Centrifugal force does not exist! It is a fictitious force that shows up in a rotating reference frame. It is not a real force, the force you are looking for is called centripetal force. It's where a rotating object is split into two vectors, radial accel and tangential accel....it's kinda long to explain so I suggest looking it up before more people throw about the wor
1. You already get the assets of a conquered civ - their planetary improvements 2. The US went off the Gold Standard in 1972 or 74 - BTW, from 1933 until then it was illegal for US citizens to own gold other than US coins minted prior to 1933. Other countries could redeem dollars for gold ($35/troy oz). Today, nobody's currency has a physical backup - it's all based on faith (believe it or not <img src="http://images.stardock.com/sd_com/smiles/Smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absm
I think I understand where you're going. I have noticed that there is a reasonably large (or at least vocal) faction of players that think tech trading makes the game too easy. My operational concept is that tech trading is just an overlap area covering functional aspects of my economic strategy and my diplomatic/warfare strategy. Where some of the exploitation can occur is that the AI is constrained to honor the relative values of the diplomacy and other relationship sco
Easiest way is to highlight (left click) the ship and select it's destination (right click on space)
No, having at least 1 attack point for attack assist and at least 1 defense point for defense assist has been there from the start
Until you end the war, you could only trade techs with the evil races on the black market, at inflated prices. Or at least only with races of your declared alignment But seriously, the AI should be able to recognize &/or remember actions that show you can't be trusted or are so unpredictable it amounts to the same thing. Of course,
Amusingly, recent studies are showing Einstein is wrong. Light emitted from stars shortly after the creation of the universe was found to be traveling faster than our current light constant. In short - the constant c was larger millions of years ago. Since a constant cannot change, this would nullify (or require significant revision to) all we know about field theory.
I contend that it is the first act of selling the technology to an external party, not the clearing house itself, is what removes your control as to who buys what you have researched or otherwise acquired. General techs, yes - Trade goods, no Unless there is a civ that hasn't gotten a general tech and I wish for them to have it.
My cash problems usually happen later in the game. For several turns I'll lose loads of money then suddenly make money, only for it to flip again a turn or two later. This seems to happen even if I don't have anything in the build queues, so if I can get my planets to be self supporting then I know that my money problem is else where. It may be
Actually, conquest's calculations are only correct for C, speed of light in a vacuum. In general speed of light varies the same way sound does, and light is affected by gravity as well. Picky, picky. Since we are talking about outer space, which for all intents and purposes IS a vacuum, and not, say water, El Conquest's diligence is appr
Nope - there is a major difference in the method you have to use in developing your planets between the two games. In GC1 you could build all of the improvements (1 time)(except 1 of a kinds) on every planet regardless of the planet's quality. In GC2 you are limited as to the number of improvements you can make on each planet, as well as having the ability to build multiples of types of improvements. To automate this you would have to have a large number of scripts (individual governors) to s
I disagree - particularly as regards the trade goods - I am very particular as to whom I wish to license the use of any goods I develop &/or acquire. Selling it to a central clearinghouse removes any control I have as to who buys what I have researched or otherwise acquired.
Really nice work - will comment further when I get a chance to review - thanks for putting it in a spreadsheet
I think you all have missed the importance of having trained soldiers holding regular jobs - the Reserves. I would think a sliding scale or percent active duty to reserves to non-trained civilian selection would resolve the issue between taxpayer hit and soldiering bonuses. (Although reservists do tend to make more responsible and productive employees ) Additionally, I would think that if a invasion by a
#96 Morghenes Argument No.1: There must be balance of power between government and its citizens. What?? Now sorry, in the USA you will achieve just nothing with a barrel. As long as you don't elect Osama as your next president the US remains a democracy, in wich you only achieve power by convincing poeple of your Ideas, participating in political parties, by ca
Cikomry said: And why can't the Background checking be used to check who has access assault rifles? (I mean, who need an assault riffle to defend himself?!) There is a requirement for purchasers from licensed firearms dealers to pass a background check - This is done at the time of purchase. Establishing and maintaining a registration database has impacts in the political philosophy part of my answers above; 1. If the location of all firearms are known, then c
No118 (post 39) said: In fact, Gamma waves have long wavelengths, which means that most of the energy would pass right through you Just for correctness, Gamma waves have High Frequencies and Short Wavelengths - they lie well above visible light on the spectrum. The rest of the statement, pertaining to the penetrating nature of the waves, is correct, although you have to remember that Gamma rays, being Ionizing radiation, will cause net radiation exposure based on the intensity of the
Cikomyr said: And can someone explain to me why the 2nd amendment is being so well protected? (quote function inop) There are a couple of ways to answer this, so bear with me 1. A simple answer is: Because it is being so vociferously attacked both within the US and by foreign interests (see info about the proposed UN treaty banning individual ownership of firearms worldwide). This would result in only 2 types of people &/or organizations having firearms - governme
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Only the race that owns the building representing the trade good has the right to "license" the use of the trade good to another race. Since you bought the use of it, (and not conquered the planet the building sits on) you don't have the right to license to anyone else, (no piracy allowed)it won't show up on your trade screen. Also, since you and the Dregnin have the use of it, it doesn't show up on their side of the trade screen (only things that one side has that the other doesn't have shows
Not to put too fine a point on it, but robbers and thieves both steal (take that which does not belong to them) - the main difference is whether the victim is present at the time.....
In GC1 the creativity increased the chance of getting the 25% boost in research on your current tech when you got the "unexplained" type of anomoly, vs the "what a waste of time" message. I assume it still does, even tho there are more kinds of anomolies in GC2 (I've only hit it once in GC2).
Zanato - LOL And how about something mentioning the chocolate-covered Thalians?
(2) When giving a name to a ship model while or after designing it, auto-erase the "new model" string that's in the box. (3) When changing the name of a ship, planet or starbase on the other hand, don't auto-erase the old name because often enough it'll be a simple change or addition. If you highlight the "new model" string before typing
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