I am a new player, and I have trouble understanding this thread, especially since you guys do not seem to agree. For the moment, my basic concern is : If a planet is attacked, do all oribiting ships defend it at the same time, during the same battle? The logistics of fleet organization is less urgent for a new player, especially if one does not know how to obtain a "orbital fleet manager". I have not played a long enough game, yet, to see one of those on
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Frogboy (Stardock) Monday, May 08, 2006 9:18 PM : The other thing players should do is keep upping the difficulty level. The A. "I". doesn't get any smarter then : it eventually "cheats" by getting quantitative bonuses. It's only a quick fix, a superficial substitute for lack of heuristic metaprogramming (no offense intended). T
Its kinda like Girlfriends Can't kill em, or live without them As a girl, I find that kind of off-topic, sexist sarcasm somewhat distasteful : grow up, kid...and join the IIIrd Millennium.
A "geforce 500 video card"?! Such a thing does not exist : be more precise, and indicate the card's driver-version number. Your drivers might be too old. I did experience a black screen (with cursor & voice, like you), but it was limited to the intro movie and the short in-game movies. I pressed the escape key and landed on the game's main menu : but later, the in-game movies were black. It was a problem with Bink video-compression . I solved it by downgrading the anti-aliasing, in th
[Removed. My very first post on this forum and nobody cared to answer in the first 48 hours.]