Hello all!
I am an old school MOO2 and BotF (ST:TNG Birth of the Federation), still play BotF from time to time and been looking for something special to rival the deep strategy and economy management.
I have been watching Gal Civ 3's development and waited until it went on sale on steam - which was last weekend!
Been playing alot and I have to say I love it! Really good.
I have a few questions, primarily on planet makeup.
I have mastered production! Spam industry on homeworld, fill the whole planet up. Upgrade. Research. I had my homeworld once on up to 600/700 industry output and could easily pop out Frigates in 1 turn.
My research planets; at first I went the same, full on research. This works fine, research is not a problem. Slow to build the buildings but I used startup money to buy most and would wait until homeworld had 1 turn production capacity for colony ships and then spam them.
My problem is INCOME! I have done full on Market planets but they don't seem to keep up with the pace.
I figure RAW PRODUCTION value is incredibly important,and that's the value that's multiplied - I then noticed my population was a bit small, and thus raw production value lower so perhaps this was why the money wasn't coming in.
I find the 'economic stimulus' production pretty useless/negligble. It doesn't have much effect on overall production.
I started a new game,and have got 3 industry, 3 research, 3 economy planets (picked by their stats ofc)
My main query is how do other players balance their planets? What's the common strategy? Do you have 1-2 industry rest research? When pop caps out do you destroy one building and install a farm? I don't have any morale problems (any more!) as I pick +2 content as race characteristic and like the Patriotic trait too.
I haven't touched the ship maker yet - though I love the look of it!
Also, my next question! I want regular multiplayer games, with reliable people. I know these games in multiplayer can take awhile to reach a conclusion and it needs dedicated players to see it through. Where to go?
Any other newbie tips are very welcome - though I crasp 4x games very easily (I think)... I used to write strategy guides and the like for MP BotF games!
Look forward to being a more active member of your community 
Kind regards,
Cajee
RSE_Dissy (to those here that maybe familiar with botf- if you are- you probably know me!)