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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Korvus77<br/>
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I wanted to like Armada but it just seems clunky compared to this game. I will try it again after the next patch. I want both games to succeed because this genre seems starved to death. Still waiting for a 4x game to use Home World as the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Grallon<br/>
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I must be missing something since I find there's nothing to do in this game but rush to colonize and churn out ships to protect them... The cultural aspect is abstracted, there's no special projects to build, no infrastructure... It's as if ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mightili<br/>
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OR, do this (not trolling, real suggestion):<br/>
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Go to your Add-Remove programs and Delete the whole game after a few hours of hair pulling and moaning. You will feel either:<br/>
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Send troops.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Titanwarrior89<br/>
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How can anyone really know how far if any the game is unbalanced in a few playing......I believe it will take more than that to say that a certain item is completely unbalanced. The game has only been out a few days.[>:]<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Gertjan<br/>
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I like it thusfar. Good job in attracting new players to the game. I'm hoping major wars will soon start. Good luck in defeating those larger empires and designing your own ships (if only the ai did a better job in it). I disagree with you on ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Davor<br/>
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I just lernt this yesterday. You can "crash research" I think they call it by hitting the lightning bolt to make if faster or something like that. I still not shure how that works. Don't know if it takes money out of your coffers or what not ...

<t> I'm on the other side of the coin, I was a believer and now I'm a skeptic.<br/>
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Though with the planned updates I figure that will change, but for now,&nbsp; the annoyance factors are outweighing the fun factors once I get past the first hour or so of game play.<br/>
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Don't get me ...

<t> I locked in some hab research, and it never completed.<br/>
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Or so I thought.<br/>
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I went to the research screen and saw that the lock never lifted and I was just flying through the hab research items, but with no notification whenever anything completed, and no ability to turn the ...

Eh?

If the spies 'bribed' your AI to not notice...

Otherwise what would the point of that operation be?

Again, assuming that spies are the cause of drastically inflated tax rates.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: licker<br/>
This has happened to me. Also the autodesign likes to pack devastators onto space stations, which seems utterly useless.
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Oh this is extremely useful if those little ...

Is there a place to see the developmental level of your colonies?

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Zakhal<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: licker<br/>
Though is there a game you feel has an AI which provides 'plenty of challenge' after you've learned the game?
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I would say that if I loose just because I dont know how to ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Zakhal<br/>
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Is the AI any good? Does it provide plenty of challenge even after you have learned to play the game?
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The answer is 'it depends', but generally the answer will probably be 'no'. Of course there are lots of ...

<t> Well maintenance is over time, so it's not necessarily a trivial comparison to make.<br/>
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But yes, the autodesign is pretty well foobarred in many peoples opinions.<br/>
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I look at it like this. If the AI is forced to use it, I might as well just use it as well, otherwise my advantage ...

<t> I'm also in the 'I'd turn them off if I could' camp.&nbsp; I don't find that they add much of anything to my experience, and are just another annoyance that I have to use a somewhat clunky UI to deal with.<br/>
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Now if they were a real threat (ala SotS) or provided some kind of benefit ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Wade1000<br/>
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So, the auto upgrade is causing your ship attack components(Torpedos) to be replaced with <B><s>[b]</s>particular<e>[/b]</e></B> planetary bombardment components(Nuclear Devastators)?
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This has happened to me ...

<t> Such that if you let everything run fully automated you'd essentially be just another AI race.<br/>
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Along this line of thought, what are the prospects of opening up some tables by which we can tweek overall automation preferences? Especially for ship design, but also for colony priority ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Athalian<br/>
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Industrial Centers produce industrial components, Constructors have a lot of them because they construct mostly industrial components, mines need a lot of them for example <E>:)</E>
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Yes, this makes sense for ...

<t> Re: Step1:&nbsp; I think it's a good idea to stick your starting Destroyers into a manually controlled fleet so that you have better reaction to pirates and space monsters (though if you set them at low probabilities this may not be necessary).&nbsp; Then with your first build order, crank out 4 ...