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Ah, thank you both for the great help, I really appreciate it. I've only had the game a couple weeks and I'm coming up to speed, but economics was one of my stumbling blocks. A couple sub-questions: 5) How does tourism work and is it work focusing on, or will it just appear on its own as a kind of bonus? One game I played on a medium map, I was raking in all kinds of money from tourism, other games it really hasn't been a factor. I'm guessing it's tied to your i

Here is the situation, I'm playing a game with 6 races on a tiny map. I started off pretty good, the Drengin picked on me so eventually I wiped them out, but before that happened, they managed to get rid of 2 civilizations. Game is going ok at this point, I have a pretty good military and my research rating is only 98, but my economy is making me about 500BC a week, mostly through trade. There are now 4 civilizations left. Now, here is my mistake: I decide to attack the Altarians wh