Dear Frogboy, et. al., Realize that this a hail mary, but here goes: Imperium Galactic War is one of the best free-to-play browser games out there right now. It fills the mmo space niche in a thoughtful and extremely fun way and has developed a strong following from its players. It also bears the hallmark of being heavily influenced by Stardock games such as Gal Civ. However, poor marketing and a lack of development resources has doomed to
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Volgar -- not sure what you're doing wrong, but if you're having trouble with the normal AI, you gotta go back to the drawing board. Don't compete with the AI on its own turf -- trying to outspam the AI is just a recipe for failure.
A few observations from someone who has believed in this game since Elemental was first announced: First let me say that the polish and just general feel of the game has tremendously improved from Elemental. I really think that Elemental suffered from being too ambitious and extra time and focus in the context of developing FE really shows. Everything from the units to the sovereign/champions and the monsters just feels well-conceptualized and game really hangs well togeth
Since the update to .913 (and despite the upgrade to .914), I can't play more than a 5 or 10 mins without the game freezing indefinitely, requiring a hard reboot. I've updated all audio and video drivers and have made sure that I have latest version of DirectX. I'm playing on a Windows XP system, have GeForce 6800 card and SB Audigy sound card. .912 was buggy, and the UI frequently disappeared on me, but at least I could make it through a couple of games.  
I have three thoughts: 1) Separate weapon/armor/accessory production from Unit production. Armaments should be a global resource. A sovereign should be forced to forecast or at least be relatively prepared for future unit production. 2) There should be an incredible wide range of resources that relate exclusively to the production of armaments, with a wide range of "recipes" for the production of armaments to match. Some of these resources sh