So in my current game I was on -350 credits or so per month, which I mitigated with Efficiency Drive.

Interestingly this time, I managed to get a super solid Meritocracy score. It now stands at a completely uncontested 100 value with 0 Autocracy completely unable to reduce it.

Now, ever since my ...

Interesting. I am learning a lot with this post.

Nobody mentioned another alternative though: (edit: in fact, someone did mention it!)

Since I always go meritocracy and interior ministry first, I have access to the stratagem "efficiency drive". When you have a good administration skill you can ...

Regarding the question of zone based vs. hex based ship movement.

Does anyone remember the game Imperialism?

It had sea-zone and land-province based unit movement. In case of the land units, moving into a hostile zone resulted in a turn based hex battle similar to HOMM. Moving a fleet to a ...

Magirot wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 6:48 pm In case you or someone else is interested, currently modding could be used to reduce some of the randomness. These are the options in the random planet generation table (id 506):

Thank you for the extensive reply and modding tips. I will see if I can try out this approach and report back!

maybe having a type of world where you get sliders to set the value of each planetary property or some such. I'm guessing it isn't that easy to do, perhaps due to complex, behind-the-scenes interactions, maybe.


Maybe it is not necessary to edit every single little value. Just give an option to ...

Please! Please! Add an option to manually define every single variable of Planet Generation!

Let me explain:

I really enjoy this game. However I really prefer a realistic experience comparable to conditions on Earth, with all seasonal effects and different climate zones, deserts, lush regions ...

Then the next quesion is: Do the others infiltrate the player? If so, do they have the same difficulty calculation? And if so, how do you determine your own standing with the faction, if you like them or not?!

"There is no such thing as a historically accurate strategy game."

If Poland 1939 is Dinosaur Riders with laser rifles against a Ratman Hero wielding a blessed warhammer that shoots fireballs ... we... would call that a "non historically accurate" World War 2 game.

Remember that each Hex is 200km. Each turn is 2 months.

So you mean, the smallest, most basic piece of artillery has a 200km range in this game? That's quite an achievement for a post apocalyptical weapon designer.

Ok that sounds a bit different. I am playing one difficulty above the easiest. For example I always hire the guys the factions offer me and with meritocracy I have always or surplus of at least 10 leaders in the reserve pool. I guess that would be huge waste of money on your difficulty.

So what is the point of credits?
I have ever only used them for selling rare metals and buying common metals. Also, some decisions require a litte amount of credits.
Other than that, I have not messed with taxe a single time, have never increased any salary besides workers and am doing fine so far ...

Its a bug. I have the same issue. You have to grab the slider, pull it all to the maximum. Then the produce button becomes active. Now you can readjust the slider to the number of units you want to produce and can click the button.

Just try and let go of the need for 100% conceptual understanding and go with the flow....youd enjoy the experience much more.....


I agree with this. I am on my 6th try at playing the game and "already" have the feeling of having understood enough to play the game and have the enjoyment I ...