Chris_V

Reply to Ship size question/issue in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Large is definately worthwhile. First of all the ships are sufficiently improved. Also the higher survivability that comes with more hitpoints helps a lot. If a race with large ships fights a race with medium ships having the same total attack/def/hitpoints as the large ships, the race with large ships can win relatively easily as their ships would be more likely to survive, and increase their hit points. So yeah, having large ships helps a lot. Although one should not "r

Reply to Lamest game ever in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

As far as I know, the AI does not collude ... i.e. it treats the human player like any other player. At least thats what they say in their marketing materials. There is a wonder (i think it is called empathy center or something of the sort) that makes it much more likely that other civilizations will surrender to you. It is likely that one of the AI civilizations researched that wonder and thus got all other AIs that are having trouble in their wars to surrender to it. The fact that

Reply to Manufacturing ship in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I remember another of the space games had something like this (i think it was space empires). You could put manufacturing modules on ships, and put them into space. It added some interesting strategy because the manufacturing modules were necessary to repair ships as well. But it also added a lot of micromanagement. Also we should remember that in the current version of galciv the people do all the production. Thus a planet may have a ship yard but the amount of manufacturing that ha