RemingtonRyder

Reply to Current AI sucks in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I'm also puzzled by a lack of development but in my case it's the Yor who have simply abandoned their colonisation efforts after snagging just one planet outside their solar system. And yet in a previous game on a lower difficulty (I wasn't being challenged enough) they had no trouble expanding at all. The Torians have an edge as far as grabbing planets goes and therefore they can create a pretty robust economy. However a large empire without an adequate fleet to defend it makes for a

Reply to New Minor Races appearing in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

This is one of the reasons that I play with Tech Trading and Tech Stealing off. That way the minor races can't trade away their ridiculously large library of techs, nor can they give one up when they get conquered.

Reply to Latest Update WTF in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Perhaps this is a little too obvious but when you're running short on credits, you should stop spending. Unless of course the money is going toward things you need to improve your bottom line. With maintenance of facilities being higher than in DA or DL, you should only build what you can afford to run, and demolish it when it's no longer useful. Keeping all your tiles full doesn't help if your income is being almost entirely sucked into maintenance. Newer buildings can be more cost-

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

One thing that would be really cool for building up fleets, is a filter on the colony management screen to only show those colonies that have a certain rally point set.

Reply to Please slam my game in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]The only thing i can think of is to slightly overhaul the espionage system so we can learn without shutting down a tiles contents.[/quote] I would like to be able to place a spy in infiltration mode like this poster is suggesting. Because they're not arousing suspicion by throwing a spanner in the works, they should also need to be detected by a defensive spy first before they can be nullified.

Reply to Targeting change? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Well I built some warp bubble ships which haven't got any weapons at all and so far, they haven't been fired on first. Which makes sense really, unarmed ships that aren't giving an attack or defence boost aren't priority targets.

Reply to Why are maintenance costs so high in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Just like manufacturing, research takes longer when your production slider is over to the left. The proportion of your spending as determined by the military, social and research sliders also haa an effect. The initial colony tile provides some research at each of your worlds but if there isn't much funding the research takes a while. When you add dedicated research facilities on a planet, there's more research that can be funded through the sliders. Economic starbases can also give

Reply to Why are maintenance costs so high in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

At a certain point you end up effectively paying lots of money just to keep the extra citizens happy (or if not happy then at least content enough so they don't revolt) so I think the best idea is to work with whatever population will be cost-effective on a given planet. Planets with high population do tend to have better influence so with some cultural improvements they can generate quite a bit of tourism income. However if you're playing a race without many influence options on the t

Reply to Too many weapons (TA) in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

If you control military resources and/or have Attack/Defence racial bonuses, these increase the ship's combat strength. In the shipyard you only see the base combat strength for each weapon type, when you finish building one then you see the effect of those bonuses.

Reply to Why are maintenance costs so high in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

There's a tab at the top of the buildings list that allows you to change between newest buldings, older buildings and all buildings. You're still allowed to build older buildings in Twilight, although the maintenance costs revision does mean that some newer buildings can be more cost-effective.

Reply to Crash when creating a fleet with a terror star in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Yes the planet is meant to drop to 0 quality.

Targeting change? in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Ships that have a warp bubble projector are bumped up higher in the targeting list (and are therefore fired upon first) than ships with far more firepower. Any idea why this is?

Reply to Bugs in Latest Version in Twilight of the Arnor GalCiv2 Forums

Latest version, I'm playing as the Terran Alliance and I've researched the Sensor Array technology. In the description it says that only one Sensor array can be placed on a ship, but in the ship designer I can place more than one which obviously means it is possible to pack a lot of sensor capability into a small space (albeit at greater cost). Bug or feature?

Reply to The perils of multiplayer in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Balance can be a good thing where you need a level playing field. However, making all classes or races balanced can also make them less interesting to play - advantages that can win you a game if you leverage them right make playing worthwhile. One of my favourite classes in NWN is Arcane Archer, and while they're not great at taking physical punishment they can be remarkably good at dishing up a steady barrage of damage if they're in a good party where the melee fighters forge ahead a

Reply to When can we expect to see multiplayer? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

In my opinion GC2 works just fine as a single-player game. My experience of multiplayer gaming is that there are a lot of twits out there and that it [I]isn't[/I] a worthwhile feature for all games because there are always those players who aren't really interested in good gaming, just winning. Until someone comes up with a bright idea for a game where winning can also mean losing without it being utterly frustrating, multiplayer will continue to be a merely average experience. The fu

Reply to Request: animating ship components! in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

I would settle for weapons simply firing in the right direction. In other words if you have a photon torpedo launcher facing forwards, the missile should appear in front of it and then zoom off to its target. At the moment missiles appear behind the launcher and then seek their target. I realise that looks aren't everything especially when the combat viewer is not necessarily indicative of actual battle manoeuvres, however a launcher that looks like it fires forwards actually firing rearwards

Reply to The secret to Twilight of the Arnor in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

In my opinion, it should be the case that ships moving into foreign space where there is no right of passage have to slow down. However, it should be at the discretion of the foreign government to allow that ship to move at a certain fraction of its full move, depending on how close it is to an inhabited planet or base. You could say that the ship in question is being escorted to avoid any potential 'misunderstandings'. The moment the ship makes a wrong* move, it is once again limited to one

Reply to Galactic Civilizations II, Copy Protection, and Piracy in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I'd rather pay full price for a product that doesn't require the media to be dropped into the drive tray in irritation every time I want to play. Have you noticed how there's not a single manufacturer willing to address the issue of CD/DVD insertion being a slow and manual process, while most of the rest of your computer has no problem with changing to the next title you want to play? Folks like Sony who make a living selling copy protection for CDs and DVDs won't score a profit margin

Reply to Twilight of the Arnor: Technology Tree Concepts in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

I love it! This puts into practise the idea that alien races do things differently, like in most sci-fi. I just hope that this extends to ship/fleet combat too, because as you noted above these changes affect the type of ships that civs are going to make. For example when the Torians make cheap ships, those ships are going to have to create a lot of bang for buck or they're not cheap

Reply to SimCity Societies for the PC in Games in Development GalCiv2 Forums

You'll also find screenshots at the official site. WWW Link

Reply to Anyone played UFO: Afterlight in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe the price will come down in a few months - I'm not that tight, but I still can't see spending premium title money on a game like this right now. Well I just looked on Play.com today and they've lopped another fiver off the price. I don't know whether that's because of poor sales or to compete with another outlet's price. I know that XCOM had its share of bugs (like the difficulty level bug) but the level of support given was appropriate f

Reply to Anyone played UFO: Afterlight in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

Well if there are issues that need patching and the developer's abandoned it, I think it's not worth the current £15 price tag. I do not need another Aftermath/Aftershock

Reply to Anyone played UFO: Afterlight in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

I'm keeping UFO: Extraterrestrials in mind. It's not made by Altar/Cenega and it appears to be a lot truer to the XCOM series. Unfortunately I don't have time for yet another game so I probably won't pick it up for a while yet.

Reply to THIS GAME IS PATHETIC in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I can understand the OP's frustration. For a good part of last week I tried getting an old (but still very playable) game to work on Windows XP. But no matter what I tried, it didn't run even nearly as well as it did in Windows 98, and there were crashes plenty. Unfortunately since the developer has since been swallowed up by EA Pains, there's fat chance of seeing a compatibility update. Effectively, old games are being tossed to the scrapyard even though there aren't any new titles that ca

Reply to AI is arming it's colony ships 1.6 Final in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Actually, I found the Krynn putting guns on their constructors (not that it did them much good, heh heh) during my current 1.6 game. Perhaps it's intended as a counter to small ships with a single gun.