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Hello all.

I've a few questions:

Is it neccessary to switch from imperial government to something more democratic to survive on higher difficulty levels? I fint it quite problematic to survive at normal difficulty. When I try other government types than imperial I always end up with having to set my taxes to 0% and I may still not have enough support to keep control of the senate. Anyone have suggestions on what i am doing wrong? Do I need to research more crowd pleasing stuff, and build such things too? I generally don't build more than an entertainment center and maybe a news network. Also should I specialize on morale before i start the game? I generally like to specialize on HP, attack and defence, since I play a military game.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Is it neccessary to switch from imperial government to something more democratic to survive on higher difficulty levels
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Lets say recomanded, but you can do it with imperial too

I fint it quite problematic to survive at normal difficulty. When I try other government types than imperial I always end up with having to set my taxes to 0% and I may still not have enough support to keep control of the senate
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Build Moral improvements and spend some money in propaganda (planetary details)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
You might want to consider building the following improvements, which increase your economy, your manufacturing capability, and also morale:

Soil enhancement
Banking center
Habitat improvement
Manufacturing center
Fusion power plant
Stadium
Stock market
Transporters
Antimatter power plant
Economic center

With those I rarely need to build any purely morale building projects. You can also just build a combat transport and take 5B people off, which improves bad morale. If you're playing a military game you'll eventually need the troops for an invasion anyway.

~SDC~
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