ejmh

Hi all, Spies are still a little mysterious to me. I understand they are there for three purposes: - to wreak mayhem on the selected planet improvements of an opponent - to counter foreign spies from doing the same to me - to gather general information on a civilization It's the last that has me stumped so far. In previous versions, I simply allocated funds for espionage...and waited. Leaving my spies hanging around doing nothing doesn't seem to help.

Hi, can anyone explain to me how to interpret the race relation factors? e.g. -- Military might ++ Trading + Historic friendship ++ Too busy to make war etc. If I happen to be the weakest militarily, does a " -- military might " mean that that race would get along with me better if I had a better military? Thanks

When click a link to see replys to my posts, I get a blank page (done) thank you

I would like to see more "stuff" in the espionage/spying section: - spies getting killed (espionage level falls - need additional time and money to get back to the previous level) - counter-espionage - finding out about plans for a major offensive - in Star Democracies and higher, opposition parties defecting/leaking info that might hamper the player's party (this might be difficult) - assassination (on both sides) - directed espionage - stealing specif

I started playing the campaign. It was cozy - just the three of us: Terrans, Drengin, Altarian. I noticed that in the rankings list (e.g. Research, Military, etc) both the Drengins and the Altarians were ranked 3rd in military. Explanations? thank you

I would like to have the ability to manually override taxation at the colony level. This would allow the development of economic powerhouses whose approval might not suffer as much from a higher taxation. Thank you, ejmh

version 1.1 release Can anyone tell me why it takes nearly 2 minutes to load a saved game?? (large galaxy, 4 opponents). Sometimes the game event crashes - what gives? thanks ejmh

I find myself wondering if I'm giving too much away when I trade techs. I often forget how much one tech is worth vis a vis another tech. I would like to be able to access the Tech Tree WHILE negotiating a trade. Thanks, EJMH