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From: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Empire 1.33w - problem reading news
Summary: Problems
Keywords: Amiga, Empire
Message-ID: <483@telxon.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 90 19:46:05 GMT
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Reply-To: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
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	Your problems with production are due to time. You said that you
moved things out three (3) days ago, and still have no production. In the
Empire manual it states that a sector must be at least 60% efficient before
it can produce anything. There is no way that you could have taken over a
new sector and had it go to 60% efficient in that amount of time,
especially if you took over more than one sector. The sector efficiency
depends on the number of people (civilians and military) for the rate it
increases. You could have only 2 civs in a sector, and it would probobly
take a month or two to get even 50% efficient. The key to expanding your
country is to keep the civilians at their peak growth range, and to
always keep the minimum number of civilians (32) in each sector. This is
NOT the small version of Empire that is sold commercially, and that can
be solved in a few days. This version will REQUIRE at least 2-3 months
for even a small world. I am presently running a game on a 128x128 world
which has been going for almost 6 months, and has only recently heated
up (in the past 2 months or so).
	Empire is a game of long-term strategy, not quick returns for
spurious decisions. To win, or even survive, you must take into account
the time it takes sectors to become efficient, the speed of the ships
you are sailing (it can take a whole month for the slower ships to
navigate a 128x128 world), and most importantly, your countries
economy. Most beginning players die or get killed due to their country
going bankrupt from too hasty expansion.

		Dave