Imperium galactica II tips?
Wayne Yao-Wei Fang
I was wondering if any IG2 players might be able to give me any tips on how
to raise money? Every time I raise my taxes, my population drops. I've added
a trade center, bank, and trade port but the amount of traders who do make a trip
to my planets aren't even paying off what I put down to have the buildings
built in the first place! I've seen the screen shot on the IG2 web page and I
can't believe they were able to get to 21 million credits within two years without
a hex editor. :P
Thanks,
Wayne
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Erland Andreassen
bother wasting
> money on them. They dont pack much punch for their cost, and you always
lose some in
> battles... your much better off with more of your heaviest possible shops.
Disagree. 10 fighters doesn't do much, but several thousand is another tale
:) Beside I guess you can call fighters for cannon foodders as well.
Majority of my fleet before Cruisers and Battleships is based on fighters.
Considered your fleet speed is based on the slowest ship in your fleet you
will gain a lot to base your fleet on fighers, cruisers and battleships,
since figthers doesn't suffer from the speed penality. Another thing about
fighters: When I started to play this game I thought cool, the Kra'hen wont
take this planet if I max out with Heavy space bases's. WRONG, to my horror
them all got wasted in a major attack. Later I added xxxx fighters to the
deffending space base's and then the result was much better.
> Buying higher tech units than you can produce can really help you a lot
with a war..
> always check to see what you can buy before you build it.. in fact many
times youll be
> able to get a higher tech unit for cheaper than its worth :P Why bother
spending so much
> time on starship factories, etc, when you can just buy the units?
You can allways sell your tech and/or trade tech with some other race as
well.
> Also, never underestimate the power of sabotage ship from spying.. its an
easy mission to
> do, its cheap, and its very effective (high chance of success). I
particularly suggest
> this if you are shinari.
I usally use my spies for counter intelligence and hunt for spies though.
> And uh.... I've always found that autodesign can suck... if possible, you
want to mix in
> things with paralyzers and such..it helps a lot.
Agree, when getting cruisers and battleships I build some variants that just
is used to hold and disable the enemy while the heavy hitters blast them out
of space.
Erland Andreassen
> Fighters might simulate well, but they suck in tactical combat.
Please learn to quote right ok? :) Because you can't control them you mean,
big deal they deliver and draw fire anyhow.
> Bottom line is, for their cost they underperform.
How do you come to that conclusion?
> Especialyl if you are buying corvettes with yoru cruisers.. of coures that
> reduces speed, which might be their only saving grace.
Corvettes and destroyers might be good for deffensive purpose later in the
game, but when chasing the kra'hen they just slow you down.
> the other problem with fighters is you always lose a little at a time....
they
> also dont focus fire at all (not even "naturally"), whch is a huge
disadvantage.
In huge amounts they pack a good punch anyhow. Of course, you need to
upgrade from the basic fighter to the more advanced ones. Like the "heavy
fighter" have firepower of 40, with 100 of them you have 4000 firepower,
with 1000, 40.000. Now compare the price and time it take to produce
corvettes. I stick with the fighters.
Erland Andreassen
because
> you cant control them, which basically halves your fleet at the
beginning...
You have read the manual right? You can use that little slidebar to decide
what attack/deffence stance the fighters will have. Put it down to leftmost
and the fighters hang around the other ships to deffend them rather than
split up and attack.
> My reason for thinking they suck is because ive often taken on hundreds of
> fightesr with very small fleets of destroyers that are 1/3 or even 1/4 the
cost
> and won with no losses. thats such a high degree of cost ineffectiveness
that
> you I cant possibly imagine they are uesful.
Well, then you took out the fighters yourself, and you don't say what kind
of fighters that attacked you either :) Once you get Cruisers and
Battleships the destroyers and corvettes are just a waste to use resources
on.
Erland Andreassen
> Na.. I never read manuals.. seldom worth it, but i suppose that makes them
> somewhat more useful.
I don't tend to read manuals that throughout either, but my oh my what you
can pick up here and there :)
> I can see how fighters might be useful vs battleships and cruisers (espec
> battleships), since they tend to have lots of heavy weapons taht cant hit
> fighters... but pound per pound, ships heavy on the lasers really outclass
> fighters badly... So I suppose heavy fighters have some use in late game
since
> you cant lug around destroyers very easily (speed)
Its not fun chasing a faster fleet just to discover than he pick one after
the other of you planets because you can't catch up