Noob Comments/questions

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First let me say this game is AbFab. It is simply the most compelling enjoyable TBS ever. Makes being unemployed almost fun. Please license and do a remake of Master of Magic and I'll die happy. ;P

Bless you for the locks on the econ bars, that was driving me insane.

And I had a problem getting SDC to work (because of the apostrophe in my name, oddly) and you folks were very helpful. Thank you.

Questions:

I've only played for a week, but I keep seeing the same 4 minor civs and no others, what do I need to do to increase variety? Is it because I've never player larger than medium on my poor P3/400?

I've noticed on a few occasions that freighters on autopilot don't take their full move allotment. Occurs only sometimes, but is consistent for particular freighters once established....Is there a bug or is there a rule I missed?

The docs suggest I take an income hit at 2xPQ. Given my traditional setup has +30% econ, this seems very low to me... are econ bonuses early game abilities only then?

All the categories in the Javascout Encyclosite should have more explanation. Prod assist instead of Manufacturing? Prestige= proactive infuence? Is there a manual update I missed? Where is this stuff defined? TIA for all further info

Comp always says "fallen behind technologically" in restore report even when in first by a lot.

Bug or unobvious criteria?


morale----> more pop max? also 60@ +20%= 72% or 80%


Why are the Dregin Green? Makes me loopy. Red option please?

Ships good for anything against planets? or just troop escorts? Blockade? Cant I at least drop an asteroid or two down the gravity well? ;)

Planet quality improvement ability seems VERY small..... what is the aggregate bonuses from all standard techs? does the 5% help more significantly than it appears to?

Maybe I'm a micromanagement weenie... but is anyone else interested in an option don't show bonuses in the main domestic pol screen but rather show category output/sliders by default. Is there a hotkey to get to the output subpage?

I got to advanced and didn't see any tech stealing options, how high do I have to go to be able to do (black?) ops?


Awesome game. Thanks for all replies....

Rabe
















~SDC~
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Glad you are having fun.
(The locks are gone for awhile - they are supposed to be in the expansion pack and leaked out...)

Para 3 - Waste kicks in at PQx2, and gets more severe at PQx4, but this is a sliding scale thing - ie. get .95bc instead of 1bc. Massive scale of planets and BC mean economy bonuses are more of a mid-late game thing. (BTW, no one knows if waste applies before or after the application of the economy bonuses...)

Para 4 - He quotes what in game files. However, maufacturing=production; prestige=influence=culture

Para 6 - 72.

Para 8 - 5% here, 10% there... I take it all. There the tricky thing is that 5% does nothing for you at PQ under 19, and gains you a PQ from 20.

Para 10 - Nope - just escorts.

Para 11 - Lots of people have suggested it (and other things) - feel free to contribute to a "suggestions" thread.

Para 12 - again - suggestions. You don't get extra options as a result of espionage (or destab). Things happen or they don't.

Revamped manual on its way.

~SDC~
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Para 3 - Waste kicks in at PQx2, and gets more severe at PQx4, but this is a sliding scale thing - ie. get .95bc instead of 1bc. Massive scale of planets and BC mean economy bonuses are more of a mid-late game thing. (BTW, no one knows if waste applies before or after the application of the economy bonuses...)
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I know. After economy bonuses.

morale----> more pop max? also 60@ +20%= 72% or 80%
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Hm. You mean 60 Empire morale bonus and 20% building bonus? in 1.03 it was Empire*0.28+Building*2.8

Some info about Econ http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=85148

~SDC~
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I second the motion on the Master of Magic II. That was my favorite game EVER until GalCiv. If you guys did MOM II... wow. I bet it would be unbelievable.

-Drake

~SDC~
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
*eyes glaze over*
I never understood why no-one ever made a Master of Magic 2 ....

Plleeeaaasssee try to get the rights and make it, i know you would do a good job =)