Have you tried turning off the software mouse cursor? When the game was released that solved all my freezing issues as the game progressed and I'm not sure if they've fixed that in a patch by now. Its a least worth a shot.
1. You can try demanding money from them by not offering anything in return for what they give, but I don't think it works to well. Othertimes, I've had races just appear with bribes for me to collect without my prompting for being a huge military power. They say influence, but its more than obvious that they are saying "please don't crush us." 2. Not to defend the AI, sometimes it is rather bad about the whole, "surprise attack" thing. How
Maybe if the war party also got a small miniturization bonus, then they'd be effecitve. +Hp has its random values, but to be able to produce superior ships in general seems to be a good bonus to the "War Party." Of course if they get elected against you that could seriously fudge your ship designs, but hey, more reason to not screw up your election cycle. Populists diplomacy allows for diplomatic domination of most other races, even without
For tech development, I typically see what the AI's are researching, and then follow up one or two paths in a focus to trade to the AI. Odds are they will spread their research a bit, allowing you to trade your higher level techs in one field for many basic techs across the other fields. The diplomacy branch is good for this, as it allows for you to get better deals. Otherwise, just make sure you don't focus on the same weapon and defense, as you would
I've found an issue that makes my game a little less enjoyable, and is certainly looking into. If I use the software cursor tool to make the cursor fit the game, my CPU always runs at max, causing sound/video skips at times. When I turn it to hardware, I get the regular windows cursor but without the performance issues. Seeing that a cursor shouldn't take up my entire computer's resources, it appears to be worth looking into. This would als
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