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Wow nice video! Thx u so much! I'm just getting to know this game. I missed it at the time, and now this is so hard for me. This is the best game for my work laptop :)

Pick up Gemcraft for 2 or 3 dollars on sale, super fun, first time I gave up and looked for a guide so far, thank you!

I could not have begun without this guide! I fumbled though Mount & Blade Warband and got the hang of it. Closest thing I find playable. I’m not the best at these types of games, yet. Trading, sandbox, strategy type games. though I made the mistake of joining a siege that I wasn’t able to do much in aside lose my troops and had to go back very far to an earlier save and got so disheartened that I just started playing Paradox games and either failing or getting to the point that my meagre computer couldn’t handle it. My best Elder Scrolls Universalis empire was rather unwieldy by the time the lag was unbearable. So many regions and vassals and development levels and managing stability with religious conversion and culture management… So once my empire (economic or political) in this game becomes too massive in scope, I’ll try to figure out Victoria II. Something about the Europa Engine games that makes them impenetrable to me at the moment. Once I fail at a good run of that, I will be time for Mayhem 3, which I will likely spend much more time in, as I will have more experience managing economic planning and the like. Oh, to be able to live in space, and not on this world.

I'm late to the party, but thank you! This was very helpful.

he jus stays out of range bombarding with the shadows

i was very lucky got both the meat cube and the bandage ball on the first attempt of this method :)

I had a district of a city in a battlefield, but I didn't get the militia reinforcements, how big is reinforcements area?

This is Excelent. Thank you!

nah this is too hard

Well I landed here after my hostile borg like neighbor rolled in with 16 ships. I only had and could afford 8. I got annihilated I thought I must be missing something dust/production wise. This must be it. I wasn't aware this mechanism was so important to gameplay. This wasn't communicated in the in-game tutorial. Thanks for the guide.

Cool design. ❤ Some quests doesnt work at all 😢

Cute you show us the whole battle to just confess after victory thate you never play high difficulty ❤❤❤❤❤❤

You have a good clear voice, and make good use of the mouse pointer in the video. One small suggestion: if you eliminate the discussion and analysis of what does not work/ add up, and add a final page with written tips, the video will be more useful to folks looking to get the most out of the trading mechanic and the video length will be 50% more efficient. Thanks again.

Is there anything you have for specific factions? Or does the faction not play a significant role in how you play?

Does the transport grid trick still work?

Huh. I generally just max out approval and overcolonize.

I’m so glad I found this. I’m about 6 hours into the game and was disappointed at how cumbersome I thought the combat was until I found out about the keybinds. They should’ve explained this in the tutorial.

Im going to try to add time ..thingies youtube says.. even if another person comments they can get added in.... So onto the test 0:00 - intro 0:44 - Show me your skills 1:38 - TAF! 3:42 - Better Ranges 4:27 - Mission Computer 6:04 - Super booster why googled sent me here for cwis... i wont know

I used a red and purple and a red and green, and got it pretty easily. I also let my pool upgrade as much as possible as early as possible for the boost in mana regen, and I was able to get a level 8 gem from the get go

game is free on steam until 23 May

Anyone else here because they can't run X4 : Foundations?

Unfortunately, you haven't uploaded any videos in years. An overview over the other major DLCs would have been nice. Especially now when a big update for the Awakening DLC came out.

tip for anyone in the future, pressing the delete key un-enrages non forgotten enraged waves, meaning if you click too many times and enrage too high you can reset the counter and go back up, super useful info that lost me a few endurance runs before i found it out, also just avoid bombing waves that have a little tower icon/say 'force gem resocketing' it isn't worth it for them, enrage maybe up to the point your mana gem kills them but go no higher

Still helping people in 2024 thank you for producing this content 😊

Very interesting game and excellent step by step how to play guide 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 keep up the good work

Even now that GalCiv3 is done, I find it very difficult to justify the price between the two games. GalCiv3 basically added features that were already in GalCiv2 via DLCs. The ultimate edition is almost five times the price of previous game.

The guy is really good at making tutorials, I wonder what happened to him

Does placing weapon modules on top of the rather than pacing them in broadsides affect anything?

but, who could play this game? Who has that amount of time, and so little life commitments/pleasures?

Very useful thanks.

Thank you very much for this video. I am currently playing ES2 with lumeris and watched this guide because after hours of testing and exploiting excel knowledge I simply gave up on understanding the trade value. However, I found a bit about the food and industry bonus from trade. 1. They are always the same 2. They depend on the plain distance to the HQs 3. They depend on the number of trade routes that pass through the system. 4. They depend from the systen level if the system itself 5. They do NOT depend on HQ system level, HQ system population, frighter number or level of trade routes, own systems pop or trade value (other than system level), it also does not depend on neighbours So in the end it is just about own system level, number and length of trade routes going through a system.. and by length I mean the plain length.. so it does not even matter whether there are colonized systems in between.

2024 and still useful :D thank you

As a new player playing in 2024 these tips are still very good. Thank you for this

The main reason people don't like Horatio in general there's allot of minor things you have to manage. The three laws you start w/ the reason you start w/Influence, this isn't a put on Toys for Boys and forgot it type of race. First 7 turns on normal speed goes like this, Toy for boys for early FDSI and Pop on turn 8. Build Drone networks 5^ turns. follow up w/ a Cerebral, (colony ship if found a system w/ T 0 and 1s and /or hot planets. 2nd strategic (production) Luxuries (production) 3rd.. Which is most important for early Anomalies. )) Anomalies are most important to find. Green Bill Act gives 5% FDSI bonus to all Horatio in the System if one Pop is working a Planet w/ an Anomalies. *** yes this can stack *** or... you can interact the infinite Propaganda 1 turn = 15bonus food 2 +25 food. When the first population comes up Governor should be back w/ the +2-F +2-P overseer ability is actually +3 +3 bc of the Dictatorship (1.5x the Governor Abilities) After Reaching Turn when your Governor is coming back TURN OFF TOYS. -10% Production on it You can turn on Green Bill for Extra Food +2 per pop = Horatio now give 6+2+3+2*3+11 Zevali 10(DN)+10(Governor lvl 3) =70 food a turn For finishing Drone Networks Early and taking the +3 +3 FP on your governor .. your actually at 43+12+10 at 65 production. 5 turns for xeno plant to finish. Onto the Micromanagement of making Outpost. -- don't colonize just bc you want to expand... Quality first always. When Colonizing a Outpost the Boost both of the Outpost Outputs that Cost you Credits and Influence... -- Micro-- every 3rd turn Propaganda and (Toys) should be turn on when the Ship from the Capital ship is leading from the Capital. This will increase how much each Load Can take. Essential Higher Food at home = Quicker Outpost... Upbringing above equation +15% Empire and Propaganda 97.75 food.. But-- here's the kicker.. Toy for Boys is your Expansion tech.. When you have something big in the que back home-system your Outpost will be take double the time like normal races. Turn 5 quest is important you take the Production of the 5 ships.., this gives all your 'Original Population +4 Production.' For early fleets 2 Hunters 1 Scout 1 Guardian.. -- take trophies battle card w/ the Rare Earth Foams support model for 20 science per flotilla defeated..

I did my first game without knowing most of these, definitely helps a lot

1 thing you forgot is at the beggining of the game -- Religious vodyani specific law.

these are more so the basics than tips I'd say,

This is another use case for already awesome Pingala. With his +1 culture per population he can help expand borders early and gain some resources faster.

Thank you, it was really helpful!

For anyone new to the game or mod, do factor in sunlight when building stations or complexes. Akeela's beacon has the highest sun rating. Building elsewhere can cost billions more as a result of reduced efficiency.

Something I realized after a few playthroughs of LU is that trade fleets really aren't that profitable in the grand scheme of things. It takes them quite a long time for them to make back just the money you spend of software. They are passive income yes, but in terms of profitability they represent a speck of what you get from station building missions and ship salvage. The only reason I bother with them is just to add some roleplaying flavour. Their actual profits happen too late to be of any importance. Better off putting that money straight into complexes.

High-res doesn't translate that well in this game. The UI isn't even legible on my screen lol. Music in this game is just phenomenal imo. Never get sick of it. I always start this mod rock-bottom as a lowly bottom-feeder. Feels great when you spot a disbanded ship. Many to be found if you befriend the pirates lol.

Idiot doesnt even show how to build the mana farming gem. Unbelievable

Iguana didn't have a trading system installed

i am so confused by these types of games. I will just leave them to you guys, i am terrible at them lol

A set of videos from 6 years ago is now helping understand this game. Thank you so much wherever you are bro 🙏😁

I've just started playing in 2024, running version 3.4 and the ships are still at the exact positions this guide tells us. However, they can only be found at these fixed positions in the Terran Conflict base game. If you are playing the Albion Prelude DLC they cannot be found because derelict ships are randomized in that universe.

My joystick would not work even though the setup recognized it! I restarted the game and it still didn't work. I restarted it AGAIN and it worked

Thanks, this worked well!

Does pausing game stops the timer? Does it keep going regardless of pause?