<t> I'm still a bit new, but this is what I know so far.<br/>
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1. Medical/Recreation - Both Raise happiness on planets. <br/>
Medical - Fixes infantry health on Troop Transports. <br/>
Recreation - Needed for Resort Bases.<br/>
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2. An easy way is just add the Labs to spaceports. But ...

Umm yeah.. I've just been bitten by this forum bug. So I'm posting here to up my post count!

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Hi!<br/>
Each time I cancel a treaty with pirates, the next treaty get more expensive. As Vardis said, first payment is always made when starting the contract. If you don't have enough money to pay it, they refuse the treaty.<br/>
I also had the case of pirates staying ...

I am indeed enjoying the outdoors. (See attached for my luxury accommodations...)

As per your play throughs... It looks like you have the outdoors set on "Extreme" difficulty!
When my two boys get older, I would love to do the same.

I bought this game after stumbling across your DWU let's plays. Had fun watching them and learned quite a bit. Enjoy the outdoors!

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>The only thing I can think of I didn't do was do the on-again-off-again thing with pirate protection, which I don't like since it seems cheesy to me.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
I've done that playing on Normal but since playing the AI Mod 1.04 Vanilla Extreme w/ Strong pirates ...

<t> My first post! Such a beautiful and well thought out game. This game is on my top two best games list (First is Diplomacy). Thanks to the dev(s) for creating it. I'm on my 4th full game and thoroughly enjoying it.<br/>
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Immediate Wish:<br/>
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'Load Troops' button in the "Ships and ...