So now my question to Brad is, what if you aren't building any ships on that planet? Does the social spending that's converted to military spending then come back to your treasury as unused military production? -Dewar
I can manage to pick the one I want about 50% of the time on my PC. I stopped trying though, cause it kinda ruins the fun for me. I'm only running a 1.2ghz cpu, so I think it has to do with cpu speed. -Dewar
Maybe you don't have a high enough miniturization? You should be able to find all the required techs in the XML files somewhere. I dunno where, I'm not much of a modder. -Dewar
My goodness the I-League are nasty. Once they pop up, people's planets start to revolt and join them. I play Yor now, so I don't have to worry about it anymore -Dewar
Will editing the XML files to remove the core ships still allow you to play in the metaverse, or will it register as a cheat? -Dewar
I second BulenW's post. I'd like to not even have to see core designs. On a side note, when you select "Core" in the shipyard and obsolete one, it takes you back to the full ship listing. It's kind of annoying when I'm trying to obsolete the whole list of core ships. -Dewar
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I think a lot of the comparisons with Civ IV are a bit unfair, since a lot of it's story and soul come from real life history, rather than the game. Having been forced to take history classes, I might know that Napoleon was a bit of an elitest and obssessed with conquering the world, but I don't think that Civ IV goes out of its way to establish anything about the characters itself. Civ IV relies more on people knowing history than establishing any sou
Normal games and Metaverse games use different ship lists as well. -Dewar
I started out with a crappy start on a large map. I had like 5 planets where the computer players had around 10. I dug in with tons of military starbases and researched my heart out for a long, long time. Thankfully, no one messed with me because they all had their own little wars to deal with. At least, they didn't until the end, when two races got together and started taking out my combat starbases one by one... But they were too late Mwah
Well, actually, consoles are computers. Heck, my xbox has more processor power than my desktop at present. -Dewar
I've been playing on large and huge maps with all 10 players, and I've had a few minors with no issues. I've also had a few pop up during the game. Dang Independant Leauge! -Dewar
Once you establish the route, those freighters are supposedly owned by super-corps, not by your goverment. I assume that the super-corps repurpose them. -Dewar
The influence map isn't updated right away some of the time, but upgrading an influence starbase seems to force it to update. So, if the Torians had done something to increase their influence (mining an influence resource, changing governments, etc) and the map hadn't updated yet, upgrading your influence bases might have forced it to update the map? That's my only idea. I've had something similar happen before, but not this extreme. <b
Personally, I put an orbital fleet manager on every single one of my planets, so I don't have to worry about it later. The computer does about the same. -Derek K Harwell
Every AI improvement has been a welcome attack at my common playstyles. The tech brokering thing doesn't work near as well now, which is nice since the races have more unique tech paths. Also, the emphasis on speed rather than range has really put a damper on my high-speed strike forces. I can't knife in and destroy all their resource starbases in a couple of turns anymore. Evolving AI rocks Oh and this... float pShip->TurnsToReachPoint(ulTileX,ulTileY); Will tell the AI wh
My main problem with the current system is this extreme case: Let's say I've been axed down to one world by the computer players. This one planet is my manufacturing capital, and can put out a whopping 300 shields a turn. There's only one lab on it though, giving me a total of 10 possible research points (or so.) Now, if I want to be able to research five measily beakers a turn, I have to give up 150 shields to do it?! That seems a little cr
The error could also come from a failing hard drive or RAM, depending on how the installer is verifying the files. I've found it fairly rare that the CD is at fault with errors like that. -Dewar
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In case you don't want to do the SDC thing, yes, patches are cumulative. -Dewar
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There was a board reset of some sort, and now I can't get my medals to display. I even made a dummy character so I could switch back and forth to see if the medals appeared then, and no luck. -Dewar
After an event that shifted the Dengrin ideology, they called me up and the greeting was "May love and peace save you!" (I was evil at the time) or something to that effect. It had me laughing so hard. I would have killed them all if they were anywhere near me. -Dewar
It seems to be a growing trend to put files in the My Documents folder. I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's sort of the "in thing."
Here's a different way of saying the same thing just in case that didn't make sense (I found it a bit hard to read myself.) Each RC gives you an additional 12 beakers per turn capacity. In order to use all that capacity, your Industrial Capacity slider and your Research Spending slider must both be at 100%. Otherwise, you're using just a fraction of the capacity. So, for a mathmatical example, if you have 5 RCs, that gives you a total capacity of 60 beakers. If your spendin
The AI will also sell buildings on a planet if it thinks you're going to take it over, so if you take a planet from the computer, it doesn't necessesarily have the same buildings on it as when it was in full use. -Dewar
Well, low morale is very very bad. It makes your planets easier to conquer with Information Warfare, it makes your government choices slim to none, and there's always a chance your planets will revolt and become a minor civilization. Trust me, it's not that big of an exploit. -Dewar
Go to the GalCiv folder in you My Documents/My Games and delete the ship designs between games. That way each game is a fresh start. -Dewar
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