Does this 'planetary orbit view' essentially replace the old system view?

<t> Most of the complaints I hear are in regards to not graphics but:<br/>
1. Real-time<br/>
2. Unmanageable/big<br/>
3. Automation makes it play itself<br/>
4. Terrible performance<br/>
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I agree with 4, partially agree with 1, disagree with the others.<br/>
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Real 4x games(i.e. in ...

<t> The problem with multiplayer, for those of us who don't want/need it, is the spreading of development focus. Implementing multiplayer properly takes a lot of effort, effort that could otherwise be spent on improving other parts of the game. There's also the danger of neglecting to improve the AI ...

<t> The penalty appears to increase to a certain level as you get more colonies(or as your total GDP increases?). At first it's not even a percentage, then it goes upwards to 40-50% in mid- or end-game. So a colony that should be making 1million a year is instead making just 500-600k a year that's ...

I think pirates buy all their resources. You don't pay upkeep for pirate civilian ships and bases, so to counter that I think you pay for all the resources they generate. Regardless of if they're currently needed or not.

No, that's not the explanation. It might explain half of it, the part where no income shows up at all until you cross some specific threshold. However, it doesn't explain why the discrepancy grows bigger the more tax income you have. There's some other factor at work here too.

<t> Yeah there looks to be one fixed deduction of ~43K, thus no income before the taxes exceed that. Maybe this could be explained somehow with facility maintenance being deducted from the colony screen income rather than the empire window. But even after that there's a loss of 10-40%, with that ...

That's interesting. Early game it shows identical amounts on colonies and in the empire screen, late game it's way off.. Maybe there's something wrong with either the display or the calculation of corruption(which is the only factor increasing significantly from early to late game)?

<t> I think you're right, I'm seeing the same behavior on 0% corruption worlds. Tax income from my single largest world(Shakturi homeworld, 100% quality, maxed tech) is 2.775 million in the colony screen(100% compliance, but I assume that's already calculated in), but with every other colony set to ...

What about corruption?

<t> I think the AI measures their firepower vs yours and makes a decision based on that(in addition to relations, etc.). So if you're maxing out your fleet potential, they won't declare war because they don't have much of an advantage, if any. At least that's what I imagine is going on.<br/>
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<t> Don't think I've ever seen a game transition to 3D graphics in its sequel without becoming worse in other areas. Space Empires 4 -> Space Empires 5 being the obvious comparison here; decent'ish 3D graphics upgrade, but the rest of the game suffered to the extent that the prequel was still the ...

<t> There are a few gamey/exploity tricks available in the game:<br/>
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1. Keeping tax on 0% until near maxpop on a colony. This one became somewhat less effective after the recent change, but it's still beneficial; you sacrifice some slight income in the early game to get more research points ...

<t> That's a neat start. I only tried once and didn't get out nearly as quickly. Most of the beginning years were spent watching civilian ships slowly move across the system while I desperately tried to solve my resource problems which prevented me from building/upgrading ships and stations.<br ...

<t> Ye, it's fairly cheap. Not that it's a fair game in the first place. The only reason it would eventually be possible to win this game, even without the cash hack(which just makes victory come sooner rather than later), is because they never actually attack you. I've played for a few hours now ...

<t> Still alive. Had some problems with silicon shortages at first, but managed to get my stupid construction ship to build a mining station on that moon with silicon, so that's sorted. Spent 100K of my total 130K to fast forward research on warp drives, which completed and made my resource-life a ...

Hah, just been busy. I'll give it a go tonight.

Not really though, since the AI is unlikely to have access to the same technologies.

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Thats what i had thought at first, in my current game i only have the starting base, and it currently has need of Carbon Fibre, with 4 ships all needing it. I just got some from a raid, which should have atleast progressed their construction ...

Good question. I always just assumed it went straight to one or more of your space ports.