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TheFrozenOne

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TheFrozenOne

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13 years ago

Jun 20, 2012, 2:59:55 AM

I just have some small questions about various game aspects; in particular, combat related.

1.)Does flak benefit the entire fleet and does it intercept missiles not aimed at the flak-wielding ship?

2.)What is the difference in damage between lasers and kinetics?

3.)Why does the influence radius of certain systems decline despite not being affected by an enemy's influence?

4.)Since combat is ship-to-ship, does a ship find a new target if one of their previous targets is destroyed?

5.)Do random events expire or are they permanent? If the former, what is the expiration time?

6.)What is more effective, stacking industry and putting 50% toward science/dust or directly building science/dust related things?

7.)What determines when, where, what, and with who systems trade with?

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davea

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davea

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13 years ago

Jun 20, 2012, 3:24:47 AM

1. No. 2. None. 3. Starvation. 4. Yes. 5. They are supposed to, but some may fail to expire due to a bug. 6. Taxation is complicated, see the tax thread in the strategy forum. 7. See the trade thread in the strategy forum.

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VIPadder

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13 years ago

Jun 20, 2012, 12:51:00 PM

TheFrozenOne wrote:
5.)Do random events expire or are they permanent? If the former, what is the expiration time?

They last for 20 turns (I've did some searching in the save files, and they all have value 20 or 1, tough i don't know what the 1 is, since none of them lasts only one turn)

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Marthnn

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13 years ago

Jun 20, 2012, 4:18:01 PM

TheFrozenOne wrote:
3.)Why does the influence radius of certain systems decline despite not being affected by an enemy's influence?[/QUOTE]

From my experience, influence radius depends on population and can be boosted by various bonuses, but it is also affected by System and/or Empire Approval. Every time I forget to reduce taxes after gaining a system, and pass a turn with empire approval at content instead of my usual fervent, all influence radii decrease a little bit, only to re-expand when I'm back on fervent.

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13 years ago

Jun 23, 2012, 8:13:59 PM

Marthnn wrote:
..but it is also affected by System and/or Empire Approval.

Thank you for posting this bit of info. I have noticed on occasion I have an empire-wide reduction in influence. Dropping approval would explain it.

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