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Reply to ?? about autopilot in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes, I've noticed this too. I just take all my ships off of auto-pilot once they get close to their final destination. I never knew there was a setting in options, but you are right, that setting makes no sense. Since your auto-pilot turns are taken after you press end turn, there's no chance for the game to give you leftover moves from auto-ploted ships. I haven't found a shortcutk ey to force auto moves and yes I've checked in the manual.

Reply to Good vs. Evil...which is the way to go? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Evil, every single time. And since I start out with the Yor and am halfway towards evil it doesn't cost me any BC to pick evil, sweet. Neutral is ok, the extra trade routes is nice and opening up a few tiles is nice, but it pales in comparison to the evil weapons. I mean if you haven't tried evil yet, go straight up the missiles waepon tree and hit evil and man oh man, Psionnic torps will rip apart anything in your path. Now that I think abo

Reply to Neutrality Learning Centers in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, it's a dead tech at the moment. It's been on Stardock's to do list for 2 weeks so they definetly know about it but I dunno when they'll ever put it in (or maybe they'll just scrap it who knows)

Reply to IGN Gives Galciv II an 8.7 in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

huckdogg, are you a major fan of ign.com or work for them or something? I dunno why you'd link a review from ign otherwise. I agree totally, but they are a major gaming site and I thought i would alert everyone who feels the way you do. I mean, come on, if GC can get a 9.0 on Gamespot, and IGN gave MoO3 a 9.3, GC should have gotten a 11.2 on IGN. </T

Reply to STICKY: SHOW OFF your cool ship designs in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Upload *dun dun * upload *dun dun* upload! Please? They say you can upload it via the library in the metaverse. In one thread Governor Mormegil said: We will have a way to share ship designs, pritty soon. for the moment if you send the "ship name".shipconfig and the "shipname".shipclass files from your My Games\GalCiv2\Ships folder to your friend, and

Reply to Solution to early land grab be-all-and-end-all in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't like this idea at all. The initial land grab pahse of GC2 is the most boring part of the game. Unlike Civ4 there isn't surrounding territory to worry about or resources nearby or if the city is coastal or the distance to your capital, it's just get as many planets as you can asap. I mean sure you can slow down the expansion, but why? You really want to drag out colonizing planets and getting them to usefulness? I think this was a very interesti

Reply to Ai intelligence and maps in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Not that I'm aware of. The AI does over prioritize range over speed and thus may seem to spread out very fast on larger maps and on small maps well range is nearly useless on maps below medium. Try a painful AI on the Duel map, the AI is quite aggressive.

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Reply to Economic bugs in 1.0X.009 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, I faintly remember another post by frogboy in a thread that was asking for sliders for the 3 productions but I can't find it. I will always regard paying for worthless social podcution to be a bug. Either that or it's just lazy programming. Frogboys response in that above link just does not make any sense at all. The system currently in place makes for lots of micromanagement as whenever my planets are not using social I have to go to each one a

Reply to Economic bugs in 1.0X.009 in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Great post. Man I thought some of this stuff was fixed in 1.0X, guess not. Makes me pretty upset since me and others have been very annoyed by #1 since the first few hours of the games release. ANd come on, they didn't fix the VRC bug? Come on, that should take I dunno 10 seconds for a programmer to fix. #3 is new to me I saw the +25% econ bonus and assumed I was getting the others as well, man. About stock markets I remember Stardock people

Reply to Need help with economic strategy in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

My basic plan: -At the beginning set taxes to I think 49% (I like to have an average approval rating of around 55-60%, so set your taxes accordingly. Morale takes a huge hit going from 39%->40% and 49->50% etc so be aware of that) Set your spending to 100%. Rush buy a few colony ships and your first factory as well as constructors if you find resources around. I go factory, factory, manufacturing cap on my homeworld. Econ cap usually gets put on (

Reply to Can someone plz help me out? I've always want to know this.... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Errr, the new patch should be safe. It would be quite unreasonable if the user had to unpatch or uninstall everytime a new patch came out. Definetly safe to download and install 1.0X. Your ship designs wil be wiped in 1.0X but anything you make in 1.0X will be usable in all future patches, at least that's what stardock says.

I suck at art...(txt) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Really, I do. I suck bad. I mean even my stick figure people look poorly drawn. I've tried to play around with the ship design putting all kinds of stuff to hardpoints, rotating stuff and trying to make something cool, but I fail really bad. Trust me, you don't want to see my hull designs, I am so ashamed. But I see people with cool hull designs like https://forums.galciv2.com/?ForumID=162&AID=104432 , and I wold love to use such a sweet loo

Reply to *** How was this game Released?*** in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Hmmm, I wouldn't say GC2 has a lot of bugs, no way, but I would say it lacks polish. And polish is a helluva lot different than bugs. I mean unless you are one of the very few getting CTDs or overheating the game probably works fine and that is great. However, it doesn't excuse finding 100's of gaming issues.. which are bugs!

Reply to Minor Civs: Befriend or Conquer? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

The Snathi are great. They declared war on me once, and never attacked, and then years later they sued for peace and gave me a whole bunch of technologies. Uhhh, why is that 'great'? Isn't that a major problem with the AI? I mean if the AI declares war and doesn't attack, and even worse

Reply to Curious Omissions and some suggestions in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Well for #1 and #2 it's because the AI can't handle it. Once you get good at MoO2 you make some really vicious ships and fleets and start wiiping the floor with anything in your path, winning battles where you are outnumbered 5 to 1 or extremely out-teched (ala antarans) You might think it's a lame reason to keep out special weapons and lots of different choices but if the AI can't handle it you have a very shallow game and have to resort to playing on the hardest difficulty and like waiting 10

Reply to Shipped to Early, definatly needs improvements in system requirements area in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

Mmmmm, that systems is getting near the bad side of obselete, it might be better to just get a new system if you have the cash. But if you want to upgrade, I would grab an extra 512 (so you have a total of 1 gig RAM) and a decent video card from this generation. You can grab a 6200 for around $50 before shipping, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814121542 6600s are around $90 but I dunno if I would spend that much on

Reply to The value of a good defense? in Game Talk Stardock Forums

Well, we gotta find out a few things first. What is cheaper, researching a 8/0 ship or a 4/4 ship (A/D ratings) ? Which design takes up more space? Which design costs more? Who wins in battles like a 8/0 vs a 4/6 or a 10/0 vs a 6/6 or a 14/0 vs a 4/10? I find that I get great investment from my defense......on challenging difficulty where the purposely built brain dead AI builds low weapon ships. On higher difficult

Reply to Design Limitation? in Galactic Civilizations II Stardock Forums

I think I understand your point. As you point out, the alternative is to give each planet its own economic slider, which would be a micromanagement nightmare (for many players anyway--I don't doubt that there are more than a few players who would relish this level of control). Yes, there is wasted potential production and