[DavidG]

Originally posted by Stone Mill:
This whole "gifting resources back thing" seems like a really difficult thing to do. Gifted resources come from your storage, IIRC. So that one planet must designate a significant portion of it's precious space to storage.

And so what if they get a research bonus? It will not compare with an empire's research. Their progress will be quite slow.

As for incoming resources, what good are they when you only have one yard?

Besides, if it is an intel game, you can just crucify them with Communications mimic and other attacks.

Difficult?? how so? In this particular game (which BTW I'm 100% sure this type of gifting is NOT going on) 50k on minerals per turn would be quite significant. If he chose to build a couple storage facilities on the planet I think the gifts could approach 150-200k per turn which would almost equal my entire empires output . (and no Intel is not turned on )