I think it would be quite difficult to organize a time when any of us can get together to play.
But i'm glad you guys are enjoying the game. Feel free to let loose with any game questions.

Don't be embarassed about asking questions here or in the game's forum...i've asked my share of basic questions...and actually i am still asking questions and i've had this game for almost a year LOL

Hmm some quick hints.
always have an equal amount of capital ships to escorts.
(CV, BB, CA) = capital
(CL, DD) = escort
So 2 carriers should have at least 2 destroyers or light cruisers.

According to the rank of commanders they can only command a certain amount of troops. Say your leader can command a max of 4 units but he is commanding 6. If those 6 divisions get into combat there will be penalties.
Also when battling in one province the highest ranking leader of the units involved takes overall command of the battle.
So if you have 2 leaders attacking province X. Each commander can handle 4 divisions each. If both commanders attack Province X at once there are 8 divisions involved and thus there is a penalty. One of the 2 commanders will need to have a rank capable of handling at least 8 divisions.

If you need to move units quite a ways away, rather than marching them you can use strategic deployment.
Select the unit you want to move, hold down Ctrl, and right click into the province you want to go to. A pop will spring and should giove the option to strategiclly redeploy there (so long as you control that province)
Strategic redeployment is most time faster over a long distance.

You need to declare war or be attacked in order to attack someone.
To ally with someone you probably need to have close to +200 relations.

If you right click on the sliders in the production screen it locks them.

Avoid dissent (your dissent level is the % up top next to the flame icon.)
You lower that by making sure there is enough allocated to consumer goods. Having enough money allocated to consumer goods causes you to make money and lower dissent.

Don't research technology too far ahead of it's stated year. If you research something 1 year and more before it stated date research is slowed.

Wow there's so much...there needs to be a class for this game LOL

[ 17. May 2006, 12:11 PM: Message edited by: Ron ]

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