I know it has been said many, many, many times before, but it desperately needs a mode in which a person can learn the game without a 95% chance that a random event or start will require a restart.
I understand that advanced players want 'challenges'. But 'challenges' without a base mode in which ...

Is there some way to avoid the event trader demands you buy ammo for 200 or whatever credits popping up over and over and over again? I'm not even to turn 20, and this has happened 4 or 5 times. I've run out of money, and now my enforcement is going up +5 every other turn.
Is there some way that ...

Is there any sense behind this mechanic? Every game I start, I end up bouncing off because of the ridiculous number of 'ambushes', especially by neutral powers. I have no idea what the intention is behind the mechanic, but it isn't working, and needs to be seriously rethought. It is just annoying ...

Thanks! Downloading now. I guess this means I need to generate a new start. I liked the last start as far as the layout goes, a city on a peninsula jutting out into the unknown oceans.

I just installed Oceania and have tried out a new game. My population is starving from the very first turn. Is that expected? There is a starting private dock, but no farms. They are consuming like 400-600 food to start with? If I am reading that correctly.
Any ideas?

On turn 2, my starting city is bum-rushed by a horde of minor infantry. Is that just an instant-loss and restart?

I keep bouncing off this game due to two highly annoying early game mechanisms. First, the fact that every neighbor gloms towards your capital with every single unit they have. I am guessing that since they have five or more units all bee-lining towards your capital from every direction, none of ...

So am I doing things right, just unlucky? Or do I need to do different settings to get a metal deposit?

<t> Difficulty was one up from easiest. Normal I think? The zones were fully prospected. No more deposits to be found. Is 145% heavy metals low? It's just all four straight games I started since coming back, I have yet to find a single metal deposit in my starting or surrounding territories. Also ...

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<t> Thanks. I hadn't seen that before.<br/>
The planet had 145% heavy metals. I have found 8 oil deposits, 3 water deposits, and no metal deposits in close to 4 zones around my starting city.<br/>
The game before that, 140% heavy metals. I found 4 oil deposits, 2 water deposits and a rare metals ...

<t> Is there something about Siwa class planets that means there is no metal? Except for other majors? This is getting ridiculous. Four games started, no metal mines anywhere in any of the starting or surrounding zones. But the other majors have them literally right next to their capital. <br ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: BlueTemplar<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>bordering on three slavers<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
Is this particularly bad ?<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>being the only major without metal<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
AFAIK shouldn't happen on easiest difficulty levels, bug ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: zgrssd<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Zanotirn <br/>
However I've never heard of an ambush leading to 2 months of fighting - an unfavorable ambush should just lead to immediate retreat and fighting lasting only 2 rounds. <br/>

<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: bvoid<br/>
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It's rarely unwinnable, even on the highest difficulty. The new "spread out" option helps avoid a lot of the silly starts from the past.<br/>
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Some of the most enjoyable starts are being surrounded by Kaiju or Nemesis and barely ...

<t> I keep bouncing off this game. I want to love it. But it needs some work.<br/>
Perhaps some suggestions. There needs to be a check mark for learning players to not be put into instant loss scenarios. The current state of the game is that a player is supposed to be able to recognize that the ...

<t> I'm not sure Vic is getting proper feedback from people. The game is in desperate, desperate need to provide better information to the player. Not the beta-testers who've been playing this game for a year. For people who are actually trying to learn. No game should make things this deliberately ...

<t> I know there is a good reason for it. I just don't know where to look to find it. I started the world again, not from the beginning fist turn, but from the planet generation, and there was no issue. I'm guessing it had something to do with the generated leaders being especially awful, but I wish ...

<t> Twelve turns into my game, and I have had at least one leader event every turn except the first. It's very annoying. Is there something I am doing? Is there a bug? Why is this happening? I'm even getting the same event two turns in a row sometimes.<br/>
Makes the game very unfun. I'm in a war ...

<t> Love the game, but the logistics has become ludicrously impossible. I have food. I have logistics. But for some reason, no food is being sent to any of my units, anywhere. Absolutely zero. There has to be some clue given somewhere. I love the game, but I don't have time in my life for spending ...