CG are dry once again

thats a tiny amount for miner with that infra level and land/planet count :S

The CG`s left because I went into VM mode a long time ago and then wasn`t around when i came outta DP and lost me C3 :(

I`m not going industy again I do not have enough time to look for all the good sized planets and I am not paid miner anymore. It only takes 1 good player who has patience to explore for 2 25k+ C2`s and even then it`s not real profitable until you have researched to 100. I was making 20 mil a turn with more than 100k land and 120 research levels.........

doubtful he did infernal

yes sure lol. done it twice for verification..unless stephen changed the formula the last year or so

infernal sorry, not infornal.

infornal, did you make sure you didn`t have any other planets while you did this? That you only had your homeworld and 2 c1s? And neither c1 was terran metal? If not, that might have thrown off your research a tad. =P

*gives up, safe in the knowlage he is correct*

UberPansy: i HAVE done it before, many times. so i do know what im talking about

bring to us silt oh nile...

@.@

I guess its the seasonal drought?

EvilAbadayos is indeed correct. YOU do your experiment Infernal.

lol. not true. mins are affected by land size. go make 2 c1`s with diff land size/mins and measure the diff per turn used

its nothing to do with time to bump up industry research...it`s the fact that it is the lowest viable income a miner can go...thus not that attractive to do as minerals sell for more and make more per turn income with more planets.

Also the fact that 50 planets make the same minerals with 100 land or 1 million land as mineral miner, CG miners need land and lots of it, to be good long term

CG`s will come back, many emps restarted and went into agri back when food was selling for 30 a pop. WIth food falling some of the people who cant sti still through a whole makret cycle will pick up and start making CG`s again.

I mean really on RT how hard is it to invest a litte of yor time to boosting industrial research..

i dont mind a restart ;D
as long as i can keep my planets :3

commercial doesnt need the goods, we are not playing UC here.

Goods are only for the popuilation and even high land commercial players dont have more than 400k pop for 400k land, except maybe a few that have 400k+ land, and the income boost SHOULD be minor compared to the comm income thus not needed.

Hell...even goods for tax empires are NOT NEEDED, just highly desirable.

Sinple way to stimulate more CG empires is to make commercial require goods to turn max profit also. I always found it weird that commercial needs nothing to make money. Were do they get the desks, computers, paper and other expendables needed to make commerce work?

lol Commercial Empires need CGs too DM. well the high income ones. i used to always look for CGs. its fun to buy em out to mess w/ ppl now and then too ^.^ i know u know how that feels. lol

sure DM. restart everyody. thats the solution, why didnt i think of that??

bots are unbalancing, just RESTART all these commercial empires, make a REAL market with supply and demand

Yeh lets hav a bot post some up ...