Decay

Hi all! I've had PR for quite a long time but lacked a system that could really handle GC until recently, so I stuck with skirmish up until now.

I've got to say though, I have no real clue on how to attack playing a GC. I want to do a Core Worlds campaign as the Empire, but I just can't see how to really. Every planet around my own planets have GIGANTIC pirate fleets, and it seems like it would take ages for me to even build up a big enough fleet, and that doesn't factor in the limited money.

So I guess what I'm looking for is some general GC advice. How do I get started?

Any advice would be well appreciated as I very much want to experience how awesome PR truly is!

(And yes, I realize it will change significantly in 1.2, but still)

Really simple question here that has probably been answered before but here goes:

Is there a way to increase/decrease the general build time modifier for skirmish games via the XML files, similar to the way you can adjust it for GC in GameConstants?

I realize this doesn't go here, and also realize that there is most likely a solution for this somewhere, but I've checked around and can't locate one so far, so here goes.

All of a sudden, whenever I launch PR or even FoC standard, it tells me to insert the original game disc. Which is of course already in my drive.

Anyone here know of how to fix this? Already tried re-installing.