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A tip for anyone looking to expand their population in order to rake in the credits from taxes. Refineries (Running Air and Hydrogen extraction), Treatment plants, and any other non resource labors are a GREAT way to keep people employed without having to deal with hassles of finding resource to keep products moving.

I've been running low on credits due to the strain research is putting on my coffer. Not having any other players to help me expand to other planets or build new cities I've taken to building colossal housing complexes, like 400+ condos and apartments, and just building non resource labors to keep them all employed. You essentially build and forget since none of the industries ever need to be fiddled with (They produce and require no resource input) or turned off. Plus it looks cool to see your planet look essentially like a hive world from orbit!

Nice, but I think planets can only host about 2000 citizens, right?
When you reach 1000 pop, it gives -1 morale for overpopulation.
My planet has 1900 right now, and it's giving -4 or -5 morale due to overpopulation.
Probably when it reaches -6, morale will be steady and no people will come nor go.

Quote from: Gabeux on August 03, 2010, 06:36:29 pm

7. Sell all the stuff you bought to your city
8. Build Airport & Broker

This seems slightly off...  Or can you sell things to the town center?  I didn't see anything about that in the manual, it just says to drag the crates to the building site.

If you are in a starship, you just need to build a road slab beneath your ship (in other words, be landed in a road slab) to trade with the town.
I don't believe Rockets can do it, that's why it's different on the manual, so people with Rockets must do as on manual :z

Hmm thanks for the info, Rift. Soon enough I'll get my TL7

Also, can you sell the tech at Vb?
Vb makes 33k money/cycle, so I will use it to produce refinery (IO plasma) & electronics tech (IO Tubes).

Quote from: Gabeux on August 03, 2010, 06:29:42 pm

Hmm hey guys, what can we use Magma for? There's around 180Q on ma'colony.
Also, I found Magmite and Vulcanite, or something like that.

Dang it, I want to make a colony but I need someone to talk me through it.

What colony? Harshy environment colony?
No biggie.
1. Get EVA suit
2. Close helmet
3. Get some tools/plastic/electronic parts/mechanical parts/textiles/metal/stone and a flag in your space ship
4. Land in the planet without dying
5. Build the Town Centre (or whatever it's called, heh)
6. Build a road slab underneath your ship
7. Sell all the stuff you bought to your city
7. Build Airport & Broker
9. Provide Air & Food & Electricity (nuclear/hydrogen/natural gas are my favorites)
10. PROFIT.

This is a (awesome & adapted) step-by-step of http://www.hazeron.com/htmoonbase.html

It's what SPORE should have been. Seriously, it's the closest to 2005 pre-alpha spore I ever saw.

QFT

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Hey guys, did you know you can order your troops to get in a vehicle?
My TL7 design got a fighter bay, and a troop reserved to pilot it.
When I test it, I'll post how it goes.

Ohh and here is a tip for some players!

Churches and Cantinas are the only buildings that I am aware of that actually can produce happyness (+2 max for each)

There could be others but I don't know.

Nope, for now they are the only ones to give bonus.
If you get 6 food types (IIRC) it gives +1 morale per report. 10 food types (IIRC), gives +2 morale per report.

Total is +6, and it's as much I could ever get I think.

Booze thoes just noticed it.
+1 Liquor bonus.
All tough its rather random

Must be random, I produce all kinds and it doesn't give bonus :/
Maybe I should powah up the production?
hmm

When I emailed one of the devs to ask if donations would help with the lag, basically he said that they have unlimited bandwidth and that the lag is due to software issues they're working on.  The lag is a very large priority, second only to fixing crash bugs and unplayable-on-intel issues.

Me, I normally didn't see much lag last night.  And I've seen anecdotes that a lot of the lag happens when the devs are on and they are committing software upgrades that need to roll stuff out across the databases and/or bounce a server that you're playing on (unnoticably except for it seeming to hang).

Interesting.
I only fear that their engine may be the problem, because I really never played the game smoothly.
Of course, it can only be server-side, as my computer can hold a fortress of 200 dwarves and a cat for each one....no, I mean, it can run GTAIV with no hickups.

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By the way, Rift, I'm trying to make a space port there to make things easier, I will need a spacecraft fac tech, but I'll make it in the main planet.
Anyway, soon I'll be able to fix the trade route (that will also be a ferry route), with the space port.
All we need is tech and citizens. And I just set my NPC ship to abduct citizens on Vb, since it's overpopulated anyways.