[dogscoff]

Tbon- it goes
minor city>city>major city>metropolis>megalopolis (I think)

The settlement chain has only two items in it, I can't remember their names right now.

PvK: I have three homeworlds now (all medium planets, I think) and I should have the Norak one as well inside of 20 turns. Then it's a short hop over to the Xi-chung home-system to take theirs.

My invasions are carried out by a "supermadbastard" class worldship, which can deliver 12000 points of damage at range 12 every other combat turn. Strip the shields, waste the wep platforms, then creep in to drop the troops.

I've not got a huge resource surplus at the moment, but I could get myself probably a hundred thousand extra per turn simply by mothballing my stellar manip fleet & worldship.