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Some oddities in the upgrades (also, mass drivers are really overpowered) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In Deflectors: Enhanced Deflectors cost 39bc, every other Deflector costs 30bc. Typo? In Armor: Tri-Strontium I and II are identical (6 size, 3 defense, 70bc cost), I think Tri-Strontium I should be 7 size. (Before one of the X patches all three were identical, so it's been partially fixed). At the end of the beam weapon tree: Disruptors III are 8 attack, 5 size, they "upgrade" to Subspace Blasters, which are 6 attack, 6 size (whi

Reply to A strategy the AI fails to cope with well (warning: long, rambling) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I think I may have been a little misunderstood -- I would totally love it if the AI was evaluating its situation with me more "correctly" (for lack of a better word), and started doing hit and runs on my defensive net with fast ships, or came up with some other solution. This isn't with the gimped AI either -- my game settings (since I forgot it in the original) are usually huge or gigantic maps with rare stars (usually loose clusters or scattered). Ideally, I'm going for around 6 colonies per s

A strategy the AI fails to cope with well (warning: long, rambling) in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

The opening (this is the part the AI does cope with): The best race/poltical party I've found for this so far has been Human/Technologists. I buy a factory first thing on Earth, then queue up a couple of labs, then another factory, then a morale boost, then a econ boost, then a farm (leaving a space or two blank if I remember). I crank taxes and spending on the first turn, and lock my research rate somewhere between 40 and 50 percent. I go

Ideas on handling spending (without forcing everyone to waste possible production). in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

As Frogboy has said, the wasted Social spending is not a bug, it's an intentional design decision because, as designed (with the automatic improvement upgrades), your economy goes crazy when you get improved buildings. My counter-argument to this would be: you can have the exact same issue the wasted social spending prevents with military spending (admittedly, the reason you're suddenly -1000bc in the red is more immediately obvious, because the game w

Reply to HELP PLEASE.Does anyone know how the game remembers your previous settings. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If you made any changes to any of the races' settings (not just racial abilities) before you changed RaceConf.XML, you'll have to manually update (or delete) the CurrentCustomRace(0-9).raceconfig files from "My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2" before it'll take effect.

Cosmetic: Terran wing decoration / Terran tiny hull (Scout) in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

(My apologies if this has already been reported -- I've skimmed the forums a bit and haven't seen it). These are two cosmetic issues with the ships that have been bugging me: The wings are pretty lopsided -- this is because the wing decoration doesn't have ve