"Jeez, wish I knew that..."

[Guynemer]

So in my last game, I discovered (much to my chagrin, nearly at the end of the game) that starbases can be constructed anywhere, not only on resources.

What an idiot.


So what sorts of things have you guys found out that, in retrospect, are big fat duhs?

[Harry Seldon]

Propaganda for individual star systems is set by clicking the Details button from the production screen. You can also see what projects have been built there and disband a colony.

I can't take credit for finding this though. Someone else from Poly showed me how.

[Garth Vader]

Not much in this game, it took a long time to find the details button.

Not GalCiv, but mu biggest "Duh" was in the first Panzer General. I thought you could only upgrade your stuff during the combats, which I thought was dumb, because I basically had to take each unit ont of action for a turn or two to move it to a city and spend a turn upgrading.

I finished the game before finding out how you upgraded before the mission

[Draginol]

Do you guys know how to auto survey? At least you guys have the excuse of not being the designer of the game. During the beta, that feature was kind of sneaked in and I didn't know about it, but I love it.

Click on the "I" button on your ship panel.

[vmxa1]

I know it is there, but I do not know if I should use it or not. IOW how it would go about the survey.

[Harry Seldon]

So it will search out anomalies and survey without having to hunt each one down? That would be cool. If you do that, you lose the cheese tactic of highlighting a ship that's on autopilot and reentering the destination. I'll use it sometimes when my survey ship and an enemy survey ship are closing on the same resource so I can get there first.

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by Draginol
Do you guys know how to auto survey?

I didn't know that one either. I can honestly say however that I wouldn't use it only because I love moving my ships around the galaxy manually.

[yin26]

My biggest moment like this was realizing that even after you research the Alliance tech, it will only appear if the other AI is 'Close' to you.

[Harry Seldon]

I have another one. Planet quality's relation to collectable taxes from a planet. It makes sense that the better the planet the happier the people and the more money is collected but I was more than willing at first to plunk down on a class 13 planet. I couldn't understand why I would build almost no social projects on a planet but it was costing me massive amounts of money to sustain.

[vee4473]

Auto survey rocks.

i think that alot of these things elude us because i think you have to double click the survey ship to see the auto survey option, it isn't available otherwise is it?

and how many actually double click a ship to give it orders.

[Harry Seldon]

If doubleclicking means a left click to highlight and a right click for "Go Here" then I do.

[vee4473]

nice

[Boris Godunov]

Re: "Jeez, wish I knew that..."

Originally posted by Guynemer
So in my last game, I discovered (much to my chagrin, nearly at the end of the game) that starbases can be constructed anywhere, not only on resources.

What an idiot.


So what sorts of things have you guys found out that, in retrospect, are big fat duhs?

No ****! Well, I'll be... Durrrrrrrrrrr

Thanks, Guy!

[Guynemer]

Happy to be of assistance...

Think of how much a happier place Apolyton could be if people occasionally admitted that they didn't know something... especially the OT...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Happy to be of assistance...

Think of how much a happier place Apolyton could be if people occasionally admitted that they didn't know something... especially the OT...

Such admissions of defeat are intolerable.