Saber Cherry

Saber Cherry

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Reply to AI combat priorities in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Umlaut - the manual's description of combat rolls is wrong. Nobody (outside Stardock) knows for sure, but the formula is assumed by Kryo to be 1-max for attack, 0-max for defense. I assume it to be 0-max for each, since that's more symmetric.

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Reply to Making a GUI to generate custom map XML code in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You can put it in the GC2 library... eventually. If you want a place to host it other than the library, you can make a Geocities website... And if you just want a place from which people can download it for a few days, before the library reviews and posts it, you can email it to me and I'll host it for you, assuming it's no more than a couple hundred kb (compressed). address: (saber marionette cherry(at symbol)yahoo(d0t)com), with underscores instead of spaces.

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Reply to Galactopedia in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That would be nice if it was turned into a modding tool. Just edit the entries, click "Output", and presto... Not as good as a table, but of course it's not designed for modding

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Reply to Fuzzy math and game development in GalCiv Journals GalCiv2 Forums

Forgboy said: One might argue that the social spending "wastage" is realistic. For instance, here at work we have to pay people's salaries whether they're on a project or not. Social spending is essentially paying the salaries of the people who build things on the planet. A good manager will make sure t

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Reply to micromanagement hell? (repost) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thanks, I didn't notice the Civilization Manager before, since I only had 2 planets On the other hand, "Weeks Left" - even when accurate - don't let the player make rational decisions, since two items with the same number of weeks can vary greatly in their cost. Bear in mind that at a 100 research rate, a 101 BC tech and a 199 BC tech will each appear to be 2

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Reply to PQ ability only affects home planet in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Can you give more details? Like, how did you boost PQ rating... and when... and how did you reduce it mid-game... and how do you know how many tiles a planet would have had without a boosted rating? Obviously, +900% would be quite clear, but if the game is internally capped at +40% since anything higher is impossible to achieve with normal rules (or something, I made that number up), it might be hard to notice the effect.

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Reply to micromanagement hell? (repost) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

the 'turns till completion' doesn't hold true at all. It says 1 turn, a turn passes, and the thing still is not complete. Yes, that especially annoys me. Progress is listed as "turns to completion" - which is often wrong, to the tune of 3 consecutive turns listing "1 week to completion" - and cost is listed in "weeks". Why are the real cost

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Reply to Budgeting is STILL Fracked in GC2?? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

OK, but I'll warn you I'm not much of a programmer... I can write scripts and mod-level stuff, but no real code. Do you have a website or something? Yes, but I'm too busy with research now (and too poor, as students are wont to be) to actually make a game. Instead I dream about it at night, and tell other people they should change their

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Reply to Does anyone bother with tiny hulls? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I think they should be slightly bigger and cheaper. But still, they're useful as orbital defense. Military starbase for +(1,1,1),(1,1,1) turns a couple dinky (1,0,0),(1,0,0) fighters - with no engines, sensors, or life-support - into a powerful fleet. But I can't see them being used effectively otherwise. There's also the fact that you can't produce more than one per turn, a common (but mystifying) problem in strategy games. Thus, you sh

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Reply to micromanagement hell? (repost) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Considering you can build/learn max 1 per turn, it is clearly impossible for points to always carry over, so you have to micromanage anything that takes a turn or less. However, I'm also curious about whether resources ever carry over. I'm assuming workers take a long weekend whenever they finish early

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Reply to Fun with data tables in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I have to admit, Saber Cherry, that I had been more thinking of putting the data *in* the wiki pages themselves, as articles... That's better than a link... go ahead and delete my link to their page if you do so.

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Reply to Unofficial Patch-Mod 3 in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

I disagree with the sensor range changes, but otherwise consider this excellent work and am downloading as I type. Would it be OK with you if Stardock simply rolled this mod into the next patch? Certainly fine with me. I don't like manually adding 3rd-party patches, either <img src="http://images.st

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Reply to Fun with data tables in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

These are really useful - thanks! Edit - I wiki'd it under "mods and utilities". Not sure if it's the most appropriate place... hard to categorize.

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