<t> I don't have a problem with them conceptually, if we assume its part of the universe. There are good story reasons for them to be there, so its all good.<br/>
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My problem is that they should be easily handled by nearly any ship. Almost anything can out run them and all military ships can ...

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Really feels like they missed some opportunities here doesn't it? It could have been a real economy, with the civilians mining the resources and trading them back and forth, the state buying them from the civilian sector when they are ...

<t> When you have the constructor and right click, if it says 'build here' I believe that means it is too far away, while if it says 'build at *black hole name*' you will get the bonus. You may need to fiddle a bit to find the exact cut off distance, but should be able to place it far enough away ...

<t> Two quick questions:<br/>
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Is the cost of ship maintenance dependent on material costs? If so this might be why large empires tend to have fluctuating income, a single widely used material going from 1 to 2 credits could easily cost you 50k maintenance.<br/>
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Would it be correct to ...

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Because the area selection within each industry is random, sometimes an area can be neglected (in his case construction) while others progress ...

<t> Time scale for population growth isn't horribly off. If we had a world with no wars, no famine, and increased life span our population would grow exponentially until we started having those problems again. It certainly wouldn't be out of the question for the population to double or triple every ...

<t> I have never actually seen a pirate base that was completely full of super-ships. At most, even VERY late in the game (like, I control 50% and won the game 50 years ago) with galaxies teeming with pirates I hardly encounter a handful of pirates using strong ships. The idea that they will overrun ...

<t> Windows 7 64 bit Q6600 @ 2.9 Ghz 2 GB of RAM<br/>
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Game runs fine for me, even at max galaxy size. The only time I have actually had the game fail due to not enough memory was during a save late in a large or huge galaxy game. My guess is he has something in the background sucking up CPU ...

<t> If you are allied with them, they will often decide to attack anyone nearby for you anyway. Under the diplomacy tab it will then state that they are attacking X faction and it counts against you.<br/>
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But yeah, its true that rep isn't all that important. Just keep your rep above the rest ...

<t> Fishman is right, consolidation = good. When you build 10 research facilities you end up spending 90% of your money just building all the required base facilities and 10% on the actual research components. Build 5 research labs of each type on 1 facility, put it on a black hole, you are set for ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: lostsm<br/>
when i inherited an insect AI empire after i won his last planet, every ship of his that I got gave me a huge tech boost when scrapped. and the AI was lower in tech than me. i'm used to tech boosts from derelicts, but this was really over the top.
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<t> I had absolutely no problems with corruption before, even with empires of 400+ colonies you could maintain a substantial defensive force.<br/>
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I see corruption as representing how unwieldy large empires get, not directly their inefficiency (although that is certainly a part). Consider ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jscott991<br/>
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You've said this a lot. I've rebutted it a lot.<br/>
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In year 100, I could afford a fleet of 300 ships and run a positive. In year 200, despite nothing but growth (both in terms of population and new colonies), I could not afford a ...

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If your method of playing is to simply sit back and watch autopilot win the game, I would think that you might as well be playing with a coaster anyway.<br/>
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Seeing how this is a game, I ...

I don't think my galaxy settings had much of an effect, it was just pure luck.

Shape: Spiral
Size: Small
Independent Life: Teeming
Expansion: Young
Aggression: Chaos
Research Speed: Slow
Space Creatures: Few
Pirates: Many

<r> ... or a demonstration of the value of having lots and lots of exploration ships:<br/>
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<t> Make really big ships instead of lots of lots of small ones (you seem to be doing this already). <br/>
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Always have the strongest torpedoes available, barter for them or crash research them if you must. Stack tons of them onto any and all ships and bases. Early game, as many as you can ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Shark7<br/>
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Actually, I hate micro-management and usually only control colonization, Diplomacy, ship design, 1 or 2 fleets for warring and 1 construction ship to build my resort. I let the AI handle all the rest.
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If your method of playing is to simply sit back and watch autopilot win the game, I would think that you might as well be playing with a coaster anyway.

Seeing how this is a game, I would hope players would have to, you know, play the game in order to win.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jscott991<br/>
Right, I should be able to have about 300 ships/bases at 100 planets, but at 170 planets, they should bankrupt me. That's a logical system.
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If you have an earlier save showing yourself at 300 ships/bases at 100 ...