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Reply to Official Carriers/Orbital Bombardment Thread in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

As for the "no carriers" position, it is possible for devs to make incorrect design decisions. They're not gods, after all.

Reply to Run from attackers in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

Is that what the Auto-Retreat setting is for? I've never tried that one.

Reply to Greatest Want or Need in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

A 'no enemies' option: Really toughen up the micro-management, no enemy players. Basically turn Gal Civ into a galactic sim-city as a result. You can just about simulate that by minimizing the number of enemies and also minimizing their AI intelligence. That's how I started to learn the game, actually.

Reply to Greatest Want or Need in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

1. Carriers and "Death Star" class military starbases that have carrier hangar bays/modules. 2. Techs and/or modules that increase the area of effect of starbases.

Reply to Conquered planets with Manufacturing/Tech/Economic capitals that can't be demolished in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I'm curious on why you'd want to destoy them- After all they give that planet a boost to its Manufacturing/Technological/Economical capacity.... If your first capital of that type is one you gained from a conquered planet, as far as I know, you can no longer place that capital type on one of your own planets where it would do the most good.

Reply to BackupBox in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

The best thing to do is to be kind. Send Cari down there with a katana and full Kill Bill regalia. Now that would make a great screenshot....

Reply to avoid high tech buildings during intial expansion in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

By avoiding high end techs, you also miss out on getting the trade goods and other special goodies associated with them.

Reply to What is PQ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Still, it is pretty annoying to have a civ infiltrate your empire by colonizing all those puny planets you ignored, as it blows your sector influence, for one thing.

Reply to What was your first love TBS game? in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Someone mentioned the old VAX Star Trek game. I did some conversion work on that, from FORTRAN to Decsystem-10 Macro to speed up the terminal IO so that the university wouldn't shut it down as a major resource hog. My first favorite TBS game was, ummm, chess. heh.

Reply to Galactic Peace!? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

It can get crazy in the other direction too: just saw a civ declare war on four minor races and a major simultaneously earlier today. Butterfly effect or something....

Reply to Starbases in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I sure wish there were some way to increase the influence area of starbases.

Reply to Funds through Trading/ Arms dealer in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

Umm, how does anyone know when "mid-game" is?

Reply to Campaign Troop limit in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

The core ship designs have a lot of chrome that looks like active ship components but doesn't do anything except add visuals.

Reply to Whats the skinny on ship levels? in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I don't think I've ever had a ship get an experience promotion, mainly due to my odd sort of conflict-averse playing style.

Reply to Game Over in Dark Avatar GalCiv2 Forums

That would be a cool feature.

Reply to Is that Michelle Forbes voice in the intro video? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

While we're at it, I'd like to get a transcript of the lyrics to the game song, if they're available.

Reply to AI bullys... in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

I was kind of shocked to find that allies don't immediately join in when you attack someone. Perhaps "coalition" could be a step up from "ally" status that you have to work for?

Reply to Metaverse score in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Is there a record largest population for a submitted Metaverse game? I couldn't find detailed online stats on player performance points, just general scores.

Reply to Useless options in Galciv II in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

* buy a ship or mining resourche from the IA, the money they want for it IF they are willing to sell it is so much it will never be earned back. but most of the times they will not sell it anyway. useless option It's still useful to buy ships from AI's (especially in blind exploration games) so that you know in general where they are. I also like to b

Reply to GRR planetary invasion help please!!!! (noob) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

Ok, then, now I have to figure out why some of my colony ships won't colonize.... Maybe that explains why a lot of AI's just park a half-dozen scouts in orbit over their colonies early in the game: to keep unescorted transports from snapping up planets before they've researched enough for real combat ships with which to legitimately defend their planets.

Reply to GRR planetary invasion help please!!!! (noob) in Game Talk GalCiv2 Forums

I just reported that problem on the official bug thread. In my case, they did have ships orbiting the planet, but they were all unarmed scouts. You're kidding, do I really have to clean out all of the scouts before invading?

Reply to Official 1.3 [final] bug report thread in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

post deleted, figured out the problem

Reply to Opponents just sitting there in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Another example of "just sitting there", at Normal setting I find time after time that AI planets produce scout ships but don't launch them; they just sit in port filling up docking space (I've seen five scouts in port a number of times). Is that expected behavior or should I file that as a bug?

Reply to Trade Embargo Bug in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

Just wondering, why would anyone want to use the Trade Embargo feature ever? It's like throwing money the other civs are giving you into the trash.

Reply to Official 1.3 [final] bug report thread in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

v1.31 planet display clipping at the bottom (and also apparently, the top)