Kenneth Amos

Reply to Serious issues with Resource points. Do they work? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Ok, that did make a difference. With the Entertainment Network, the morale was 82 at 3208 population. I adjusted the tax slider to account for the increased morale from the EN. Pretty minor increase in morale for going from 90% to 158% (75% increase) empire bonus but every little bit helps. Of course, by the time you can develop the morale resources, you are capped at PQx4 for econ on most of your worlds so the added population cap is only good for invasions. Some minor benefit as well f

Serious issues with Resource points. Do they work? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I've noticed in many of my games that developing morale and econ resource points don't seem to have any effect on my worlds. So, using the cheat codes, I decided to test them. test setup one world - Sol, full tech researched other than final frontier using shift control S. 1. Research resourcce points baseline - 60% empire bonus (base research bonus with full tech tree developed is 60 percent.) earth population 2728 produces 6+2 research. <b

Reply to Opening moves in Strategies Stardock Forums

I used to settle PQ 14's early game. Then I did the math. Population = taxes. At 100 percent spending, each planet gets [(total spending/total production)*planets production] in taxes to spend on production. Population growth (taxes) is fixed, therefore the more you spread the population out in the early game, the less each planet will get to spend on production. The less taxes they get, the longer it takes to build morale/industry/habitat improvements that increase the pop growth rate (