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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: SamuraiProgrmmr<br/>
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I use the same settings as you describe to set up my game. I occasionally get brave and pick the 'unclassified' planet and 'drop me in a game right now' settings.<br/>
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I have been playing for a few months and am getting much ...

<t> I've got over 100 hours invested in this blasted game. It's fantastic but frustrating--like whack-a-mole! Economy, logistics, morale, demands, and personnel support (that impact production)--added onto by extended build times due to not enough credits, machines, or IP (when you actually thought ...

<t> In my limited, bumbling, and experimental play, I find Econ and Interior to give me the best strat cards, provide exploration to mining and grant me access to more leaders. Other than the research angle and the resource discoveries, the EC doesn't seem to help me with credits. In fact, private ...

This really helps. Thanks.

Now, are there reasons not to add new orgs as quickly as I have PP for?

how do I create councils before allowed by the game progress?

<t> Just endured another humiliation...<br/>
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Great start but bad start! My intel indicated only minor regimes but with plenty of non-aligned territory to gobble up on the way to those relatively close. Bad news: not long into the game, I realize the initial intel was wrong. Two major regimes ...

<t> Good start: fields not bio-domes; non-aligned terrritory imemediately around my start with several minors (but enough wiggle room to grow stronger before engaging the traders or other minors; and most importantly, a road system already in existence without mountains to have to build roads ...

<t> First, I'm over 90 hours into the game and still stagnating by 80 or so turns.<br/>
Second, I'm playing on the easiest settings--but letting the generator choose all but the planet type. <br/>
Third, I've just been shut down in my last two games by a starting city with zones that have massive ...

<t> Learning by failing so many times has made me ask these questions--since my games hit the wall (losing food, money, and encroaching poor leadership). Reopening one such failure and building a second city has literary revitalized the game. Perhaps I'm not warrior enough to go conquer my minor ...

<t> I've invested my first 30 hours or so into this magnificent but harsh game. Every failed game experience informs me further; but, I'm stumped on the idea of building new cities. Though I love this level of micromanagement, I'm a relative newbie.<br/>
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Thanks for any help and investment ...

<t> Any guides with how not to run out of workers, food, and money?! <br/>
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I'm loving (hating) the game now, after a half-dozen serious days of playing. About 25 hours thus far. <br/>
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I thought my problem was upgrading Brigades to Corps; but my last game I didn't and still went ...

<r> I just discovered this game but have invested about 20 hours into learning it. Even on AI novice, I'm playing like a noob (or whatever). I'm having lots of fun with Axis, but in three games on the easiest settings, I get repulsed from Cairo--stinking AI gets four bombers + escorts and just chews ...