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Galactic Civilizations

 1. Scouts seem to be the best way of locating any planets of worth.
    Sometimes, if the geometry of the situation is right, you might be
    able to predict where another race's colony ship is headed and beat
    them to the spot. Other than this, send your scouts out on an ever
    increasing spiral and send out the colonists. The scout can be sent
    on a diagonal sweep through a quadrant to pick up more than 50% of
    the area in one pass or send it on a U-shaped course to pick up 100%.
    The path of the "U" can be adjusted to have the scout adjacent to the
    next target quadrant when it finishes. Two scouts could be used to
    map a quadrant in one pass.

 2. There are three factors that affect the economy directly:

    (a) The tax-and-spend icon [$]:

        This icon gives you access to two sliders that control the taxation
        rate and the spending rate.Each represents the percentage of the
        availible that you are tapping into, be it taxable income or spending
        capacity. Set the % at 100 for taxes and you're taking all of the
        peoples' money.  They will not like this. Set the % at 100 for
        spending, and you are spending at your maximum ability to spend. If
        you take in more money than you spend, it builds up in a treasury.
        Aside from overt taxation, your government sponsors inter-galactic
        traders that give you a cut. This helps fund your ambitious goals of
        ....inter-species alliance or galactic conquest. It should be noted
        that Dean Iverson first proposed a model similar to this one to Brad
        and company. Continuing efforts on the part of Steve Lamb, one of the
        beta testers, helped convince SDS to implement this model in the
        game. This is a compliment to Dean and Steve since the previous one
        was a bit...less flexible.

    (b) The allocation icon [three horizontal sliders]:

        This icon gives you access to three slider that control the % of your
        spending that is going into military projects (star ships, including
        colony ships and freighters), social projects (entertainment centers,
        antimatter plants) and research (technology advancement).

    (c) The planets [planets]:

        Each planet can handle building one project or one ship at a time. If
        no planets are actually building something, then you are not actually
        spending any money and any reserve goes into your treasury.

 3. Funding is divided between ships (military), research and social
    spending (planetary construction). Set the the resource sliders to a
    25/50/25 split. This game is driven by technology. He with the best
    tech wins, or at least has a good shot at winning. Getting to Impulse
    as fast as you can is paramount. Now, pump out the colony ships and
    use you're hopefully superior movement rate to compensate for your
    lack of omniscience.  On the echnology front, shoot for Universal
    Translator and then Galactic Trade.

 4. Ways to increase the population of planets:

    (a) Make happy people. Happy people do happy things, and one of those
        things is to increase the planet's population. One main influence is
        taxation. If the tax rate is too high, then the population does not
        grow, and in fact, even decreases. It is not so much that you're
        taxing your people to death but that instead of staying in your
        little settlement, they've joined the Inter-stellar Posse Commitas. A
        planet is a very big lace, and a few hundred thousand, spread out,
        would be real hard to find. However, be careful about lowering the
        tax rate since the population gets even more unhappy about raising
        taxes once they've been lowered than if you had kept them the same.

    (b) Taxation aside, another method is to increase the moral of the
        people through various social programs. Planetary programs have
        primarily three functions: increase moral, increase
        production or other. Most programs have mixed benefits but some
        target one aspect in particular. Example: Entertainment Networks.
        They do not help research or starship attacks, but your people are
        much happier.

    (c) If your people are unhappy living where they are, ship them
        somewhere else; off to war, for example. I've been known to stick
        them in orbit, waiting for the next war. Reducing the
        population of a planet is one way to make the remaining people happy.
        It's best not to speculate why.

    (d) Reduce pollution. Polluted planets are unhappy planets. Although
        Earth First. would not be a good name for unhappy people in this
        situation, the projects your planets are building may have to be put
        on hold to prevent widespread revolt. Consider building pollution
        abatement projects.

    (e) Reform your government. The increased freedoms of the Star
        Democracy and the Star Federation can generate happier people.
        However, if you already have low morale (40% or less), going to these
        forms of government may actually foster widespread revolt. While I've
        not tested it personally, I am under the impression that Imperial
        Governments do not suffer revolts. Or, at least, it has to get a lot
        worse than under the other two forms.

 5. Do not forget about the Resurce Allocation Buttons. The details
    window of the planet can let you fine tune the amount of resources
    you spend on various aspects of your planet. You can vary the
    allocations between social projects (the cornucopia), military
    projects (the open-end wrench), research (the OS/2 terminal), and
    morale (the microphone). Consider allocating resources at the local
    level instead of doing it galactically with the sliders.

 6. Regarding the research path to select, the beginning is easy. Take
    General Cold Fusion, followed by Impulse Drive, then Universal
    Translator and Galactic Trade. Start your trading empire since money
    is the key. Then, pick up Galactic Diplomacy and race for Warp Drive
    (via Antimatter) and Shields (via Deflectors). Then, grab Battle Tech
    I. Above all, trade, trade, trade. Tech and goods. However, don't
    trade Battle Tech unless it's with an ally!

 7. The best way to conduct a war is aggressively. You should attack
    incoming, enemy vessels, rather than letting them attack your systems
    and using the planetary defense bonus as your protection. Cover your
    home systems with one (maybe 2) ships and have a fleet nearby to
    attack incoming, enemy vessels. It can also be handy to leave one
    planet unguarded to act as a trap for enemy transports. Some of the
    personalities in the AI do not see ships sitting in space as a
    vicious threat, which they are. They only occasionally attack them.
    Beware of Draginol. This military commander was tweaked to counter
    this strategy and makes extensive use of stealth cruisers.

 8. To make friends and influence enemies, you have to trade. Other
    routes of influence are the "secretly declare war" option and the
    "destablize" option under the GIA.