RE: So..
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:12 pm
To be fair you don't have to go to extremes to get an advantage and/or keep ahead of the pirates in this game. It never hurts to have a few more explorers early on however.
This will not make any material difference. The AI will have more cash which you can easily take from them by allowing the broken technology selling mechanic. Again, by allowing technology trading you can do everything in parallel which limits strategic choices.ORIGINAL: Jeeves
I've been thinking about trying hard, because there's more AI empire cash to get by trading, to offset the reduced income from my own colonies. But I'll definitely allow tech trading, which you can choose to not utilize if you really want to be short on cash...
After 8000 hours of gameplay I'd recommend considering a more significant change.