Works for me. I needed to finish some ships real quick for my war against the Thalans, and since that would have put me in the red I decided that everyone else should foot the bill. So I passed the hat around and got enough cash to quick build my ships. Haven't been successful with non-cash demands yet, so I cannot commment on them.
Oh yeah - absent the whole epic generator, I'd also like some sort of logging of in-game events.
I would like the ability to see improvements by category in the build list on the planet screen. So I click on "Production" and it only shows improvements that effect production. Click on "Research" and it only shows labs. etc.
"Good" and "Evil" are obviously relative to your point-of-view. In my current game, the "Evil" choices are what is considered "good" for my species. So ignore the labels and do what you think is the right thing - or just base it on the bonuses to be achieved as knownalien suggests.
Whenever someone complains the game is "too easy", they are told to step up the difficulty. So if the game is too hard with the new trading rules... take it down a level. Prior to the patch, I just turned tech trading off because it seemed like a game-breaker - that was playing at Painful. Now, playing on Tough, I found that I could achieve relatively "even" trades once I had a good stable of diplo techs and was allied to a civ. That seems reasonable to me. I know there are techs th
Here I thought I was missing something about the buildings that seemed useless - I thought there must be SOME reason they are there. Guess not.
I picked up MOO3 for two dollars on Amazon, and I still feel like I paid to much... I picked it up from Amazon as well for 17.99, only there was a 19.99 rebate. So, Amazon paid me 2 bucks to take it. And you STILL paid too much.
I base mine roughly on the US Navy's hull classification system: Hull Classification System I add in an "Fx" class for fighters (tiny hull). Beyond the hull class, I make up some additional class name for color, and then add a version number at the end (I, II, III, etc.)
Ok - I've weeded out all the "fake" star names from my old 2300AD Star Name mod, and have reinvented it as a "Real" Star Name mod. I've also removed some duplicates and added additional "real" star names from near-Earth stars. This mod will make the game use actual star names from various star catalogs. Thread at Apolyton with Download Link Sample of names from the mod: <div class="Ar
The game has the option for starbase modules to accelerate nearby repairs, but there are not actually any modules in the game that use that option. It can be easily added with a mod though, if you want it. Why does the manual refer to something not included in the game??
I suspect I'm not alone in saying that if those logging calls COULD be weeded down to produce a simple timeline, rather than a narrative, it'd still very much be something I'd like to have. That's assuming it wouldn't be yet another massive investment of time, but it sounds like you knew how to do that and simply had run out of time to actually do it. Maybe in a future expansion? I second this! I was hoping there would at least be some form of logging
Week One: Brave Souls A factory had appeared overnight. Fully automated. No humans necessary. The eight billion people of Earth could go on living and procreating and paying taxes and dying. Nothing had changed, except now there was a factory. "Wake up, Howard Smith." Grey clouds and rain. Days without end stretching back in memory in uniformity. What ever happened to childhood? The unending drudgery of the daily slog weighed on his mind, pulling his head
Settings: GalCiv2: DA/Challenging/Huge Galaxy/Nine AI races/Random Minors I think everything else is default, not that it really matters to the story. In fact, not much matters except that I felt like writing an AAR. As a side note, I'm doing most of the writing from memory away from my gaming PC, so my game details may not be exact. If I were at my PC, I would be playing, not writing. Also, I used my Star Name mod, so the star names won't match what you see in a regular game
An updated version of my Star Names mod is available at Apolyton: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=149685 Back to enjoying Dark Avatar....
Bah. I take it all back: I've done a series of quick scouts around a map, and the starname selection doesn't appear very random at all. It seems they just take the first x entries, then randomly assign them to stars. That's a shame - although, for the list I'm using, that means I can put the "regular"
Even on a giant map you can be sure that within max 50 rounds every planet is colonized I have to agree that the early game rush is my least favorite part of the game. Reminds of Civ3 - ugh. Civ 4 got the early game right in my opinion - slow, steady expansion. If there were one thing I could change
Does the game select names randomly from the list? If it is random, you could include a huge number of names and not be stuck with the same 30-odd that seem to be present at the moment. I'm not sure. Would be nice to know how they are selected. I'm trying to revise my list to cut down on the "AC +66:3955" type names and get mo
I don't do staight commerce planets - they get too unruly. Instead, I take my largest worlds (PQ11+) and devote three squares to commerce (two farms and some entertainment, or three farms if the planet approval stays high enough) and then use the rest for factories. That way I get decent production and a good population level in case of invasion. I usually use my smaller worlds (PQ <br/
As much as I love colonizing "Wardell IV" and "Primus II", I wanted more realistic star names in the game. So I created this simple mod to replace all the star names with the star names from the old 2300AD role playing game, with some updates from the Gliese 3 catalogue of stars. Obviously not to everyones taste, but I thought I'd share. The files are hosted over at apolyton: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=149685
Yin...
Problem with modding them in (or even if Stardock coded them in) is getting the AI to recognize and use them properly. Without that, heroes become an easy exploit for the human player.
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I'm new to GalCiv. Read about it on aployton.net. I mistakenly picked MOO3 over the original - only had money for one or the other at the time.
When you click on a tech to research and it shows ships that require other additional techs, it tells you right underneath the ship type what additional tech(s) you need.
I've been adding in credits to all my trade deals until the deal turns red, then back off until it is green again. I figure I'm getting the most that can be expected that way. But yes, some relative value attached to techs on this screen would be most welcome.
I noticed this in one of the reviews that's been posted: "The only problem I really had with the controls is scrolling the screen. If you move the mouse to the bottom, where the interface options for the game are, the game itself would sometimes scroll the game and sometimes stay stationary, making it a bit annoying." So it's not just me. Link: http://www.nlgaming.com/
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