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Reply to Attack/Defense Bonus Calculation & Ship Auto Update suggestions in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Instead of having a fighter with 1 Attack & 10 Hit Points, we will have fighter with 10 Attack & 100 Hit Points. The effect on game balance is the same Not quite true. The attack value is a roll between your maximum value- defense (effective) - square root defense (weak)- square root defense (weak)<br

Reply to Advantage of being good? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

As kalin said. Evil get a max of 1 trade limit in most games, no help from other races ever, and the fundamentalist event, where they lose most of their planets. Good/neutral get none of these. I start good, work my way down to evil, and xeno ethics back. By that time I'm so rich from my evil event bonuses I can afford it

Reply to Help! someone in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I'm sorry, but you're mildly ignorant of a few things to say the least. Posting your serial number is plain stupid, asking for one is violating the terms of purchase, and abusing stardock is asking to be flamed. All you had to do was make a nice, controlled post, and it would be fixed. Like it has been done. Stardock have the patience of gods.

Reply to Cloaking, Sensors, Missiles and Ammo in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

t'd be much more useful if there were cloaked units that could only be detected by certain types of sensor Original galciv had this. It sucked. so no. Just make ships with 20 moves, same basic thing but much better. Terror stars are mentioned in the code, and the UP resolutions, but aren't

Reply to And how do you colonize & build in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

Farms don't five you tax revenue early on, only useful when you have reached the 5 billion (10 on homeworld) maximum. Rush buying factories means you don't have to buy colony ships as much, and sets you up early, followed by two +12 economy planets (market centres and farms) to support my empire for a bit, then research or military planets depending on bonus tiles

Reply to Issues and Suggestions in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

You can share stabase bonuses between allies. It's a UP resolution, and quite good, those crappy ally ships I have to put up with get souped up a bit. Same as arming transports, they get auto armed. Designing them gives them attacks. However, his point was why these don't appear in the campaign. As I said, If the root of all evil appeared on Earth, would we sit around with beurocracy, debating over strategies, or do something? Wait, I'm in Englan

Reply to No trade and no thief tag ? in Trade GalCiv2 Forums

Erm, How is it hard to do custom races? There is no tech trading option, but no thief would make the top levels of espionage not really worth it. I don't think it will happen.

Reply to Capitals on bonus tiles? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Capitals= bad on bonus

Reply to Advanced Buildings - time to build in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Mini soldiers all the way. Tidal Devastation is terrible. Why would I want the infrastructure wiped? quicker to upgrade stuff.

Reply to Getting really frustrated with all these crashes in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

We don't want a BSOD. That's your computer and not the game. The game will CTD, but I don't think it's BSOD.

Reply to Issues and Suggestions in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

#1 doesnt mean anything. Those ships can go straight through your area of sight in one turn, they're extremely fast. They probably are getting smashed without you realising. Plus, they could have tried an assault and lost #2 Turn up the difficulty so the AI works. #3 Again, they're at war with them already, and don't do anything if the AI is too low, they aren't smart enough. #4 The custom ship design works because you

Reply to Getting really frustrated with all these crashes in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Wihout ANY kind of information, you wom't be helped. We need the debug.err from smartexception, or at least some kind of specs from your comp. Saying "it crashes, want my money" does jack all.

Reply to Any quick way to delete player ship designs ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You need the exact miniturisation, weapon, engine, and hull techs you had when you built it. Which means if your ship has warp drive 1, you need warp drive 1 reseached etc.

Reply to The only thing I dont like about 1.1 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's the soft option, if you have a big enough army. If you don't, they AI figures out what you're doing, and often works undercover to stop you. I've been asked to do that before, many a time the Arceans have come before me and said "We must supply arms to the enemies of the Torian empire, unless you like your people speaking Torian" To make a challenge, go for a military-culture victory. Win a military victory without using a single transp

Reply to Biggest planet you've seen in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In one of my recent games, I found a class 32. But the thalans got it first, and became the major power. Damn bugs.

Reply to Strategies & Tips in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Diplomacy loses it's edge with no tech trading, and oddly enough so does research. The altarians, for example, have bouses that are good, yet offer nothing financially. You do need the economy bonuses. And as for fronts, no. They just have death-patrols. Looks crappy, but annoyingly effective if you realise you don't *have* a military to speak of, like switzerland. Sure, got the gadgets, got the cash, got happy people, got a standing army, I'm at war w

Reply to Noobie questions time in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

You sure it's a transport, not a colony?

Reply to Game keeps crashing in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Drivers! and a debug.err file would be great.

Reply to Don't want to use "Central" in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Woodwhipser, it isn't actually activation. The game will play without activiation, and won't end ever. If you update code from the client, and have a SDC account registered, that only requires one code I think.

Reply to Noobie questions time in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Starbases are a bit annoying in orbit. "Hey ma, we have two moons!" "That's nice dear" *gets ritalin* But if you have a fully souped up automatic military base with traction control and all the goodies, just chuck 5 crappy fighters next to it. Hey presto, an uber fleet!

Reply to Severe Dreadlord AI bug in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That reminds me, another thing. The AI value starbases more than ships: I don't think they can tell if it's a plain old run of the mill expansion aide, or some souped up, 80 attack and defence flying platform of death that turns the most meagre fighter into killing machine.

Reply to Population Max, Influence, 'recharging' movement pts in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Which version?

Reply to Why isn't it called Galactic Civilizations 4? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

What? Why are you kids playing your video games on your body! When I was a lad, we played video games with our hands! And damn better it was than this "VR" tosh too, we got us some Repetitive Strain Injuries! That's the true spirit of gaming! And look at you all! All this excercise, making you skinny! In my day, we sat about eating crisps, and being sterotyped, and pretending to be insane madmen who'll slaughter your family! You kids nowadays, with your "Ability to actually use your hands in the

Reply to Severe Dreadlord AI bug in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

No, they don't need to tweak it. You can't say anything needs tweaking until tough, when the AI works properly. Beginner, it's got code written saying "Be stupid". At normal, it has code saying "Be weird". At tough, it has code saying "I laugh at your pathetic fighters. Please die, it saves us the effort" And trust me, it's extremely fun. The other races REALLY put up a show. Especially those beautiful speeches about honour, valour, and saving the

Reply to Peace treaties m eaningless? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, there's an under-the-cover AI diplomacy loss, if you try and backstab them. Plus, they charge more for peace. And lastly, I would like to see an ultimatum option, where you can threaten war, or a trade embargo unless someone complies with your demands (give me tech, give me tribute, attack this 3rd party). Yeah, tribute doesn't cut it. I'