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Reply to Are Terrans too powerful? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

By default the Terran AI is very expansionist. They also have a +1 speed advantage in abilities. Their Innovation Complex (usually built on Earth) adds a +1 speed bonus to ships built on that planet. The way to beat them at the colony game is to get a similar speed advantage of your own, but spam cheap colony ships. Taking ability points in Military and/or using the Industrialist party will help there. Focus on getting whole systems, so that the Terrans can&#39

Reply to Retarded AI behaviour in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I tend to find it's not the AI that I need to worry about in a game of GalCiv 2, but the pace of my own development. If I dawdle too long the AI has a military and starts with the extortion, but when I have a military and I'm not blatantly parking transports next to their worlds, they tend to leave me alone. Especially when I'm paying them all to go ten rounds with each other. ;) The AI poses a threat right up until I start winning. I find that toppling o

Reply to MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod v6B (updated 31/08/2014) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

In a couple of weeks this mod will be three years old. Wow, time flies eh? Still going with my latest test game. The recent changes to the weapons have been beneficial to my Arceans, who can do a lot of damage in that first round even with just Harpoons and Neutron Drivers. This leverages their Super Warrior ability, allowing them to take less or no damage from enemies when they get the first attack. Yeah, I'm actually mixing my weapon types for a change.

Reply to My custom ship files in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The retail/Gamestop and Steam versions of the game store your ship data files in the same location. A new installation won't wipe out your existing data folder. When you've finished downloading and your game is installed and registered, you'll be good to go, no backup required.

Reply to [MOD] Autumn Twilight - v2.3 Release in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I would say (based on my latest test game) that the AI is basically sound, but TA introduced quite a few new things which threw it for a loop. High-maintenance, low-yield buildings for one! :P It's no huge surprise that mods will probably get me interested in the beta. Tinkering with buildings and ship components is fun. :)

Reply to Galaxy Size? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'm hoping for two more map sizes beyond that, 'Where is everyone?' and 'I hope no-one is afraid of the dark.' ;)

Reply to MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod v6B (updated 31/08/2014) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Additionally, while I was playing last night I noticed that the Zylons (they have a close copy of the Yor tech tree) aren't terraforming their planets. Must be some sort of tech tree issue. It's holding them back a bit!

Reply to MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod v6B (updated 31/08/2014) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Well as it turns out the AI does still use the smaller hull, just not very frequently. That's good to know. I think I need to get a bit more radical with changes to life support. What I'm going to do is return to one support module per tier, but only the small modules. Basic Life Support will be cut (I will leave it set to require 'ImpossibleTech' in case you want to add it back in). This means that the AI and player will be unable to add life

Reply to How to edit save game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not sure that editing the saved game will help. You kind of have to know what you're looking for if you open it up with a hex editor, and I'm not sure what you would even do to have the game clear out a fleet during turn processing. It sounds similar to this , in which case unfortunately you'll need to start a new game. :(

Reply to How to edit save game? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You may be able to get rid of the fleet by loading up in cheat mode and using the Ctrl-Shift-H cheat to damage it.

Reply to Please vote - GalCiv 3 on GOG in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

Well just so you know, I got a reply back from GOG this morning. Cue drumroll. I made a typo in my e-mail address when I signed up. Feel free to point and laugh. ;)

Reply to Best mods for fixing bugs Ultimate Edition 2.04 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You can only really use one of them at a time, but you can install each of them to different folders to try out if you like. However it is recommended that you clear/backup your raceconfig files out before activating a different mod, because each mod may have different configurations for the default races.

Reply to Best mods for fixing bugs Ultimate Edition 2.04 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Check out the Modding subforum: MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod Autumn Twilight

Reply to Please vote - GalCiv 3 on GOG in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I think in principle that GOG is great for games which have gone out of circulation, but it's not so hot for games which are still selling in other outlets. Your mileage may vary (mine appears to suck). Game piracy hurts future game development and may lead to price inflation or more draconian measures, neither of which are good for the honest game consumer. There is a case for making games less reliant on an internet connection, or more tolerant of an offline status

Reply to MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod v6B (updated 31/08/2014) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Unsure what to do with the new Support hull class. On the one hand, it does spice up the early game, but it makes the original Small hull a bit redundant unless you have a very limited production capability or you want to mass produce a cheap fighter. It does cost one less logistics point than Support so maybe it will see some use. I'll keep playing and see how it goes. :)

Reply to MarvinKosh's Space Weapons Fix Mod v6B (updated 31/08/2014) in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

Test game I'm playing now, the AI is definitely making use of the new ship class. Unfortunately though, the Small class seems to be falling out of favour, probably because it has fewer hitpoints.

Reply to How many resources to capture? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well I play modded GalCiv so if I don't build labs I have hardly any research going. I try to concentrate labs on colonies with bonus research tiles but any planet with five open tiles (so PQ6 or better) is fine. That allows for a bare minimum of four labs and a Research Co-ordination Centre. Because research is affected by bonuses from economic starbases, it does make sense to specialise a particular cluster of planets in research, although the same bonus wil

Reply to Editor in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

The editors with GC2 have a few problems, like adding XML when they shouldn't, or not adding it when they should. I would have liked to be able to see which techs a particular tech leads to, saving me a lot of clicking around. A copy-paste to and from spreadsheet would have been an awesome time-saver.

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="212" id="3413571"]I never said it would be easy. I'm no fool (though I might sound like one at times). The amount of work needed frightens me. Steam has big lead. They were around early. They've been developing for over 10 years. They have the largest user base. I don't think that money is a concern for them. Everything is going well for them, and they are expanding. Nearly everyone who has tried to compete with Steam has had access to mo

Reply to Investigating GalCiv 3 - What are your concerns with Steam? in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

If I was going to buy three copies of a game I'd want a little discount. I mean okay, Steam does have some pretty cracking sales, I will admit, but a multi-buy discount could lead to greater customer satisfaction and reduce the temptation to pirate.

Reply to How many resources to capture? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I tend to fix the tax rate based on the current treasury level, the rate of loss, and the urgency with which I need production to be done. While your civ's economy is most efficient running at 100% production, if you're losing money fast then it may be wise to trim it a bit, just until colonies start to prosper. Basically the idea is to get to the next milestone without the treasury running out and going into the red. A milestone like finishing the current batch

Reply to Please vote - GalCiv 3 on GOG in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="DivineWrath" reply="40" id="3406608"] Its unfortunate that something bad happened to your account. I don't know what that was. Have you tried contacting tech support? They should be able to fix it.[/quote] I did try to contact them. They never replied. I know I have an account because I noted down a username and password! I could annoy them about it again but if they can't answer the first ticket, I don't hold out much hope for them an

Reply to How many resources to capture? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The problem with not having much tax income is that you won't have anything to fund the research produced by new labs, and without research you fall behind the other civs. Growth is important, but you can't keep colonies at 100% approval forever without securing more morale resources or building more morale structures. Generally, take whatever resources you can reasonably defend. You can get the rest in due time.

Reply to Deemphasize Starbases. in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

[quote who="WIllythemailboy" reply="71" id="3413466"] Quoting MarvinKosh, reply 68Freighters spawn a mini-freighter when they set up a trade route, starbases could similarly set up a supply freighter which ferries supplies (production) from a designated planet. This would default to the closest planet which isn't over-committed to providing building supplies. This would make setting up remote starbases a teeny bit more problematic, as the longer the supply lin

Reply to Please make a non-Steam version! in Galactic Civilizations III GalCiv3 Forums

I'm guessing some of you will have seen already but some retail game stores now have a digital download section. I don't know how well it works for them, but in the case of the local GAME store it's a whole shelf full of PC games that would have been occupied by something else. Your mileage may vary.