You need at least four times the influence in the area compared to them. If you have at least the first level of intelligence on them, you can highlight their planets and see exactly what the influence ratio is (or highlight one of your own nearby planets and make sure it's under 0.25). If you are over 4.0, they have a chance to flip. If not, a starbase will help boost you to that goal. Don't expect them to flip right away, though. They could, but they just as easily may not. Once you
[quote]Meanwhile, I like the Economist's perspective on items like this: "my response to any and all further "smoking gun" claims begins with: show me the peer-reviewed journal article demonstrating the error here. Otherwise, you're a crank and this is not a story"[/quote] I work at a university, as "staff" rather than "faculty" - and even though some of the "staff" have PhDs of their own, they aren't regarded as being "real" doctors. Those of us without PhDs are pretty much ign
Sorry, another sorta drive-by link drop, but this was on the PBS Newshour today. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/july-dec09/china_12-14.html Just something to think about when you see a windmill.
Instead of the home page, use the "more recent posts" link as the link in your favorites. For example, I don't use https://forums.galciv2.com/ , I use https://forums.galciv2.com/recent . That gives you the 50 most recent posts, which is enough under almost any circumstances.
[quote]However she is the front runner for 2012 you know.[/quote] Being the front runner just gives someone competent the opportunity to backstab her on their way to the front. Tell me, at the beginning of 2006 had you even HEARD of Obama? A presidential election is a lot like a timed game of king-of-the-hill, played with an audience equipped with fire hoses. It's rarely to a candidate's advantage to be at the top of the heap until the very end.
No, I would not willingly be associated with either of those two fools. I'll take a pass on being associated with the Palin bimbo they're discussing, too.
It wouldn't be, it was added well after the manual was made, by player request. Tech brokering refers to buying a tech from one opponent and reselling it to others. It is a means of limiting tech trading without banning it entirely. Offhand I don't remember if the checkbox is to disable tech brokering or to allow it, but it should be easy enough to test one way or the other.
[quote who="Daiwa" reply="251" id="2470901"] The only point I was making was about the techniques which use assertion with no proof which is intended only to generate a certain amount of noise so as to claim that the science is unsettled and therefore nothing should be done. Notice the 'therefore nothing should be done' - haven't said that, only that what's being proposed (trillions in wealth transfer & limitations on personal liberty without verifiably justifiable c
[quote]I suspect that the liberal view is to be totally against those dirty nasty smokers. I mean they’re so easy to hate and such an easy target for any additional state revenue that’s needed. It’s like an infinite supply, just raise taxes on smokers. I think that they’re paying close to ten dollars a pack in Massachusetts these days. I mean I’m OK with “sin” taxes as a general idea but when the tax on the sin becomes 5 or more times the valu
[quote]Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean...[/quote] Mumble, for reasonably valid reasons we won't get into here, has a history of banning people from his own threads when they become obnoxious; not for simply disagreeing but for being intentionally disruptive. It's not paranoid for him to consider that Brad may maintain a similar policy with the site as a whole. There is ample history to support that concern, too. I do think it more likely that any offending thread would simp
[quote]Let's get rid of Mercury in our products, for a start. So, let's ban CFL's and stick with the original, tried and true, fluorescents. We can deal with a little more heat better than we can deal with heavy-metal poisoning.[/quote] I think you meant original *incandescents*. All fluorescents contain a bit of mercury, although it is on a milligram scale. More importantly, people seem concerned about a few milligrams of mercury in a bulb, or a few grams in a thermometer (damn you e
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4297513.html I've heard of this method of carbon sequestration. I even did it on the test tube scale in high school. Why is more research not being done to investigate this on a practical scale?
Here's a technical question that maybe Mumble can find an answer for, because I sure can't. Why is it that global temperatures follow almost exactly the solar radiance data, but only up to the 80s, where they wildly diverge? If carbon-based global warming were real, wouldn't the temperature data show a gradual skewing of temperature above what solar energy could explain, rather than the close-correlation-followed-by-Y-joint-in-the-graph that we actually see? [quote]The issue is that i
To anyone who fails to see why the email revelations are a big deal, read this , especially the second page. And before Mumble goes balistic, I'm aware of the issues with using The Weekly Standard as a source. FYI Mumble, realclimate.org cannot be considered a legitimate source for any of this - it's about as apolitical as an Enron-funded foundation, and it's implicated by name in the emails as a usefu
[quote]I still would like to pose the question of why we can't get an accurate weather forecast for 2 weeks in the future, but we somehow know all there is to know about the world weather and future of it. Kind of a blinding flash of the obvious moment...[/quote] That would be because climatology is, at best, a "soft" science, like sociology. It can't predict what will occur in any particular given situation, but it can tell you something about what you should expect after
[quote who="Mumblefratz" reply="85" id="2465290"]My reply #83 shows full well why reputable scientists are reluctant to give their data to people unqualified in the field of climatology that also happen to have a documented agenda. Apparently both Terry Dunleavy and Richard Treadgold are well known bloggers with an AGW denial agenda with absolutely no climatology credentials whatsoever. Why should scientists give their data to uneducated fools that are only going to "publish" some
[quote who="tetleytea" reply="26" id="2464587"]Ah, the shifting sands of culture. Back in the 50's we would have been debating the scientific studies proving that smoking is not bad for you. Funded by the tobacco lobbies themselves--how can you argue with that? They certainly had plenty of money to fund the best, top-notch research. I wonder who funds the studies showing that cars do not cause global warming? You do the math. [/quote] I c
You have a few options. - Influence. I've never done this particular scenario to test that this works for this scenario, but in general sandbox games it's an option. Once you have all their ships dead, build influence bases until their planets flip. - Sequential invasion. Send one transport at a time to invade. Using 1 billion troops per transport, you *should* be safe using mass drivers on any planet over 10-12 billion (will vary on situation, save before testing).
Somewhat related: The latest AVG update (free version) keeps periodically minimizing whatever current app I'm running. Rather than disable it while playing games, I just want to replace the damn thing. What's the best replacement for someone running XP? Free is a plus but not necessary.
The best way to accomplish this is to click the next button, then hit the space bar. Repeat as necessary. It will waste the movement points of whatever ship is stuck, but it sure beats not being able to finish your game.
On immense maps, an array is a godsend. Being able to slingshot no-engine constructors, transports, or warshps 70 or more spaces at once is a fast way to react to a sudden opportunity.
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