Are You Addicted To SE IV?

[Strategia_In_Ultima]

Problem is, I never sit around a (sp) game for long enough to even GET to mid-game for at least four months or so. Probably six or more.

Oh and I know the value of Stellar Manip tech. Once, when playing the Pexlerr (a game where I actually researched everything and colonized about 15 or 20 systems) I started out in a corner and a damned system full of a Neutral race (forgot their name, the green rocky Berzerkers) was blocking my path to the rest of the Galaxy. Battle cruiser after battle cruiser (stock game, not Capship, as that wasn't really in development then) was lost. Fleet after fleet got crushed when trying to glass their homeworld. Eventually, I sent in a cloaked star destroyer... the rest was history. So was that Neutral race. I recreated the planets and colonized where appropriate.

Then later, I ran into the Phong and had an on-off relationship with them for a while until my last save. The game is still loitering on my HD.

[NullAshton]

Use monoliths instead of organic and rad mining facilities. By the time you get it, organics and rads will hardly be of any use. And yes, mineral mining facility III gives you 1k minerals each. With the scanner II, you get 1.2k a turn