giblethead2000

On my last game, my average income was -70bc or so, and yet I finished with more money than I started with. How is this possible?

Feh. Something must have glitched. I played another game, and it worked.

Thanks. I guess I wasn't sure if the total influence you needed to win was based on the amount of the galaxy controlled, or as a percentage of the total galactic influence in points. Although that was a roundabout way of asking the question.

If I did this, would it have had any impact on an influence victory, or would it simply boost tourism/votes?

I just won my first metaverse game. Or at least I thought I did. I'd started the game via the metaverse option, and I used a custom race. I played the game over the space of about 3 days so I reloaded a couple of times. When I finished the game, I got no option to submit my scores. I've tried reloading the game again (from EndGameSave) and won the game again... Still no button. I logged into the metaverse before I reloaded. Any ideas?

In my current game I colonised a quality-7 world fairly deep within my own borders. I normally use these as research-booster worlds. However, the one in question has three large influence bonuses on it's tiles, which makes me think it would produce a pretty huge amount of influence if I wanted it to. The question is, does influence affect things globally, or just around the local area. There aren't any enemy planets in the vicinity, so would having a super-influence-produci

Hi, I'm new. So far I've played a couple of sandbox games at an easy level to familiarise myself. I was wondering whether to try the campaign? - There's not much about it in the manual. I guess it's a sequence of scenarios of increasing difficulty. Is that right? Are they structured like a tutorial to gradually introduce some of the game's more complex features? Is the experience much different from playing sandbox games? Thanks,

[n00b] It seems that getting lots of planets is important at the start of the game! Trouble is, the AI opponents seem to be better at this than I am. What strategies do you guys have for *finding* colonisable planets? I can usually find myself with plenty of colony ships (and I'm using the ship builder to make fast ones with an extra engine) but nowhere to send them. [/n00b>]