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Let me put it this way: I never built a single large-hulled ship the entire campaign.

I want to use espionage to assassinate the other alien leaders at the UP votes. Hee hee hee hee....

Can't you move your capital from the Planet Details screen?

I also won Apocalypse earlier than I otherwise would have this way. One fleet cleaned them out.

I also won Apocalypse earlier than I otherwise would have this way. One fleet cleaned them out.

All you have to do is up the intelligence of one race and the overall difficulty goes up to Challenging.

In my experience, trading techs for money didn't work too well. Trading tech for tech did, though. I've also had a little luck trading influence for tech, if I'm just barely in the red and I need a little push to get it green.

The surrender button is utterly useless. If you want to resign, then resign. That button cost me about 45 minutes when I first made that mistake, before the first patch.

I'm done with the campaign now. The ending was disappointing.

In general, the main missions you have to win by military. But the alternative missions you can (sometimes have to) win by influence. So far I've found 3 alternative missions--one if you decide to lose the Siege mission, two if you decide to lose the one immediately after that.

Looking forward to the expansion. This sort of thing is what expansions are all about.

> All other resource producing buildings (e.g., research buildings, influence buildings and economic buildings) contribute to your civilization as a whole. Could you elaborate? My impression was a cultural center contributes to the planet's influence, which has both a proximity effect and contributes to the whole civ. Market buildings, I guess an Adv. Market Ctr. adds 15% to that planet's econ, which doesn't seem like very much. If t

There's really not much point to influence in the campaign. Maybe a little more tourism money, that's it. Even Diplomacy is only marginally useful. The thing is, you're always at war. You have sworn enemies & sworn friends, and that's the way it is. Even the Drath & Korx, they say they're neutral, but besides not trading weapons techs, really they're allies.

Compared to Galciv1, I think the combat engine is very good. When it works, at least.

I've been doing PQ+10, and what it does for me is all class-10 planets give a +10 high-PQ morale bonus. If what you're saying about tiles is true, it's probably not worth it in metaverse games, but it sure is worth it in the campaign. Lots of class 10 planets. Also--I can't prove it--but I seem to get more & better bonus tiles with a PQ bonus.

Survey Modules are sometimes missing in the campaign? I built tons and tons of custom surveyors. Especially in that second-to-last map.

I wonder what was up with that storyline right before the final scenario? Those two aliens appear to the Terran leader, and he's caught in a dilemma. That shadowy figure suggests they go into that pocket universe, the Thalian says, "no, don't do it!" Was there a campaign choice we missed?

I just finished the campaign last night and I was disappointed, too. "Anticlimactic" comes to mind. First, all you get at the end is the credits. Okay, so maybe Stardock doesn't have the resources to do a cutscene. Fine. But at least have some kind of storyline or something at the end. But the other thing is, the scenario itself was very anticlimactic. You just rush to Planetary Invasion and invade the DL planet before they crank a singl

I thought of researching Fire, but first I wanted to research Pottery, Alphabet, and Monotheism. Oops, wrong forum.

After I complete the campaign I'm thinking of going back and intentionally losing some missions just so I can play them. I have observed, though, that no one seems to play the losers' scenarios. No one ever resigns. When we think it's hopeless, we restart. That's always been true for any SP game. I'd recommend a quick UI to allow players to choose between missions--you went to the trouble of designing them, you should get them out th

There's multiple threads on this. One important thing to know is, you don't have to take out every Dread Lord ship that invades your territory to win.

I think the xml file is right. The social & research timetables are definitely wrong.

Actually, ferrying population with colony ships works very well.

If I knew Nicole Kidman in HS I would do the same thing.

When does the campaign end anyway? I'm on the Tiny galaxy map where you have to retake that planet from the Dread Lords. I just got done with that Gigantic galaxy where you have to protect Earth and send those transports 8 honking sectors south to that lone planet. I have to admit, though, I don't particularly mind if I spend this campaign running away--IF, in an expansion, we get to do as you say and finally beat them down with a stic