[TerranC]

1. Pretty Much yes. It's surplus. You can always build new warships or facilities if you think it's wasteful.

1a. Yes. You start with it. You can build extra storage but that original 50,000 stays. with or without storage facilities.

2. You build ships out of steel; not out of plants or uranium.

2a. You can run out of stuff pretty soon. Especially Radioactives as you gain technology.

3. It's randomly Generated. You seem to see a pattern because Rock planets are generated more than Gas or Ice. (I think...)

4. Population produces stuff on your colonies. A colony with 0 population will not make or generate anything. It also increases the production rate as the population increases.

4a. Depends on what type of Happiness your race enjoys. It describes them on the very Last window of race creation. (Happiness Types)

Peaceful - likes new colonies, new ships, treaties. Hates wars, plagues and destruction of stuff.

Bloodthirsty - Likes destruction, Likes wars. Does not like peace or treaties.

Neutral - doesn't like anything except isolation.

Troops and the Number of ships in a system also determine happiness. If you have Partnership treaties with all known races of the galaxy, that will add happiness if you are peaceful. Lots of Battle victories also add happiness.

4b. If they did you'd have a shortfall. One farm for 4 billion... Yeesh.

5. Huh? I don't understand your question.

6. Fight, Fight, Fight. Until you research Advanced Military Science and build Ship training facilities. Your fleets also gain facilities, although in Gold, a lot slower.

6b. Ask some of the vets of this forum. Im sure they'd know with their modding experience.

7. Click the Only Latest tab.

8. The standard of Multiplayer was Play by Email before PBW came along. In that, you had to do what PBW would do for you instantly, Manually.

PBW is the preferred choice I think, since it is easy to learn, after you understand the basic mechanics of it. (Kinda like the game itself)

There is TCP/IP for Gold, but that is for privately arranged games, there isn't a main server to go and join a game.

Thank you, come again.

[ 26 April 2002: Message edited by: TerranC ]