<t> I often find that AI builds complete useless buildins and also in great numbers, some last examples: <br/>
too many air bases i found like 5 all next each others .<br/>
In a Siwa, full of water planet, they built like 10 wind traps all next each other.<br/>
This last is a common problem, in a ...

<r> Here we are:<br/>
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1.4b05 game<br/>
small Cerbero world<br/>
All standard except:<br/>
1 army start<br/>
i put again Epic tech <E>:)</E><br/>
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2 mayors and bunch of nomads, mutants, slavers and just 6 minors with cities (fanatics and raiders).<br/>
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This time the mayors ...

yes it was a fresh new game with the new patch, and i had (and i still have) enough pp.
I dont think to have assigned even one, but i can be wrong here.

The card doesnt work, "Already is a Hero of the nation" for all the leaders, even those just recruited

<t> i often found new cities in free folk lands (or slavers/AI) if i find many resources or large ruins area far from my other cities, in order to save them administrative strain.<br/>
I also find it useful in general: after 30/40 turns it become a full working city, the investement often pay back ...

<t> Finally i accepted the challenge and i started an extreme difficulty game<br/>
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Siwa sweet spot earthlike medium planet<br/>
Tech speed EPIC (this was maybe a mistake!), 1 zone start with militia.<br/>
All the rest standard<br/>
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I was searching for an AI mayor empires challenge ...

<t> I found the tech tree with too many tech not properly "spaced"<br/>
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For example laser is far better than gauss rifle but booth are in the same tier, often I got laser before gauss: maybe with shield, at endgame gauss can have a reason.. but i doubt.. laser should be a tier higher .. as ...

<t> just my 2 cents with last beta 1.03-10:<br/>
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AI economy is a bit scarce (even at hard level)<br/>
_I noted a big flaw in water rich planets AI still invest ALOT in water generating structures:<br/>
Water is completely useless in this kind of planet , even for selling, when you can have ...

<t> confirmed, i noted the same attitude, mroeover i think they declare war just after your refuse some payment... but they dont check if they are ready to war<br/>
In my case one were been beaten by a minor and another declared war after i refused a blackmail .. but they were already annihilated ...

<t> Fantastic game, i think i have already 100 hours on it!<br/>
i share my feedback, maybe due to my playstyle, but anyway here we are :<br/>
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I find all on map resources overly underestimated, depleting in few years, hence:<br/>
1) Is not usual to build improved estractors, as it will ...

The funniest thing is thath this units has a stock higher than the typical oil well reserve (25k/30k).

<t> I dont know about an ispiration from a book... but Shadow Empire seems the successor of the 1996 Emperor of the Fading suns" a very old pc game .. full of fantastic ideas some also present here<br/>
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The pity was that that game was never fully finished and polished : i dont know if Vic ...