Very new to the game, need help badly!

[Phoenix-D]

Pop growth and tolorance is of minor importance, -10% (no taxes, no maintainance on facilities.)"

Be careful about reducing reproduction! Sure, you don't get taxes.. but more people = more production. A colony with 1m people will be vastly outperformed by an identical colony with 4000m people!

Phoenix-D

[Wardad]

not vastly, 10% for 2000, 20% for 4000, but usually the games fate is decided before it's a worry.

[Dogberry]

Interesting.. played 4 games so far... of which 3 got aborted by RCEs ( I run autosave now ) & I have never had this problem. Play spiral large,random warp points, low res, finite res, always Terrans ( me ), high tech research, high aliens ( both nuetral & otherwise ), set the AI to hard but w.o. bonuses. What am I doing wrong ?.... LOL

When I run into "others" ... I scope'em out first, and if they look like trouble & share the same terrain, they get smashed.

If able, I expand like hell & usually don't even build a real navy until there is an identified threat. My earlier,lighter ships sacrifice a bit of speed for firepower & I always go "tactical" & break up the fleet in the first round. I like numbers & lurking on the far side of warp points w/ sats & ships.

Somewhere between turns 50 & 75, the only question is "how long is everything else going to take me."

Of course .. I realise what idle boasts victories vs the AI are.

Dog

[Dracus]

RCE's ---- I haven't seen any of those in a While.
Can you post a saved game from before it happens and give me the steps you took. I would like to check this out and then I will send a report to mm.

[Dogberry]

OK.. didn't save any of the old ones & have not had one for a while. I will do it .. if it happens again. I assume ver 1.67 is current ?

Dog

[Wardad]

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