<t> Trade route system were I can influence who my freighter fleet will trade with.<br/>
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An embassy system where with money I can setup an embassy in an enemy system and get intel about that empire and system or increase the spying ability versus that empire.<br/>
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<t> If space monsters are rare, then they need to be stronger, ie require a fleet of 10 ships to kill, and the reward for killing them should be something cool, like finding a rare resource in the system it is in or finding a splinter colony, or something of that nature.<br/>
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Still variety ...

<t> I would like there to be an "Empire Spread" Option, when creating a new game.&nbsp;&nbsp; Something which I can set which influences how close other empires are to each other.&nbsp; So that starting points for AI empires are not always on top of each other.&nbsp; <br/>
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Something like:<br ...

Offtopic:&nbsp; Huge is such a 'relative' term, when you consider that Empire:Total War save files usually run in the half gig range.

"Survery says:"&nbsp; All of the above.

<r> With what government type? If it was Feudalism or Despotism then your get a -25% research negative.<br/>
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Human Bonus is 15%<br/>
Feudalism / Despotism is -25%<br/>
So overall research is at -10%.<br/>
This is additive, not multiplicative. If it were multiplicative a player would have ...

If another empire controlled the world before you then the ruin was most likely tapped out.&nbsp; Thus even though you refused, you would not have found anything. &nbsp; And because it was tapped out, you could not re-investigate it later.

Have you tried checking your RAM?&nbsp; This game does use a lot of it and a bad sector in somewhere could cause a lot of problems.

<t> Once a ship is repaired the empire with closest proximity scanner gets the ship.&nbsp; Standard Constructor design does not have proximity scanners.&nbsp; Thus, you need to park something with a scanner to your repairing ships.<br/>
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The other issue with Constructors trying to repair ships ...

<t> You can save your designs, but it saves all the designs that you currently have. &nbsp; When you go to the design window, in the top right corner of the window are save and load buttons which saves all the ships designs currently in use.&nbsp; The problem with that is that you get many things ...

<t> Ships have an energy pool, which is replenish at the rate you see in the top right corner of the design screen.&nbsp; Weapons use X amount of power to recharge, but they only fire so quickly. &nbsp; Thus you get a Energy per Second count which is listed over the armaments box.&nbsp; Weapons ...

<t> I started a game last night as Human (young expansion, highest homeworld quality) and my capital planet also had about 3 billion Ikurro living on it. Thus, I started with an -8% maintenace and +8% colony income bonus. The planet did not have a ruin on it, and their was the usual sizable human ...

Codeforce is from New Zealand.

I dont believe the AI can 'cheat' in this game. Meaning they use the same corruption rules as the player.

<t> An interesting by pass is to make the ships join a fleet, then give the fleet some orders, the half completed ships actually leave the star base. Though they cant move or anything.&nbsp; Then send a construction ship to 'repair' each ship.&nbsp; It will take a while, because construction ships ...

<t> Most games have some bonuses. &nbsp; MoO2 had a number of them.&nbsp; Phasors were the best weapon in MoO2 since you could upgrade them to autofire, phased (by pass shields) and armor piercing. &nbsp; The Deathray did not actually get such options.&nbsp; Now the balance in MoO2 was of course ...

Manually set some of the enemy empires to "expanding" when creating a game. &nbsp; I always expand faster then the AI.&nbsp; Once the AI has a number of worlds he does expand well enough.

<t> Is there a decent system for telling me if I actually have the resources on hand to build a ship. I started one game, and found an artifact planet that improved my beam tech from level 1 (I forget the name) to concussion beam. This was early. I think I was still colonizing planets in my starting ...

<t> It annoys me though when you find an abandoned spaceport, not on a planet but usually in an asteroid belt and no cargo ships ever supply it with material to finish anything.&nbsp; They are almost a liability.&nbsp; I had one "Out of the Way" space port that became clogged with repair work that ...

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