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Reply to AI isnt very smart.. it Cheats in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

My experience has been slightly different. I suspect that the AIs can see what I can see. In my most recent game, twice, towards the middle of the game, I found a resource on the other side of the galaxy (huge galaxy). In each case, there was a mass rush of construction vehicles to the resource directly after that (the first one I was beat, the second one was closer to my colonies). I doubt multiple AIs simultaneously discovered the resource when I

Minor Bug List in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Many of these are not new, but they remain. Nothing dramatic. 1. The minor civ AIs seem to really like influence. They build lots of embassies and take over influence resources. Unfortunately, it does them no good, to my knowledge. 2. When I took over a planet this morning, the governor, to my surprise, had auto-upgraded an enhanced factory to a manufacturing center. This was surprising because I did not have the technology.

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

nayotake: there's a governor's screen that allows you to set starport builds (same place as globally setting rally points).

Reply to STICKY: EASY TWEAKS to make the game better for you in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

1. Name mining starbases after the resource they are mining. (Morale Mining SB 3784 v Mining Starbase 3784) Both player and AI. 2. Simple way to select all the ships at a square once I've selected one. (I may just not know it) 3. In governor's screen, way to say "All ships producing Foo, set your rally point to Bar". (this probably exceeds the one-hour rule) 4. Sort planets by orbitting ships (sort by total attack+defence of orbitting ships). Would help both

Reply to Death of a species doesn't instill realism in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

From GC2_Conversations.xml, there are 4 surrender text types, based on surrender to player or non-player and a peaceful surrender v. "longwar". Each surrender text types varies by morality (i believe the surrendering race's morality). Surrender to player after long war varies also varies by race (drengin surrendering to humans and anyone else(?) surrendering to humans have special text).

Reply to Player submitted proposals for U.P. council in GC2? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

An alternative to submitting a proposal directly would be to vote on the question to be asked at the next meeting (maybe at the last UP meeting, maybe a few weeks before). This gives influence without eliminating the randomness. I particularly like the idea of knowing the proposal to be put forward (independent of voting on the proposal). You could lobby for particular votes or negotiate influence for voting a particular way. Cheaper than

Reply to Galactic War / Alliances in Diplomacy Stardock Forums

The required specs and suggested specs are in the draft manual: Link

Reply to GalCiv II: User Manual Draft 3 in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Do not see "Atlas Sling" and "Devastation Beam" in starbase weapons.

Reply to starport in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Delete does not appear to permanently erase designs. At least, I always delete obsolete ship designs, and I have ships coming back from old games all the time.

Reply to Multiple Minor Bugs/UI complaints in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

Agreed, Phoenix. It's easier in the beginning when I don't have defenders on the planets, so the new ships pop out. Later in the game, however, most planets have defenders (at least, of the ones developed enough to be useful to build ships), which makes that not so useful, making that technique not so useful. Regarding another item, my thought from last night regarding the research display was the ability to display only techs of a give

Reply to Cheats in Gal Civ II in Ideas Stardock Forums

Haven't tried the cheats in the game, but you can also edit the race files to give you arbitrarily-high bonuses.

Multiple Minor Bugs/UI complaints in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Most of these have probably already been fixed, but here goes: When I click on the last "next" in "new game" (when it starts creating the universe), I get six (6) click sounds. Minor races which have been eliminated are phantomed in the diplomatic pages. There is an icon (the "unknown" icon) for the race, but clicking on it goes back to the first minor race. Loading a game eliminates these phantoms. Minor races begin with all tech

Reply to Silent Surrenders? in Bug Reports Stardock Forums

I've had this happen as well. The problem, Phoenix, is that you get new planets to supervise, but no notice. When a AI surrenders to another AI, you should be told as well. This case, howver, is more problematic: "Leto I builds 0 Freighter Foo? Where'd that come from?"

Reply to CTD when capturing another race's planet -- level 0.12 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Out of curiousity, have you gotten the "conventional" method to work yet? Every time I try it, I get attacks and defenders with attack 0 weapons. This combat takes, um, awhile (i.e., no change in troop counts in ~1 min. Obviously, this is wrong behavior for the program (should recognize this as a tie), but have you gotten troops with non-zero attack ratings or are you using a different method?

Reply to Still CTD with 0.12[b].002 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I have an nVidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400 with 32MB that runs the game successfully. Well, it can start a game. Oddities do happen, especially on the ship design screen, but even that's useable (sometimes takes a few tries for it not to interpret "save" as "remove life support module"). Had not even considered the video card as a possible cause. Hmm....

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Beta 1 Notes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I tried switching to full-screen mode to get rid of the turn missing problem (did not work). However, I noticed some weird things with graphics while crying over the lost game. I can't figure out if this falls into the "too early" camp or not, but too early seems better than too late. Firstly, the boundary can look odd close-up: Note how curves in the boundary cause un-even fill (appears to on

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Beta 1 Notes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

No, Lucky Jack, I haven't really played GC1. I've played the demo version a long time ago, but I recall little (other than the demo was too short to get a good sense of funness). If "planet management" == "colony screen", the screen looks fine as an information display (information about pop growth might be helpful, although it's unclear how population helps at this point), but I wanted to make certain they knew the screen as an interface currently, um, su

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II: Beta 1 Notes in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I realize that the UI is not done, but the planet build screen is painful (I presume this is "new colony screen"). Queueing up which buildings to place on a planet is time consuming (esp when class is high). To order an entire planet of class 20 can take 60 clicks (select square, select building, press build x # of squares). Suggestions of alternates: 1) Make the square ordering more sane. A square needing soil enrichment, once it gets to the top, remains at

Reply to Loading Save games in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It is better. Now, it crashes immediately, instead of consuming all my resources and THEN deciding to crash. Now all you have to do is get rid of the "crashing" part and it'll be great.

Reply to Framerate Sign-Off in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

On startup: Title Screen: 25.3 - 26.0 Main Map: 11.5 - 12.5 Ship Design: 15.1 - 18.0 DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 System Manufacturer: VIA Technologies, Inc. System Model: KM400-8237 BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+, MMX, 3DNow, ~1.9GHz Physical Memory: 448MB RAM Display Info Displ