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I just won an Easy game on a small map as well, but not the tutorial map. I was fortunate enough to be able to start with a territory that was both one of the strongest and one of the fastest.

I have a pretty good handle on how the economy and military work, I think. One thing I still need to come to grips with is when to change your distribution patterns, I think you want the military buildings bordering the front pushing out military units, and everyone else concentrating on defense, infrastructure, and research. That makes the most sense, anyway.

Also I can’t figure out how to adjust taxes, which I assume is important because one of the rebel factions reacts to them. I’m sure it’s in the manual somewhere, I just have to go back and find it.

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The tax percentage can be adjusted in one of the upper left screens (State, I think?)

I took the plunge, but even on Hard I haven’t seen much of a challenge–I don’t think I’ve lost a territory yet (not crowing over my skill, more wondering about the difficulty…)

I will say that the culture/religion choices impact which enemies are in an automatic state of war, which could create a challenge at higher levels. (Forced to fight on several fronts and such.)

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Just won a game on hard, I don’t quite now where the challenge is, or what exactly I can do differently other than to swamp my opponents. I push some buttons and pull some levers and voila, victory.

There could be more here, but atm I can’t see it.

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So it’s best to refund After the Empire and get this:

4267

I guess try a harder level, or start competing to see if you can win the game faster?

I was going to play this game today, but found out that Has Been Heroes was on Steam. I thought it was just on that new Nintendo console. I do mean to get back to After the Empire before I give up on it.

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After the Empire is kind of relaxing to watch all the dots swirl around, but other than setting up your pattern of building upgrades and declaring war on enemies weaker than you, there seems to be little else to do.

For example, I have no idea what to do if I attack another empire and the numbers don’t go up. So I just stop being at war with them and go attack other weaker empires where my numbers do go up. I don’t begrudge my $6 as that gave me an interesting hour or so playing around with it, but I doubt I’ll go back.

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I found it a tad stressful to push small flags all the time to set new targets, and yes, I still don’t see what difference anything really makes, it seems to cater to , who has most wins, that other emperor game looks cool

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On a Small/Easy game you can set the distribution pattern of your shares, attack targets of opportunity, and sit back and relax. Once you up the difficulty you have to be creating new patterns to adjust to threat and the possibility of rebellion, as well as monitor your fronts.

If you are at war with someone and the numbers aren’t make going up there are a couple of things you can do. Your military units travel one sector before weakening and (I think) stopping completely, which means only sectors bordering a target should be producing offensive units. Put more shares into the buildings that do that, but also be careful not to pursue a type of war your religion doesn’t like. Don’t forget that buildings are neither destroyed or created, and when you conquer a new territory you not only inherit all the buildings, but the patter reverts to your auto-patter that you’ve set. If the siege numbers are going up, check to make sure you’re the siege leader and not just helping somebody else. If you aren’t, declare a Glory war on the target and put shares into aggressive Glory buildings.

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Thus this game is very micro intensive tbh.

4272

Woot! I guess I’m obligated to read these.

Great news, Brian!

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I was going to start a new game tonight of After the Empire, but I guess there’s a patch coming today or tomorrow that addresses a number of QOL issues and re-balances rebellions, so I might as well wait.

4274

Lightspeed Frontier. So I had an interesting trip. I started on the outer edge of the galaxy. Not many places to go. So I’m killing and looting bad guys. Selling parts. Building my ship up. A billboard tells me [spoiler]that black holes aren’t as dangerous as we thought they were. I should check it out. There is a nearby black hole. Why the heck not?

I travel and am immediately caught by gravitational pull. Instead of panicking and trying to pull away, I point my ship right at the center. Ship is shaking, am I taking damage? BOOM. I’m surrounded by blackness. I’m inside a black hole.

Suddenly, warning enemy ships. I’m surrounded and being shot up. Screw this! Accelerate. And why not? Hit warp. Big acceleration and BLAM! I blow up.

I appear in my command capsule next to a station. I get a message, Your insurance company cloned you and paid out your insurance. I have about double my previous net worth. Plenty to buy a new ship. And I’m at the center of the galaxy![/spoiler]

Played lately, @BrianRubin? Hope you don’t mind me putting this here. Doesn’t seem to be a dedicated thread.

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Why would I mind? You can always make a thread if you like. They just made some massive changes to the game, but that still kinda sounds like part of the tutorial.

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No shit? And I thought I had done something cool. I can be very naive.

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Maybe you did, I dunno! Keep playing!

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I will. As for a new thread, I may do that as well. Thanks for your support, Brian.

4279

I’ll just leave this here…

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I am foaming at the mouth. Sorry.

4281

That’s a cool update to Artemis. What platform thingie is that on?

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It will be on Rift (with touch I imagine), Vive, and PSVR. In the video they’re using Rift, though should work cross-platform multiplayer.