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Reply to IP WARS---The Ultimate Mod in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Bah, forum timeouts make me look bad. Better add some content. How will you address the scale issue? The Federation, for instance, considers 600m ships 'large', whereas even Halo would consider that an extremely small vessel. If you use 'tiny' hulls for fighters, what will you use for Executors and Death Stars? Off the top of my head, B5 is probably the only franchise that uses every hull size from tiny up. What about issues like the Bo

Reply to IP WARS---The Ultimate Mod in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In the case of the Republic and Empire, it could be argued they use the same ships, the same tech, and for a time were ruled by the same man. Worth including twice? I am still of the opinion that the various mod efforts should first concentrate on scenario play. This means we'll actually get something playable a lot sooner, and is really the best wa

Reply to IP WARS---The Ultimate Mod in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

In the case of the Republic and Empire, it could be argued they use the same ships, the same tech, and for a time were ruled by the same man. Worth including twice? I am still of the opinion that the various mod efforts should first concentrate on scenario play. This means we'll actually get something playable a lot sooner, and is really the best wa

Reply to 2300AD Star Name Mod in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

ZOMG! Someone else remembers Fading Suns?

Reply to Extraordinary ships as 'Galactic Wonders' in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Only if that Tiny hull has the greatest psionic in the galaxy flying it, and the missiles are capable of 72,000g turns. I'll take my chances.

Reply to Race Logo as Badge on Ships? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I thought of it after going to the trouble of adding transparencies to the symbols from FreeSpace: after all that work I want the bloody thing used more! I hope it's do-able, but not mandatory, as for many groups it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Reply to Bonuses And Capitals: 7x2? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

That's what i figured - and why I'd never tried it - but I was reading a review and they author was all excited to be dropping a mancap on a x7 manufacturing square. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing out on the biggest bonus ever.

Reply to IP WARS---The Ultimate Mod in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, let's pit the Culture against 'killed by being near 2MT nukes' B5 and the 'armed with 20mm cannons' nBSG. Starting everyone at scratch means many of these cultures can't exist - the Republic is 25,000 years old and the Culture is almost defined by it's absurd level of technology. Aren't you basically just proposing a mod that uses iconic gr

Bonuses And Capitals: 7x2? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If you place an [x] capital on an [x] bonus tile, is the 2xtotal production bonus from the capital multiplied by the tile bonus? Is it supposed to be?

Reply to Lights not working in Ship design..... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I thought that's all they were? If they're supposed to cast light, they're broken for me too.

Race Logo as Badge on Ships? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Could race logos somehow be used as badges on ships? This could perhaps be implemented as jewelry.

Reply to Extraordinary ships as 'Galactic Wonders' in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think the power to destroy planets belongs in this game. The ships have such poor firepower they fire rocks as bombardment - SW-level 'melting the crust' it ain't. I feel popping planets is too much of an outlier in a game of generally much lower firepower. But you're right, terrorstars are the sort of thing ... just so long as they're 'designable', so they can be used for more than 'pop planets'.

Reply to Extraordinary ships as 'Galactic Wonders' in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Why would it require more logistics to destroy? I'm not suggesting a game-destroying ubership, simply a single 'bigger than huge' hull. It's own logistics requirements would be huge, and since a pile of Tinys can already defeat a Huge, why would this not work on a Superdimensional? Building the ship would only be possible late-game, since the hull tree is long and expensive already. It's only one ship, and poorly-configured it'd be just a

Reply to Unrestricted Tech Trade Ruins 4xTBS Games in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Guys, the AI *already* adjusts asking prices based on ethics, political relationships etc. You need *new* ideas if you want to solve the issue. Again, simply '-10% value per holder of the tech' is a bad idea, but allowing the AI to determine they can get a better deal elsewhere is not. Frankly, if two races are allied with each other and you're not allied with either, the AI should *not* accept a trade from you for a tech they can get fr

Reply to Sensor Jamming in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, I'm not eager to see the excellent simplicity of the the game sullied by the addition of unnecessary metagames. I vote no.

Reply to Why are transports expended after an invasion? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Or you've got 120% soldiering bonus. I've had games where 1,000 troops can conquer 10b pop planets in traditional warfare.

Reply to Sensor Jamming in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah, I'm not eager to see the excellent simplicity of the the game sullied by the addition of unnecessary metagames. I vote no.

Extraordinary ships as 'Galactic Wonders' in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's a common theme in science fiction for a starfaring organisation to have a single starship of enormous power. Examples include the Superdimensional Fortress Macross, either of the Death Stars, the Homeworld Mothership, the Ur-Quan Sa-Matra, the Voth city-ship, etc. I'd like to suggest that a new tech - or series of techs - be added to the end of the hull tree, allowing a new, absurdly large hull-type to be made available. This hull wou

Race Icon Database in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Is there any interest in a thread with links to 256x256x24 images for use as race icons? It's neat to be able to use any symbol you want in-game, it'd help with modding and everyone wants common symbols like SW/ST/FS2/HW/etc. What do people think? UN SPACY! How could I forget UN Spacy?

Reply to How many stars for different setup options? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Unfortunately, I've tried gigantic maps with abundant stars. I always end up with a quite empty map with about 100 stars in tight groups. Changing the stars to 'scattered' just makes it about 100 spread out stars. Is this intentional? 100 stars seems ... not many. I'm talking whole empty sectors.

Reply to Modding request: Creating the star trek galaxy in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

People don't play BotF because they've got better things to do than convince it to work under XP and it's crap. And guys: star names are stored in a text file called 'stars.txt'. Just edit the names. I changed my names to be from Star Control, for instance (and Alpha Lalande sounds cooler than 'Xisier' or whatever). I enjoy laughing at crap SW/ST games to want to play a mod themed on those franchises.

Reply to Aquiring High Hit-Points on your ships. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Going all-out with racial abilities and political parties you can *start* with a +50% hp bonus.

Reply to Need "Command" item to create a Command Ship in Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

How is it realistic? The logistics tech already covers supply, coordination et al: what more could such a ship part add? Are you suggesting fleets currently have no Admirals /w staff? Why do you think that?

Reply to New types of ships in Warfare GalCiv2 Forums

Cloaking should not be in the game. All it would do is add a worthless 'sensor vs stealth' metagame. Given the ranges the ships fight at, are we really going for 'zomg can't lock weapons'? ST-ish cloaks are even worse from a thermodynamics perspective, and again useless against decent sensor tech. What's the point?

Reply to 2300AD Star Name Mod in Modding GalCiv2 Forums

You can? Is there an icon now? I stopped looking back in 1.0D I have to thank the OP for giving me the inspiration to make a stars.txt based on StarCon2. Now if only I knew 500-odd stars was enough for large maps... :S