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Reply to Overpowered Precursor Event? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

[I've noticed this happening with resources too. At the beginning of the game, the AI is quick to grab resources.... but if an AI surrenders or is destroyed and all his resources are freed up - the remaining civs never seem to send constructors to pick them up.] Don't know what copy of the game you're playing, but, the damn AI races QUICKLY came over and started stealing newly opened up resources when the Iconians were put out of the game. I

Reply to AI not understanding it's losing the war... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Wrong, I've had the Drengin accept a peace treaty even after declining their peace treaty proposal. I got 2 more planets out of it also. I didn't have to offer them crap either. They had 19 ships left, they had no choice but to accept anything reasonable. They still had 19 planets though after I conqured 5 (including their capital), so they gave up 2 more, had 19 ships left and still 17 planets. Most of them were old Torian planets anyway that they cap

Reply to Glalaxy Settings in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

My favorite is HUGE galaxy, with occassional planet, abundant habitability, scattered clusters, occassional anomalies, common stars and normal tech levels playing 7 AI races, picking the most warring and best economic/tech ones first. Every game usually ends up with most being equal in colonies, around 12 to 16. Having only a handful of planets makes for a long boring game. Having 12 to 16 planets to start with is quite fun and opens the doo

Reply to Are all ship hulls created equal? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It's possible that it could also be getting a minaturzation bonus from it's orgional ship building planet. These are things you can't ever see. All you are seeing is a base figure for that race, it's not showing every planet bonus it's receiving. For instance I have a planet with +29% bonus to production, it's not something you will see if you inspect that planet, but, it is something I have and nearly 200 production points per turn. Just face it the D

Reply to I want my money back in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Well tough luck you ain't getting your money back so Hardy har har.

Reply to Rapid ship production exploit in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The benefit is that it can make yourself look like you have a strong military to the other AI races, thus keeping them from attacking you, so, I would consider it an exploit. Since your military power number is based on number of ships not quality. I hope they change this in some future patch or update to the amount of weapon power on your ships. Too easy to just churn out tiny fighters as it is now.

Reply to Colonizing first planet trick in Colonies GalCiv2 Forums

I often question why are all the best choices always "evil"?? Goody two shoes choices gain you nothing, in fact some are some major losses to population, while evil gives you oodles of bonuses. There should be a mixture I think here because the game does tend to drive you to the DARK side of things.

Reply to Wonders should NOT cost a tile in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I like that they cost a tile also. It adds strategic depth once again to the game, it adds "decisions" it keeps the player from being a powermongering and hording all the wonders just because he can tech to them faster. And lemme tell yah a 30 class planet holds a lot of them wonders. I saw one for the first time in my game now and the YOR have it and it's going

Reply to Why this game bores me silly, yet I can't stop playing. in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't see the tech tree being linear at all. Each game I find myself going down a different path. The only improvement I'd like to see for the tech tree is choices like Alpha Centauri gave where you pick from a group of 4 tech up possibilities and you get random pot luck at what you discover. That to me is proper teching up "discoveries" not ok I'm going to tech up weapons and weapons only without deviation. But, AC gave you that OPTION and choice if

Reply to My economy & tech always let me down, despite my best efforts in Economics GalCiv2 Forums

Lol I play on huge with 7 AI and intelligent AI's all. I'm always first in tech and economy and I could give squat about military in the early game. The key is the ion drive tech at start screen and 4pc/wk movement colony ships. Also you don't need to build factories for quite awhile, build markets at least one on every planet and have one 11 or 12 planet focus on nothing but markets with 1 startport and 1 entertainment square and 1 or 2 farm squares.

Reply to Are all ship hulls created equal? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yep bonuses from anomalies give those kinds of advantages. All things are not equal in the Galactic universe and that is as it should be. Just because so n so can do it doesn't mean you should be able to. It would appear they found a bonus minaturzation anomalie or one that increased a particular hull size. Also sort of a way to find out their "abilit

Reply to I REALLY HATE .... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I hate all the huuumahns. But, I've learned how to play the huuumahns game of politics. Act friendly and give them chit for other wars against others until you are ready to sneak attack them and hit their most impressive "oil" producing planets. I play a custom race that I would think would be simular to an army ant colony. +30 eco +20 military +10 mor

Reply to Mother#*$*@(&$(($&&&(@*()* in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I autosave every turn, don't see why everyone else doesn't, it only takes a second, ok maybe 2 to 3 seconds max. Good thing I do this also, cause I've had some wierd things happen like the 3D graphics disappear and it looks like the zoomed out strategic map even when zoomed all the way in. (only happened until I rebooted my system) lol The other is that silly 40

Reply to wheres the ship tactics? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

If this game had of had tactical combat I wouldn't have bought it. I grew so bored and tired of it in MOO 2. It just makes games long and tedius. The battles become repetitive and same ole same ole. If I want to play a tactical space game I will play Legionaire Interceptor by SSI. And I agree about exploiting the AI, it's just another way to exploit the AI. There's some tactical elements already in the strategic game, like shadowing enemy fleets, jus

Reply to My Turn To Bitch & Whine... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I don't want to see tactical combat either. And I can see where the OP is really going, he wants pratcially "unlimited OPTIONS". Well, you just can't have every option in the book for games, just requires too much coding. You'll just have to be satisfied with the majority of the game as it is. I'm sure Stardock will attempt to add some new flavor to the game, but, I highly doubt they will rewrite the entire game. The only improvement or sugg

Reply to Gal Civ nay sayers turned believers in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The AI in AOW:SM was piss poor and you got less races to play against than you did in the origional. AOW origional was pretty good. AOW:SM suked noodles, nothing more than a graphics candy up date. Pitiful piss poor AI. And the idiots that did the unofficial patch 1.04 only did it for multiplayer BALANCE and that is something else that screwed up the game and what makes Master of Magic the best of all time of this genre, unbalanced races gives the AI a

Reply to Gal Civ nay sayers turned believers in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Age of Wonders suked noodles too, but, you're other choices are right on. Also glad to have another convert to the best side of gaming. Turn Based. A thinking mans game and not a kiddle click fest game.

Reply to What's the best 1 point ability? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

My extra point always goes into "Morale". Morale means higher populations of happiness and more population means more income. To me morale is the 2nd economic choice. I always put 3 points into Economy.

Reply to AI - Emperors new clothes in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

(It never biulds ships above speed 2, fact.) WRONG! I've even encountered 4 speed fleets when I was using my point scouts to stay just 2 pc away from it's attacking fleets of 2 speed. It started generating some 4 speed fleets to take out my scouts so I could no longer shadow the attacking force coming at me. Also it's troup transports were all 4 speed and sometimes these races had bonus movement points. Play more than 1 ga

Reply to Bug: Constructor speed in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I just lost a chitty vote from the UP sorry bassturds. Something about "listening to the citizens of individual planets, will increase production at a cost of MORALE"!! The sorry dog game checked how I was playing, then made up a UP rule to thwart it and had enough AI players vote in favor of it. Who in their right mind would vote for a morale LOSS in favor of a little increase in production? Saddam Hussain? Even the GOOD players voted for this pos THR

Reply to Why Does Approval Rating REALLY Matter? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I run my approval rating around 60% total from beginning of game till end. I did a test and it increases population around +200 people per turn at 100% and +100 to +130 at 60%, while more people equals more money sure, but, in the beginning of the game more money isn't from the population of the "future" as it is in taxing what you already have. And fast colonizing. Playing Huge game now with 7 intelligent AI and after 50 turns I'm 1st in economy and 1

Reply to +attack% racial seems overpowered in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

and no playing suicidal on a tiny map either. Personally for me one hasn't won a difficulty level until they've won on the gigantic map with all the AI races. I've read about these suicidal victories on tiny maps with 1 AI..lol, that's not a victory it's an exploit.

Reply to Attackers Advantage in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yeah MOO III is a pretty crappy game to be comparing to GalCiv II for anything. And tactical combat would just be another stab at the AI. The more the AI has to contend with, the less it appears to be a quality AI. This AI is pretty good and non-tactical battles is the way to go for it. No exploiting the AI with tactical exploits. It's all in what you build and how well you build it. Perfect for an AI based on mathematics. I do hope they never implemen

Reply to Space stations - why bother in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Thing is fleets have logistics restrictions, so, those 2 extra ships won't fit into a maxed out logistics fleet, so they are wasted. Whereas a military base will continue to add into that maxed out logistics fleet, thus, providing a much larger and stronger force overall. Those 2 extra ships aren't going to do you much good if/when you lose that entire fleet now are they? <img src="http://images.stardock.com/gc2/T_DL/smiles/Wink.gif" border=0 ALIGN="ab

Reply to I'm apparently not a great Galactic Dictator... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Would you like a copy of my saved game LoneKnight to see how far ahead of the AI I am in techs? Don't give us that crap it can't be done. It's easily done and I don't have to buy anything, I reap all the rewards selling them to them when they are 1 to 2 turns away from teching what I've done weeks to even YEARS before them. And I can fight a major war besides. I just crushed the Drengin with my "superior"