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What use do military DEA's have besides unrest reduction? I haven't built very many of them since I figured entertainment would be better if push really came to shove, and the manual gave me a negative if vague impression of their usefulness. I've been generally trying to do a single government, bioharvest or mining where they are especially effective, and otherwise industry and/or research unless I definitely need entertainment. I get technologies periodically referring to some sort of scanning equipment to be build in military dea's, but I can't recall seeing any of these actually built.
Also, does anyone know why I've seen military buildings and developments seem to have drastically different stated costs in PPs at different planets? This might relate to above, but most of my best industrial systems have no mil. DEA's, those are where I've seen the cheaper costs, and I wouldn't think zoning military would make things worse (stupid military bureaucracy!).
Does anyone know what does it take to have get contact with a race? Is it straightforward proximity as in prior MoO games, or other factors? Are outposts effective in this? I began the game in a large section of galaxy that had only one entrance. I took one side of this and built-backwards, someone else already had the other side. I've now busted out, and haven't yet built any colonies or outposts, but I already have contact with a new race with only my fleets outside the sector where I've always been.
Before I found the first race, I had about half a dozen events occur where my translators were spitting out gibberish and supposedly off the races I had 'met'. I'm also playing as the Ithkul, and I'm fairly sure I customized my race with bad starting diplomacy. Both races I've met so far have had -150ish starting relations and -50 causus belli. Is this what bad diplomacy as the Ithkul does for you, or was all that translator gibberish spammed out over the entire system even to the people I hadn't met yet? Does being Ithkul have its own diplomacy hit in addition to whatever specifics you customize?
Also, does anyone know why I've seen military buildings and developments seem to have drastically different stated costs in PPs at different planets? This might relate to above, but most of my best industrial systems have no mil. DEA's, those are where I've seen the cheaper costs, and I wouldn't think zoning military would make things worse (stupid military bureaucracy!).
Does anyone know what does it take to have get contact with a race? Is it straightforward proximity as in prior MoO games, or other factors? Are outposts effective in this? I began the game in a large section of galaxy that had only one entrance. I took one side of this and built-backwards, someone else already had the other side. I've now busted out, and haven't yet built any colonies or outposts, but I already have contact with a new race with only my fleets outside the sector where I've always been.
Before I found the first race, I had about half a dozen events occur where my translators were spitting out gibberish and supposedly off the races I had 'met'. I'm also playing as the Ithkul, and I'm fairly sure I customized my race with bad starting diplomacy. Both races I've met so far have had -150ish starting relations and -50 causus belli. Is this what bad diplomacy as the Ithkul does for you, or was all that translator gibberish spammed out over the entire system even to the people I hadn't met yet? Does being Ithkul have its own diplomacy hit in addition to whatever specifics you customize?
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