FF3.6 is extremely out of date. Not only will it fail to render some pages correctly, it also poses a large security risk. I recommend you update to the latest version of Firefox immediately . Download Mozilla Firefox
Not maintenance, build cost. You get a few free starbases, but after that they all cost money to build. That amount escalates until...well, to infinity I guess. Logistics reduces that cost by a percentage. Around normal I've built 4-5 without any logistics cost, after that it went up about 150 BC with each new one. Dunno if it's different on higher/lower difficulty levels. ~SDC~
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i don't think SDC needs to be installed first. I installed SDC after GalCiv and everything worked out fine (no long downloads, install problems, whatever). I dl'ed the bonuspak through SDC and had no problems, so maybe SDC doesn't detect the Bonuspak that is dl'ed from the website. Brad, or whoever works on SDC, you might wanna look here for the answer. ~SDC~
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