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Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain cheats / Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain hints / Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain faqs / Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain solutions Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain hints Hints by Christian Wizzard This game is ... let's say very similar to Master of Orion II. If you+ve played that before, it is not too difficult to start your own Empire. The real-time mode is not too bad; slow it down at the beginning or in important phases. For those who never saw Orion: you can create your own galactic empire by colonizing planets, doing research, conquering worlds and managing your empire. It is a complex strategic and economic simulation where you often have to think about all aspects at once, in short- and long-term plans. I played only the German version, so I am not sure about some original names. By the way, the German translation of this game has many funny or just stupid mistakes. (Ever seen "Schlitze" in a spaceship? ;-). Here is one strategy (there are many ways to win) and some common tips: * I don't play custom races. My created race are the Elarians. They are a proud race of scientists (science +5 in the attributes) and constructors (construction +5) of mighty space fleets. Doing Espionage or sabotage is against their honor (espionage -5). They don't need that because of their superior technological knowledge (weapons, shield, ship & colonial research "high+1"). Alcyone, the home planet of the Quantum Empire, is well known for its great cities and impressive buildings, for the Elarians are a rich race (finance +1). * Starting your empire: better test your starting position. If you have many opponents, check out that no one is directly nearby. Start on the edge of the map. It's important to find several green planets (very fast population growth) in range of the start-position. Build another transporter immediately and send the other off at once (Speed = 0). The research should go 100% on research buildings (750 points, 3750 points) and then on construction. Build these buildings very fast on your planet and start all your new planets with research. This is a very important phase. After some time (hope to have no encounters yet) you can start researching some weapons, shields and basic spaceship equipment like fast tactical engines. But do most research on weapons and shields at the beginning, for they are the most important at that time. When you have some destroyers (don+t research or use rockets -> trash) you should research very fast for better colonizing units (Class C). Never build a ship with old weapons when you found new technology, e.g. the waveshield. * The Elarians don't like espionage, so don't pay any money for it (0%). * Planets: at the beginning, finding and choosing the right planets is very important. Green is best with high wealth, orange is OK when having more than 10 population with at least 3 wealth. Don+t build colonies on red planets in the beginning; they have no population growth. This and efficient research are the keys for your superiority in the virtual galaxy. * When you find a green planet with a high wealth and population, then start constructing buildings and later a wharf in the orbit to build fast transporters for more colonization. * Research in mid-game: try to skip useless things like the tactical drives with defense bonus (takes too long to research). I don+t research any warp drives for more than 2 jump range, because I never needed them. But: to get the biggest ship fast you need to research the neutronium (in the field of shields) and some other warp-engines and fundamental research. Try fast to develop the biggest ships. While waiting for research (Speed = 5) don+t forget to look from time to time after your colonies that they always build what you want. * Computer-research: very stupid. Never stressed on a special field (like "How do I get the best shield in the galaxy?"), it just goes through all topics with 750 points, then all with 3750 and so on. The Elarians are much more effective. * Computer-constructing: again stupid. You should be more clever and specialize planets for research, finance centers (many of them in mid-game to finance your future fleets!) or planets with fast constructing. Don+t build some constructing buildings at the beginning; time is too short. Just start directly with science or finance. Don+t ever build a espionage building (in this particular strategy). * Weapons-research: don't waste any time on rockets and don't research planetary bombs too much at the beginning (firestorm is quite enough). But get some good long-range weapons quickly (Durg-Cannon) and then some nice mid-range weapons. * Research in Space: don+t waste many points here at the beginning. A C-class colonizer is important and a level-3 wharf is good, but here are not too important. In the mid-game you will encounter intelligent mines. To get rid of them, research the mines and then the anti-mine ship, and build it in your bigger ships. Later, you might encounter mines this ship can't see, and so you must research better mines and the better anti-mine ship. * The Elarians conquer other worlds and protect these with the fleets which guard their systems (the guarding-symbol). They don't ever need a planetary defense system, because part of their fleets (two ships) always protect their systems at the borders to other territory. They are smart enough not to fight at too many places of the galaxy at once, they first finish a branch off and then go to another. Because of their superior technology their ships win nearly every battle. * The computer can play very stupid. It has only three little spaceships, notices my big fleet and declares war. Talk about stupidity: the computer is not bad at automatic fighting, but has difficulties with good moving big fleets. Sometimes you have to move your ships to the right position and click again on automatic fight. * Cracking the planetary defense system can be difficult with even very modern ships, so take at least four big ones (4000) and some medium ships (2000) to attack a system with mines, rockets and battle station. * In the later mid-game you should start to research good fighters. The Elarians don't have any problems fighting their opponents, but have to be careful about fighter pods and battle stations on other planets. Now you should fast research all fighters and develop a carrier-ship with some weapons, but mostly eagles & co. * Talking about weapons: the Elarians never use weapons on the left or right side on their ships, they attack always from the front, for they never flee. Weapons for the front are long-range like the gauss cannon and mid-range weapons like the quantum torpedoes. Important especially for attacking mined systems are the point-defense weapons for the ship. Here you should place mostly mid-range or short-range heavy weapons, but many different ones. Don+t let the computer automatically equip your ship! * The computer places two fighting fleets in far-weapon-range. But it is better to move your ships very near to the enemy fleet and then switch back to automatic fight. Then the heavy short-range weapon can be used. With these tactics, the Elarians destroy even four times bigger fleets. * Attacking heavily guarded systems: the others launch their fighters and they come near, your fleet starts. Then press the automatic-stop button and wait for your fleet to destroy the fighters. Then start to attack the mines and the battle station. With this easy tactic you save a lot of ships. * By mid-game you've got many nice planets (I hope), so you should look from time to time to find the best administrator for the fields like ship construction or research. This brings much more points, often 10%. * Damage: in Pax Imperia II, the ships don't just have hit points going to zero when they're attacked, the enemy attacks can damage important systems such as tactical engines (no moving), weapons or warp engines. If your fleet doesn't move or go through the wormhole, try to find out which ship is damaged and scrap it. * Moving your damaged ships back to a construction bay repairs them faster. You should research fast the repairing-drone. For fast Hit Recovery (reminds me of Diablo...), put two repairing drones in one ship. * You will see that having a good fleet will be expensive: after the first research and colonizing phase, start with building specialized finance worlds. When having the class-C colonizer, you should also colonize on red worlds if they are rich (at least x4). This is a good trick to get lots of money, because you have five million colonists at once on this planet. * In the end-game (hopefully you got this far ;-) your empire should attack the strongest opponent, build many transporters and move the front of your systems through the galaxy. With the InfiniShield(tm) and the Corona (great weapon) you can easily destroy any planetary defense system. But in the rush of building a big fleet, look from time to time to see if you have enough money to finance it. If not, scrap the oldest and most damaged ships in the fleet menu. During the end-game, the Elarians have enough research points, so they only build finance worlds (change switch to "finance"). * When playing against 15 computer opponents, you will see they mostly work all together against you, even do research together! But no problem - the superior Quantum Empire of the Elarians wins all battles. Now start your empire and colonize the galaxy. Good luck. Other Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain cheats hints faqs solutions: 1. Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain cheat codes 1. Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain hints |