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Hi all

wow, i played this game like 15 years ago but got frustrated because of all the crashes (I feared a bit for my shiny 486 SX-33

Now I tried to play it again but it is so damn hard!

You 'guy playing it in 3 hours'?! k: Are you kiddin'?

My main problems are all the bugs, :wallbash: but later to that.

First, after several tries I thought about the following starting strategy:

Increase tax to 'oppressing' or 'very difficult' as fast as possible. After 2 seconds or so the next day comes and you get a bit more tax that way. Get 2nd builder and upgrade her for about 20k (later it will get more expensive).
Build 3 additional derricks and maybe one mine (you have one mining droid in stock).
You can keep the tax for one or two days on 'oppressing' but then your people become 'neutral'. Now leave the tax on 'very difficult'.
Just fast forward in time and get 250k money while your mines and derricks produce. By achieving this money your population should be around 35k. New Earth supports 38k people without additional buildings I think (just check the other post in this forum).
Employ Klatoo (3rd scientist), this saves 15k for the middle scientist plus one upgrade for the colony-research (worth about another 35k).
After this research and exploration with satellites (first pilot should be sufficient).
You might feel being behind but I think that it shouldn't be a problem.
You can get very soon new colonies (mine on Penelope and a mine on, hm, I forgot, well, the grey-brown planet has a good moon with energon, after that a colony on Mir and probably on Apollo and after that on one of Jade's moons) and there should be sufficient time to get all the research done, contact with the aliens on Jade and an economy running before the Morgruls attack.

So much for the theory.
Unfortunately I cannot try this out as a bug always prevents me from shifiting resources into the transfer ship.
I recognized however, that there is red painting in the left frame of the cockpit-screen (when you fly your spacecraft). Maybe the bug occurs because I take the 3rd scientist first?

Does anyone know anything about the bugs and how to avoid them?

This game rocks so much (and it indeed got personal for me! ) that I really want to play it...

By the way: I'm using dosbox on my old Win89SE notebook

Thanks for any ideas or comments