buying your enemies' ships...
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i wanted to try a REALLY quick game, so i set all the ais to intelligent with a small galaxy for my second game. i had massive boosted diplomacy skill. in the diplomacy screens i get the "they consider us gods" and the "these are not the droids you're looking for" report.
anyway, by horse trading i traded a few techs to the one race, to get more techs from another race, and then sold them all to the minors. eventually in the middle game, my one sector empire was at 9000+ in the treasury at one point. eventually war was declared by the neighboring drengins. after a short time they wanted peace. so i gave it to them. then i was mischieveous and saved the game, then bought all their battlecruisers ships AND a few of their transports. so i conquered their outermost planet. then they asked for peace again. so i did that, then bought the frigates they had bought in the next planet, and attacked them again. i didn't have enough troops so i couldn't take their planet.
i did the same with the arceans, and eventually they gave me a small gift of money. (about 60) it was funny because the map was about 70% arcean yellow. the other nations except the drengins gave me small bits of $$ too, because i had the biggest military fleet i think.
should there be a tonnage limit to how many ships you can buy from another empire, especially the one you were at war with the turn before? even if i was diplomatically talented and got rich?
the ships themselves were parked right over the enemy planets. most were able to fight except a few that had to autopilot in stasis back to my one sector empire. even the transports were full.
anyway, by horse trading i traded a few techs to the one race, to get more techs from another race, and then sold them all to the minors. eventually in the middle game, my one sector empire was at 9000+ in the treasury at one point. eventually war was declared by the neighboring drengins. after a short time they wanted peace. so i gave it to them. then i was mischieveous and saved the game, then bought all their battlecruisers ships AND a few of their transports. so i conquered their outermost planet. then they asked for peace again. so i did that, then bought the frigates they had bought in the next planet, and attacked them again. i didn't have enough troops so i couldn't take their planet.
i did the same with the arceans, and eventually they gave me a small gift of money. (about 60) it was funny because the map was about 70% arcean yellow. the other nations except the drengins gave me small bits of $$ too, because i had the biggest military fleet i think.
should there be a tonnage limit to how many ships you can buy from another empire, especially the one you were at war with the turn before? even if i was diplomatically talented and got rich?
the ships themselves were parked right over the enemy planets. most were able to fight except a few that had to autopilot in stasis back to my one sector empire. even the transports were full.
