I agree, they're both PITA, and no, I know of no way around them. The second one is no big deal, IMO. Just hit "g" yet again and be done. The first one, best thing is just to go into each and every one of your planets and turn off the auto-governors as soon as you can. Try and get it before disaster happens. And beat up Stardock all you can into adding a global switch.
TA MCC here. At least, on dense maps. Next fave would probably be Harmony Crystals. That's the one that puts my economy in the black. I don't care much for the Eyes. If I get Galactic Guidebook, I can spam a bunch of Tiny survey ships that have the same sensor range, for a whopping 25bc apiece. I station those guys all over the place as sentinels, and they can also quick grab anomalies that spawn up. I can also slap on a free survey module/sen
What I've seen is, research only gets wasted if you're at the end of the line. Social production gets wasted. Ship production gets wasted, but the wasted money gets refunded back into your treasury.
IMNSHO, the problem is corruption, pure and simple. If the government is corrupt, I would say privatize health care. If the companies are corrupt, I would say socialize health care. The problem is, what do you do when they're both corrupt? You can't win. Our doctors are by-and-large okay, but you still have a system where the big money is in surgeries, and not in office visits. So let's just fatten America and give everyone bypass surgery at $100k a p
I think maintenance could be reasonably factored in, if you're near the break-even point. But you also have to factor in that building a RCC may take awhile, when you could just build a Xeno Lab now and upgrade it later. Also, by the time the RCC starts to make sense, you're already paying >60bc in maintenance + paid RP production, so a 7bc difference in maintenance may not matter much to you. But like I said, near the break-even point you may find you're paying another 7
Now, how do we overhaul the health care system so the pharma companies stop puttong up all these lame commercials with the pretty music playing in the background, scenes of nature, serenity, and some guy's voice saying, "Please take Propecia. Side effects are heart failure, kidney failure, and brain seizures. You might die from taking it, or wish you were dead. Other studies have shown you might sprout three arms or explode from prolonged exposure to Propecia. Pl
The only thing I would check is, whenever you're about to close out the Research screen, double-check to make sure you are still researching the tech you think you are. I have clicked around and accidentally started researching something else before. Since this incident is so odd, the only other thing I would guess is, this could be a mega-event gone bad. Stardock probably has a bunch of half-coded and/or unbalanced mega events that are there, but are supposed to be turned
[quote]How can police enforce the law if they're unarmed?[/quote] Many of the worst criminals in the U.S. wear a badge and carry a gun.
Yeah. To put it in plainer English, take a Tech Capital, on a planet with a moon. Build a Xeno Lab on it. You get 8rp * 110% = 16.8. Take the same planet, 4 labs already there, add an RCC. RCC only adds 25% to the planet--not 50%. That's 8rp*4 + 10 (initial colony) = 42rp. 25% of that is 10.5rp. You come out ahead just building another lab, because RCC didn't get multiplied by the Tech Capital. P.S. the moon is irrelevant in
[quote]When you do the rough calcs to decide whether a power plant is worth the tile, don't forget to include production from your Initial Colony tile. That ususally adds a 'factory' or two to your total, depending on the tech you have & whether it's your homeworld.[/quote] I always just count that as 1. To simplify. If you have a +10% production bonus, the break-even point for Anti-Matter is 5.5. Round up to 6. Quantum break-even is basically 4.</p
Hey, you think it's expensive to save lives in the U.S., you should see what we pay to kill people! $40,000,000 for every Iraqi we kill, and $23,000,000 for every criminal we execute. Don't mess with the USA, man!
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[quote]Start a game on an immense galaxy map. A Supermassive Black Hole is floating around somewhere (as big as a solar system). Constanting having ships suddenly disappear from the game, whole star systems and planets sucked out of existence. Then way way way down the tech tree you can research 'Event Horizon Detectors'. Now you get to watch helplessly as the Black Hole does it's incredible damage. [/quote] Ah, but I researched "Xeno Big Bang Theory", right after Terro
You know, if you don't really need to buy your own digital converter box, now is probably not the best time to get a digital TV. If you're willing to wait several months, prices will probably drop a good bit, after this whole analog switchover thing shakes out. Everyone else is upgrading their TV's right now because of the switchover, which keeps the prices up. Once that buying frenzy blows through, the Japanese will have to drop their prices to keep us buying.&n
The Fusion power plants are not terribly useful, but the Anti-Matter are. [quote]ame goes for research coordination centers which I think are a 25% bonus, so I add them when I have 4 or more research centers.[/quote] You should make that "or more". If you have any other planetary research bonuses at all, 4 is *NOT* the break-even point for RCC's. I can spare everybody the algebra, but if you have a moon, for instance, the break-even point
[quote]As I tried to highlight, anyone with a Liberal bone in their body would pretty much take offense at every other thread and if you even attempt to indicate that the prevailing opinions expressed on the site are not necessarily the only possible opinion that reasonable people might hold then you better be prepared to accept significant abuse.[/quote] I tend to be centrist. What I resent to no end in other moderated forums is when the moderator staff treats members different
I should have said 49% for the Korx, not 44%. They get +10% over and above the standard techs (I usually blow off Industrial Sector). So basically, when it comes to mining starbases, the Terrans/Altarians/Torians are bottom-of-the-barrel. The Korx are one step up, and the Drengin/Korath/Iconians/Thalans are at the top. And then fill in the Yor, Arcaens, etc., however.... You'd think the Korx are supposed to be at the top, but they're not. Not unless tech tr
There are swivel mounts that mount to the inside of a corner (the opposite kind of corner--the kind a normal room would have 4 of). I can imagine you should be able to mount those backwards and achieve what you want.
They just did the same crap with cell phones. It used to be I could just record any sound I want and set that to my ringtone. Then Verizon said I should "update" my software, which I did, and now I have to use only their ringtones, which we have to buy for $6-$10. ...then, later, it turns out that the ringtone you "bought" expires 12 months later and you have to buy it again.
There's multiple factions of Korx. There's the neutral Korx, would would sell their own mother into slavery for a profit, and then there's the evil Korx, who would dice up and package their mother into boxes of Korx meat to sell to the Drengin for Christmas treats. I personally like the Evil Korx faction better. I don't care much about the Trade, although there might be a way to make a substantial amount of dough from it.
Out of curiosity, any of you guys have both a Plasma/LCD TV and CRT's in the same house? Do you find yourself gravitating to the Plasma/LCD because you like it so much better? My TV's are all trusty ole CRT and over 10 years old, and my desktop is my same old 21" CRT monitor I bought 13 years ago for $1100. I'm doing just fine, digital signal and all. If I got an LCD, I don't see myself recouping the depreciation cost in power savings. &nbs
[quote]The Thalans get a -2 speed module as well. I thought it was general. I still haven't played many races; I fell in love with the Thalan tech tree with a custom race. How high can the Korx get on a mining base? If I trade for factory tech, the Thalans can hit 60%.[/quote] I'll have to look into Thalans, but with Korx you get the -2 speed almost right from the start. You have to research a 300rp tech with no prerequisites to get it (and it gives you +2 attack/all cat
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You're right. What's more, this will help Frogboy's Presidential bid for 2012.
[quote] That the equipment is so close to zero is entirely irrelevent - the only relevant factor is the energy (aka temperature) at which the actual collisions occur. But sustained, energy-producing fusion is not going to happen in an unmodified particle accelerator any time soon, if ever, because they are designed to do something very different.[/quote] No, it's not. The particle accelerator altogether is irrelevant. The cold equipment in the coils is what
