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MODULES
Spaceship modules require the advance of Superconductor and cost 320 shields each to
build. They exist in three types: habitation, life support, and solar panels. As each module
is completed, you choose which type it is and add it to your ship.
Habitation Module: Each habitation module provides living space, community
services, and recreational facilities for 10,000 colonists.
Life Support Module: Each life support module provides the food and other
requirements for the 10,000 colonists carried in one habitation module. Colonists
carried in a habitation module that doesn’t receive life support have a very low
probability of surviving.
Solar Panel Module: Each solar panel module provides enough energy to power two
of the other types of module. Modules that don’t receive power cannot function
properly.
STRUCTURAL SUPPORT
Structural units require the advance of Space Flight and cost 80 shields each to build. You
must build sufficient structural units to connect the components and modules together.
Parts that are not connected do not work and provide no benefit to the ship.
CONQUERING THE WORLD
When striving to win this way, aggressiveness helps. Your object is to take over any and all
rival civilizations. Note that if you vanquish other civilizations early enough in the game,
some new tribe might develop a Settlers unit and found a civilization using the color
originally assigned to the vanquished culture. In this way, some civilizations “re-start.”
Eventually, if you’re lucky, you might be able to subjugate the entire world. If at any time
you control the only settled civilization, you win, and the End Game sequence proclaims
you the ruler of the world.
BLOODLUST OPTION
If you prefer to eschew space exploration altogether, you can choose
an optional rule at the initial setup of the game that disables the
spaceship building sequences. Although you can still achieve,
say, the Space Flight and Plastics advances, the spaceship
parts remain grayed out on any menus on which they appear,
and you remain planetbound. Thus, your only possible method
of victory is total world domination.
Winning
the game
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