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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gregorovitch55<br/>
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1. If you let the AI make some fleets it wants by giving it some ships at setting them to auto you need to follow what it expects from escort, frigate, destroyer etc designs or it won't know what to do with them. If you don't, and I ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Spidey<br/>
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I did some testing with with a +23% weapons research bonus, an energy research station, and a multi-school scientist.<br/>
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Energy station with no weapons lab on weapon research bonus = no bonus at all.<br/>
Energy station with 1 ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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We have to pick and choose every week, there's not enough time to hit every point unfortunately. Double-checking counterespionage is still on our list. What Pirate fixes are you looking for?
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<t> 1) Sabotage their space ports if you have good odds at it<br/>
2) Combine offense with defense. Attack their stations, divide and conquer their ships. Put up enough pressure, and their raiders won't be at 100% shield when they attack and you'll kill more of them.<br/>
3) At the end of the day ...

<t> AFAIK, the extraction potential is hard coded and the extractors pull a percent of that potential up to 100%. The potential is 100 units per week times rarity (%).<br/>
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A default mining base pulls down 60% (extraction of "3") of the 100. You can either add more or just tech up to get the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Futarchy<br/>
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I'm still new to the game so I might be wrong, but I think the problem is with your tax rate. 30-50% at the start of a game seems very high. Money that goes into taxes comes from the private sector, so if taxed highly the private sector ...

<t> 4. Can the default resort base include 1 gas, mine, and luxury extractor? If a planet has a scenery bonus, a luxury, and a resource the AI currently cannot benefit from all three.<br/>
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5. If it turns out you need passenger compartments in starbases, could the AI do this too if it does ...

The two of you are spamming a thread that neither of you posted.

I'm sorry, I'm not a mod, but can we put a fork in it?

<t> In my experience, any game I play as that is not ugnari/teekun merchant guild results in a private sector 200k in the hole. I do not alter my prewarp play style based on my race, and I'm looking for tips on how to makes republic start work on a race without +Income.<br/>
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0) Auto tax ...

Does the AI do it? Just curious.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Kantay<br/>
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Put one Energy collector on ALL your ships. A lot of ships just stay in one place (construction ships constructing/repairing, mining ships mining etc) and thus you can save a ton of fuel by putting that one collector on, the price to build it ...

<t> My favorite two are Ugnari and Shandar.<br/>
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The shandar playstyle of acquiring luxuries and then pitching a tent in a utopian paradise with 80-90% taxes is fun.<br/>
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Ugnari is a hybrid trade / research race that starts off slow but ramps up as they stack the high tech bonus.<br ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Sieben Elfriend<br/>
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5. TRC => AO (<B><s>[b]</s>pycco<e>[/b]</e></B>). Looks like you would be chasing your tail with that one, if you didn't include TERP as a limit. <br/>
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It would help if people would construct ...

<t> I tested mine, and its easy to do...<br/>
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1. Start game, pick republic, pick an average race<br/>
2. Build a high tech, energy lab, and star port.<br/>
3. Stick your scientist in there.<br/>
4. Calculate TERP * 1.25 (republic)<br/>
5. AO = Research * [ Total Labs / (TERP *1.25 ...

<t> Guys, your argument would be over by now if someone used a specific example.<br/>
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Republic has a +25% research bonus. This is to capacity.<br/>
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Total Potential - 300k<br/>
Republic - +25%<br/>
Actual potential (not shown) - 375k<br/>
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Proof? Build 380k of labs and notice ...

The default design for gas and regular mines includes a commerce center. Is this necessary? What interactions would trigger a trading profit at a mine?

I could see refueling triggering a charge, but I don't understand regular mines.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Spidey<br/>
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You get money. Lots of money. What I'm pretty sure used to be the case is that if you ordered civilians to upgrade their stuff, you'd have to also pay for it yourself. What happens now is ...

<t> If you order a civilian refit they will commission the upgrade. They pay you, the state, to do this.<br/>
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You could pork up private ships and stations with things they don't need and then bilk the private sector for their cash. This will increase their maintenance coats (money lost) and ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ShadowB<br/>
Anyway, my experience with weapon combinations is limited at the moment: I've been using impact blasters and shockwave torpedoes as suggested by the manual guide I read, but I really want to ...

I'm new to DW - is it possible to have the Tax AI target a 100% compliance (+16) than +10?

And how does the migration work? Is it raw tax rates, or is it happiness? You can very easily make a Shandar colony with 90% taxes with the population still happy.