's a good idea as long as it doesn't become annoying. Ideally people wouldn't want to turn it off once they become familiar with how things work.

I have very similar specs to yours (only 1 gig ram, crappy audio,pci-e 6800gt) and the game runs perfectly smoothly on my computer. I'd be inclined to say it's an AGP bandwidth or memory problem of some sort. Also, this doesn't excuse EA, but you can delete the startup movies manually and it skips them fine.

This is only for the boxed version.

They're away for easter, so they'll probably contact you on monday or tuesday.

actic map should have nothing to do with planet quality.

An outpost on a planet could be like a starbase with unlimited space. I assume starbases are limited by logistics, so we wouldn't see every planet worth putting a starbase on.

There will be no multiplayer, and singleplayer will be all the better for it.

play it, even once.

Unless all this happens right when the planet is colonized, the management could become excessive.

diers. Then you use the fuel to send the soldiers out and attack other people. Of course there's a lot more, but that's the gist.