Starport: Galactic Empires

I bet he has zero now, lol.

Usually when you make a large colony with 4000-5000 people you shouldn't tax the people until the last few days, that way you don't have to worry about keeping morale up (and REP loss is virtually insignificant even when morale is low). And plus, you won't have to worry about recovering your morale ...

Oh yeah, that's all coming back to me now. Wasn't he called the "desert fox"?

Rommel, wasn't he the head of the Lutwaffe or something else within Nazi Germany? Or am I just completely wrong?

Well the Galaxy Whale and Dream Sower have almost exactly the same cargo to fuel ratio (Dream Sower is slightly better I believe). However, the Dream Sower is EXTREMELY unsafe and EXTREMELY slow also. So to me it's worth it to spend the extra cash on the Whale to be safer and to have to spend less t...

Personally, I hate seeing all that extra crap after replies, it really clutters up a forum.

But if you want to put a link to your blog there cant you make a tinyurl for it (tinyurl.com)? Or is that only a temporary thing that would get deleted fairly quickly?

Hmm, yeah. Just giving more fuel to people who start later in the game seems like a better idea. Would they receive more than, the same as, or less than people who joined on the first day and built up fuel for several days?

Proletariat, do newbies not have to pay taxes while in UN space? If so, then I think I would definitely support some sort of a tax. And Peace, I know what you mean. I have 4 bronze medals and 1 gold. 3 of the 4 bronzes were earned on Battle Royal I believe. If I had gotten an equivalent amount of EX...

Well newbies tend to be the people who use UN space to sleep in the most. Adding a tax that is just going to kick them out (because they don't have much money in the first place) and get them shot down will just discourage them from playing. And I don't really see what's wrong with someone joining t...

Proletariat, the only problem with that is that it pretty much ruins the game for newbies.

I completely agree, although like Drifter101 said, it would have to be well thought out which games to cut. As of typing this right now (Thursday, April 7, 2005 8:26 PM US Eastern time) there are a total of 28 servers. Here's a table with the number of players in each server: 0: 5 servers 1: 9 serve...

Well said Humna.

Weeeeee! Forum War!

Toonces, I've done it to several people before and it has been done to me before. Like I said, the majority of the time it will work, but not always; probably because that person had too many shields (and/or shield eminators). The key is that the person doesn't realize that the starport is surrounde...

I often use mines to "mine" people in. Basically, I find a high-level sleeper in a port and surround the port with so many mines that I get a message saying that I'm not allowed to put down any more mines. When the person comes out, they land on the mines and instantly blow up (well, the majority of...

Ah, ok then. I didn't realize that morale affects pollution. Both of my planets were Hopeless. I'll have to change that next time.

In the last game I played I had 2 colonies with 5000 people, one Oceanic and one Earth-like. I had gotten every structure for both colonies (including Church of Earth for Earth-like) and every 2 or 3 days there would be a disaster on each one, killing half their populations and leaving them revoltin...

ss2mattz's idea sounds pretty good. It would encourage people to colonize farther from Sol if planets could gain more tax the further they are from Sol (and the other starbases).

I have to agree with Faellyn on this. I think if this system was implemented then people would simply run away when they become too weak. It would get rid of the skill needed to engage in combat. These are my rules in combat: 1)If it's clearly lopsided against me then I simply flee before a fight be...