Comrade Torquez!
Our economy was hobbled by capitalist wreckers and kulaks in the early stages. But we have sent them all away now to labour in the mines. You must remember our large planet count was achieved more recently than those of the imperialists above us! They have had more time to develop it in their capitalistic manner. We are unwilling to make a shortcut to growth by exploiting the proletariat. No! But now, our shock workers toil away for a brighter future. We do not need to exploit them, for their desire to improve the Motherland and the condition of the great People burns like an unquenchable fire! Like a volcano! You can pour water on it, but it will not cool! Even at the bottom of an ocean, the volcano spews its heat. Our workers are somewhat like that. The spirit of Stakhanov lives on! It may be tempting to see our vast land, and think, it is weak! We can strike at the underbelly and destroy them! That was the mistake made by Napoleon and Hitler. Do not be mistaken! Soviet steel is the hardest steel! Soviet fists are the fastest fists!

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i dont see the benifits of having a pure cash or ressies race and relying on the market, because there are so many resource bonus planets the way i try to build is by using these planets, i would build endu to max 100% OB (because so expensive) octarine to just full built, iron as high as i can and RCs as high as i can - build cash factories on all other planets.
and its easy enough to get good research in both sections of science too - and fairly easy to get good science in the 4 needed sections.
however at times in the last round i really could have done with selling some of the massively stockpiled endurium to get some cash to help with portals and such when attacking.
so i think if the galaxy uses the market right then it can be a help. but i think anyone planning on solely using the market would be a little silly - especially if there will still be the galactic event of market strikes.....

As a small fam I would be happy to sell food at 1000000 a piece. Let's see how long a top family is able to keep the market closed at those prices.

About a week in you could build two more.. (last round)

Torqez wrote:

Why?

The family tab in single player player family rounds just feels out of date, there is no family, hence no need to keep the tab. You can check everything else you need on other tabs, except for the family news (lol), Defense Fund and leader options.

BNRG wrote:

When are we going to see a round where we the players can decide for ourselves what we want to play?

Torqez wrote:

What are you talking about?  This is exactly what the players have wanted, for a while now.  See here.

The last round when we had something similar is when Render made it. Made by the players for the players. Look at that galaxy now, its not even existing....
I agree that Supernova might be something good and that everyone has been wanting to have a galaxy like this for a while, however I feel that not enough players have been consulted about this and that you and the other mods just gave us something that looks and plays a bit like what that OP intented it to be. Long story short, the IC potential is there, but it has too many rough edges.

Torqez wrote:

we can't implement everything.

Yet the worst update ever got implemented because 1  (one!) person (not even a player) wanted it to be implemented. Do you want to rephrase what you intended to write?