<t>Yep, multiple drives make your ship faster. I like to put 3 or 4 on my colony ships. I go with 2 on my ships early in the game, and usually drop down to 1 drive in Anti-Matter unless it's a big galaxy or there are no good wormholes around.<br/>
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Another benefit of drives is that they act ...

Heh, I have no method. I don't think anything needs to be changed. That was just my rationalization of numbers. The billions of people on the worlds don't matter in a game of starships...just a few people matter. So why worry about the rest?

<t>I think of the planet population number as showing the "best and brightest" on your planet. Your finest become engineers (project leaders), scientists (research leaders), or naval personnel on HORRIBLY expensive starships. The world might have 20 billion people, but only 200 working at the ...

That's what you see when you fire a planet killer at a world which has an invincible shield. It means all the PK damage was absorbed. It's also very annoying. <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

<t>Nah, I've been hit with planet killers plenty of times in the shareware version. I was just dismayed that he had two of them, and managed to defeat my invincible shields with his second one. His PK ship arrived after his main fleet, and by then the shield was knocked out.<br/>
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It was just ...

<t>Things were looking great. We had dozens of freighter routes, a colony world, and a cruiser we built from an ancient artifact. There were no hostile races within scanning range of our homeworld. The nearest known races shared our philosophy even if they were jealous of our wealth.<br/>
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That ...