[ZeroAdunn]

Everyone says the colonies aren't important in proportions. I don't think this is true. In my most recent game I turned mega evil, and thus lost all of my treaties. When this happened I realised that I had a national defecit of 94,000 (with a storage of about 1,600,000) minerals. It was then that I realised that my colonies were painfully neglected. After pouring all of my research into mining and mothbolling nearly all of my ships in the mean time (I had a fleet of 40 high tech transports cruising the universe at the time) And just barely got my budget down to where I was only losing 5,000 minerals. Eventually Igot my facilities upgraded and managed to rebuild my funds, took both full upgrades till I finally was able to unmothball my fleet.

I had 13 battlestations at the time which I never mothballed and were the only thing keeping my enemies at bay.

[ 28 April 2002: Message edited by: ZeroAdunn ]