<r> This mod acts as an anime graphics replacer for the portraits and inter-turn slideshows that appear in Shadow Empire. After seeing the ease of modification contained within the graphics folder I began to wonder if it would be possible to modify the portraits to something less realistic, but ...

<t> My APCs have the bare minimum armor available, 5mm. I use them more for encirclement mobility, and their machine guns are more than useful in actually supressing enemies before attacks begin. Once I research Polymer armor, I upgrade them to 25mm polymer armor, but no more than that.<br/>
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Encircle enemies and completely defeat them. On a normal difficulty game, my overall troop morale was floating around 75 to 85 points and I was paying my soldiers the absolute bare minimum.

<t> I think a lot of it is a function of how populated the planet was, and if there was a correspondingly high amount of ruins to mine. A colony world with only 2.3 million people will probably house very few ruins. On the other hand, I've played on maps with ruins everywhere. By the end of the game ...

<t> buggies become extremely fragile after the first 20 turns or so. 5mm is simply too little armor after a certain point. Their main use in combat in my experience is a form of encirclement. Since a combat unit doesn't need much strength to resist an enemy's retreat, you can just use them to plug ...

I rarely, if ever make cities of any kind. Usually I play on densely populated worlds, so there isn't much space to spare for colonies in the first place as far as things go.

Generally, I try to conquer one or two minors as soon as possible, then digest my gains for as long as possible

How does one destroy roads? I don't see a "disable roads" function anywhere.

Is there way to edit character generation in the game itself other than sprite modification? I'm trying to make a graphics mod, but the fact that males can be bald is really jacking up my attempts to finish it. I'm wondering if there's a config file somewhere, but I can't seem to find it.

<t> I compare them by their surface gravity because that appears to be the most salient metric in the game for the creation of the biosphere. For certain kinds of planets, it seems as though the N2 and O2 thresholds begin to appear at around 0.5G to 0.6G. I'm sure this has a basis in reality, I just ...

<t> After successfully beating one game, I can safely say this is among the best 4x games I have ever played, it truly is a diamond in the rough. Unfortunately, when I play on a map with a large number of hexes, computational time can become excessively long. This is essentially my one major gripe ...

<t> This is essentially my one major gripe with the game. The turn times become unbearable at normal or large planets. I feel that this problem could become somewhat remedied if one could have more control over planet generation for small planets. If you want to have a map with a relatively short ...