Cetane

Cetane

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I usually leave them on my planets till I'm ready to position for attack, as to not lose the tax money from all those citizens just sitting in space. Just a thought DethAdder. If you have a sound economy you can launch them and the population will be able to grow again so that when you are ready for war you don't take the tax hit on your econom

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And what are those little PQ6's best used for? 2 NLC and 3 SM. For example, what planet quality / modifiers do you look for before saying "ah, that's an Econ planet", or "that's a tech planet". <br

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cargo hulls w/ 4 x Adv troop mod. 1 x Ultra Life Support 9 x Hyper Warp III. Always protect them with attack fleets.

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I tend not to specialize the vast majority of my planets and you can still get impressive incomes. With ~260 planets and no special events I can get just shy of 250K a turn (should be ~500K on a gigantic map). Very possible. Doing it right now as a matter of fact. You can specialize a few research planets but the rest can remain as you built t

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The weird thing is historic friendship works against you sometimes. In my current game i have been friends with the Thalan for the entire game(about 6 years). Yet the Historic Friendship has two negatvies next to it. I have never seen that before. interesting

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A fair amount of spending directed at research ahould keep you up with them. A research resource base or two should keep you ahead if you have about 60% of your spending in research. Economic star bases will help as well when you upgrade them with more modules. Trade with the AI as well. They will tend to follow the same tech path. Research what they arn't and trade them for what you want.

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Suicidal is not for me. In third year of another Gigantic Obscene. Welcome Aboard Purge. Check us out at The Galactic Core as well.

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Don't worry about military at first. If they go hostile toward you give them a few tech and they will be happy again. Focus on colonizing. use that 5000bc to get a few colony ships in the air. use your survey ship on auto survey to start collecting anomolies. In the begining set spending to 100%. Taxes to somewhere that will give you ~70% approval. Research engines up to impulse for faster ships. then get sensors. Build a few survey ships of your own for faster anomoly

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Yes. Numerous ways. Economics are the key to most strats. It would probably help if you gave a little more info, like what diff level you play at? Galaxy size, number of opponents And what race you play, starting attrubutes, are you on 1.4.

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