Ahzi Dahaka

Reply to Weapon RP costs analysis in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Those are some nice charts and all that you've made, but let me ask you this: What do you think of the actual gameplay ? Unless you can tell me how this is having a negative effect upon the game experience, I don't see what the problem is. Regardless of that, though, you very well can't reach a real conclusion until you factor in all the factors; the cost to build the weapons on a ship, sizemods, the nano-ripper, psionic weapons, as well as how all of it co

Reply to Who is the most powerfull cuvilization inspire you! in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

The Arceans, Altarians, and Torians always spread like the plague. The Drengin often do pretty good, and the Iconians and the Yor are overall average; but the Korx almost always get taken over early on, the Terrans always end up struggling, and the Drath and the Thalans might as well be minor races.

Reply to Surrendering needs an overhaul (ships) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

There is a problem that would come with that, unfortunately. Imagine this scenario: The Drengin and the Torians are at war, and the Drengin are about to win; thus, the Torians surrender, and it happens to be to you. That's nice and all, except you now find yourself with a number of loaded troop transports that are sitting in the middle of Drengin space--and you're not ready for a war yet.

Reply to Customizing Planet Names? in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You can, but who wants to go around and rename every single planet in a gigantic-size galaxy with abundant planets? I used to name the worlds that I would colonize, but I stopped because it would get time-consuming; when coming up with names as you go along, you tend to want the planets around a star to have a theme in their names or something, and you end up wasting time thinking up names when you could be actually playing the game. I suppose it would be possib

Textures/Images Scrambling in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Well, I've gotten kinda tired of living with this, and I haven't found any information regarding it, so I've decided to go ahead and post this. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, many of the textures, thumbnails, menu text, and other images in the game will end up scrambled-looking, resembling nothing like what they're supposed to be. Just look at the following picture, really: <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v186/Ahzi_Dahaka/GalCiv%20II%20Screens

Reply to AI masses ships when planet flips - phantom AI rally point? in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

In one game, the Arceans kept sending freighters to my homeworld and just leaving them there, because they had already maxed out their number of trade routes (that's the only possible explanation, anyway). It got so annoying--having several freighters clogging up my space for no reason--that I started buying them all up, and then used them to establish my own trade routes, or upgraded them to constructors. They never did stop building freighters and sending them over, either. Hopefu

Reply to Let slip the rodents of war in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I have yet to see a minor race go on a military offensive, but I do get random events where a minor race's spies steal all of a major race's technology at once, and indicate their willingness to sell it to you for the right price.

Reply to Who Wants a Carrier Poll to Settle This in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

It's unquestionable that carriers would add a new dimension to gameplay, to the point that it's arguable that they should have been in GCII in the first place. There's just no denying the sheer impact carriers have made in naval warfare ever since WWII, and there's no real reason to believe it would be any different in space. The problem is that the game mechanics of GCII were not designed with carriers in mind; as such, finding a way to implement carriers into the game as seamlessly

Reply to Post Your PC SPECS in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

2.12GHz AMD Athlon XP 2800 1.5GB RAM 80GB HD 256MB ATI Radeon 9600 SoundBlaster PCI512 Samsung DVD/RW Combo

Reply to GalCiv2... on earth? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

It's called Civilization--and while it certainly doesn't have the components system, Civ IV is definitely moddable enough for someone to make one.

Reply to Huge planet quality, pictures inside! in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I once had a planet with 49 PQ... Theoretically, the maximum is 72, since that's how many tiles there are on a planet.

Reply to What was your first love TBS game? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

First, my Uncle Bob introduced me to Civilization. Not too long after that, he got me hooked on Colonization. I found Master of Magic by accident years later, and it's the most addictive one of them all. I also played both Civ: Call to Power games (which were neat, due to the Public Works system and the futuristic stuff), but they soon started collecting dust when I got my hands on Civ III. Today, I've got Civ IV, and--of course--GalCiv II. They're still nowhere near as

Reply to Feature request - insane galaxy size in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

My computer's 2.1GHz with 1.5GB DDR RAM and a 256MB Radeon 9600. I play abundant everything in a gigantic galaxy with 9 opponents. Saved games take pretty long to load; but once things get running, it's pretty much smoothe sailing. I can't say I really need or want anything larger, though. Not yet, anyway...

Reply to Carrier Ships and Auto-Ship Naming for next v1.3 in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

While I believe that carriers would be a load and a half of fun, I don't believe that they're really very feasible for GalCiv II, given the gameplay mechanics. It's probably best to have them in GalCiv III, so that a new combat engine can be built that's capable of giving them a viable strategic and/or tactical significance. ...Oh yeah, as for auto-naming ships: heck yes! The current naming method does literally nothing to differenciate one ship from another, and it's annoying to h

Reply to Mods - Besides TV Show (We all love StarTrek, Babylon 5, StarWars, and Stargate...but...) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Star Control. Sure, each race only has one "hull"--but they're each so unique that it'd be cake to make up more hulls and jewelry in the same style. You could make some sweet scenarios out of it, too... Rise up against the Dynarri, the First Doctrinal War, the invasion of the Kzer-Za, the Second Doctrinal War, the Yehat Revolution...

Reply to Not being a member of the counsel in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In the Middle of the Earth, In the land of the Shire, Lives a brave little hobbit Whom we all admire...

Reply to No Music in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Sometimes, when I start up the game, the music plays very, very softly. When that happens, I just quit and start playing again--then I am properly greeted by that flare of brass when the main menu comes up, and the rest of the music is fine, too.

Reply to Invasion that destroys planetary quality? Permanent??? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I always go for the whole invasion branch at once--the techs are pretty cheap to research (except for that very first one, of course), and the soldiering bonuses you accumulate give you a pretty sizeable advantage. As for tactics, I usually go for Information Warfare--since it weakens the enemy, strengthens you, and leaves you with more population on the planet when you win--but when morale on the target world is high, I go for Mini Soldiers.

Reply to Drath and Thalan in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The Arceans and Altarians are the big spreader-outers for me, although recently I think the Iconians have started swapping places with the Altarians in that regard. The Yor, Drath, and Thalans seem to be less intent on spreading out as much as possible, although the latest game I started is seeing the Drath acquire a good amount of territory. Really, though, all I know is that I hate the Arceans and Altarians/Iconians with a passion.

Reply to My complaint about Lord Kona in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

It will certainly surprise some people to hear me say this, but this is one letter that cheese doesn't want you to read. Before I begin, let me point out that I want to give people more information about cheese, help them digest and assimilate and understand that information, and help them draw responsible conclusions from it. Here's one conclusion I honestly hope people draw: Cheese can't attack my ideas, so it attacks me. It could be worse, I suppose. It could shift blame from those who benefi

Reply to influence base in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Eurodisney never caused anyone to defect from their nation and join the United States.

Reply to United Plants Vote and Starbase Bonuses in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

The thing about the existing warning, though, is that you have no idea what the issue that's going to be addressed is.

Reply to How to make a proper upgradable Star Port in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

...At any rate, it is indeed impossible to give add Starport functionality to any planetary improvement, due to the fact that, as was earlier stated, the game code looks for a specific internal name (specifically, the Starport's). This is unfortunately also true of the Orbital Fleet Manager, so there's messing with that either. Thus, the only way to give any improvement such functionality is to have it use the internal name; and you can't have two of anything with the same internal n

Reply to If GC 3 is being thought of> in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

I'd just like to know the rationale behind "conquering" a planet by killing every last one of its inhabitants and having your surviving troops take up residence in the now-empty homes. I mean, really--you might as well just toast the planet's inhabitants from orbit, and then send in your own people.

Reply to Sensor Radius of Military Starbases. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You don't fire a tank turret half-way around the world, either; you use ICBMs for that. Why can't we have ISBMs--Interstellar Ballistic Missiles--on our military starbases? Why not have "Warp Cannons" that fold the space that they fire into? Heck, why can't we have artillery-class ships equipped with similar long-range weaponry? It'd add a whole new strategic and tactical level to the game's combat, for sure.