Seth Gaines

Drath Unique Buildings in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

There are two problems. First, the Drath Temple does not link from the early entertainment building, nor does it link to the Healing Pools. Why would the Drath have Healing Pools anyway? I understand that the Temple is not a logical technological progression from the earlier building, but it's a huge pain to go around all your planets and make sure that they upgrade it. It also clutters your build list really badly. Second, the Biosphere Modulator seems to only give a 10% industry b

Reply to Unbelievably overpowered Pirates in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The pirates are intended to be incredibly hard, yes. However, their attack value seems way too high. I think they've jumped to the end, tech-wise. This really does need fixing, and fast. It will totally ruin a game. The fleets should have an attack around 100 or so. I had them show up in a DA game, and they swept the galaxy pretty much clean, although I was able to pick off stragglers with my fleets.

Reply to TA beta 2a -- The Yor still need morale??? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

It doesn't look like the Yor have gotten a tweak in the latest mod. They are still incredibly vulnerable to influence flipping.

Reply to TA 3D - Korx have no Xeno Entertainment techs? in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Maybe I didn't play long enough, but I didn't see the Korx having any race-specific buildings, either. I found them pretty flavorless. Their 'Super Ability' also seems less super the longer I think about it. It's not too far into the game where everyone at least knows Trade.

Reply to Minor Grammar Bugs in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Here's another. The description for Warp Drive III says something to the effect of 'Advances in field coils have allowed us to [B]developer[/B]...'

Reply to Sensor Glitch in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

This also happens with planets. I forced the Yor to give me a planet, which turned out to be deep in Drengin space. Of course, when war was declared, it was hopeless to defend, and I eventually lost it. I still (after multiple saves/loads) have its sensor range. Just built the Eyes of the Universe, curious to see if it will 'update'.

Reply to Precursor Ships in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I just got my fourth one in the same game. This is unusual for me, though.

Reply to Weird Bug Puts Homeworld in Fleet in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Zero, but while you could select it, you couldn't make a fleet. Asking for an intelligence report gave details on the mini-freighter.

Weird Bug Puts Homeworld in Fleet in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I sent in a save of this last night. I had been fiddling with a few transports while the turn was processing, and when it finished, Dratha had completed a transport. It jumped to the planet, and the planet was shown (at the bottom, the map displayed properly) as a fleet icon with one of my freighters as the other choice. The freighter was one of the ones generated by the game to run a trade route, and it must have hit Dratha just as the transport was finished. I could not put Dratha in the f

Reply to Minor races use ships badly in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Just a bump to say that it now seems to have gone the other way. The minor race planets in my current game are devoid of ships. Their AI should be modified so that they maintain a minimum of two defenders, and upgrade those as that becomes possible.

Minor Grammar Bugs in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

In the event where ships damaged by pirates need to land at your planet for repairs, the neutral choice ends 'have to make due'. This should be 'make do'. Also, the event where the religious cult leader is making trouble contains the text 'sewing the seeds of dissent' in the description. This should be 'sowing...'.

Reply to TA 3C Drath slow breeders and the econ crash in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Zenicetus - Don't give up yet. My first game was frustratingly awful. I went back, selected the 30% econ ability, and managed to stumble along until one of the 4 races I had met started trying to take my lunch money. At that point, I traded a few low-end techs to the other three, and got myself a nice war going. I'm currently making almost 2,000/turn from war profiteering, and have been able to drop my taxes low enough that my morale is in the high 90s. Sure, if the war ends, I'll be in a h

Reply to 3C Drath Entertaiment Center does not upgrade to Drathian Temple in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The only reason it ought to is that it serves the same purpose, is better, and would save you the trouble of having to go through all your worlds manually and do it, to say nothing of the build-list clutter you get from this and similar 'upgrades'. Of course, as a logical technological progression, it doesn't make too much sense. Agreed on the Healing Pools. That whole thing seems weird.

Reply to TA 3C Drath slow breeders and the econ crash in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

My first game with the Drath was terrible. So was my game with the Korx. They both spiraled into a total economic collapse. I don't see how anyone can do quick buying as an early strategy, especially now that we only start with $3K. I buy one factory on the homeworld sometimes, and I buy a colony ship to get off to a quick start. I do try to run my economy at 100% for as long as I can, and I raise taxes until my approval is about 50%. You have to grab planets early, because while y

Reply to TA Beta3c - Suddenly, Everybody Hates Me... in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote] The TA game needs to do a better job of blocking all notices of wars, diplomacy issues etc. that involve races you haven't officially made contact with.[/quote] This does need fixing, especially since you can use these notices as a cheese way to meet the races.

Reply to 3C Drath Entertaiment Center does not upgrade to Drathian Temple in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, and to add to the mess, the Temple doesn't upgrade to the Healing Pool.

Reply to Early Access to Advanced Techs by AI in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm not so sure it's completely fixed. Relatively early in my game last night, the Dark Yor stole all of the Korath technologies. For one thing, they certainly weren't making all of them available for trade since they only had 4 showing up where the Korath had 6-8. But among the techs they would trade, the Black Hole Gun was on offer. I'm positive the Korath hadn't researched it. It didn't show on their list, and they were focusing on missile weapons, where they had gotten to Stinger III.

Reply to Issues with Creativity Change- somewhat major. in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Would this be why, when the Vegans appeared as a new race, I got an alert saying they had almost won?

Reply to Constructive Critisism in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

The AI has an unhealthy obsession with bonuses. It will build bonus buildings without ever building up the base. Not very smart.

Reply to Immense Galaxy and more stars in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'll second the memory leak. At first, I didn't have one, but once we got 5 races going, I started noticing it. It gets really bad. It stops at the beginning of every turn and plays the sound in a very short loop for about a minute before advancing (on immense). On large, it still started doing it, but only as a laggy stutter. Reloading the save, even after shutting the computer down before bed and trying again the next evening, does not help.

Reply to Constructive Critisism in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I think the issue with tile use may be linked to the AI's love of making every planet a naval base. It builds a shipyard first, then other stuff. If they are focusing a low industry world on military production, it can take hundreds of turns to complete buildings.

Reply to Starport Full Bug in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Agreed about the Spore Ships. The Korath jumped the Yor after I had beaten them down, and within two turns had seized at least 10 planets with speed 16 Spore Ships.

Reply to Beta 3b, the Krynn and some other random thoughts in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

[quote]Actually, I see a lot of their Precursor-related tech tree as being sort of an archaeological project... with Iconians out somewhere digging up Precursor artifacts instead of working hard in a lab, each time they "research" a new tech in the tree.[/quote] That's exactly how I imagined it. The planets are probably liberally sprinkled with precursor sites/artifacts, and the Iconians would know how to dig one up, dust it off and get it running. I like all the other super ability i

Reply to Potential Problem and Change to the Idea of Super Abilities as a Solution in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

How would you turn super abilities off if they were just techs? I like to play with them on, but some don't.

Trade Screen Tweak Request in Beta Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I like how you can click on the other race's money to automatically select the maximum value they will give you. Can you please modify the influence just below it to work the same way? In addition, the automatic selection of money will sometimes pick 100 when they are really only willing to give 1.