Love this game.... haven't played it since I owned it on CD back in the day.

I'm running it in DosBox and am having a problem... after a while, the colored squares on the planets vanish. I can still build things on the squares, but I can't see what color they are unless I click it first. No idea what caused this. Instead of a planet covered with buildable squares, I just see the planet, and structures that have already been built.

I am using the patch.exe. Anyone know know why this would happen?

Thanks!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Nibs @ Aug 22 2006, 01:38 AM) [snapback]250108[/snapback]</div>*sigh*

It never fails. I could spend hours trying to figure something out but it isn't until I break down and post a question that I figure it out on my own. Press "S" to toggle the squares. I have no idea why they included this "feature"!!!!

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Having played the game for years, I just learned about auto-management, but drastically prefer to do it personally.

-EE

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Elward @ Aug 30 2006, 09:55 PM) [snapback]251993[/snapback]</div>Yeah, the AI can't even manage it's own planets. Why let it manage your's? :P

AAAAHHHHH, this can be a huge leveler, AI managing all but your capitol planet from your empire. I should try it.

Oh well :) I do use Auto-Management only in late-game: Medium and Huge Sized planets are still Microed (it's still a pain when you have 40+, but it's worth). Everything else is on automode.

Wow the game seems so cool I have a quick question: does it work on windows 98 with 90 mb ram?

Also I really hope it works on my computer this is the only time im glad not to have a stat of the art computer.

According to at least one site it should work on a win 95 pc with 8 MB ram...

Just downloaded the game a while ago, its an awesome game! Pity its dead, it has such a great potential, i dont mind the micromanagement, and the AI is bad but i dont mind that too. Its very sad that this game is dead and is abandonware. Ins't there any chance of a sequel showing up? Even if somebody spread the word about this game around somebody might get interrested in making a sequel? Its such an awesome game with great potential, its sad to see great games die out like that :(