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Appreciate your reply. I love the game but wish the mechanics were more transparent. Many thanks.

Could someone please explain following social production data: Finance management screen shows social = 14bc Civilization manager shows planet where social production is occurring = 15 hammers Colony management for planet shows 15 hammers with 14 mp Why the discrepancy ? as the planet has only 14 mp should not there be 14 hammers. Especially as only 14bc is being spent. Sorry if basic question but cannot understand the data shown. Many thanks fo

Thanks for your quick reply. That was very helpful.

Hi, sorry to ask this basic question but I am having trouble understanding production that is not used. For example if I have a mining base that gives me 5MP per turn. But I am not producing any ships or social projects what happens to that 5MP ? Is it lost forever or is it accumulated for later use ? If it is lost forever and assuming that the mining base is a finite resource is it wise to only start mining that base when you have money to use those resources ? H

Thanks for all your helpful replies. I must be unlucky as its happened twice to be in 2 games!

Just played my first game,and was doing really well until the peacekeeper event happened. This meant that a force of 5 killer fleets just wiped out everything! Was there anyway that I should of foreseen this happening or should I have had a stronger military in case this sort of thing were to happen ? Its a little bit frustrating as they were just unstoppable, and I was winning the game. Many thanks for any help. &nbs

Yes it has, thanks for your help. Just making an effort to understand the game properly. Sometimes things don't seem to clear, but probably my lack of understanding.

Hi, Yes I have a purple resourse

Sorry need help again! with regard to economy. Have set my production research spending to 100% with production capacity at 100% When I view my planet(Earth) it says I am producing 38 research TP(beacons on top of screen) on the colony management screen. But when I look at the summary screen it says I have a total of 35 TP. (24tp capital, 5tp innovation complex & 6tp research lab). Why don't the totals agree ? Thanks again for any help.

Thanks for your help

I am getting message telling me that 'Foreign influence on this mining base is very strong'. I have a planet not to far away, should I build structures that will increase my influence in the region to stop the mining base falling to the other race ? And is there away to find out the range of my planets influence ? Many thanks for any help.

Many thanks for your quick reply. It was very helpful. Really enjoying the game, just want to understand it all.

Sorry should of said that I am playing the Twilight of the arnour version. Also when I look in the Civilization Manager screen I can see that under the economy tab: Military expenses 5bc (Shows 4bc on Colony Management screen) Social expenses 9bc (10bc on Colony) Thanks again for any help

Sorry if my question is basic, but my first post and I am struggling with this. Why does my spending value not equal the number of Military/social & research becons in the colony management screen. The spending value=15 Military=4, Social=10, Research=3 Total=17 The planet has a 10% production bonus and their is a racial Military bonus of 40% I have tried to play around with this values but cannot get it to the spending value of 15. Help gre