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ORIGINAL: Wicky

My tip of the day: Get paid for declaring war!
If you feel the need to declare war on the Dayhut empire, then check first if they are at war with anyone else. Contact their enemies and offer them to engage in war for a huge sum of money. I just got 200k cash from the Zenox Alliance for declaring war on the Dayhut, when I was about to declare war on them anyway.

I didn't even know you can do that. I need to spend more time in the diplomacy screen. Thanks this is a great tip.

Its amazing how...logical and comlpex this game can be if you just sit down with it and NOT worry about how the surface looks.....

did u know that u can circumvent the early game ship size limit? say you have a 330 size destroyer design which u want to make but cannot due to your low tech (200 max). just make a skeleton destroyer design (ship types must be the same) that is below 200 but contains some of the parts needed for the 330 design then when it builds, simply retrofit it to the other design. cool huh?

same goes for imported designs. Say you have a design with torp tech and 3rd level shields/engines in a game and u save the ship design list. When u start a new game and load that list u can then retrofit your current ships to the upgraded designs EVEN if you do not possess the tech yet! handy!

I hereby request my title be changed from "Matrix Trooper" to "Galactic Hero" if you want me to post my 3rd tip of the day.
You guys all know me, I have posted the tip about onion-like stations which can fire and defend when only 10% of construction is complete.
You know I posted how to reap money from other empires for declaring wars, which you were going to declare anway.

But now, on 17 March of 2010, I have discovered the ULTIMATE TIP... the gigantic bombastic tip that will save you dozens of hours of micromanagement... If you read this tip, it will be no more difficult to conquer 70 enemy colonies and refill your troop transports than snapping your finger and it's done. I'm not kidding, it will save you countless hours of micromanaging, and I promise that you will fall from your chair when you read it!!!!
It is the title "galactic hero" bestowed upon me, that I require to post this tip. So please beg the moderators to give it to me, then I will write it down
If you deem my tip average or just simply good, nothing exceptional, then you can give me the title "average joe" or whatever, but that won't happen since it really is THAT good!

lemme guess....the 'automate all' option? lol!

Arr, it's very improbably that you guess my tip!
But I'll give you a clue, it's a trick to have the AI do exactly what you want it to do, when it was designed to do something totally different in the first place

Your supposed to give the Tip THEN request name...not the other way around [:D] then you arent galactic Hero because looking for a reward or else no Tip THAT IS NOT HERO.

Plus, I highly doubt anyone would change your title, and I'm pretty sure you'd know that, so I'm thinking you're pulling people's legs [:'(] lol

nop, this tip is just too good to give away for free
i tell ya, in my current game i had about 80 colonies and the dayhut empire had 117.
I assigned all my ships to 10 fleets, with troop transports and everything and started conquering... problem was, by the time i had captured 10 they had colonized another 20 planets!
So hours later, I had 90 colonies and they had 127! It was a herculean task to defeat them... I gave up. But then I slept a couple of nights over it and discovered something, that was pan-galactic, interdimensional - so kewl, that you would fall off your chair if you heard it. It is basically the reduction of many hours of microing your fleets to 5 mouseclicks. That good it is

If I see the title "Galactic Hero" below my name on the left, I'll write it down. And if it was just a prank to pull your leg, you can title me "average joe" and ban me from the forums, I'm not kidding you

.........................................This is DID YOU KNOW...not DID YOU KNOW? OH YOU DONT GIVE ME THIS AND THEN YOU'LL KNOW.........then tell us about something else then post something useful [8|][:D]

It probably has something to do with some bug making the AI opponent surrender, sell, or trade planets to you.

ORIGINAL: Kamonrius
.........................................This is DID YOU KNOW...not DID YOU NOT KNOW? OH YOU DONT GIVE ME THIS AND THEN YOU'LL KNOW.........then tell us about something else then post something useful [8|][:D]

Yeah you first! Top my 2 past tips and then we'll talk

ORIGINAL: Sliverine

did u know that u can circumvent the early game ship size limit? say you have a 330 size destroyer design which u want to make but cannot due to your low tech (200 max). just make a skeleton destroyer design (ship types must be the same) that is below 200 but contains some of the parts needed for the 330 design then when it builds, simply retrofit it to the other design. cool huh?

same goes for imported designs. Say you have a design with torp tech and 3rd level shields/engines in a game and u save the ship design list. When u start a new game and load that list u can then retrofit your current ships to the upgraded designs EVEN if you do not possess the tech yet! handy!

Free larger ships. Free higher components.
Good god. Codeforce, fix this please.

Maybe. You'll never know, until I get the title "galactic hero" below my name to the left!

ORIGINAL: Wicky

My tip of the day: Get paid for declaring war!
If you feel the need to declare war on the Dayhut empire, then check first if they are at war with anyone else. Contact their enemies and offer them to engage in war for a huge sum of money. I just got 200k cash from the Zenox Alliance for declaring war on the Dayhut, when I was about to declare war on them anyway.

But, anyone used to playing Civilization 4, Galactic Civilizations 2, or similiar games should know of this and try it in new games.

Wicky, someone else will eventually discover what you say, or they already have. They will eventually post it and they will be the first. If you then claim that that is what you were talking about then you will seem foolish.

And here is my tip:
If ((troopTransportAutomanage == true) && (troopTransportFleet == none))
    then troopTransportLoadTroops == anyYourPlanet

what nameless meant to say was automated troop ships that are not in a fleet fill themselves up without you babysitting them 

ORIGINAL: Wicky

Maybe. You'll never know, until I get the title "galactic hero" below my name to the left!

If you have to ask to be a "galactic hero", you aren't a galactic hero... then you're not even elite guard. Keep the tip.

Did you know: You can type the word "dog" by pressing the keys "D", "O", and "G", in that order?