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Reply to Just for a lark, I wrapped the sector influence counter! in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

1: It should be additive, not multiplicative. Or at least that's how most of the SB modules work. 2: max signed long is 2^32/2-1==2.1 billion, not 2^32-1==4.28 billion. ~SDC~ [Message Edited]

Reply to How many minor races are there? (NT) in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

There can be a total of 35 AI races, including the pirates and space monsters. Account for the five majors, and that leaves 28 minors, when conditions allow. ~SDC~ [Message Edited]

Reply to Flipping minors, a question. in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]Let x be your base culture value.Build one party palace, culture = x + 200% x = 3xBuild two party palaces, culture = 3x + 200%(3x) = 9x = x + 800% xThree? culture = 9x + 200%(9x) = 27x !!!!!Am I right about this?[/quote] Not quite. They're additive, not mulplicative. x+2x+2x+2x=7x And with reference to flipping minors, all non-event minor races (to include generic 'new minor' races) have an inherent Loyalty rating (the racial version of influence_resist). Even

Reply to Galactic Civilizations 1.05 in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]- There is a bug when paying Tribute of more than 0 turns: You pay for one turn less than you should!So if you make a payment of 1 turn instead of 0 you are going to save some money (up to 40%). I don't know if the bug also works when receiving tribute.[/quote] The first payment is made a soon as you make the agreement, thus the first turn of the duration has already passed. ~SDC~

Reply to Quick question - window mode/res? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

GalCiv runs at a fixed resolution of 1024×768×16-bit. Windowed mode: edit the shortcut to read '"galciv.exe" -w' where it currently shows 'galciv.exe' or run from the command line with that switch. ~SDC~

Reply to Expansion will fix... in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I think everyone has missed the most glaring issue. What about this ridiculous faster than light travel? Absolutely no foundation in the real world. Please remove it in the expansion pack. I realise the game will play a little slower but I'm sure the added realism will compensate. [/quote] Actually, the form of FTL used in Gal Civ does have a basis in real world science. It warps space to the point that the ship is not physically travelling at lightspeed, it just looks that way

Reply to GalCiv Expansion Pack Preview Thread in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]1) Don't clear the autopilot destination when a ship is selected, or give us a way to restore it.[/quote] This only occurs if you select it in the main map. Select the ship via the ship list and it won't clear. ~SDC~

Reply to A few new finding on Economy (as seen on the screens) in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]- "Tribute" on EcoStats is in credits, not billions of credits (so my Tribute at 493bc/m, shows as 4,294,967,231)[/quote] This is just plain bugged. 4,294,967,231 credits is 4bc, not 493bc. [quote]- even 5 turns later, only the planet where the GSE was built is actually showing the increase in the economy % figure on the Planet Details screens. The others are getting the benefit, but still not showing the bonus correctly. [Note: the planet where it was build showed the

Reply to How far in the red can you take your treasury? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

If you have more maintainence costs than income, your treasury can go as low as -2.1G bc, if you can keep planets form rebelling and AI from invading long enough to get there. And the morale impact does increase as your treasury decreases, but it's not much of a change until you get below -500bc. ~SDC~

Reply to Problem with buying starbases strategy in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

I usually use Starbase trades to dump all of my useless ships. That way I can get down to about 2K cash spending, plus 2K influence, but I haven't tried on 1.04 Maso. ~SDC~

Reply to How to turn off random events? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]You don't have to delete the files, necessarily. You could just disable them by changing their names slightly. For example, change CoreEvents.event to x_CoreEvents.event, [/quote] It will still read them with that change. You need to change the extention, not the filename. Incidentally, every time the game is updated via the SDC, it will redownload the events if they've been deleted, moved, or renamed. ~SDC~

Reply to Stardock and update question in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]I think I may have figured out the root cause, but Im no closer to solving the problem. Every time I open Stardock, it asks me to me a create a stardock.net account- even though I have signed in, and have put in my registration number. If I try to login (by clicking submit), it starts to download sdcentral.zip, then stops, and goes back to the same screen- as such, I just click skip, and it warns me I won't be able to download any updates. Im somewhat confused, since stardock recognizes m

Reply to some numbers for PQ picks in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]Actually, I'm pretty sure they don't round down. If your planet would be 20.5 PQ, it would show as 21. . .[/quote] PQ does round down. Colonize a class 8 planet with no inherent bonus and build Soil Enhancement (PQ 8+.9=8). Colonize anything below class 20 with the 5% bonus (19+.95=19). ~SDC~

Reply to .tech files in Mods Stardock Forums

After the Arceans finish researching all the techs on their path list, they do go back and start picking off others, but I don't know how it determines what to research. It'll be hobbled by a custom tech tree, but not entirely disabled as long as the new list doesn't use the same IDs as the old list. ~SDC~

Reply to I-League and Culture in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Any race can lose planets to culture, but most, if not all, minor races have an inherent influence resist. Note also that the near-major races have cuture ratings of their own that can get pretty significant. I've taken I-League planets by culture before, but it's not a common event, and I've probably lost more to their culture than I've taken from them. ~SDC~

Reply to Starbases Suffering Random Damage? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]When you get a tech that increases your ship max HPs (or tri-strontium steel), your ships' current hitpoints are not changed.[/quote] Which only makes sense: Unless the ships are in drydock, the process of upgrading the hull is basically the same as that of repairing damage to it. Fleet repairs/upgrades typically don't go too quickly, or are done haphazardly, simply because an active fleet doesn't have time for the normal refitting/retrofitting process. ~SDC~

Reply to Culture and Diplomacy in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Very early in the game, I do trade them for cash or techs, but never later than two or three years into the game... Once I have more than two major races in the diplomacy screen is usually about when I stop. ~SDC~

Reply to Draginol exploit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Calor - - Something bad is about to happen to a planet. Escalates into a major minor race. (Always an AI planets.)[/quote] Slightly more descript on this: The Calor always appear by taking over an AI planet. Once they're in the game, they sabatoge planets they don't control at random, yours or AI's. (Also of note: They have a different name in the minor race list, I think: Calor is either an older name for the race or name of the event themselves) ~SDC~

Reply to Peace and Attack Treaties need Minimum Time Limits in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Not really - Influence points can be just as material as BCs. They may be proxied over to another race, but can be withdrawn in the real world - especially when a treaty is broken.[/quote] As I said, they're different in nature, but, in game terms, functionally similar. ~SDC~

Reply to omega defense, planetary defense & star system defense in Strategies Stardock Forums

[quote]Suddenly the ship had armour technology which could withstand direct hits from Borg Battlecubes and had weapons which could take down Borg cubes with a single hit.[/quote] In some cases this isn't unrealistic. Standard shields, Star Trek-style, operate at a standard frequency that allows weapons to penetrate it if they operate at a harmonic to that frequency. Similaraly, phasors and such normally operate at a limited frequency. In one episode of TNG, the Enterprise was

Reply to 1.04 bugs in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Also a similar note: If the I-League is destroyed, planets can still defect to it, and the game still treats the I-League as dead except for war and culture consideration. Diplomacy with a resurrected I-League can only be conducted via a known I-League planet's 'speak to' button, not by the Foreign Policy screen. ~SDC~

Reply to Draginol exploit in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]when the event message says something like "the xxxxx race are going after some crystal for power" is that the arnor event?[/quote] There are three different events with similar wording. One is the Dreginol, one is the Dark Arnor, and the third is the Telanoth. There is a way to distinguish the three, though. The Dreginol always occurs at one of your systems, so you know from the event description where it's happening. The Dark Arnor is a linked series of even

Reply to Anyone miss the space monsters ??? in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]the space sharks are the pirates just to make that clear. They have a little red shark fin or shark emblemon their side.[/quote] The Space Sharks are the Belua, not the pirates. ~SDC~

Reply to Problems with changing governments in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

Actually, it's both. You get an ecomony boost and a production boost. The production incerease usually is larger than the economy boost, causing your income to appear to go down. ~SDC~

Reply to AI cheats rather plentifully in this game. in Galactic Civilizations I Stardock Forums

[quote]Game data sent to metaverse contains order of researched techs. So, you'll have some problems with metaverse if you sent game with that changes. [/quote] This is really a very minor alteration. I seriously doubt that it would flag anything. It might confuse the AI once automated updating is implimented, if it ever is, but that's a different issue entirely. [quote]Well said, CM. I find it nearly incomprehensible that any company would welcome Modding its game, host thos