Originally Posted by MoneyMan
Oh man, i gotta save for them TAs soon too. I still dont have my first TA. How will the end game look like? Neighbors gonna declare war on each other? Total chaos? It is pretty boring in my system at the moment.
The larger alliance wars will be breaking out soon. These can often require lots of coordination and battle planning. Because of all the diplomacy that has been happening, many alliances will be NAPed so it will not be total chaos.
I didn't have any TAs the first round I played. However, they will definitely pay for themselves in just the production bonus (not even counting the culture, growth and science bonuses) if you get them quickly. If you are involved with a lot of fighting, you may not be able to get any TAs done. If things are quiet, (and you can find partners within your alliance), these are very valuable. Right now my TAs are giving me a 54% bonus to everything (and that number will usually only increase as the round goes along - unless my TA partners get attacked and have planets lost or depopulated).
Because of these TAs, my production now equals 519 PPs/hr (in spite of a racial production malus that I have).